31 Dec, 2007
We are spending New Year’s Eve at 38,000 feet above sea level but will be back really soon. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and we wish you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year… stay tuned for tales from cold weather and leftover holiday posts that just never got…
28 Dec, 2007
On a cool and breezy late afternoon in December, fifteen years ago this week, the setting was nothing short of magical… The San Sebastian Basilica in Quiapo, Manila had just turned a hundred years old, and it was the only all steel Gothic style church in Asia, transported on several ships from the steel…
24 Dec, 2007
“I’m dreaming of a White Christmas” was my second favorite Christmas song as a kid. “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” (actually, The Christmas Song it’s titled, I think), was my absolute favorite. It would figure that a song with a food item prominently featured would just edge out a song about…
23 Dec, 2007
We wanted an elegant, festive and rich meal. But we wanted to eat it informally. And with some of our crew away on holidays, we were hobbled a bit in the kitchen… So what could be served that was relatively easy yet appropriate for the occasion, a holiday get-together with some very…
23 Dec, 2007
This year we decided to go with a rather wintery theme…just white, silver and crystal, with splashes of red only on the tree. Outdoors we had a few capiz lanterns and hangng near large sliding glass doors were simple straight rows of white Christmas lights. We only have so many choices each…
21 Dec, 2007
Long-time sukis of this blog know that gingerbread is a big deal in the Marketman household, and my first post on it was in December 2005, here. In retrospect, that post said a lot about why gingerbread is a tradition in our home, and it is worth the read or re-read if you…
20 Dec, 2007
If you will recall, Manang Lima is the fabulous lady who shared her recipe for budbud kabog with us last year, then appeared in the non-attributed article in Mabuhay Magazine last month, and has since been super busy with orders for her budbud kabog. After she picked up a copy of the magazine…
19 Dec, 2007
Nope, don’t go into a tizzy, it isn’t going to happen. But I thought I would let you know what could have happened, if only to keep you up and reading another post and procrastinating from work and other miscellaneous holiday chores… A couple of weeks ago, I got an email request…