08 Mar, 2010
I came home to an aroma that instantly made me head to the kitchen and check out what was baking. Sister was baking a couple of pili nut cakes which revived childhood memories. When we were children our mother often made this easy cake for dessert. Last week we received a large bag…
19 Jan, 2010
It’s been two and a half years since I first made and wrote about bibingka on this blog. Let’s just say I can fully understand why it is one of those native delicacies that one purchases from an expert rather than whips up in the backyard on a regular basis… However, now that…
13 Jan, 2010
It doesn’t really seem like the holidays unless we produce at least one generous batch of ensaimadas in the Marketman household. One year we gave them away as Christmas presents and we baked over 100 of them which was rather exhausting, so never again on that scale… But New Year’s Day had come…
12 Jan, 2010
We had about a fourth of a bottle of Taittinger champagne left over from our New Year’s Eve toast/dinner which I stuck in the fridge overnight. On January first, I decided to try and make a champagne granita for the first time ever and it was a shockingly simple process which yielded a…
22 Dec, 2009
This was the first of three small holiday meals we are hosting this year. We normally have several fairly involved meals around the holidays but decided to pull back from previous season’s menus and while still very abundant, focus on more comfort foods. Several friends are probably wondering why the guestlists have…
09 Dec, 2009
Sixteen more days until Christmas Day. Yipes! Why does the holiday always sneak up on me at warp speed? I have been so busy lately that I I haven’t had a chance to begin with Christmas preparations. But thank goodness for the MM crew and Christmas “elves” who have been madly…
11 Nov, 2009
When I got my copy of Martinis & Aprons, I bookmarked several recipes that I found interesting, including this recipe for tablea brownies. I have made a LOT of brownies in my 30+ years of baking and always relied on Bakers Unsweetened Chocolate as the base for those brownies. I suppose I…
08 Nov, 2009
It isn’t often that I put desserts on a silver platter. When these freshly baked bouchons au chocolat were delivered to my office in Cebu minutes before I hopped onto a flight to Manila, I popped one into my mouth in the airport departure lounge, I was instantly smitten. By the time…