Matcha white chocolate chip cookies are a pleasant variation of the classic chocolate chip cookie. Thanksgiving has come and gone. While I don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, I do like the idea of giving thanks and counting your blessings. I have a lot of things in my life to be thankful for. On top of my list […]
Chorizo pudpud is an iconic Negrense breakfast staple. Our family’s chorizo pudpud recipe is incomparable to those I’ve tasted in restaurants or store-bought chorizo pudpud. That’s why this is much beloved and I hope it will become your family’s favorite as well. Lola Anchang was my mom’s mother. (Lola is Filipino for Grandmother.) She was […]
Don’t be daunted by the zebra matcha Japanese cheesecake. It only looks more difficult than it is. Read on to learn how to prepare this show-stopper! My poor husband. After dinner, I told him we had cheesecake in the fridge for dessert. I then left him to put Becca to bed, and afterward, as we […]
Whenever you bake a cake, you want to ensure that it will come out of the cake pan in one piece. You don’t want all the efforts you put into preparing the cake batter to be in vain. There is nothing sadder and more stressful than big chunks of cake stuck into a cake pan. […]
Going on a detox diet does not mean boring salads and going hungry! I stared blankly at the number blinking on our weighing scale. Yikes! I do not weigh that much! I was in denial that I had been slowly gaining weight and that was why I had been feeling sluggish and tired a lot. […]
Baked eggs are perfect to serve at brunch. Simple to make, but look so pretty and delectable in their individual serving cups. I was getting tired of eating hardboiled eggs for breakfast. They are boring. I was on a self-imposed detox diet that would only allow me either yogurt or eggs plus fruit for breakfast. […]
Roasted cauliflower steaks is a game-changer for me! Try it and see why. A few years ago I finished a round Whole 30. In a nutshell, it is an elimination diet that lasts for 30 days. Grains are not allowed, so I had to say bye-bye to rice. I needed to substitute something for rice. […]
No rice cooker? Cook black rice on the stove! Is something burning? My husband asks. I sniff the air, and I got a whiff of the unmistakable scent of burnt rice! I rushed into the kitchen, opened the pot on the stove and was greeted with a gust of smoke and a slightly burnt popcorn […]
Do you know that it is almost impossible to push a stroller on the beach? We are now on holidays with Tobi’s parents, brother, and nephew in Cadzand-bad, Netherlands. Cadzand-bad is a beach town on the coast of the North Sea. The beach stretches quite far. There are a lot of families on their autumn holidays […]
Stuffed bell peppers are some of my favorite things to eat. I learned this recipe from a dear friend who once made it for us. As soon as I took a bite, I immediately asked him for the recipe. That was many years ago, and I have been making stuffed bell peppers regularly since then. […]
