2010 April | Latest Recipes

Buco Pandan »

Buco (buko) pandan is a very popular dessert here in the Philippines. It’s really simple to make but it needs chilling time so you have to make it a few hours in advance. This is not a light dessert, so if you are on a diet, I’m afraid this is not for you unless you have absolutely [...]

April 27, 2010 | Posted in Featured, Photo, Sweets | Read More »

Raisin Pecan Oatmeal Cookies »

One of the best cookies I’ve tried.. it’s chewy, nutty, yummy and healthy. I didn’t expect I will like it this much because it doesn’t have my fave ingredient: chocolates!! I was tempted to add chocolate chips but this recipe has great reviews over at the food network site so I decided I will just replace the [...]

April 23, 2010 | Posted in Barefoot Bloggers, Photo | Read More »

Chocolate Marble Pound Cake »

Chocolate marble cake is one of my favorite treats when I was a child , it’s also my birthday cake of choice up until the bakeshop (Goldilocks) we used to buy it from stopped making it. Ever since I learned how to bake, I wanted to make this. The recipe I used is from Ultimate Cakes by Barbara Maher; I didn’t used the glaze recipe for it, [...]

April 22, 2010 | Posted in Baking, Olive's Twist, Photo | Read More »

Kulinarya Cooking Club: Polvoron »

This month’s Kulinarya Cooking Club theme is polvoron, a part of every Filipino’s childhood; even those who grew up abroad know polvoron. Once you take a bite of this, you’ll find it hard to stop..I sometimes find myself mindlessly opening wrapper after wrappers of these sweet and addictive powdery treats. I also remember choking on this as my siblings and I used to [...]

April 20, 2010 | Posted in Filipino Food, Kulinarya Cooking Club, Olive's Twist, Photo | Read More »

Coconut Thumbprint Cookies with Kaya »

I tweaked these cookies from my favorite thumbprint cookie recipe. The idea came to me when I did the macarons for the Daring Baker’s challenge, I have lots of leftover kaya, I used it as centers/filling for these cookies. These are really good cookies, one of my tweaks that I’m really proud of, I also [...]

April 13, 2010 | Posted in Baking, Olive's Twist, Photo | Read More »

Nigella’s Chocolate Chip Muffins »

A good healthy and hearty breakfast is what we all need and should have every morning but sometimes I like to prepare something quick, easy and yummy-thank goodness it’s not-oatmeal or rice again- breakfast like these chocolate muffins which my kids and yes, my rice-loving husband too like it very much. These are so much like [...]

April 10, 2010 | Posted in Featured, Nigella Lawson, Photo | Read More »

Fish Teriyaki »

I got this recipe from the back label of a can of Del Monte sliced pineapple . I had it with me for a long time along with other collected recipes from that I cut out from magazines and jotted down from cooking shows on TV ( this was before internet era). It was very nostalgic [...]

April 7, 2010 | Posted in Featured, Photo, Seafood | Read More »

Hot Cross Buns »

It was Good Friday yesterday and I decided to make hot cross buns after watching Martha Stewart the night before making this on her show. I wasn’t really planning on making this but I happen to have all the ingredients and Martha said these buns are traditionally made on Good Friday which is just perfect. [...]

April 2, 2010 | Posted in Featured, Photo | Read More »