Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
July 19, 2008
Pour a glass of cold milk and forget Oreos! A creamy filling made with peanut butter and cream cheese gives classic peanut butter cookies a special twist Read more
Cassava Cake with Custard Topping
June 29, 2008
As a Filipino in the U.S. without complete access to ingredients indigenous to the Philippines, I, often times, have to substitute Read more
Banana Nut Muffin
February 23, 2008
These muffins are a refreshing alternative to store-bought cookies and are a cost-friendly snack item for the kids’ pack lunches or for take-alongs to family picnics. For an interesting variation, I made use of the versatility of the recipe by substituting, on half of the muffin batter, my leftover blueberries and blackberries in place of the mashed banana. Before I popped
this blueberry-blackberry batch into the oven to bake, I sprinkled on top the cinnamon-streusel topping I used for my berry crumble. Read more
Spinach, Roma and Ricotta Pizza
January 23, 2008
This is a rewrite. An hour ago, I had a three-paragraph spiel to go with this recipe. I went on and on about how much I love pizzas, how much I spend on pizzas, how much I’d love to learn how to make pizzas, how much easier my life is with pizzas. I was actually feeling happy talking about pizzas. Then, I accidentally clicked on “delete”. Pffftt! There it went! So, here Iam, trying to reconstruct the previous contents. The only struggle is, the day I hit the 30+ mark, not only did things start to hang, things started to get forgotten as well Read more
One-Bowl Brownies
January 19, 2008
This one-bowl brownie recipe is one quick sweet fix! Aptly called, everything gets prepared in one bowl and the brownie treats are ready for greedy mouths in less than 40 minutes! The original recipe calls for two cups of sugar but I found that proportion too sweet so for once, I decided to give my Islets of Langerhans a break and tried one and a half instead. Read more
Berry Crumble
January 7, 2008
This is a “spoon pie” sweet treat that starts with luscious black and blueberries and finishes with a crunchy cinnamon-walnut streusel. It’s perfect warm or in room temperature and sinful topped with vanilla ice cream. The leftover streusel topping and berries can be used to make versatile banana nut muffins. Read more
Chocolate Velvet Cake with Crunchy Coconut Topping
January 2, 2008
When I had a fiasco with my cupcakes, I searched and found a wealth of knowledge available over the world wide web to remedy this. This recipe validates one tip~adding mayonnaise to the batter. I found this rich, mouth-wateringly moist chocolate velvet cake recipe on a late 1970’s magazine clipping of a Best Foods’ advertisement. Read more
Lemon Delights
December 24, 2007
Tis’ the season to be giving…lalalala, tis’ the season to be sharing…lalalala! I am checking my list and checking it twice…gotta find out what I can afford or not… Read more
Coconut Macaroons
December 19, 2007
These soft and chewy coconut macaroons are raised to a whole new level of deliciousness by dipping into melted bittersweet chocolate! The recipe is one of the Christmas cookies presented by Family Circle magazine for holiday gift giving. Read more
Unbelievable Peanut Butter Cookies
December 16, 2007
Perfectly-named cookies! My cook at work discovered this peanut butter cookie recipe on the packaging of our C&H granulated cane sugar. We tried it for one of our parties and have been using it regularly as part of our patients’ morning coffee social ever since. Unbelievably easy-this 2 1/2 dozen production size is done in less than 20 minutes from start to finish! Read more
