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Chocolate Eclairs Part I
This month’s Daring Bakers Challenge is hosted by Tony Tahhan and MeetaK of What’s for Lunch, Honey? This time around they chose to challenge us with Chocolate Eclairs from the cookbook, Chocolate Desserts By Pierre Hermé. I was excited when I first saw the challenge, I’ve always wanted to make cream puffs but was always [...]
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Filipino Style Spaghetti
My girls have always liked their spaghetti with the usual bolognese sauce. Their dad doesn’t like sweet spaghetti sauces so I never really made it for them. That is, until now. When we went to the Philippines a couple of years ago, they had a taste of Filipino spaghetti which is on the sweet side [...]
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Potato, Carrots & Peas Soup
Still cleaning out my photobucket pics Here’s another easy peasy soup. You know how my daughter, The Clone just loves soups. This is another one of her favorites. We cooked this up for lunch this summer when they were all home and we decided to clean up the freezer.
While digging into the recesses [...]
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Recipes to Rival: Tamales!
These tamales were delicious! I love tamales, but I don’t usually order them when we go to restaurants. Why? because restaurant tamales usually suck. They are dry and taste like cardboard. The best tamales I’ve had were homemade ones; the kind someone’s mom or grandma made. And growing up in California, I didn’t have a [...]
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Candied Sweet Potatoes
I actually cooked this sometime last fall when we havested sweet potatoes from our garden. I just realized, while sorting through my photobucket pics that I never posted it on this blog. I also suddenly got a yearning for some sweet potatoes, which unfortunately, we didn’t get to plant this year. I guess I’ll be [...]
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La.Pi.S. - Breakfast
The theme for Lasang Pinoy Sundays (LaPiS) this week is BREAKFAST. Filipino breakfast traditionally always includes rice be it sweet or savory. Most of the time, breakfast is an opportunity to use up left over rice for fried rice. In this case, this Bittermelon with Eggs is served up with garlic fried rice. A [...]
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Tilapia in Pesto Sauce
This easy and very delicious dish was borrowed from the Pinoy Cook. I didn’t change much of the recipe except for the nuts and type of fish used. Since this first try, we’ve made it a regular on our menu, changing up ingredients depending on what we have. I used this dish on king crab [...]
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Mushroom Soup
My youngest daughter loves soups, especially blended soups lately, so you’ll be seeing more of these type of soups until she gets out of this phase She also doesn’t want any meat in her soups. This was her latest favorite. I used cremini mushrooms for this but you can use any variety of fresh [...]
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