As part of my baking agenda, I attended Heny Sison’s Cake Decorating 1 last July 13 – 14. This is a 2-day workshop wherein you will learn the basics of cake decorating such as the star, shell, dots, outline and scallop borders. This also includes figure piping of rose, booties, clowns and dove. You will [...]
I just had my chocolate artistry class today at Heny Sison. I was 30 mins. late because it was pouring hard this morning! I really enjoyed this class because there’s only 3 of us! Heny’s chocolate artistry class is worth Php 2K but it’s worth it. You get to learn the brief history of chocolates [...]
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Following the Baking 101 class that I had last March 28, I had my Cake Workshop again at Heny Sison last Wednesday (April 29). It was very tiring but worth it!
Each class is composed of 12 students and each student will make 4 cakes! Good thing my hubby fetched me from class because [...]
My hubby is craving for the french apple pie from Sugarhouse. Since I don’t want to knead the dough for the pie’s crust, I searched for something that doesn’t require kneading! And I found the Apple Streusel Cake from Joy of Baking.
Here are the ingredients:
Streusel Topping:
1/2 cup (70 grams) all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 tablespoons (40 grams) cold unsalted butter, [...]
I find it very hard to bake the perfect cheesecake. This would be my 5th attempt to make one. I’ve made an Oreo cheesecake, 3 blueberry cheesecakes and 2 cherry cheesecakes! My only problem is it’s appearance, there’s no complaint about the taste! During my first attempt, it was over baked because the center drops [...]
We went to Trinoma earlier because my hubby needs a new pair of shoes. He wants to get one from Dr. Marten’s or CAT. Unfortunately, it’s hard for him to get a size because he is flat footed! Finally, we got one from Merrell! Thanks to our office mate, Murphy, for the tip!
While we were [...]
Revel bars is one of my favorite dessert! So last week, I made one for myself and my hubby. Again, this is my first time to bake revel bars.
Here are the ingredients: (taken from: All Recipes )
3 cups quick cooking oats
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter, softened
2 cups packed brown [...]
Today is my father in law’s birthday. Since he liked my cordon bleu, I was asked by my MIL to cook it for my FIL’s bday! I was so pressured to cook it right! My MIL bought all the ingredients and I prepared around 5 kilos of chicken breast. I was so worried [...]
My MIL asked me last Sunday what do I want to do with the pork since my FIL wants to have arroz caldo for dinner. I went downstairs and checked on the pork and the ingredients that we have. I decided that we could make Cordon Bleu! I know it’s supposed to be chicken but [...]
In search of recipes that I can add in my list, I found Redfish Courtboullion. Courtboullion pronounced as (coo-bee-yawn) or (coo-bee-yaw) silent “n” is a method of cooking in Louisiana which consists of thick rich fish stew or soup made with tomatoes, onions and sometimes mixed vegetables, served over rice. I got interested so [...]
It’s weekend once again so I made lasagna for our merienda!
Here are the ingredients and procedure:
Lasagna pasta
Procedure:
Boil the lasagna as instructed on the box. (mine is 10 mins.)
Bechamel sauce (a.k.a. White sauce)
butter
all purpose flour
evaporated milk
grated quickmelt cheese
salt
pepper
nutmeg
Procedure:
1. Melt butter in a pan.
2. Add flour.
3. Gradually stir in evaporated milk.
4. Since I wanted [...]
Since my hubby likes Arroz ala Cubana, I tried cooking one for him. Aside from this, I also added ham, mushroom & cheese omelet! My apologies if there’s no measurement of the ingredients because I didn’t use any.
Ingredients for Arroz ala Cubana:
onion
garlic
tomatoes
tomato paste
salt & pepper to taste
ground pork
diced carrots
green peas
corn [...]
Following my post yesterday, we went to the supermarket again to buy additional ingredients for our pizza so we could have our second attempt. We have the same ingredients except for the shitake mushrooms which we replaced with button mushrooms! Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to prepare the pizza because my baby needs to [...]
My hubby and I love pizzas (specifically Hawaiian pizzas)! So we decided to make one and today is our first attempt! My hubby helped me setup the oven because it’s not automatic. Since we don’t know how to make the dough, we just went to the supermarket and buy frozen extra thin pizza [...]
After hearing the mass, I cooked my 2nd batch of bulgogi for lunch. I added a little bit of brown sugar and a teaspoon of barbecue sauce. Once cooked, I added a dash of sesame oil and bean sprouts for the siding. Then, viola!!!
I was so happy because my hubby and I were [...]
Last Thursday, my hubby and I went to Landmark to buy ingredients for my Bulgogi. I chose to cook this dish because I missed the bulgogi of Zuppa & Kimchi.
Here are my ingredients:
1/2 Kg. Beef sirloin, sukiyaki cut
marinade:
1 Tbsp. rice wine
2 Tbsp. Maggi savor clasic
1 Tbsp. sesame oil
3 Tbsp. soy sauce
1 Tbsp. honey [...]
Since I can’t find any sharksfin recipe on the web, I combined the ingredients of other dimsum recipes. And here’s what I came up.
ground pork
sliced flower shitake mushrooms
shrimps cut in half
shreded turnip
shreded carrots
1 egg
minced onion
minced garlic
oyster sauce
sesame oil
dumpling wrapper
Sorry I can’t indicate the quantity and amount of ingredient that I put because I didn’t measure them. If it [...]
I LOVE to eat but I’m a frustrated chef! I’m fond of watching Curtis Stone and Nigella Lawson in Travel & Living because I just love the way they preapre food. It seems so easy and yummy! I actually want to take formal lessons and become a chef! hehehe…
Lately, I was inspired by some of my [...]
