"The hot chocolate hut" photo by: Mark Perez
If there was one reservation that the "Hungry" Hubby had about me being in the Philippines for 5-6 weeks was that I’d come back the size of a whale. So he had a talk with my two brothers, who were the usual suspects and associates in my food [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Other Food stuff'
Food tripping in the Philippines part 1
March 7th, 2010 · 21 Comments · More Kitchen Musings, Other Food stuff
A journey home…
March 3rd, 2010 · 24 Comments · More Kitchen Musings, Other Food stuff
What can I say? I’ve been MIA for more than a month. Some of you knew I went home to the Philippines, while some of you emailed me wondering if I had turned my back on blogging. The truth is, when you stop blogging for a couple of weeks because someone still had dial-up internet [...]
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I wanna go home (for Peking duck)
March 24th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Other Food stuff
Photo Credit: guides.clickthecity.com Was I-em-ming with my brother who lives in the Philippines and he was telling me about this restaurant called FU that he had gone to recently. No one gets Peking Duck really right in Richmond, Va -…
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A Cupcake Calendar Giveaway
January 16th, 2009 · 51 Comments · Other Food stuff
Dots Cupcake Calendar 2009 Dots Cupcake in Pasedana, California just came out with the most adorable calendar of this much-loved sweet. I think I am in the grips of a very bad case of cupcake fever and ordered more than…
Potato bliss
January 2nd, 2009 · 12 Comments · Other Food stuff
*please excuse the crappy photo…bad lighting- and no degree of food styling would have helped 
This past holiday season, after attending several parties, I realized I am not a maker of side dishes. I blame it on culture -…
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Pierre Herme Book Giveaway winner
October 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Other Food stuff
I know I have not posted in a while. First , I had a kitchen disaster while making Tah-Chin, the delicious Persian rice dish that is made with saffron. I failed to acquire the coveted crust called tah-dig and I…
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Going to Culinary School?
August 21st, 2008 · 13 Comments · Other Food stuff
Whenever I get asked an opinion about going to cooking school, I always mention two books that would give one an idea of what it is like: Michael Ruhlman’s The Making of a Chef and Kathleen Flinn’s The Sharper Your…
Heart attack in a bottle
May 6th, 2008 · 20 Comments · Other Food stuff
Why are the best-tasting food bad for your health? I think I consider that the biggest injustice a foodie faces. The solution is not really avoidance but moderation, right? Anyway, my brother is in town with his family – visiting…
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Hawking my macarons at the Farmer’s Market
April 19th, 2008 · 29 Comments · Other Food stuff
The “Hungry” Hubby and I got up at 5am this morning. I had some cupcakes to frost and glaze plus we had to pack the macarons in little polka-dot packs of three. HH started snapping pictures of me piping cream…
