summer’s melting like ice cream

berry rainbow + water = yummy shake

slow food movement

another book on the shelf

slow food: philippine culinary traditions
erlinda enriquez panillo, felice prudente sta. maria (editors)
anvil press, 2005.
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Living the slow life with food as the focus is as rewarding as it is easy, and it can be done daily by each one of us. Living the slow life can also be done with others, because [...]

chew on this

“What one puts into the mouth is the end result of a process that starts with the sea, the soil, animal life. In the act of cooking, we make statements about ourselves — and about our understanding of relationships between ingredients; about our perception of taste and appropriateness. In the act of eating, we ingest [...]

tikim: essays on philippine food and culture

checked out this book at the milpitas library, a book i tried to find at the bookstores in manila but failed miserably to do so. 

tikim: essays on philippine food and culture
by doreen g. fernandez 
anvil press, 1994.

napa!

amazing weekend in napa with my friends from san diego. we took a last minute trip to wine country and had a great time at the copia center and st. supery vineyard. bought three bottles of wine from st. supery and a bunch of goodies from dean and deluca.
 gotta get on the details soon…  

daisy dream

here are few pics of the cupcakes and gum paste daisies i made for my cousin’s debut a few weeks back. thank you to my entire family for helping me to assemble the lil devils. go teamwork! for any cake or cupcake needs, call me! i also have tons of leftover chocolate cake dry mix so if anyone is [...]

pan de sal (bread of salt)

olongapo, july 2006. 
typical pinay breakfast: 
fresh sliced sweet pineapple, koppi coffee bun, raisin bread, sinangag and corned beef, fried fish, sweet pork tocino… 
there was so much good food, though the only breakfast i ever craved while in the philippines was freshly baked pan de sal (pandesal) cracked open with butter melting in the center. on my last morning there, i had [...]

uji-kintoki milk kitkat

on my layover at narita airport, japan i picked up a bag of these candies from the sundry store. i cannot read any japanese so based on the picture on the bag, i figured it had something to do with green tea and azuki (red bean). i waited till i was home and shared the first bar with mom, who [...]

food for soul

- fire cooked lunch after a 5 mile hike through the pamulaklakin forest trail/binicticlan drive in olongapo.

- fish, bamboo steamed rice, sinigang manok, fresh buko juice, sinigang broth

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Doreen, The Revolutionary
We knew Doreen Fernandez as a respected and multi-awarded teacher, prolific writer, author and editor of many books, historian, journalist, literary critic and sought-after lecturer on food, [...]