Hello, I’m back from a several-week-long unintended hiatus. Things have become so busy on our end in preparing for the 4th Philippine Conference on Research in CSR; I do hope you could join! It’s on Monday, 29 September 2014, at the Asian Development Bank in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines. But on to something a bit more … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Italian cuisine
Joy of Leftovers 7 August 2014: Pea and Bacon Spaghetti Soup
In my previous cooking-related – and Joy of Leftovers – post, I made peas with bacon as a vegetable side dish, committing to turn the other half into a leftover leftovers treat. I was supposed to do so last night, but an eleventh-hour affair meant I came home well past suppertime – without having eaten – … Continue reading
Joy of Leftovers 5 August 2014: Peas with Bacon and Salpicado Rice
I relish a bit of leftover innovation. As far as the cook in me is concerned, triumph is successfully turning leftovers into a new dish that is more amazing than the sum of its parts. Not only do I get to reduce my food waste to zero and clean up the refrigerator, but I also get … Continue reading
RotD 22 July 2014: Mexican Eggs in Purgatory
If you’re a cook, you might experience times when you don’t know what to cook for your meal. I myself “suffer” from this so many times, I decided to turn to a technique that could make it a little better… combining recipes. Actually, I stumbled upon this almost by chance. I was at my neighbor’s house for a … Continue reading
RotD 10 July 2014: Breakfast Bruschetta
It’s often said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and must be the heaviest of all the meals, getting progressively lighter to end the day with a light supper, so that digestion is smooth as we go to bed. But sometimes, it can feel so draining when it comes to the … Continue reading
RotD 8 July 2014: An Italian Breakfast Featuring Leftover Minestrone
Continuing my shameful run of belated recipe-of-the-day posts, I now post the happy ending to my Italian soup run from the past several days. I did previously mention in my post on minestrone alla Genovese-Filippino that I unintentionally made so much soup I kept the other half for very-near-future-so-that-it-won’t-go-rotten consumption; at the same time, that evening, I … Continue reading
RotD 7 July 2014, Part 2: Italian Chicken Tomato Soup Spaghetti
My family and I are big fans of UCC (the Ueshima Coffee Company) for both their drinks and food. I in particular enjoy its Bacon & Sausage Curry Soup Spaghetti, which is a lovely marriage between a pasta dish and minestrone, with Japanese (given UCC’s origins) twists. Essentially, it is pasta with a soup instead of … Continue reading
RotD 7 July 2014: Minestrone alla Genovese e Filippino
Last Sunday evening, after our family went shopping for the afternoon, we had dinner at Solaire’s Finestra, its Italian-cum-fine dining restaurant, as it was near Duty Free Fiestamall, where we’d come from. As I wanted to enforce a habit of eating just a light supper and not eating past ten in the evening (as it takes … Continue reading
RotD 2 July 2014: Pea Black Rice Risotto
Continuing my personal crusade for healthy eating, I have been seeking to expand my everyday repertoire with dishes that take minimal effort but yield maximum gastronomical and physiological enjoyment. Inspired by my best friend, who gifted me a copy of Charlotte Haigh’s The Top 100 Immunity Boosters, I sought to buy every book I could find … Continue reading
A cooking revolution / 21 April 2014: Pollo alla cacciatora
While a lot of us (myself included – SOMETIMES) still fall for junk food and MSG-injected dishes, there are many others, too, who want to eat as healthfully as they can. I also fall under this category, but my cooking skills (which are limited – no, nonexistent) currently have not yet blessed me with the gift of innovation … Continue reading
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