Suddenly Craving…

…the Nougat Cheesecake I had last Holiday Season at Gloria Jean’s Coffee!  I have no idea why; I just woke up this morning from a dream of  sinking a fork into those creamy, cheesy, hazelnut-ty layers and feeding them to the lodestone of my existence.
Weird, ne?

DIY: Chocolate Truffles

Okay, so what do we have here: a tub of unsweetened cocoa and a bowl of chilled ganache.  There’s also a spoon and a saucer.  Now, what could all these possibly be for?  Why, truffle making, of course!It was one of those ideas that hit me from out of the blue.  I still had a [...]

A Little Cup of Heaven – Nestle Heaven

There’s your standard-issue supermarket ice cream and there are your super-premium frozen delights from Haagen-Dasz, Ben and Jerry, and – on the local front – Sebastian’s and Theobroma.  To steal a line from the first Ghostbusters movie: don’t cross the streams.  Which is to say, in foodie-speak, the twain should never meet.
So, how then does [...]

Paella in a Flash

Despite the fact that a lot of my more health-conscious friends have been telling me to swear off the carbs, (God, no – no, no, nooooo!  >_____<) I find it difficult to go through life without rice.  I am not sure if it’s because it’s an Asian thing, but I’d rather believe that it’s because [...]

Ginataang Alimasag: The Return of a Market-day Favorite

Crustaceans make rare appearances in my family’s kitchen.  This is not because shrimp and crab are expensive (Trust me on this one: one can easily get a kilo and then some for a little less than two hundred pesos.), but because my mother is allergic to them.However, not even the possibility of a serious case [...]