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Vegan Coconut Flan

Gotta try this one for the hubby soon. No eggs!

Dr. Weil’s recipe

Hubby is the world’s Biggest Flan Fan. For his birthday I made him his favorite Filipino Leche Flan (the only Pinoy recipe I won’t ever share because it’s a family secret). I hadn’t made it in a YEAR! So he had [...]

Gifts

Bits and [...]

Lasang Pinoy 16: Pinoy Food Gifts

Joji of the very citrusy Ala Eh! is hosting her first Lasang Pinoy, and chose a particularly appropriate theme for Christmas, because as we all know THE best way to celebrate Christmas is by GIVING. (Or is it?) She invites us to tell our LP readers about food that we choose to make/purchase at [...]

Happy 5th, Yena!!

December 23. St. Victoria’s Feast Day (Yena’s second name). Yena turned 5 Dec. 22.

Yena, our very own Christmas blessing, five years ago. Sigh…. so fast!

She’s sweet, and precious and so pilya (mana sa mommy). She’s a hugger and a kisser and she can be totally affectionate and nice one moment, and bossy [...]

Honey Roasted Root Vegetables

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Where to Shop Come April

Lighthouse Place, the nearest outlet to us that has a Hanna Andersson [...]

Raw

Eh. Someone suggested cashew cheese for my hubby who can’t eat have dairy. So I was eager to try out the recipes in this book:

I had tried a few of Charlie Trotter’s recipes before (from different cookbooks, not this one) and fairly liked them. However the Cashew Cheese recipe in this book won’t [...]

How To Not Save Money on Groceries (and Accomplish A Couple of Other Things in the Process)

Once a year, consider that perhaps this year, you could save a few hundred dollars on groceries if you would JUST pay attention to sales AND coupons.
Subscribe to your local paper, preferably the Sunday one, so you could get “subscriptions” to all the sale ads in the area, as well as get a ton of coupons [...]

The Loveliness of Preparation

Kathryn of The Bookworm is hosting this edition of the 4Real Moms’ Lives of Loveliness Fairs. Kathryn’s chosen theme is the Loveliness of Preparation and she has asked us to share what we’ve been doing to prepare for Christmas.

Well, my boys are gone with Daddy, over to their grandparents for some bonding time, [...]

Thank You

I just thought I’d write a quick THANK YOU to all of you who visit the blog — and an apology for all the late replies and yet unsent replies to your comments and questions.

For everyone requesting the recipe for pandesal, click here. It’s not your traditional pandesal, but I encourage you to [...]

I got a massage today.

My first. (Well, not counting hubby’s and kids’ and my own feeble attempts at self-massage.) I had always thought of massages as luxuries, and I am not often taken with luxuries (except for expensive chocolates and sometimes, champagne). Our doctor (a very good integrative one, which means she’s a licensed practicing medical doctor, [...]

Molasses Horseradish Sweet-Potato Spears

From this recipe right here, minus the butter. *And* I didn’t bother with blending as I didn’t see the need to, though I did sieve. Only the boys didn’t like it, but they’re not big fans of sweet potatoes anyway, unless mixed into mashed regular ones. I also didn’t bake a second time, [...]

Kefir Online

So Yena was sick in bed yesterday and missed Mass, and I sat beside her doing the last of my online Christmas shopping.

She’s been asking for kefir but Dad’s last trip to the supermarket wasn’t fruitful — no organic options. The day before I appeased her by making a strawberry yogurt smoothie and I thought [...]

Simply Amazing.

While I’m waiting for the back of the turkey to brown so I can turn it, I’m bloghopping, and found this at Jimmy Akin’s blog:

The Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments II

Way too cool. Can’t wait for the kids to come home from Mass and see it — the two little ones are sick in bed, [...]

Coming Up On the Menu

Here’s what I’m cooking in the next week or so… before Thanksgiving:

Slow-Cooker Beef-and-Bean Burritos except hubby’s having it with rice and/or corn tortillas, and the “taco seasoning mix” will be homemade to avoid the wheat that they usually put in

Mango Mahi Ceviche except mine won’t be a real ceviche because I’ll poach the fish really [...]