'Oh so sweet!' archive

Comfort food and home cooked meals

… home cooking is going to make a big comeback as people will eat out less often to save money. Fancy and gourmet ingredients and food items will take a back seat as the wise home cooks go back to the basics — less processed and more fresh meat and seafood, more vegetables and fruits, and hearty soups and desserts that can be made at home. Recycling leftovers is likely to be elevated to art form as home cooks rise up to the challenge of being less wasteful yet more creative and inventive. What can I say? The financial scares make some mope and gripe but for others it is an opportunity to reassess spending priorities and eating habits.

Mango custard

This is my second attempt at making mango custard. The first one, a couple of months ago, was a total disaster and it took me a long time to muster the guts to try again. Yes, the first attempt was that bad. Traumatic. Terribly traumatic. It’s the kind of failure that makes me ask myself if I can really cook at all.

Peaches and cream

Unlike the older mango royale recipe, I have found a way to make the cream filling firm without freezing. My husband prefers this dessert frozen but it loses its light and airy texture and instead acquires the texture of ice cream with ice crystals which I really do not enjoy. I prefer the cream filling to be custard-like, similar to the cream-cheese filling of tiramisu. The trick? Well-chilled cream and sweetened condensed milk.

Mocha pudding

Pudding is a great way to make use of old bread. And I like pudding except that most puddings I’ve tried are much too wet and soft that they actually stick to the fingers. That might be alright if one was eating off a plate and with a fork but for school recess, that just [...]

Midnight snack: crepes, bananas and guava jelly

We were watching some DVDs last night and, close to midnight, we found ourselves hungry only to discover there was no bread in the house to make some quick sandwiches. There were boxes of cereals and lots of milk but cereals just don’t seem right for a midnight snack. My daughter, Alex, wanted some crepes but there was no pancake mix either. Alas, with heavy feet (we were in the middle of a very funny movie), I dragged myself into the kitchen to make some crepes from scratch.

Mango-rum sorbet

Serving ice cream for dessert at a children’s party is always a safe idea. A lot of parents these days bring in a sorbetero with his own ice cream cart and he serves the ice cream to the kids in cones. The set-up is attractive, uniquely Filipino and the host and hostess are saved the [...]

Crepes a la mode

We were watching Little Miss Sunshine a couple of weeks ago and there was this scene where Olive (Abigail Breslin) ordered waffles a la mode (she pronounced it a la mo-dee). The waitress explained that it meant the waffles would be served with ice cream and her uncle went on to expound on the origin [...]

Chocolate-pinipig balls inspired by Magnolia’s pinipig crunch

Filipinos who grew up, or who reside, in the Philippines will know what I mean by ‘Magnolia’s pinipig crunch’. Filipinos who grew up abroad might not. I don’t expect too many foreigners to be familiar with it either.
Magnolia was an ice cream company that was bought out by Nestle a few years ago. Pinipig crunch [...]

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House On A Hill

Love tofu?

• Lechon con tokwa
• Beef and tofu with three sauces
• Tofu with three sauces… and cilantro
• Tofu and Vegetables Stir-fry
• Mapo tofu
• Tofu and eggplants with salted yellow beans
• Tofu in oyster sauce
• Tokwa’t isda sa gata (fish and tofu in coconut milk)
• Tuna and tofu stir fry
• Tofu and baby corn stir fry

Chicken recipes

• Oven-grilled chicken with corn sauce
• Herbed fried chicken
• Fried chicken, garlic-mayo sauce & pineapple cole slaw
• Cooking for Father’s Day? Here’s an idea.
• Chicken, ham and potatoes pie
• Capsicum halves stuffed with chicken, cheese and vegetables
• Stuffed zucchini
• Chicken and potatoes in yogurt
• Spaghetti, ham and Alfredo sauce
• A different kind of chicken casserole