Salmon, mango and coriander maki
Last time we had homemade maki, it was my 13-year-old daughter who made them with crabsticks and scrambled eggs. She made some again last night, ditching the eggs and combining crabsticks with strips of ripe mango. No pics of those though. She, her father and her sister were eating as she rolled them.
Anyway, I was [...]
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Chocolate coated gummy bears
Right after Alex made her choco loco on Saturday evening, older sister Sam took over the kitchen. She had this idea–dipping gummy bears in melted chocolate. I don’t know how she located the mixing bowls. Next moment I peeked in the kitchen, she was already stirring the melted chocolate. She did it all by herself–inserting [...]
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Alex’s choco loco
This sinful creation isn’t my doing. My daughter (she’ll be 12 in less than two weeks’ time) did this. That’s why I call it Alex’s choco loco. It’s Swiss Miss and whipped cream with Hershey’s chocolate morsels on top. When I told her it’s probably worth 5,000 calories, she refused to finish her share. Duh! [...]
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Refrigerator cake
We greeted the New Year with lots of sweets–fruits, a sweet red wine and this refrigerator cake that my daughters and I made a few hours before midnight. One of the Christmas gifts I received was a huge tin of broas, cookies known in the West as lady fingers, a specialty in the province of [...]
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Strawberry milkshake
My daughters’ contribution to the Christmas day chow. They can do this with their eyes closed.
My 11-year-old trimmed the strawberries while my 13-year-old was reacquating herself with the Thunderstick Pro.
I just took photos afterwards.
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Sam’s Japanese rolls
My 12-year-old daughter was craving for maki last Sunday but the only Japanese restaurant in the mall where we were was one her dad didn’t care to go to. She was so disappointed that, on our way home, I decided to pass by the supermarket. I bought a pack of nori and crab sticks. I [...]
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Jar cap inspired fried rice
Inspired by a recipe on the cap of a cheez weez jar, my 12-year-old daughter and I “conspired” to make this fried rice dish. I expected the kids to like it, naturally… who can resist a topping like that? But, surprisingly, even my husband enjoyed it!
I was scrambling for something to whip up for dinner [...]
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Baked stuffed potatoes
I am very proud to announce that this is NOT my recipe. It is my 12-year-old daughter’s. She was watching a documentary on a Chinese (Hong Kong, most probably) channel in a language she did not understand. But she understood what was being cooked. According to her, this stuffed potato dish is a street food. [...]
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