Amateur baker
- Salmon, cheese and cabbage quiche
- Food for the gods
- Valentine’s Day cheesecake
- Peanut butter chocolate chip cookies
- Vanilla-mocha marble chiffon cake
- Strawberry streusel cake
- Chicken pie with butter crust
- Corn muffins a la Kenny Rogers
- Egg (custard) pie
- Blueberry and apple squares
Noche Buena
- Roast pork with salsa verde
- Christmas jello
- Fresh tropical fruits salad
- Roast pork with mushroom sauce
- Kalabasa (squash) and potato soup
- Melon and coconut milkshake
- Update on the noche buena blog
- Cooking for Christmas and the New Year
- Christmas ham from Majestic
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School lunchbox
- Ground pork and vegetables frittata
- Butterscotch and chocolate fudge combo brownies
- School lunch: fish fillet and buttered vegetables
- Sukiyaki-cut beef with Kecap Manis
- Blue marlin with hoisin sauce and sesame seeds
- Shrimps, ham and asparagus fried rice
- Crispy chicken strips with sweet and sour sauce
- Creamed pork, ham, carrots and celery
- School lunch: chicken, chayote and spinach
- Bangus a la pobre
Lasang Pinoy 5 : Fruit cakes, a family tradition
I can’t remember a Christmas day when we didn’t have fruit cake. Even as a child, lots of people would give my parents fruit cakes for Christmas. There were times when my mother would order dozens of fruit cakes for gift-giving.
The fruit cake in the photo was given by my mother-in-law. She didn’t bake it though; it was given by her sister-in-law. See, in my husband’s family, only he eats fruit cakes. When we were still living with them, for two Christmases, he and I gorged on all the fruit cakes that entered the house. We had no competition. When we moved out, my mother-in-law would give us their fruit cakes when we came over during the holidays.
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My husband’s grandmother makes fruit cake every year. But we haven’t been given any loaf for about 3 years now, fortunately…LOL. I can’t stand it. She likes making it because of the rum..lol. She particularly loves that ingredient
LOL loves it beyond brushing it on fruit cakes eh?
ok I will put this for this year wish list for Sassy
here is swiss cheese secret is… ok grated carrots to keep moisture!!
I dont Bake this I leave this to the expert….
also am thinking this xmas 2006 I might be able to send u the English pudding…
happy new year to all!
only a few people enjoy fruitcake which has also become the one of the most recycled christmas gifts. it wouldn’t have been if commercially made fruit cake were baked well - you know, the real ingredients inside the cake and all.
i love fruitcake, too. and as such, i have tried to (perfect) baking it every year (for 15 years LOL). i believe that doing it every christmas is worth the try for something you love and eat only once a year.
waahhhhh and fruitcake ko!!!
Wow, sha, wowowowow. Thank you! Nalalasap ko na.
Maris, tha’s inspiring ha. Maybe, I’ll try again this year.
Yuga, wala na, forfeited na. hahahaha
[...] Recovering from her December database disaster, Pinay Blog Queen Sassy of Pinoy Cook makes it up with two entries in this edition of Lasang Pinoy — A Puto Bumbong Story and a family tradition, Fruit Cakes. [...]
gawa ka na lang kasi, connie! hindi mahirap, you just need a really good recipe. my favorite is studded with — what else? chocolate chunks….
may recurring joke dito pag Pasko… there’s this fruitcake that’s been around 100 years… it gets passed on to someone else every year… you probably know it hahaha!!!
fruit cake with chocolate chunks? oh my gosh. that sounds like sugar heaven.
Yung 100 year old fruit cake, pass na ko dun, may amag na yun hahahahaha
Connie, try this link for a great Christmas cake recipe you might like to try.
http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/recipes/dessert_easychristmascake.shtml
With your cooking inventiveness I’m sure you’ll find a substitute for chestnut puree if you can’t get it in Manila.
Thanks, Chris. I read the recipe and, I agree, looks really easy to make. But I think I’ll surprise you. I already “invented” a Pinoy fruit cake. Just a matter of perfecting it.