Amateur baker
- Mini-custard pie with coconut cream
- Betty Crocker’s blueberry muffins
- Corn muffins a la Kenny Rogers
- Corn bread
- Smoked porkloin and cheese cupcakes
- Egg (custard) pie
- Blueberry and apple squares
- Food for the gods
- No bake chocolate-almonds-cream cheese cookie squares
- Chocolate and mango tart
Noche Buena
- In my kitchen: taking it easy
- Adobo, quail eggs and rice
- Tilapia fritters with honey-lemon sauce
- Food: the perfect Christmas gift
- Kalabasa (squash) and potato soup
- Rice pudding with custard topping
- What to do with holiday leftovers: make a pie, a soup and Oriental fried rice
- Pre-Christmas callos
- Update on the noche buena blog
- Home grilled pork barbecue
School lunchbox
- Pinatisang bangus (milkfish soup with fish sauce)
- Pork barbecue fried rice
- Chicken, ham and leeks fried rice
- Ox tongue with gravy
- School lunch: fish fillet and buttered vegetables
- Creamed pork, ham, carrots and celery
- Butterscotch and chocolate fudge combo brownies
- Tapsilog in the school lunchbox
- Bangus a la pobre
- Shrimps, cabbage and bell pepper stir fry
Lasang Pinoy 8 : Creative cookery with children
Except for the first three years of our marriage when we lived with my in-laws, my kids grew up in the same compound where I did. When we moved to the suburb, my kids were old enough to take interest in cooking. But our house—and the grounds—are nowhere as large as the one I grew up in. This is a modest house by comparison but we love it because it is our own house—our home. My one complaint was the kitchen—a kitchenette, actually—that was too tiny. I didn’t encourage the kids to hang around because I felt cramped. Heaven knows I wanted them to feed their own curiosity… but those were times when I was working outside the house and cooking activities were almost always hurried and frenzied.
When I opted to become a work-at-home mom, I realized that cooking with my daughters was a great opportunity for bonding. The tiny kitchen—with my abhorrence for feeling cramped—was making us miss the opportunity. That was when my husband and I decided to build a new kitchen—a new wing that would be built on a portion of the backyard.
Today, the girls sometimes help me out with the cooking. Alex would often pop into the kitchen and ask: â€Mommy, can I help?†And she would peel potatoes or flake the chicken… Sometimes, they do the cooking by themselves. On some Saturdays, I’d get up with breakfast ready—either Sam or Alex had already prepared something.
But the best part is the experimenting. Some of them, I posted Web log entries about. Others… well, sometimes I get lost in a maze and haze of kitchen mess (oh, they do make a lot of mess when they cook!) that blogging is the farthest thing from my mind.
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First of all I sympathize with your sprain. I’m glad you didn’t break your leg. I fractured my leg 8 months ago and was disabled for many months (I plan to write about it one day). I have now 8 screws in my leg and ankle. Ouch.
Secondly, It’s a mother’s pride when we impart to our children creative ways of cooking or any crafts for that matter. I am not much of a cook but the girls learned to cook by experimenting. They just ask my advise about cooking techniques. It’s a great way of bonding. The kids were most curious during their early teens. I always tell them to come up with their own recipe even if modified from somewhere. In my case, my forte is baking and crafts and inspite of the internet technology, they still dabble with these crafts and their other talents.
you were, relly? wow, you lived there long?
noemi, oohhh it feels to great to share things like these with moms. my kids love crafts too. they even had this mini pottery maker. but they especially love creating models–helicopters, cars… even a full human skeleton. and they draw. my younger girl even had some of her drawings on TV (Nickelodeon). Gee, the things I can talk about when I don’t talk about politics.
Really need to get mommytalks.com going. A day, I still need a day. 
Connie: I am looking forward to mommytalks.com. Just holler when ready.
a very enlightening article connie. your kids sound so wonderful w/ cooking… may pinagmanahan! i am glad you joined and thank you for bringing a new dimension to LP with the column as your entry…
I envy your ability to cook and the way cooking has become occasions for bonding and creativity for your family. Growing up, food has been left to the care of cooks—or to restaraurants.
Now with my own family, I hope out kitchen can eventually be a place where we can gather and be nourished together. There’s nothing like home-cooked meals, and I’m sure that quality time in the kitchen must be very rewarding.
How you must be so organzed to run a household, cook meals and work at the same time! I’m a work-at-mom too to a 5-month old baby, and I can barely find time to clean house, much less spend time over the stove. Thank goodness my husband has shown a newfound interest in cooking.
i will, noemi.
salamat iska. a toast to pinoy food blogs!
candice, i am not that organized. LOL i wish i were. apart from the hard drive of my laptop, the kitchen must be the only organized place in the house. even scheduling can go crazy. sometimes, everyone wakes up at 10 a.m. and we have breakfast at 11, lunch at 3…
I also want to have a big kitchen
You’re right, our son also express his creativity in the kitchen. He garnishes the food and arrange it beautifully in the plate before serving it.
lani, plan the kitchen heheheh ours isn’t that big but a huge improvement from the one we had before.
kudos to your son. maybe he’ll be a chef someday.
I’ve always been interested in cooking and I find my style very authentic because it seems I have the feeling to perfectly match every details of elements according to taste, smell and kind.
I also think that many of da gurlz here posted their very stoooooopid silly ideas categorized to THE MOST LOST LEVEL OF THE HUMAN SOCIETY…
Hello miss_mozaik, yeah, i read your 2 comments and I understand what you mean about stupid silly ideas. You’re living proof.
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