Amateur baker
- Peanut butter chocolate chip cookies
- Sam’s butterscotch brownies
- Food for the Gods and the accidental Christmas cake
- Chocolate crinkles
- Tri-level brownies
- Turkey empanada
- (Something like) tiramisu
- Oatmeal cookies and a cookie fest
- Martha Stewart’s plum coffee muffins
- Mango cheese pie
Noche Buena
- Roast pork with salsa verde
- Adobo, quail eggs and rice
- Peach pata hamonado
- Corn dogs
- Roast pork with mushroom sauce
- Fried lapu-lapu with pineapple sauce
- Kalabasa (squash) and potato soup
- Blueberries and cream
- Food for the Gods and the accidental Christmas cake
- Roast duckling on New Year’s eve
School lunchbox
- Ox tongue with gravy
- Shrimps, cabbage and bell pepper stir fry
- Bangus a la pobre
- Chicken and asparagus fried rice
- Pinatisang bangus (milkfish soup with fish sauce)
- Blue marlin with hoisin sauce and sesame seeds
- Honey-lemon-ginger chicken
- Pork barbecue fried rice
- Roast pork and cabbage fried rice
- School lunch: fish fillet and buttered vegetables
Lasang Pinoy 8 : Creative cookery with children
The baked stuffed potatoes that Sam picked up from a Chinese TV program that she did not even understand was something we did together. And Sam is so great at rolling maki—perfect rolls even without using a bamboo mat. She can be very radical too—like the time she threaded gummy bears with wooden toothpicks then dipped them in melted chocolate. If that’s not radical enough, she even revolutionized the common cold drink of sago and arnibal by adding a few drops of blue food color while cooking the sago. It caught the attention of a Cebu-based food magazine and wanted to publish it.
Alex, now 12, makes wonderful puto. Haven’t had a chance to photograph them because they get eaten practically right off the steamer—they’re that good! Her mango shake, with the alternating layers of freshly pureed mango and milk, is pure delight. And we even tried giving Starbucks a run for its money one time with Alex’s “choco loco.â€
Thing is, by encouraging my kids to express their creativity with food, I am also allowing them to learn a skill that they will find useful in life. I have a lot of female friends who, despite having their own apartments, ate out all the time when we were single young lawyers. Not because they had no time to cook but because they didn’t know how. With the kind of fastfood junk so popular these days, it is always good to feel independent enough to say: “I can live without them because I can cook meals far better than the garbage they sell.†And that is more than enough incentive to spend time cooking with the kids.
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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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