We had visitors last Sunday so I thought of making a quick merienda for them. I always have pasta and spaghetti sauce in our pantry since it is easy to cook for house guests. To put again my dear oven to use, I decided to make baked macaroni that's good for 8 pax and a little more for Kelsea's school baon the next day. INGREDIENTS: Garlic, minced Medium Onion, minced 1/4 kg each of lean pork and beef giniling Salt Pepper Italian ... [ Read More ]
Baking Supplies at Kitchen Elf
If you're a homebaker living in the South (particularly Cavite, Las Pinas and Alabang), have you visited Evia in Daang Hari Rd? There are a lot of new commercial establishments now (a big mall is currently on-going construction) and one of them is Kitchen Elf. From our place, I think this is the nearest one which offers a wide range of baking supplies. It is located at the back of Rustan's Fresh, particularly beside Powerbooks. The staff said that they opened a long time ago. I wonder why ... [ Read More ]
A Wanna-be Homebaker and Majesto Cake Studio’s Baking Workshop
Do you love to bake? I do! One of my dreams is to have a pastry shop serving cakes, pastries and coffee. I only had an oven toaster when we moved to our house 4 yrs ago and it was only last year that we were able to buy a gas range with an oven. I was so excited to start not just being a homemaker but also a homebaker :) To have more confidence, I attended the Basic Baking and Cake Decorating Workshop of Majesto Cake Studio last January. Diane Joy Labayen of Majesto is not new to me. My ... [ Read More ]
Glamma Momma’s Oven: S’mores Brownies
What do you call a dessert that combines s'mores and brownies? S'mores Brownies! My jar of all-purpose flour (APF) is already empty but i still got a lot of cake flour. So I searched the internet for recipes that use cake flour and came across Leite's Culinaria's S'mores Brownies. I still got stocks of all the ingredients so I decided to bake one yesterday and prepare it for my in-laws. I tweaked the recipe a little to adjust to my on-hand supplies. Here's the recipe with a few comments on ... [ Read More ]