a food blog about simple homemade cooking recipes from scratch, with a side of nostalgia
Ube Ice Cream – amazing Filipino dessert made with purple sweet potatoes / yams and coconut milk; no machine needed! Before I get to the recipe, I need to apologize to all of you who tried to reach my site in past 40 days. It had some major technical issues which prevented you from seeing…
Semolina Pudding – easy, cheap and filling breakfast or dessert. Semolina Pudding, or semolina porridge or cream of wheat, is a quick milk pudding, cooked on stove top and eaten for breakfast or as a dessert. It can be served with fruit compote or sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar. I can still remember bowls of…
Bisquick Peach Cobbler – juicy peaches topped with tender Bisquick Mix batter in simplified traditional peach cobbler recipe. Bisquick Peach Cobbler brings back great memories. Fantastic as a dessert as well as breakfast, old fashioned peach cobbler is everybody’s favorite southern summer dish. But there is no reason why we couldn’t enjoy a bowl of warm…
Mocha Chocolate Icebox Cake – no bake, easy, rich, coffee and chocolate flavored dessert recipe. Years ago I found out guests were arriving unexpectedly and I had to come up with a recipe for quick and tasty dessert. They’ve already tried my Fruit Tiramisu so I had to invent something else. Fruit Tiramisu I wanted…
Strawberry Mousse – luscious, fluffy, light and creamy, this is one of the easiest desserts to make. Strawberry season is almost over, so it is the best time to use the abundance of ripe fresh strawberries. Not to ruin their exquisite taste by cooking or baking, the best thing is to turn them into a…
Oyster Mushroom Stir-Fry – a quick and easy meal in a matter of minutes. I’m not a huge fan of fusion food. I love to try out authentic recipes from all over the world, but I don’t like to mix them together. In spite of that, this time I combined Chinese and Mediterranean cuisine in…
Chicken Francese – Italian-American one pan dish of breaded chicken cutlets simmered in a lemon, white wine and butter sauce. If you like my Romano Chicken, I’m pretty sure you will like this recipe, too. Chicken Francese is a popular American-Italian way of preparing chicken by breading, frying it then simmering in wine-lemon sauce. The…
Spicy Purple Sweet Potato Fries – crispy oven baked fries, full of antioxidants and actually good for you! If you like potato fries, but want to do something good for your body as well, baked Spicy Purple Sweet Potato Fries may be just what you’re looking for. Purple food is so rare. Except blueberries, blackberries…
Basic Sofrito Recipe – learn how easy it is to prepare a large quantity of homemade sofrito (soffritto) for freezing. Sofrito (Spanish) or soffritto (Italian) is the base of most of my dishes. That’s what I’ve learned at home, that’s what my grandmother and my mom did and that’s what I’m doing as well. Almost…
Beef Egg Foo Young with Thick Gravy – quick and easy homemade version of favorite Chinese takeaway meal! For those of you who don’t know what is Egg Foo Young, let me just quickly say that it is a type of vegeteble omelette from Chinese cuisine. There are vegetarian as well as meat-lovers versions of…
Ube Cake – unusual purple chiffon cake made with ube (Filipino name for purple yam/sweet potato) and coconut. This cake recipe was on my to-do list for over 6 years. The reason I didn’t make it sooner is because I couldn’t find truly purple sweet potatoes / yams. On more occasions I would buy sweet…
Pizza Rustica – an Italian Easter Pie full of cooked ham, salami, cheese and hard boiled eggs. A must for every Easter celebrating table! My absolutely favorite Easter recipe is Casatiello or Tortano – Italian Easter Bread. It is Napoletan recipe of homemade bread stuffed with cooked ham, spicy salami, ricotta cheese and hard boiled…
