Last Thursday at Casa Yllika (our home in Lima), we surprised our dear housemate, Luna, with a birthday sign and balloons strung up outside her bedroom. It reminded me of the high school days when my friends and I would decorate each other’s lockers whenever there was a birthday. 🙂 As part of a little…
The autumn season means many things. It’s a time to dress warmer, rake leaves, go pumpkin picking, prepare for Halloween and the Holidays, carve pumpkins, and so on. Every year about a week before Halloween, I buy some canned pumpkin and cream cheese and prepare my first batch of homemade Pumpkin Squares for my family,…
Just like in my post about Quaker Oats’ Oatmeal Raisin cookies, there are just some recipes that you can’t tamper with. For classic cookie recipes (and I mean, CLASSIC), Mrs. Fields is still undoubtedly my favorite. I don’t know exactly when my mom, I’m assuming, bought this baking book, but I’d say it’s been in our family…
Quaker Oats has the most perfect recipe for oatmeal raisin cookies. I used to make it regularly for parties, gifts, picnics, or just when my sweet tooth was craving it. The thing is, it requires two sticks of butter and a cup and a half of sugar. On newer packaging of Quaker Oats, they even…
Ingredients: 1/2 cup all purpose flour 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa 1/4 tsp. baking powder 1/4 tsp. salt 1/2 cup vegetable oil 1 cup sugar 1 tsp. vanilla extract 2 eggs optional: walnut pieces, chocolate/peanut butter chips, etc. 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. 2. Whisk together dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Set aside. 3.…
I… have an obsession with brioche… But before I talk to you about that, I need to tell you first about this sandwich: This sandwich changed my life. I ate it one cold afternoon in January of this year, but to this day, I can still taste every delicious bite. Chicken, tomato, lettuce, and cheese…
Food for the gods… So dramatic sounding, but really, it’s a traditional Filipino pastry, served usually during the holidays. It will always remind me of my childhood. I have never questioned the origin of its name, nor have I ever questioned the ingredients that make it up… except until recently. It may not be obvious…
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