• Baking Recipes,  Bread-making,  My Favourite Ingredients,  The Breakfast Bin,  Yeasted breads

    Learning to love the green tea-red bean combination

    We’re taking a little break from the Japan travel blogs because I haven’t had the time to make the next posts in the series yet. But what else should I write about except this Japanese-inspired bread? This has been on my drafts folder for such a looooong long time. So long I don’t even want to tell you the exact date! But clearly these buns have made quite the impression on me, because the moment I saw the photos again, I immediately remembered what they tasted like. I haven’t always been the biggest fan of red beans. It’s not that I hate it or anything. I just feel very… blah…

  • Asian Flavors,  Baking Recipes,  Bread-making,  The Breakfast Bin,  Yeasted breads

    Edible horns filled with Nutella cream anyone?

    The world of food is fascinating. It seems there is always something that gets created everyday that can serve each and every person’s gastronomic whim. Whatever version you prefer of a particular dish or food item, there’s bound to be a recipe for it. It’s bound to exist. Food is one of those things you will never run out of opportunities to discover. You will always have the chance to form opinions and establish favourites because eating is an everyday thing. I guess that’s why I enjoy this whole food blogging business so much. I feel like with every dish that I make, or every plate that is set down…

  • All Things Pinoy,  Asian Flavors,  Baking Recipes,  Bread-making,  The Breakfast Bin,  Timeless Treats,  Yeasted breads

    Sometimes I wonder about Spanish Bread

    When I was in high school and history was a required subject, zoning out in class seemed to be a contagious disease among students. Whenever the teacher asked a question you can practically hear the crickets sing. At times some of us would get sick of the silence and raise our hands to answer just so the discussion could move along, whether we be right or wrong. I’m one of those students– kind of passively listening and observing in the background but active when necessary. But I do remember liking it when I got the answers right. It didn’t occur to me at that time that I had an interest…

  • All Things Pinoy,  Asian Flavors,  Baking Recipes,  Simple cakes,  Timeless Treats

    A bibingka recipe for the books and some spiked hot chocolate to go with it

    I have yet to figure out why among all the Filipino pastries, there is none I associate more with Christmas than bibingka. Even though it has become pretty mainstream these days, I still cannot help but feel this way. I’ve told the story before– about how it became such a part of my Christmas childhood because my Mom always bought me one after mass– and even though it’s been so many years since we’ve done that, I still remember the warmth that the bibingka, with a square of toasted banana leaf underneath to give it that lovely earthy smell, gave my little heart. But aside from bibingka, you know what else…

  • All Things Pinoy,  Asian Flavors,  Baking Recipes,  Cupcakes & Muffins,  My favourite things

    Getting some homemade puto-pao satisfaction

    I’ve been slacking off, I know. But I have a perfectly good excuse: It’s the weather! Seriously though, with the arrival of the first -ber month we’ve officially entered sweater-weather territory. Aside from finally getting a chance to break out my favourite layered outfits, this weather has made the evenings utterly conducive for lounging around after a long day at work catching up on new shows like Outlander, or surfing the interwebs. Basically anything to do with not blogging, because this kind of weather has a way of activating my lazy bones. And maybe a part of me was stalling too because I haven’t yet decided what to write about…