Sometimes I get into a cooking rut where I cook the same thing over and over again, and then I get so bored that i don't even feel like cooking anymore. One of the things that reliably gets me out of this rut is Real Simple's daily recipe e-mail. Not every recipe I get in my inbox inspires me, but I do have a good selection bookmarked to try. ( Read more... )

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Dinner tonight was Grilled Chicken with Fresh Grape Glaze.  I saw the recipe in Cooking Light magazine (fJune 2005), and since I had some seedless red grapes in the fridge, I thought I'd give it a try.


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Now that all visitors have gone back to Manila, I finally have time to update my journal, yippee.  I was challenged to cook more "healthy, nutritious, and REGULAR" meals for my brother.  Ah, the responsibilities of being an older sister.  Left to my own devices, I just eat whenever I want -- there's usually no such thing as three proper meals a day ( Read more... )

My brother and some relatives have been here since May 1, so I've been to busy (and lazy!) to post. I also have a huge stack of books that have to be read before I can return them to the library, so that takes time as well.

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I was grocery-shopping a few weeks ago when these gorgeous tomatoes on the vine caught my eye.  I ( Read more... )

LJ ate my post!!!  Argh!  Now I have to rewrite everything.  Grrr...

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I've been cooking a bit at home lately, so here's one of the meals I've concocted.  I finally bought a hand blender after dithering about it for a long time.  Having a gift card really helped me make up my mind, haha.  Somehow it didn't really feel like spending money if all I had to do was hand them a gft card to get the blender.

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Most of the people who read my blog probably think I eat out all the time, but that's just not true.  Yesterday was cooking-baking day for me.  I'd been wanting to bake cookies for the longest time, but I don't have a mixer here and I'm too lazy to do it by hand, heh-heh.  So yesterday, I finally gave in and bought a hand-mixer so I could satisfy ( Read more... )

As I was blog-hopping, I came upon this recipe for Baked Macaroni and thought, ooh!  I have all those ingredients or substitutes in my kitchen!  And so my cooking experimentation continues.  I never thought about putting  corned beef in a tomato-based baked macaroni recipe, although I do have a recipe that's only corned beef and cheese. Anyway, the ( Read more... )

It's been ages since I last cooked properly, so last night I decided it was time to crack open the old cookbook amd see what I was in the mood for.  It had to be fast and easy because it was late already, so I went for my old reliable, Ken Hom's Quick Wok: The Fastest Food in the East.  This is a simple and easy cookbook, but none of its recipes ( Read more... )