The Unofficial Cook

These are the two best ice creams I’d recommend to go with pies and pastries – Dreyer’s Vanilla Bean and Haagen-Dazs Dulce de Leche.

This was the Steak Dinner we had last night, with a few of the ingredients I used to prepare the meal. I have to admit, the steak was not perfectly medium the way I planned it….more medium-well, which is not all that perfect for a piece of good steak.  I used a little under a [...]

My favorite Filipina food blogger once wrote about a German Chocolate called Ritter Sport which I’d never heard of before.  On my regular commissary run for that week, I chanced upon this same brand.  I don’t know why I waited to try it until today.  But I’m thankful I did. The Swiss-made Lindt was always my [...]

On our last visit to Younger Sister in Florida last Thanksgiving, she handed us a tub of Olivio Premium Spread for our toast at breakfast.  I was first intrigued by the packaging because it carried Lee Iacocca’s name on it.  But when she told me that it was made from olive oil, I got even more intrigued. [...]

Thank goodness for unpredictable Colorado weather!  It got warm enough for Spouse and I to indulge in a pint of another untested flavor of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. This time we decided to try “Peanut Butter Cup” and were not disappointed. My first spoonful reminded me of “Choc-Nut”, my favorite Philippine sweet.  Choc-Nut was [...]

Spouse just read in some Yahoo group that Ben & Jerry’s ice cream was available in Angeles City, Pampanga. That’s a big surprise cause I thought it wasn’t available at all back home. I thought we’d have to go to Hongkong or Singapore if we wanted another spoonful of our favorite Cherry Garcia once we [...]

The recipe I used for this cake was actually not a good choice.  It’s called a Kentucky Butter Cake and I found it in the website www.allrecipes.com I have to admit I was impressed with all the positive feedback the recipe generated.  It’s just too sweet for our taste and if I ever do this [...]

“The following is a paid review:” Hi, this is the Spouse chiming in here at The UnofficialCook. Mita and I have been enjoying working on this site for several years now. Recently I signed up with a company called ReviewMe which offers bloggers a chance to write reviews of products that advertisers want to showcase. [...]

These are some of the goodies I got at Eurobake in Guiguinto, Bulacan. They’re all old favorites, things you didn’t get on a regular basis because Eurobake used to be way out in the sticks. Then we moved to the same sticks but never really went around the province since all our activities were in [...]

I was at Hi-Top Supermarket along Quezon Avenue in Quezon City with Eldest and Youngest Sisters, the Father, the Spouse, the Nephews and Eldest Sister’s Youngest Daughter on Maundy Thursday. Hi-Top is one of my old stomping grounds and I’ll write more about it when I have a photo to go with the post. For [...]

This sherbet is made with young coconut which we call “buko” in the Philippines. Buko is perfect for a sherbet because the water from a young coconut has a slight sweetness that makes the perfect base. The tender coconut meat when chopped fine and churned with the buko juice also enhances the sherbet’s texture, making [...]

     Has anyone tried the new slow churned ice cream Dreyer’s has been advertising with that goofy commercial?  I say goofy because I didn’t get it that the man who enters the supermarket is the manager…oh well, my brain was slow-churning I guess.