Food Product Review
Vietnamese Pinipig
If you see this artificially-colored bag of young rice cereal at your local Asian store, don’t even bother to pick it up from the shelves. Save yourself the trouble. It’s made by a company in Vietnam called Himing Co. Ltd. and is labeled “Cereal Flakes”. It doesn’t come with a manufacture or expiry date. I [...]
Muffuletta of Central Grocery in New Orleans
It was more than 2 years ago when Spouse and I went to New Orleans on a day trip from Biloxi, Mississippi. I fell in love with the city even before we set foot in it. On our approach to the city, the car radio was tuned to a local station that was playing the [...]
Cocktail Time
I was looking for raspberry liqueur at the Peterson AFB Ccommissary, of all places….and didn’t find it, of course. Just when I was planning a liqour store stop on the way home, I spied this bottle of Rose’s Blue Raspberry Mix.
Culver’s Frozen Custard
Culver’s is a restaurant made famous by their mouth-watering ButterBurger. I have to do another post on their burger when I have photos. Ohhh……mmm….and if I remember to take a shot before I take a bite. They’re a 22-year old restaurant chain out of Wisconsin, the state made famous by cheese. Spouse and I like [...]
Indonesian Products in a Filipino Store
I ran out of Filipino cooking staples, fish sauce (patis) and soy sauce (toyo) and went to my local Filipino Store on South Academy Boulevard here in the Springs.? Since I am determined to start cooking more Indonesian recipes, the plan was to stop by another Asian grocery in the area to pick up the [...]
More Ice Cream
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.
Steak Dinner
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 [...]
Going All Chocolate-y
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 [...]
Lee Iacocca’s Olivio Premium Spread and the Diabetes Connection
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. [...]
Ben & Jerry’s Peanut Butter Cup
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 [...]
Grateful Fans of Cherry Garcia
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 [...]
Mr. Bean Car Cake
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 [...]