Food Product Review
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 [...]
More than You Wanted To Know About Absinthe
“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. [...]
Sweets for the Sweet
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 [...]
Arce Dairy’s Green Tea Ice Cream
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 [...]
Arce Dairy’s Buko Sherbet
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 [...]
Dreyer’s Slow-Churned Ice Cream
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.
Daing: Dried Fish
I bought dried fish from the Filipino Sari-Sari Store the other day…my craving for a Filipino breakfast overcame my apprehensions about getting one of good-quality. This wasn’t so bad. But man…was it salty! My tastes must have changed more than I realized. I used to enjoy dried fish.
Lasang Pinoy 1st Anniversary: Definitively Pinoy
The Filipino food bloggers’ event, Lasang Pinoy celebrates it’s first year anniversary this month of August. Congratulations and here’s to more participants and anniversaries! This month’s theme, Definitively Pinoy, was not so easy for me. I wanted to do the Ilokano dishes “dinengdeng” or “pinakbet” that my mother does so well. I could, [...]
Ben & Jerry’s New York Fudge Chunk
This is Number 6 in the Top Ten Flavors from Ben & Jerry’s. I’m surprised it isn’t higher on the list! I scooped out a bit of the ice cream to show some of the chunks. If you’ll look closely, the ice cream is almost overflowing. That’s really because of the lower air pressure [...]
MRE 19: Roast Beef with Vegetables
We went food shopping at the Peterson AFB Commissary this afternoon and I saw MRE packs on a shelf. It’s not the first time they went on sale at the commissary. They had individual packs going for $7.32 and boxes at about $87.00. As I was sifting through the packs, Spouse came up [...]
Atsara Tropical
Green papayas are not always available in the Filipino Sari-Sari Store here in Colorado Springs. I normally use potatoes or chayote for my Chicken Tinola but there’s no substitute for green papayas when it comes to Atsara. I picked up a bottle of this Tropical Atsara to go with my Daing na Bangus. [...]