The most engaging new Italian restaurant that I’ve been returning to lately is My Kitchen, which is located off Paco Park in Manila. I mention this fact at the top of the article because those who are unwilling to travel outside the Makati-Ortigas axis or who are looking for a stylish new restaurant for a dinner date can stop reading here.
One of my all-time favorite comfort foods is brownies. All’s right with the world, it seems to me, whenever I see a pan of brownies on the kitchen counter. After all, if there’s flour, sugar, butter, chocolate and eggs with which to bake some brownies, things can’t be all that bad; most likely things are going merrily well. As Martha Stewart would say, it’s a good thing.
It’s a common misconception that losing weight is all about getting rid of carbs, skipping meals, and giving up so many favorite foods deemed fattening and unhealthy.
Chef Alexander Lichaytoo Tanco prefers simple, easy-to-prepare food when cooking for his girlfriend, Liz Yap.
For many, Paniqui, Tarlac, is not the final destination, but a mere passageway to other places.
When he brought home recently two super-soft loaves of sandwich bread in regular and ube flavors, my curiosity was roused. I could not resist the loaves that were on our dining table. I had to try them, and I was very happy!
The place is easy to miss. Not only is there no signage on the door, the façade gives you no clue, either, that here lies the best Asian cooking in the country.
In 2001, I came across Café Metro along C5, Libis. The food was simple home cooking—a lot of traditional Filipino fare, plus anything the owners felt was delicious enough to serve.
Vegetarian food—as our survey proves—has never been this good and varied, belying the notion that vegetarian dishes are bland and dull.
Australia is sometimes referred to as the land down under, but I think it would be just as appropriate to call it the land of abundant milk and honey. After all, Australia has a reputable and long-thriving dairy industry, and it produces some of the world’s best honey in territories like Tasmania and Kangaroo Island.
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