My sister got this from a Southern States recipe book (I believe it was a Georgia recipe)… This is SO good — and so calorific! The calamansi will make the dish slightly sweeter. This is best made with lemons because of the grated lemon peel. I baked Lemon Squares for Christmas and it’s always one of the favorite treats in the family. Pre-heat...

Baking a [tag]birthday cake[/tag] can be a daunting task but that didn’t stop me from baking and show my labor of love to my 21 year old daughter. I begged off from icing a cake so I asked her “will blueberry cheesecake do?” Fortunately she agreed. Topped with a lone pink birthday candle, my daughter made her birthday wish. My [tag]blueberry...

My Principles in Food Preparation teacher in UP Diliman was the late Matilde P. Guzman. My sister and I, as well as her notable graduates such as Sylvia Reynoso-Gala and Nora Daza, all benefited from the basic food principles that she taught us. Studying her manual, “Principles of Cooking,” was my life-line. I found a blog entry about Mrs. Guzman during...

Tapsilog as we know it was coined from the word Tapa (salt-cured beef ), sinangag (fried garlic rice) , Itlog (fried egg). Filipinos are so creative when labelling their dishes. My favorite tapsilog is the one served at Rodic’s Diner at the Shopping Center inside the UP Diliman campus. Tapsilog wasn’t the trend during my seventies UP days but...

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Now that the two noche buena feasts are set aside, there’s a lot of extra food especially ham. In our case, we had a lot of Majestic Ham leftovers. The best thing to do is to recycle the leftover Christmas Ham for an even tastier dish. In fact, I got this idea from web searches on noche buena recycling. Since we had a boned-in ham, we recycled the bone and...