Kat's Notebook

What’s in a winter melon? As post-script to the winter olympics, I decided to blog about this intriguing vegetable. I tried cooking this dish when my grandmother served this soup to us. She said that she imitated the recipe from a Chinese restaurant. The soup was simple, delicious and high in nutritional value. It was [...]

The idea started with a leftover sour cream. I bought a pint of sour cream to put in a guacamole dip I made. I only used a little amount leaving me with a lot of leftover. So I came up with Banana chocolate chip muffins when I saw that sour cream is one of its [...]

Because of our different work schedules and lunch schedule, we sometimes fail to follow the 12pm lunch time. Usually my younger brother would come home for lunch and we need to whip up something quick for him to eat before he returns for work. I got this recipe from a co-worker who was kind enough [...]

Of all the tomato-based pasta, I love lasagna the best! The meatier the better! The secret is in the cheese! Mozarella makes it so stringy and yummy. Just recently I embark on baking lasagna. It turns out great!!! Check out this fail-proof recipe.

Now that there are only 3 people in the house at the moment, we have lots of leftover rice. Since I’ve always cooked Chinese fried rice, I decided to cook a different version, the thai fried rice – Pineapple fried rice. I remember eating in a Thai restaurant and simply gorging myself with their Pineapple [...]

I’ve finally got the chance to eat at Jollibee here in America. I tried their franchise at Great Mall Milpitas. Jollibee was established in the US on 1998 with their 1st restaurant located at Daly City – the city of Pinoys (I tell you a lot of Filipinos are living in this area). It catered [...]

During my parents’ routine trip to Costco, they surprised me one day when they brought home a different kind of ice cream. I frowned upon that ice cream because: first the weather is getting cold for ice cream, second it’s pricey at around 12USD, third, sugar equals weight gain and cavities! My mom was justifying [...]

What do you do when you have a lot of apples in your home? Make a pie of course! It’s the apple harvest season. My aunt has an apple tree in their home and she has just given me a bag of red apples. I was about to decline because my dad still has a [...]

My family loves fruit shake. We usually do it at home whenever we have “shake-able” fruits. We blend avocado, strawberry, mango, watermelon, melon, papaya…well you get the drift. We recently added a new ingredient to our fruit shakes – Tapioca pearls! Tapioca drinks are very popular in the Philippines. Zagu and Quickly are the main [...]