Baking

Chicken Stuffed with Yellow Rice and Chorizo

LAST Christmas dinner, I de-boned and stuffed two free-range chickens. For one chicken, I prepared a traditional Filipino stuffing to replicate the classic chicken relleno (i.e., ground pork, raisins, carrots, pickles, etc. etc.). However, since hubby’s family was dining with us, I thought they might find this stuffing strange so I made a Spanish-inspired version [...]

Date and Walnut Brownies (a.k.a. Food for the Gods)

I’m not very good with baking. I tried to make croissants once but they were as tough as doorknobs; not the light, airy, buttery, dreamy thing I just get now at our favorite bakery store. He.he. I also tried to make cheese puffs once. Those too ended up too tough and I slightly burned them. [...]