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What is   your   method for cooking ? Apart from wielding a spoon 🍽, what is the best way to approach a dish? 😁 In my limited experience, I can only think 🤔 of 3 ways: ------------------------------------------------------- By calculation You are the systematic  researcher.  🔍 You're one to pore over a variety of FoodTube videos until you settle for the perfect recipe resource.  Or if your mother gave you her precious & thick recipe notebook, you sift through it until you find THE one!   You then follow a l l the steps to the very last comma and dot. Is it safe to say every kitchen fledgling begins like this? By serendipity You are the eccentric inventor , who adds into the pot just about anything!  And zip-zap  🗲 , by chance some unique and delicious, and hopefully, fine-looking, concoction comes out from your food experiment. (Oh, lucky you!) You are somewhat of an  adventurer , like Indiana Jones, who just win...

What's not to like with pesto? I say, "None!" I am certain there will be some of you with a ready answer.  And to that I say, "To each his own, my friend." :-) I am so thankful for my precious big sister who introduced me to this heavenly Italian sauce. She has lived in Italy for so many years, and when she came home for a vacation, she had brought so much Italian food to take our brood on an Italian gastronomic tour! I have to admit, i did meet my first green mix with a wary eye. I remember I gave a tentative taste to my very 1st  pasta la pesto, which   my sister had excitedly prepared for the family.  At that moment, my brain, together with all my tasting senses -- tongue, eyes and nose, reconciled to one wonderful fact -- what a pleasing pleasing pleasing thing this is indeed! From then on, i have tried many a jar from many brands.  Consistently, I have never been disappointed. Very recently, I made a batch from scratch, but with a spin. It was ...

🍲 To you, what confirms a happy meal ? In mi casa , these are the criteria:     50%    - spontaneous appreciation from the one who eats👌                    like,  that  precious nod from hubby!                    thumbs-up Gladiator/Roman emperor style from kids!  👍     50%   - unforced clean plates, another serving and repeat!  ----------   100%   🍲 To you, what is the recipe for success ? In mi casa , after ~n years in the kitchen, it's finally dawned on me:      100%    - Abba's grace! As I do the needful, busy but restful -- hands & feet in the kitchen, taste buds that wonder (sweet enough?  add more salt?  too sour?) brain that wander through my food memories and the vast internet 🤔 for the weekly menu (whew!), and  my earthen-weak heart, admit...

Are you one of those who just cannot get enough of food of the purple hue? Grapes , yam , blueberries , eggplants and that red cabbage . Traditional Filipino snack recipes like Halaya and Sapin-Sapin .  Even Ube Ice Cream ! Refreshing Berry smoothie  and Grape juice slush ! The list can go on! I surely have a penchant for such.   To me, any dish with this bright shade never fails to turn up a notch in my yummy chart. 📈 So, sharing with you this colorful dish that my family gobbled up a few suppers ago. Hope you give it a try,  tweak here and there to your taste and let me know how your version goes! RECIPE:    Purple Omelette ☙ 2 tablespoons olive oil                                 ☙  1/2 onion minced                   ☙  1 russet potato, diced            ...