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Le Critique: Hole in the Wall: Universal Café

Universal Cafe 2814 19th Street San Francisco, CA 94110 Tel: 415.821.4608 For an early 1st church wedding anniversary celebration, Chef spent the night in San Francisco courtesy of his sister and brother-in-law, who was also one of our principal sponsors. Sometimes, it seems that Chef and I have been together forever that things like this, [...]

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Taste Buds: Red Velvet Cupcake with Cream Cheese Frosting

This was my first ever attempt to bake cupcakes. And this was the first time I used my new professional KitchenAid mixer. Since I posted these pictures on Twitter, I have made this two times now and the second one was more successful. Well, it was more successful for me because the second batch was [...]

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Music and Lyrics: Speak Softly Love – Al Martino

To celebrate our dear mother goose’s 57th birthday, here is a song that she and Faja really love. I think there was even a time when she had this as her ringtone back in the P.I. Happy, happy birthday, Mommy!!! Love from all of us! Speak softly love And hold me warm against your heart. [...]

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Taste Buds: Our Thanksgiving Feast

I must say, I was nervous beyond my wits for our Thanksgiving Celebration. More than the fact that this was our first time hosting and we were serving for 11 people, this was the first time I have ever prepared a Thanksgiving dish, and I went all-American with the turkey, the stuffing, and the potatoes. [...]

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Festivities Aren’t Cheap

Recently, I shared on a recent post how excited I am this season as Chef and I are hosting our first Thanksgiving dinner, and the coming noche buena. This week, I took an extra day off to shop for what we need – the food, the tools, and the entertainment (and even a little something [...]

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Dad: The Wedding Speech

This week, I find myself thinking about my maternal grandfather more often that I normally do. He has not been in the best shape since, I dunno, 2005. Right now, he and my grandmother live in our house far, far away in Metro Manila to be close to his primary physician. Mommy and her siblings [...]

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Missing Noisy Halls

And this week came and went. I have been absent this week because the preparations for our house blessing amidst work and having an 8-year old boy in the house actually takes time, which I first thought I could just wing it. This week, we finally completely unpacked from our move 3 months ago; we’ve [...]