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Taste Buds: Cottage Pie – Shepherd’s Pie with Beef

So last time, we went to Morocco. Now, with all my sabbatical planning for England, it was inevitable for me to crave for shepherd’s pie. BUT not exactly shepherd’s pie, but what the English call as cottage pie. What’s the difference? One thing. The meat. Beef instead of lamb. Anyone who knows me well can [...]

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Taste Buds: Moroccan Chicken Soup with Couscous

I always have lots of fun when one of the ingredients in my dish is couscous. It’s really because it’s one of those “just add water” things that enlarge when they absorb the liquid. In reality, there’s not much to it, but it is reminiscent of my childhood full of playing outdoors with my friends, [...]

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Taste Buds: Tiramisu Parfait

I have posted a tiramisu recipe once before here on Taste Buds, and that is definitely still my number one. However, for Chef’s birthday dinner last month, I decided to try this quickie version I found on Foodista. I remember revising the recipe a bit just to taste so the one below is based on [...]

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Taste Buds: Delectable Molten Chocolate Cake

According to Chef, this has propelled to the number one spot of my most successful desserts. Winter calls for some warm desserts so actually, for the past couple of months, we’ve been ordering molten chocolate cake, aka chocolate lava cake, pretty much everywhere. The one from Bottega has been my favorite so far, which inspired [...]

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Taste Buds: Spanish Rice that’s not Paella

Chef and I have been together for 6 years and I never learned how to make Spanish rice until now. I love it, obviously, and I can’t get enough of it whenever we have Mexican food. We discussed over and over what this really is called because it’s been labeled as Spanish rice, though it’s [...]

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Taste Buds: Tomato Dinner

Fall may have started, but this past summer, the cooking club gathered again for our quarterly meet-up. To shake things up from the way we did things before, which was to pick a specific cuisine, this time, we picked a secret ingredient. And what’s the most summery ingredient out there?! Tomatoes!! We welcomed a new [...]

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Taste Buds: Quick Dinner with Super Easy Parmesan Chicken

This is a perfect dinner when you don’t have much time to prepare dinner. Not to mention pretty much all the ingredients are stuff you already have in your pantry. It takes about 15 minutes to prep and 15-20 minutes to cook. Very tasty and moist. It was a winner again to Chef’s taste but [...]

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Taste Buds: Cassava Cake

When Chef and I went to the Asian store, we both went crazy just finding things that we were not used to seeing at Costco and Safeway. It was even quite extraordinary compared to the stuff I saw in the grocery stores of Manila. I mean, Asian stores here are a hoot! As we spent [...]

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Taste Buds: Tiramisù

My friends, this is my tried and tested tiramisù recipe that I believe won the heart of Chef when we were still dating. I knew that Chef spoke Italian but it wasn’t really until a couple of weeks into our relationship that I learned that this designer is a chef at heart. So, I bought [...]

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Taste Buds: Chicken Tikka Masala

This was a spur of the moment thing. Last Sunday, Chef and I were at the grocery store buying chicken. And we both said, CHICKEN TIKKA MASALA! We had to Google the recipe right there and then because, come on, this is Indian food, and we knew there are spices in this dish that we [...]

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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 [...]