Food Without Borders

When­ever we have a guest over for din­ner, I always find myself strug­gling to come up with at least one new dish inspired by that per­son. For me cre­at­ing a sig­na­ture dish for that per­son becomes my gift to them. Recently we had a friend from Thai­land come for din­ner, and as usual I was […]

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I love the taste of ube-macapuno, the Fil­ipino sweet potato with young sweet green coconut. Prob­lem is, it’s hard to find ube here. I became obsessed with ube and it pur­ple colour right after try­ing a Goldilock’s ube cooler; a drink which is sort of a sweet smoothie but not as thick. Ube is purple […]

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I decided to try my hand at Brennan’s Cashew Car­rot torte, which is described as a grown-up car­rot cake. In my Brennan’s cook­book I found the ingre­di­ents to be fairly accu­rate, how­ever the book has been short on instruc­tions and tech­nique. Read­ing through the cake recipe I real­ized that if you have not made a cake […]

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We were look­ing for a fun and tasty Sat­ur­day bak­ing adven­ture for our 3 year old. It had to be some­thing quick since snack time was upon us. Muffins are easy and force you to be quick since once the dry ingre­di­ents are wet you need to get every­thing in the oven within 30 min­utes. I am […]

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There’s not a per­son in the south who hasn’t had pecan pie. Pecan pie is an inte­gral part of the cul­ture of south­ern US and Texas . Pecan pies are made through­out in the south. They are espe­cially made and served at Easter, Thanks­giv­ing, and Christ­mas. Grow­ing up, every­one knew my mother for her pecan pies, as well as for her cakes.

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