Quick & easy recipe: Creamy Carbonara in an Instant

The Real Carbonara Spaghetti is not really creamy. The noodles are coated in eggs and cheese. There is another way to cook this. Creamy Spaghetti Carbonara , Pinoy style—so easy and takes only 30 minutes from start to finish. This recipe is really handy when you suddenly have guests that arrive or you are aRead More

Pasta Puttanesca with gourmet tuyo

Preparing Pasta Puttanesca with gourmet tuyo using Contadina olive oil, Contadina diced tomatoes and minced tomatoes with  green olives, black olives, capers, gourmet tuyo and parmesan cheese. Christmas is around the corner and at this time of the year, moms like myself are busy planning for noche buena. I was pretty excited when Contadina held aRead More

Filipino Style Spaghetti

Before Jollibee or even Tropical Hut came out with the Filipino version of the Italian Spaghetti, there was Makati Supermarket’s spaghetti sold in their coffee shop in the early sixties. This is probably how the sweetish Filipino spaghetti evolved. A popular American blogger once commented that our Jollibee spaghetti tasted horrible. It must have seemedRead More

Tuna Royale Carbonara using Clara Ole ‘s Carbonara pasta sauce #ClaraOlePotluck

Who has time to cook? Well, I have time to cook but there are times when I receive surprise visitors and I find that having prepared sauces are useful. One of my favorite dish is Carbonara and I usually prepare it from scratch like my Spaghetti Carbonara and Carbonara in an instant. Good thing IRead More

Laing Pasta, the Pinoy Pasta Version

I never tasted Laing Pasta until I had it at Goldilocks. I thought it was such a novel idea, similar to the pesto pasta that we often prepare at home. It is our own version of pinoy pasta. When I tasted it though, it wasn’t that delicious as I imagined it to be. I thinkRead More