Entries from February 2007

February 28, 2007

no-fuss chocolate cake brought to you… in a coffee mug

Once I was flipping through the channels and I came across this weird looking guy on tv with a terrible, and I mean terrible, dubbed voice who was cooking some stuff with a little kid. I stopped for a moment, turned on the SAP on my tv and actually started enjoying the show after having [...]

February 25, 2007

Argentina 101 (part III) dulce de leche basics: alfajores de maizena

One of the side effects of having this blog is paying a closer look to the food that I eat and the food that is eaten in this corner of the world. I mean, I could talk about burgers but there wouldn´t be much fun in that since there´s nothing really new about it and [...]

February 23, 2007

Welcome to my new home!

Phew! So you´ve all found me… I was worried I might lose my few, but dear, readers
As I said over at the old blog, this was a tough decision I made after trying to change the look of my old blog… and failing myserably.
This is my brand new home, and I´m loving it [...]

February 21, 2007

gruyere-serrano ham focaccia

I´ve only ventured into bread-making quite recently and I can´t believe it took me so long to jump in. I mean, there must be something inherently scary about yeast, you know, all the fears about “killing it”, no wonder people are scared of bread if they choose those words to describe the process!First, I tried [...]

February 17, 2007

lazy ravioli

I´ve really come to love Asian food in the last few years, but Italian will probably always be what I eat when I want comfort food. So last week I made ravioli marrying the two cuisines in a way… no, I have come to hate the whole “fusion cuisine” movement because it is way too [...]

February 15, 2007

the "joys" of "motherhood"

yep, the quotation marks were truly necessary. You see, I´ve been missing in action because of work, but mostly because of the new member of my household.

Yep, lovely, isn´t she? I introduce to you officially: Phoebe, readers; readers, Phoebe.
Well, although she is dreamy indeed, she is also particularly energetic these days… which means she likes [...]

February 10, 2007

How to get a nice suntan

Yes, I do know it´s still winter in the northern hemisphere, but this entry isn´t strictly about suntans… it´s more about carrots. Don´t worry, I´m not going to write a full entry about a carrot salad, more like a fantastic carrot cake.

Thing is, I love carrot cakes, yet I had only eaten them twice in [...]

February 8, 2007

Pip… unplugged

I´m back!!! Everything got fixed this morning… at 9 a.m., way too early for me since I had been out with friends till 2 a.m. and didn´t bother going to bed before 3 a.m., but this was definitely one of those cases when I don´t particularly mind sleeping less than usual.
If you had only seen [...]

February 6, 2007

out of service

Just letting you know why I´ve been missing in action: my modem decided to die on me and I have to wait till Thursday for my beloved ISP to come and give me a new one… so I have to abuse one of my friends´good nature and crash at her place with my laptop to [...]

February 3, 2007

Argentina 101: pizza and fainá

As with any country with such a strong culture of immigration, Argentina´s food is a mixture of different cuisines… though the one that clearly wins the race is Italian food, followed by Spanish food. I know that for all of you, pizza is as common as burgers, but I also know that most of you [...]