Frannywanny

Cooking has always been a passion of mine but since the start of this year, I hardly had the time to choose recipes to try, to shop and to actually cook. After watching Julie and Julia over the weekend, I was inspired again to bond with my kitchen. It has remained spotless for a couple of months now and how I miss filling up our home with the smell of butter, leaving tiny oil drops our stove and watching both Paul and my family enjoy my little kitchen experiments. Back then, it would take me hours to be able to cook just one dish, preparation time would take forever, even longer than the actual cooking time. I'm so glad that the team behind Yummy Magazine came out with another book. Browsing through all 75 recipes , I have already tagged a couple of them that I will definitely try this coming weekend. It has easy recipes using canned products such as the Corned Beef Linguine, the Tempura Meat Loaf (a.k.a. SPAM) and the Chili con Carne. I am also excited to try the different d...

Thinking of what to prepare for dinner....again? Check out Yummy.ph , Yummy Magazine 's official online portal. This site gives readers more easy-to-do recipes, additional cooking and baking lessons and they can also read blogs and stories written by the Yummy editors, contributors and guest chefs. At present, my browser automatically opens to this site as I get daily recipes that I can prepare for dinner tonight. Since my trip to Singapore last month, I have been craving for IKEA's Swedish Meatballs and I was sooooo happy to see that today's recipe is actually a dish called Swedish Meatballs and Pasta from Chef Carina Guevara. I'm definitely printing this one out and will prepare this during the weekend! Visitors should also watch out for their cool online contests!! Remember the recently concluded writing contest that sent one lucky reader and his companion to Hong Kong for the HK Food and Wine Festival ? Right now, they're giving away 5 sets of Yummy Books to w...

I can't believe it's finally OUT! As the first copy of the book was handed to me last week, I carried it around the office like a proud mommy :) Presenting, the first ever Yummy Book entitled Meals in Minutes . This is the first of three books that we will be launching for this year. You'll love this first book because it presents 65 super easy recipes! I'm talking about the kind that you can easily make in less than 10, 20 or 30 minutes! It's like a cooking show on print! You'll also love the beautiful mouthwatering photos that will encourage you to try the recipes yourself. Here's my favorite recipe of all: Oriental Fried Rice . Not known to many, fried rice is my weakness. I may be able to skip not eating plain rice for a year but cook it with some oil, as some garlic, onion leeks, meat and egg then that's when I raise the white flag on one hand and a spoon on the other. I totally adore eating fried rice and I'm so happy to have this as our cover...