My Ultimate Mashed Potato

For many people, mashed potato tops the list of comfort foods.  After all, who doesn’t love mashed potato?  I love it with fried chicken.  I love it with steak.  I also love it with osso buco, which I would make Continue reading My Ultimate Mashed Potato

10-Minute Cheesecakes: They're Instant AND Authentic

Truth is, I have always been intimidated with cheesecakes.  You’ve got to get them right because 1) if you’re cooking for your friends or family, they expect a lot from you when you make this dessert; and 2) if you Continue reading 10-Minute Cheesecakes: They're Instant AND Authentic

Comfort Zone Episode 2: STRESSED? Three Comfort Foods vs. Stress

STRESS has become part of our everyday living.  And many times, it is comfort food that saves our day.  It gives us the nourishment and energy we need to keep our sanity in place.  We look for it at the Continue reading Comfort Zone Episode 2: STRESSED? Three Comfort Foods vs. Stress

Create Your Own Dish… at a Buffet

I recently came from a vacation from beautiful Cebu.  I stayed in two good hotels during the trip since I explored two different areas of the Philippines’ queen city of the south.  Both hotels had breakfast buffets.  There goes my Continue reading Create Your Own Dish… at a Buffet

Comfort Zone: Tweets, Discoveries, and Realizations

It’s 1:13 a.m.  And I am still wide awake… working.  But not on my day job.  Instead, I am perfoming tasks for the side of me that I now refer to as my alter ego — that of being producer Continue reading Comfort Zone: Tweets, Discoveries, and Realizations

Comfort Food, Emotional Eating, and Losing Weight

In producing my foodcast, Comfort Zone, the constant question people have been asking me is, what is comfort food exactly? Ratatouille’s Anton Ego and Comfort Food When I think of comfort food, the first thing that now comes into my Continue reading Comfort Food, Emotional Eating, and Losing Weight