Garden Chef's Needle and Pen

Happy new year to all! In my blog entitled, One Yummy and Healthy Idea a Week: A Year-Ender Resolution I made mention of three foodie magazines introduced to me by my younger daughter, Ana Cristina. One of these is the Yummy Magazine featuring easy meals and simple dishes for mothers who have no time to cook.  Photo from Yummy Magazine The whole magazine features pages full of "yummy ideas" including meal planning tips and tricks! I ended my post with an assurance that I will give you an idea of the meals I will be trying in my upcoming posts.Well, that's exactly what I will be doing right now and in the coming days! So keep coming and watching out to get experiential insights on these dishes :)  Ready for now? Let me start with Yummy's Olive Oil and Spanish Sardine Pasta recipe.  Yummy Magazine October 2012 issue page 18  Ingredients: 2 tbsps olive oil 2 tbsps reserved oil from bottled sardines 1 tbsp minced garlic 1/4 cup diced tomat...

In one of my posts as a new blogger last year, I featured the crochet works of my younger daughter, Ana Cristina when she was still a college student. Click here to view post entitled, " Does it Really Run in the Blood? " Well, many things have changed now. At 20 and having landed a job ( a month after graduating from college) in a marketing company ( Focus Global, Inc. ) that is an e xclusive Philippine distributor of several well-known international brands including consumer goods and home furnishings, there had been a shift of her interest from volleyball and entrepreneurship into products showcased by her company. Quite noticeably lately, she has gotten into the habit of bringing home food magazines that I didn't have time browsing until last Saturday. As I entered the door coming from the market, she excitedly showed off a page from the Olive Magazine telling me, "You make one like this! You make one like this!"    The remark seemed like a ke...