Chocolate Cupcakes W/ Coconut Buttercream Frosting
I actually bought the bag of coconut flakes for macaroons after I saw Ina Garten’s recipe on Food Network. I love macaroons and when I first made some years ago, it didn’t look like macaroons at all. That means they were an EPIC Fail. But I learned what I did wrong while watching Ina make her macaroons so I was definitely ready to redeem myself. Too bad that when I started to assemble the stuff in my counter to make them, I realize that I forgot to buy 1 major ingredient. The condense milk. Like Duhhhhh. However, I did not let that deter me from making something sweet that day, heh. If all else fails, MAKE CUPCAKES. If there’s a coconut cake, I’m sure cupcakes with coconut frosting wouldn’t be so bad. And VOILA, behold the chocolate cupcakes with coconut buttercream frosting.
LASANG PINOY, SUNDAYS: ROLLED – STUFFED PORK ROAST W/ SPINACH & MUSHROOMS
Lasang Pinoy, Sundays theme this week is ROLLED. It worked out perfectly coz I have this stuffed pork roast with spinach and mushroom ready to roll, so to speak 
. This pork started as a pork loin. I cut it in half without going all the way to the bottom, and then butterflied the sides to get a flattened pork plank, pretty much. Once that’s done, stuffing it with anything you like is a breeze.
Holiday Recap: New Year’s Eve/Birthday Dinner
A continuation of the lechon kawali/deep fried pork roast post which we enjoyed for our New Year’s Eve dinner which also happened to be my birthday dinner as well. I did not make any appetizers since we actually went out for lunch which served as my birthday eat-out celebration.
Eye Candy : Lindor Truffles
The second I clicked the “post” button on Ces’ comment box letting her know I couldn’t join the new theme for LaPiS (Lasang Pinoy Sundays), I realized I actually do have something I could enter. The theme this week is Eye Candy. For days I thought I didn’t have anything to add to the round-up until just a couple of hours ago. I remember the pictures of the Lindor Truffles I took when we first got our Nikon D40. My husband likes to surprise me with a bag (or 2) of Lindor Truffles once in a while. He actually bought 2 different bags to fill my Trifle bowl with lots of chocolate goodies last Christmas. The dark chocolate, and white chocolate. The ones on the picture is milk chocolate truffles.
So there you go. My Eye Candy entry for LaPiS. I’m glad I have these saved in my folders. 
Lapis #1 : Grilled Chicken
Here is my first foray in La.Pi.S, short for Lasang Pinoy Sundays. Good timing for me to discover about it too from JMom coz I was just thinking the other day that I should start posting my grilled recipes here. Summer is for grilling after all . So here’s my 1st Entry for La.Pi.S with the apropos theme of GRILLED.
Recipe after the fold….
