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Haven’t been posting much, I bet you’re wondering what happened to me. Well, nothing life threatening didn’t get sick or anything, it’s just that my trusty Macbook needed to visit the Apple hospital to have its Superdrive replace just months before the warranty expires. It’s a good thing that I bought AppleCare 2 years ago, when this problem arises didn’t have that queasy feeling of not knowing whether or not they could fix it. I just know that they have to fix it, they said they will but all this waiting is killing me!

The days seems like weeks, weeks seems like months, months seems like years! 

It’s been three weeks and still counting.

Whole Wheat Blueberry Muffins Anyone?

Could you believe these are Whole Wheat? I have a bag of whole wheat pastry flour sitting in my fridge waiting for me use them up and have frozen blueberries in the freezer that has seen a better day. What does that make? Why a Whole Wheat Blueberry Muffin. These muffins are special because you wouldn't feel so guilty after eating these. I found these recipe from the Gourmet magazine website, I'm so glad that even though the magazine seized their existence their website is still up and running. I do hope that they wouldn't put down the site anytime soon, but I've been backing up recipes like a psycho, just in case.

The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies

After my unsatisfied attempt in making the BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies, I return my my tried and tested Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies. This for me is the ultimate cookie experience its soft yet chewy, sweet but not sickly sweet just right and in every bite there is a chunk of chocolate to munch on. The original recipe called for Jacques Torres special chocolate, however living in the Philippines, thousand of miles away from NYC, I just grab the best chocolate I can afford and roughly chopped them, taking into consideration not to chop them too finely so that every bite there is a huge chocolate morsel.

Baked Brownies with Cheesecake Swirl

I first learned about Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito was when they were invited for a Martha Stewart show. You know me, anything Martha recommended I'm willing to give it a shot. Looking through their website Baked, how I wish I lived in NYC so that I could apprentice there. That's actually one of my secret dreams to be able to work in the kitchen of famous bakeries around the world! I imagine myself learning from the masters and eating my creations at the same time, how cool is that!

NY Times Cookies: The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies?

New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookies have been dubbed as the BEST chocolate chip cookies out there. A lot of people have tried it and I myself have tried it twice before (here and here). The first try they turn out like fat little hockey pucks with a dome on time and the second time around they look like hockey pucks without the dome. Both times I made them I enjoyed them because who in their right mind wouldn't enjoy eating a warm chocolate chip cookie dunk in a tall glass of milk. If you can, then hooray for you, that is clearly never going to be me.