10 Things I’ve Missed About The Philippines

appreciating Metro Manila and the Philippines, with Renzie Baluyut. It’s been more than a month since I flew in from Los Angeles, and if anything, my being away for an extended period of time has made me appreciate a lot things in the Philippines even more. Sure I wrote about this last year, so I […]

Making Better Meat Sauce

meat sauce makes everything so much better, with Renzie Baluyut. For just about any dude who’s living solo, cooking skills are very important.  We try to cover as much as we can on this blog, so let’s move on to today’s topic: making better meat sauce. It’s easy to just grab a pack of ground […]

When Life Gives You Onions…

make onion soup with Renzie Baluyut.

They say the hallmark of any good cook is how he makes soup.

Personally, I’m big on soups.  I love it.  But you can do so much more than just popping a can open, or pouring hot water into a prepacked styro cup, or emptying a pouch onto a pot.

Don’t get me wrong- instant or ready-to-eat soups is alright sometimes, but when it’s time to break out some cooking skills, then you have to know how to make some soup.

Heck, you don’t even have to be a Top Chef to pull something off like a good soup.  I say we can always use this opportunity to hone our kitchen-craft, and fill a few eager bellies with nourishment and love.

Or in this case, some onion soup.

Here’s a fairly simple, yet delicious and hearty soup you can make, particularly so when you have a whole lotta onions lying around the house.

French Onion Soup.

The classic French Onion Soup is primarily made of caramelized onions in beef stock, with croutons, and melted cheese on top.

French Onion Soup, image courtesy of Wikipedia.

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Jupiter Suites Makati: For the Business Traveller on a Budget

from the business and travel notes of Renzie Baluyut. As a blogger who does quite a fair amount of travelling, I can tell you right away that while getting yourself booked at a swank 5-star hotel room is a great way to go, sometimes you also may want to consider more cost-friendly alternatives. Makati City […]

My Fun-filled Transformers Weekend

If you ask me, i will say without a doubt that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was definitely one of the best movies to ever come out this year. Now there are a lot of things I liked about the latest installment in the Transformers franchise, I’d have to say that while the filmmakers had […]