Sweet Life With Mary

Take some Pillsbury Ready Pie Crust, a 5-year-old, whatever is available in the fridge and a Mom who does not care if the pie actually gets eaten and you have No-Rules Pizza!

 I made these for me, the savory side with parmesan cheese, cottage cheese base, seasoned with paprika and garlic salt, topped with an egg sunny side […]

Lovingly made for a lovely little girl…
Inspired by one of the breakfast restaurant cooks (chef?)  in an episode of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, I decided to get a little more creative with the pancakes I make for Mary for breakfast.  In the TV episode, the cook did a pancake that is shaped and looked like […]

Yeah, it didn’t take long.  About a month after the lovely Chocolate-Covered Strawberries that Mary and I made and my resolve to not buy chocolates (or any other candy) in bulk —-Chocolates are back in the house!

Yep, that is a Sam’s Club- size bag - 42 oz. - about 2 1/2 lbs - over 1 […]

I had the urge to make some Ube Halaya today using the Purple Yam Ube Powder I had languishing in my cupboard for months now. Should be easy, I just follow the directions on the package. “Add the fresh whole milk and sugar to the ube powder and mix thoroughly. Then, stir continously over low […]

A couple of mornings last week, I was out early in the morning and Jack had to get Mary ready for and take her to school.  After the first time, I asked Mary how the morning went and she bitterly complained that Dad made her eat eggs and she did not like them. 
(Jack and I […]

Now, there is nothing weird with Sugar Plum Grape Tomatoes.  They are just tomatoes that you can eat like fruit— oh, they are fruit.  I think, they are really, really good and I do not even like tomatoes, most of the time.
So, I had Mary try out one.  I told her to just pop it in […]

Thanks to Indian Food Rocks for doing a post on Click, a monthly photo contest.  Otherwise, I would not have known about it.  The theme for the month of November is Noodles.
This is my entry.
I had wanted to send in a photo of MY favorite noodle dish= “1B” - Combination Vermicelli Noodle Bowl at my […]

I joined NaBloPoMo (stands for National Blog Posing Month) where the members are challanged to do a blog post EVERYDAY for the month of November.  I have been doing close to a post everyday in October and I had wanted to do a post everyday.  NaBloPoMo and all my new-found friends from this site would certainly […]

It started as just some craving for jello.  They say that when your body craves something, the food that you crave has something in it that your body NEEDS.  I was craving for some kind of gelatin.  I have been walking/jogging as part of my new health regimen and I had felt my knees and […]

Or more precisely, Mung Bean Soup? 
As we say in the Vergara household at Grace Park - monggo.  I have known only one way that the mung bean is cooked in the Philippines so if you were asked what you had for dinner and you say “monggo”, we’d know exactly how it was prepared.  It is also called […]