Cafe Maurice

The white sandy beaches along the Riviera Maya in the Caribbean have always been a favorite spot for destination weddings and now with the Karisma Hotel built along prime secluded properties, it makes the most favored spot for any vacation, especially with launching of a new concept of Karisma Hotel called “Gourmet Inclusive”. It is [...]

Banapple’s version (slice P65/whole P480) has two layers of dulce de leche ensconcing ample and thickly sliced cuts of banana atop a buttery graham cracker crust made pleasantly gritty from the white sugar. There’s the requisite swath of whipped cream and then a deviation from tradition with shards of dark chocolate as garnish. ~ From [...]

We got to have the lucky opportunity to taste Conti’s Mango Bravo last weekend. Friends bought two large cakes of it at our party. It really is a good tasting cake, but it needs to be frozen because it tends to melt easily. It melted while we busy talking about anything under the sun from [...]

There is a reason why this cake takes a bright page in their menu: Admittedly their best selling cake, Mango Bravo did not disappoint. But since we wanted to taste other cakes in the menu to learn more about them, we ordered different slices. We should have ordered one whole Mango Bravo cake though! 1) [...]

  We went to Conti’s to eat their infamous Mango Bravo but we also ate dinner and it was a truckload of sweets after. That day will go down in history as the day I might have had indigestion – really! I had the usual Chicken Roulade: I should have gone for pasta since I [...]

1) Sizzling sisig 2) Crispy Dinuguan 3) Adobo Rice 4) Aligue Rice I literally cannot breath after I finished eating so much of the food above. We took out a friend visiting from the US and had her taste Filipino food, and C2 did not disappoint. We should have been careful to eat slowly though [...]

The truth about stretch marks is you can be predisposed to it. If your mother had it, you probably will have it too. You do not need to be pregnant to get it, but pregnancy aggravates it since your skin stretches badly. You can lessen the scars by applying cocoa butter stretch marks but you [...]

Dining al fresco has been gaining popularity these days, with most people wanting to enjoy fresh air and smoke a cigarette or two. That is why most restaurants, fine dining or casual, have an outdoor area where guests can dine. I particularly enjoy seeing outdoor settings in restaurants because it is a different setting altogether. [...]

I have this impulsive idea to buy an oven. I was just browsing blogs (cooking blogs) and wanted to try making some cookies I saw that would be perfect for the kids. But I do not have an oven. I am thinking I just need something small, but I know getting a big toaster would [...]

I love Pyrex cookware. I practically grew up with it as my Mom used it in the kitchen a lot. Now that I have a family of my own I am starting to collect good items for my kitchen and Pyrex is one of them. I recently bought some during last year’s Black Friday Sale. [...]