Choco Loco Cake

Moist, dense and bitter-sweet, this chocolate cake is so easy to make.  I adapted this recipe from Susan G. Purdy’s “The Perfect Cake” cookbook’s Marvelous Mud Cake.  Instead of rum, bourbon or cognac, I decided to use Kahlua liquor and the result was delicious.  No frosting need, I just dusted with confectioners sugar and served it with fresh brewed coffee.  Perfect for afternoon tea.

Let me know if you want the recipe.  

Fuzzy logic

We just came from the Manila Food and Beverage Expo and found some really wonderful stuff like honey and smoked cheese from Australia, sugar-free biscuits and cookies from Denmark, baking and cooking equipments sold at a discount and cooking demos.  Unfortunately, my condition made me breeze thru all of it without my usual enthusiasm.

Dinner time came and my fuzzy brain figured, if my medicine-numbed palate could still taste food, then the resto should be doing well.  Even when sick, how could I pass up having dinner with Dad at the Hyatt Casino Hotel, Manila.

Here’s the verdict:

I’ve had better roast beef and the grilled vegetable were ok.  The shrimp and vegetable tempura were cooked to order with authentic tempura sauce made up for the disappointing roast.  The noodle with assorted meat balls, bokchoy and green vegetables was not spectacular and I found the broth too salty.  I’d say the saving grace would be dessert.  I started with some fresh yellow mangoes which were sweet together with some seedless grapes followed by orange flavored zabaglione on poached egg whites and finally a pot of hot green tea.

Blame it on poor cooking or my drug induced numbed palate but I should say service was impeccable. 

Being down with a bad flu and wheezing like an angry dog got me off  work and posting my very first blog.  

As the title implies, I love to travel and sample local food.   

Unfortunately, my taste bud’s numbed by antibiotics, corticosteroid and antitussive.  Bummer.

Lost of my appetite means I am really sick.  Hopefully tomorrow, after my last dose of meds, my taste buds wake up…

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