Once Upon a Time....

I was a bookworm who always had her nose stuck in a book when her mom called her to help cook in the kitchen. Not surprisingly, when I was college-aged and moved into an apartment with 3 of the greatest roommates who ever lived, I was pretty sad in the cooking department. They soon dubbed me "Sunogum Lutoum,"--my scientific name created from the Tagalog words "sunog" (burnt) and "luto" (cooking) because of frequent episodes of a to-be lunch or supper going up in smoke since I decided to go read a book while it was cooking and promptly forgot about lunch/supper. I improved, I hope.

This is the online version of A Lunatic's Collection of Toxic Waste: Burning in the Kitchen, my collection of recipes gleaned from friends, family, magazines, cookbooks, and the internet written in a small spiral notebook that has since started falling apart over the years.

I am now the Filipino-who-grew-up-in-Africa wife of a blond Canadian prince who is more Asian than me at times, so needless to say, my cooking has been from all over the place with a basic grounding on Asian. We are vegetarians, mostly vegan, but with a bit of egg or cheese thrown in every now and then. I don't really measure when I cook, I tend to throw things in, so forgive my laid-back recipes at times. Most of these recipes are stolen though so they should be easy to follow. Enjoy!