The New Addition... Maybe...

So a lot of things are happening with Heart, Meat, & Soul Foods and that is partly why I have been really hoping to spice up this blog too.

Just recently, Heart, Meat, & Soul Foods has a small feature in this month's issue of Working Mom Magazine. Thanks to Ms. Rowena! We also have been featured in some notable blogs around. Thanks to Jill, David, Franny, and Richard!

We just had a meeting with my marketing and promotions team last week and, just this week, with eBay's group buying site, Kuponan. I guess everything seems to be falling on together well.

With all that, I am really excited for what will come out of everything.

Now that I am done with talking about those. The next thing will be about this blog. I decided to write more about what I do. For the people who know me, they know me as one or many of these: a cook, a photographer, a blogger, a dancer, a frustrated writer, a board gamer, and/or a hopeless romantic. I still will mostly talk about food but with the focus on food I create. It is mainly because I want to hone my skills in cooking more and because I want to write a different perspective on food, hopefully. But, I will have my occasional blogs about food that I find outside the comforts of my kitchen. And lastly, I will also have my occasional chatter about my life and what I do.

Now for my first entry in this new blog...

White Sauce Fettuccine

White Sauce Pasta

Who doesn't love white sauce? Although, a better question would be who doesn't love pasta? It is one of the best creations of man if there ever was one. And cooking through the ages, we have seen more and more different kinds and types.

When it comes to the noodles, the Italians have linguine/fettuccine, spaghetti, angel hair, penne, and a lot more. The Chinese, has their egg, flat, and a lot more that some I cannot even spell or pronounce. When it comes to the sauce, there's Bolognese, Marinara, Napoleon, Margherita, Carbonara, and a lot more.

There always has to be the perfect type of sauce for the perfect kind of noodles.

My mom kept bugging me to create my own white sauce for Heart, Meat, & Soul Foods so I started to create one. Keeping my mind in making white sauce the Heart, Meat, & Soul Foods way, I just knew it had to have milk, butter, and cheese. There had to be mushrooms and bacon and it had to be perfect.

I created it one Sunday night and the resulting dish created this question from my brother, Kel, that I really liked, "Isasama mo ba ito sa menu mo?" It meant he liked it so I had to dig in. I was not able to take a shot of the pasta with bacon in it because some people do not know the meaning of the phrase, "Please save some for me."

The pasta was just right. The noodles were cooked perfectly. The sauce was just thick enough. It had a creamy base that was oozing with the flavors of cheese and mushrooms. The bacon complemented the creaminess and the cheese was just like topping off any dessert with whipped cream.

The recipe was simple. It was thick and creamy enough to make you feel like your mom made it. And, it might just be the next addition to the Heart, Meat, & Soul Foods Menu. Enjoy!