We are at the Quezon City home she shares with her husband Ogie Alcasid, and Regine is just blooming. It was a shame really that she was too conscious to have her pictures taken because she was just lovely, and so bubbly as well.
Regine didn't take any lessons, but she is what I call one of those intuitive cooks. She can look at a bunch of ingredients and know how to make them sing. Here's an excerpt from the YES! feature, out now in newsstands!
Before she found her beloved mate, you would rarely find Regine Velasquez in the kitchen. Now it's one of her favorite places.
Wearing a denim apron, her cheeks all flushed, she's the picture of a blissfully happy homemaker as she tells us how to make a good risotto, an Italian dish of rice cooked with other ingredients: "You have to cook the rice in olive oil for a minute, or a minute and a half, to coat the rice para i-heat siya para the starch will come out, and it will be creamy."
Regine's kitchen is immaculately white. I love it that she's one of those cooks who cleans as she goes. After every prep work, she wipes down her work station with a paper towel, and washes her hands. What a pro!
She prepared lamb for us, cooked in her puttanesca sauce. There's a lot of preparation involved. She made the sauce the night before, prepped the lamb, baked the lamb, took it out and poured puttanesca all over it along with some baby potatoes and carrots, then let it roast to perfection.
And here it is!! It was super delicious and had none of that malansa flavor usually associated with lamb. Plus, of course, Regine Velasquez cooked it!! Wow!!
Regine doesn't want her photo taken, so I improvised. Here's a lovely portrait of her at their foyer, parang magkatabi na rin kami Mwahahaha
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