Miley is the daughter of a dear friend I met through one of my closest friends. Her dedication to keeping her household a priority and devoting her time to the preparation of all her husbands and sons meals, every single day, has left me open mouthed. No sous chefs here to help this master-chef-self-taught mama.

She does all the chopping, sautéing and serving all on her own, ending with a presentation that looks like it came out of a restaurants kitchen. Here is a little Q&A we had and some recipes she shares with all of us. She will be launching her blog soon, but for now, you can follow her on Instagram @marcosdinners and @mileygono. She has been married for three years and here she shows us how glamorous the modern mama can be.

How old are you, Marco and your son Ayrton?

I’m 26, Marco is 29 and Ayrton is turning 2 next month.

Have you always liked to cook?

I’ve always loved to cook. My earliest memory of being in the kitchen was when I was 7, making breakfast fried rice with spam and egg standing on a stool. I would always cook for family. I went to Enderun for college but took up hotel and restaurant management and not culinary arts. But being around so many foodies and chefs-in-the-making definitely sparked my interest in food more. I took a few extra culinary classes even if it wasn’t part of my curriculum because I wanted to learn more. I definitely learned a lot of techniques and procedures from my classes but the food that we were taught to make was very different from what I make at home now.

What fuels your passion for cooking your husbands and sons meals each day?

Cooking brings creativity and excitement in my day to day. I really put a lot of effort and thought into it, which makes it a fun challenge for me. I make sure to add variety in my cooking. It’s a different cuisine everyday and I always make it a set menu. I’ve always made it look nice, similar to how they would present food in restaurants. I have been doing this even before I took pictures and posted my food online.

I treat cooking and preparing my husbands and sons meals everyday like a job. I never hired a kusinera (cook) or any kind of help in the kitchen. I do everything, from buying, chopping to cooking, except for washing the dishes. This is because I don’t want to ruin my nails. I treat it like a job, I feel responsible like, I have to do it and be good at it as well. The more I do it though, the more I love it. It’s the kind of job where I feel like there isn’t a day I woke up ever and thought, Oh I don’t feel like doing this today. There are times I would be lazy and not creative but never thinking, I don’t want to do this anymore.

I’m so serious about it that before I gave birth I had to binge cook for a whole week and freeze everything to make sure that my husband will still have something to eat for lunch and dinner not knowing that giving birth wasn’t as hard as I imagined. I was up and about and back in the kitchen the day I came home from the hospital.

At the end of the day, what makes cooking for my family most gratifying is seeing how much they appreciate it. My husband would usually send me a message during lunch that his baon (lunch from home) is so yummy but I put too much rice and his tummy is getting so big already! He’s such a picky eater that’s why its such a compliment that he likes all the food I make! I think the only thing he doesn’t like is my adobo because my mom’s kusinera does it better than me and he calls mine a 2^nd grade trying hard copy cat version of it. Before I posted my stuff online, he would send pics of his food to his friends on our chat groups and that’s where I actually got this whole idea. Like, wow my food is actually that presentable and brag worthy. So I tried posting the dinners I made, sometimes Ayrton’s lunch and got a lot of good feedback. Those likes and comments really motivate me.

Is this what your blog will be primarily about?

Apart from blogging about my own recipes and daily discoveries, every week, my site will also feature an interview with a distinguished guest chef on what their home cooking styles are. If they have any tips or tricks to share or a recipe that their family loves. First on the list is Chef Florabel, which I will be posting as soon as the site launches.

In the future, I hope for this site to be more than just me sharing my everyday dishes but to be a hangout, a hub, a hotline and forum where passionate home and professional cooks can also share their recipes and culinary wisdom.

‪ Do you plan to do this long term since you’re starting a blog on this?

I’m pretty sure I would be doing this for the long term since its one of the only things I do from the time I got married. You’d understand after you read how my weekdays are spent.

What is your day like?

On weekdays, I get up at 6, Prepare Ayrton’s breakfast before he wakes up. Most of the time its soup and noodles or an omelet and rice. On lazy days it will be oatmeal or cereal. Although I’m rarely lazy in the morning since I’m such a morning person. I finish at around 6:30 and by that time Ayrton is awake already. We play for a bit while waiting for my parents to come. Yup! My mom and dad come over to visit him everyday! While they play, I prepare Marco’s baon. Most of the time it is something I cooked the day before so I can just heat it up in the morning. Ayrton also has the same thing for lunch.

Twice a week, we have classes at The Little Gym or Kindermusik but when we don’t, it’s grocery time for me! I go to the grocery every other day. That’s where I get inspiration for what I can make for dinner since I can get cooks-block.

I come home at noon. While my son eats, I prepare my mise en place for dinner. I need to be very organized, I chop what I can and try to cook ahead since we eat dinner very early.

I do pilates or barre while Ayrton naps after lunch. I also eat my first real meal which is a salad or a wrap after my workout. When I get home, I prepare the baon for the next day and Ayrton’s snacks then dinner, of course.

My weekdays really revolve around cooking. Weekends are my day off from Marco’s dinners duties. I still wake up to cook breakfast for Ayrton. For lunch or dinner, if he comes out with us, he eats whatever we’re having. If not, everything is pre-made and his yaya (nanny) just heats it up.

I’m also so lucky he’s not a picky eater. I’ve trained him since he was 9 months old to eat a vast array and taste of solids. -What is your favorite thing to do as a family?

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