Featured Recipes
Pancit Sotanghon Guisado
This is another common Filipino dish usually using annatto seeds to liven up the color. This particular one didn’t have the coloring because I always like the colors of the vegetables in pancit to show as naturally as possible. I wrote about it in an earlier post on pancit.
Everyday Filipino: Shrimp Sinigang for One
I made this Shrimp Sinigang for one the other day. This is probably Spouse’s favorite Filipino dish and I very seldom cook it owing to my shrimp allergy. But some days, Spouse will get lucky…. Sinigang is a popular Filipino dish I featured in a previous post. We sometimes mix shrimps with milkfish and that [...]
Chicken Salsa Pepperoni
Here’s the chicken dish I made using the salsa from yesterday. It’s a cross between a chicken and pepperoni recipe I found in our local newspaper and the chicken salsa recipe a former officemate told me about. It’s pretty simple to make…
Shrimp Fried Rice
Think about this…Fried Rice is probably the most unique dish that comes out of your kitchen. What’s in your fried rice all depends on what’s in your refrigerator and that will differ from household to household and even from time to time…because we never have all the same leftovers.
Burgers Again??
Sometimes, there are advantages to not having demanding, little brats (just kidding – I love kids!) who’ll question your dinner choices every now and then…..but any brat….errr….kid….will like this recipe. As I said in my previous post, I’m not on my regular schedule after a vacation back home. My pantry and refrigerator are just [...]
Shrimp Garlic Pasta
Food allergies are a terrible thing to live with, especially if it’s shrimp and crustaceans you cannot eat anymore! Does one really have a choice when the last lobster meal I had sent me to the emergency room half dead? Goodness, but hat meal was worth it…. Spouse loves shrimps. He has a nose like [...]
Coleslaw
I don’t know why I never featured Coleslaw here before. Its one of our staples. This one in the photo was drier than my usual since it had about half the mayo I usually put. I’ve consciously been lessening meal portions and trimming some fats from a lot of recipes in the hopes that it will make [...]
Mapo Tofu
Each time Spouse and I stop at a Chinese restaurant, there’s an 80% chance I’ll be ordering this dish called Mapo Tofu. I never bothered to cook it before since it’s so convenient to pick up the phone and order it for delivery. When I scouted for a recipe online, I was pleasantly [...]
Pepper Steak
Betty Crocker’s New Cookbook: Kitchen Library Containing Good and Easy Cookbook and New Cookbook (Everything You Need to Know to Cook) This is another dish I’ve never cooked before. It’s from Betty Crocker’s New Cookbook again. There are still so many recipes there waiting to see the light of my kitchen. I have no idea [...]
Peek Into A Rhubarb Pie…
The pie vents on the top crust were a little lopsided so I decided to use a close shot of this Rhubarb and Strawberry Pie I made for July 4th. Take a peek into the pie, please… I was reading about this vegetable in our local paper, The Gazette , and remembered a story [...]
More Recipes
- Pancit Sotanghon Guisado
- Tomato and Cilantro Salsa Salted Eggs
- Mama’s Ensalada
- Eggs in Salsa
- Deli Meats from Bretto
- No-Bake White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake and a Hunt for the Pefect Gas Oven
- Spaghetti with Italian Sausage
- Pork Chops with Apple Slices and Brussels Sprouts
- Greek Walnut Cake
- Strawberries and Cream
- Clubhhouse Sandwich
- Mushrooms Stuffed with Feta, Pepperoni and Spinach
- Chicken and Bottle Gourd Soup
- Mock Beef Caldereta
- Asparagus and Scallop Spaghetti
- Sunday Brunch: Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese Omelette
- Bangkok Fried Rice
- Bistek Tagalog with Veggies
- Baubles, Bangles and Spaghetti Bolognese
- Lentil, Chorizo and Spinach Soup
Trustworthy Reviews
Cast Iron Skillet
I just love my cast iron skillet! I got it for under $25 at the ever-reliable Walmart a few months back and have used it several times since. This is a 12-inch skillet by Lodge Logic of Tennessee. This company has been in business since 1896, so you can be assured they know what [...]
Pots and Pans Crazy
It’s hard to imagine a frying pan getting controversial but it did in one popular food blog. I’ve never met anyone who was so sensitive that the mere mention of a certain type of pan could send them ballistic and rabid. I don’t think I want to meet anyone like that. The incident really caught [...]
Silicone Bundt Pan
I just tried this Hamilton Beach Professional Rose Bunt (sic) Pan that I got at the outlet store, Kitchen Collection. Original price was $9.99 and a comparable price on the tag says $12.99. The store gave us a very reasonable price of $4.47 (not including sales tax) mainly because we braved the crowds at the [...]
Fish Fry Pan
I’m so happy to report I finally got a fish pan for my kitchen! It’s a 12-inch oval fry pan by Wolfgang Puck that also comes with a lid. I got it for a very good bargain on Ebay, new but not flawless. It had some scratches on the handle…something I wouldn’t have noticed if I wasn’t so anal about handwashing [...]
Salads They Will Love
Lemon Couscous with Spinach, Tomato and Mushrooms
Couscous is one of those things I was happy to discover when I got married and moved to the US. It’s easy to make and there are a variety of healthy ways you can serve it. I buy the regular grocery store couscous in a box and prefer the flavored ones from Near East. This [...]
Philippine-Style Potato Salad
The Potato Salads I’ve had in the US are just plain potatoes with mayo, mustard, onions and dill pickles….pretty boring I thought. Filipinos do potato salad a bit differently. I only realized this when I brought a huge bowl to an outdoor, going-away barbecue for my husband’s former officemate. Everyone looked at my [...]
Green Bean Salad
Can you tell the weather is getting better here? It shows in my cooking and in this blog….finally moving away from the heavy stews and soups. This is another recipe from The Sopranos Family Cookbook. It was simple and easy to make. I love that it’s also light and healthy. Served with a crusty roll, or [...]
Hail Caesar!
My very first job was for a five-star restaurant group with its head office located in Bistro Burgos in Makati. Bistro Burgos was the first bistro in the Philippines by the way. Everyday, the restaurant manager, Mang Johnny, would supervise the making of the day’s Caesar Salad Dressing just before the restaurant opened for lunch. It [...]
A Mix of Fruits
I don’t think this quailifies as a salad although I put it in that category. It’s really just a mix of fruits I intended would be a salad with lemon juice and honey….when I started out anyway. Once I tasted how naturally sweet the melons were, I thought it would be a [...]
More Salad Recipes
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Mr. Bean Car Cake
The recipe I used for this cake was actually not a good choice. It’s called a Kentucky Butter Cake and I found it in the website www.allrecipes.com I have to admit I was impressed with all the positive feedback the recipe generated. It’s just too sweet for our taste and if I ever do this [...]
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
This is a very basic carrot cake iced with a cream cheese frosting which I used for the “white cake” I wrote about in my last post. I tweaked the recipe to my taste and think this will be my keeper recipe. I just love this cake for the spice, the moistness, the crunch of [...]