I made this easy Shrimp Gambas to go with my shrimp-less paella from yesterday. For starters, I took some 200 grams of peeled shrimp and just heated some olive oil in a pan and stir-fried them with some crushed garlic, salt and white pepper. Soon as I spied some browning in the shrimps, I turned [...]
Adobo is the acknowledged Philippine national dish. When Eldest Sister went on a diet years ago, you could ask her kids what her favorite dish was and they’d all say, “Adobo Kangkong.” Yup, you can cook vegetables, meats, seafood (mussels adobo is fantastic) and fish using this method. You’ll probably find this dish anywhere you [...]
There was a time when I didn’t even know what a perfect boiled egg was. I love boiled eggs, unlike majority of the world population I’m sure. If you handed me a hard-boiled egg, I wouldn’t look at it with a discerning eye. I’d just pop it into my mouth. When I needed hard-boiled eggs, [...]
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 [...]
All good things in one loaf. Doesn’t that look like it’s ready to burst in luscious goodness guaranteed to make a great morning? I made this last Sunday for breakfast. The recipe started out as plain old banana bread from my old stand-by Betty Crocker Cookbook. I did go a little over the top when [...]
Here’s a healthy alternative for dessert: Vanilla Yoghurt with Strawberries and Blueberries.
I’ve been cooking a lot of heavy dishes the past few days. ‘Tis the season for all those rich recipes to come out and Osso Buco served over plain-boiled polenta sounds perfect for another cold, snowy day in Colorado…. Yesterday morning, Spouse and I went up to Denver and drove through the beautiful and cold [...]
Lovely weather we’re having in Colorado…light snow and single-digit cold since yesterday and into the middle of next week! Perfect night for a bowl of Chicken Noodle Soup. My recipe is based on Jeff Smith’s Chicken and Noodles from “The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American” cookbook. It’s a lovely, comforting soup with thyme and sage. [...]
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 [...]
Sop Buntut is one of those favorite Indonesian dishes of mine, which I have never tried to cook before. Now that I have this blog, I thought it would be a good idea to to try cooking Indonesian dishes. I lived for a very short time in Jakarta years ago and experienced real culture shock [...]
A stew is always considered comfort food. It’s best eaten when you’re curled up in your barcalounger on a cold, snowy winter’s night…with a wood fire slowly ablaze in the fireplace. Darn, weathermen predicted today would only be cloudy in Colorado! But it’s still going to be cold tonight…mmm. But, (“but” can sometimes be good) [...]
There’s nothing I will cook that can bring as big a smile to Spouse’s and Stepson’s faces more than Deep Dish Apple Pie. It’s actually funny how I’m the one with memories of mother and homemade apple pie. Anyone would guess I’d have memories of my mother and rice cakes, me being the Asian in [...]
