It’s Christmas everywhere and in the Philippines no other treat says Christmas more than this rice cake. It’s available year round in most places. During the Christmas season, churches everywhere will have vendors setting up shop in the wee hours of the morning. These vendors will be selling bibingka or puto bumbong and cooking them [...]
This is a rice stick everyone in the Philippines knows. Filipinos like eating this with ripe mangoes, specifically, Philippine mangoes and none of the “manila” mangoes sold in the US. As every Filipino who has traveled outside the country will tell you – nothing beats Philippine mangoes for flavor and texture. And this Suman sa [...]
Muruecos is the name of a common rice stick or suman as Filipinos call it. It was supposedly my grandmother’s favorite suman. I like it too and featuring it for Lasang Pinoy 20th Edition, Binalot made the effort certainly worthwhile.
This is a recipe I picked up after coming from a 3-month Bangkok work assignment several years ago. The photo was taken just before the final stir, aftet I just threw in the scallions, diced tomato and scrambled egg strips. The street food of Bangkok fascinated me of course. The little soi where our [...]
This is a common way of preparing rice in the Philippines. Sinangag, as we call it, is great for breakfast with virtually anything you can fry. I made this to go with the dried fish I posted about the yesterday. We use plenty of garlic…a perfect way to wake you up if you [...]
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.
This is the kind of Arroz Valenciana typical of the Philippine. It has the Valencian influence although the original only uses a tomato and not tomato sauce, rabbit, which is not commonly eaten in the Philippines, saffron and pimenton and no fish sauce and Chorizo de Bilbao which is de rigueur for the [...]
Here’s another Cuban-style Arroz con Pollo recipe, second in a series I said in a previous post I would undertake for this blog. Between this recipe and the first one, I prefer this one for flavor. Although, I think I’ll marry the two recipes and come up with a better one that will [...]
I’ve always, always loved this dish….from the time I first set foot in Singapore on a Christmas Eve years ago.My friends and I promptly went to a hawker center on Scotts Road the next day for my first taste of this Singaporean staple in the Lion City. The origins of Singapore Chicken Rice goes all [...]
I have so many recipes for Arroz con Pollo which I still have to try. This is a dish which most every Hispanic country calls their own. Quite surprising to see how many different versions there are out there. There must be a different version for every country Spain colonized through the centuries. I’m [...]
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 [...]
We’ve all heard of this popular Indonesian dish at one time or another. Before living in Jakarta for a short duration, my idea of Nasi Goreng was what’s called “Java Rice” – a bright orange-colored rice dish usually served with barbecued chicken at a popular Philippine chain of restaurants called Aristocrat. Of course, when you [...]
