Pasta & Noodles
Chicken Marsala
Chicken…always on everyone’s grocery list and a staple in most households. In fact, chicken is the one thing religions do not single out as unclean and therefore excluded frpm their followers’ diet. Then came the Bird Flu when chicken and all fowls got a bad rap. While the flu hasn’t reached US shores and the [...]
Spinach Cannelloni with Fontina
This was my first time to cook Cannelloni. My first taste of this was when my cousin had just come back from studies in the US and prepared it for one family gathering during our teens. My cousin is really a gifted man in the kitchen. It’s a trait he got from his godmother [...]
Cincinnati Chili
This is not your usual chili. For one, it’s served “on top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese”. This one in the photo is known as a five-way. It’s served with the chili or meat sauce, beans, cheese (I used provolone so you can hardly see it in the photo) and chopped raw onions [...]
Spaghetti Puttanesca
This Spaghetti Puttanesca recipe is again from The Sopranos Family Cookbook. Honestly, I was not impressed when I was dishing this up. I’ve cooked it before and my version was lighter. After I took my first bite of this one, all relaxed and away from my kitchen, I was surprised at how different the same [...]
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 [...]
Pasta Fazool
Two years ago, Stepson gave us “A Goomba’s Guide to Life” by Steven R. Schiripa. Schiripa is better known as Bobby Bacala of HBO’s The Sopranos. Spouse and I really enjoyed that book and the show. Since Spouse grew up in New Jersey and his grandparent’s and parent’s last home was just a few blocks [...]
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.
Spaghetti with Italian Sausage
Here’s another meal I made to use up leftovers from my pantry. This time I used a bottle of Merlot I’ve been using for cooking for a couple of months, canned tomatoes with balsamic vinegar and basil and bottled parmesan cheese. It was surprisingly delicious and so easy to make. I had more than enough [...]
Asparagus and Scallop Spaghetti
My inspiration for this dish was the Shrimp and Scallops Pasta Spouse had at Cucina Colore last month. It looked so good but I couldn’t taste it because it had shrimps. Of course, there’s always a way to re-create a dish to suit you and so I did…and I even made it better [...]
Baubles, Bangles and Spaghetti Bolognese
How do you make your Bolognese Sauce? This is probably the oldest spaghetti sauce Filipinos are familiar with. You might be wondering why I have that title on this post. Its a tribute to a beloved aunt who is, undoubtedly, the most colorful and vibrant among the sisters. She had tons of bangles, [...]
Filipino Macaroni Salad
Every Filipino has probably disparaged our very unique Macaroni Salad, as I have. It’s not the usual macaroni, mayo and dill pickle concoction you’ll find everywhere else in the world. I guess you could call it a bit “confusilcated” as Spouse likes to say. A little bit of this, a little of that…and so much more. It’s [...]
Pancit: Philippine-Style Fried Noodles
This is probably the one Filipino dish most recognized around the world. You just can’t escape it at birthdays. It’s traditional to serve pancit on someone’s birthday because noodles represents a wish for the celebrant’s long life. It then follows that if you do cook noodles on a birthday, you don’t cut the noodles. This pancit [...]