Salads
Eat Your Vegetables!
Do you like eating raw vegetables that’s not lettuce or tomatoes? Just the thought of it used to send shivers up my spine. But then, I was put to shame by my pseudo-grandkids a few years ago. Their mom likes serving crudites with dips on occasion and it would’ve been embarrassing if I didn’t at [...]
Salad Nicoise
If you’re a carnivore like I’ve always been, you’ll understand why I say, a salad for lunch is like undeserved punishment. It’s only after I got married a few years ago, that I started thinking of a more balanced diet and included salads in my regular fare. But this particular one is so substantial and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tomato and Cilantro Salsa Salted Eggs
Here’s an interesting way of serving a Filipino favorite, salted red eggs or itlog na maalat. Youngest Sister prepared it for lunch one time and it was so amazingly fresh tasting and different that I just had to make it for lunch today. The colors in the photo didn’t come out right for some reason [...]
Mama’s Ensalada
This is a salad my mom came up with way back when I was in my teens. It’s a very Filipino salad using the commonly used vegetables, bataw or hyacinth bean and sigadillas, also called winged bean in English. This is just another was you can use these readily available vegetables, aside from adding it [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Shrimp Salad
This Shrimp Salad definitely qualifies as an easy summer lunch. It requires a minimum of cooking, plus, it’s very light and cooling on a hot summer day. I love that it looks so appetizing too. There have been heatwaves in both US coasts the last few weeks. Thankfully, the summer has been pretty mild [...]
Tuna Salad with Farfalle
I was trying to follow a recipe for this pasta salad but ended up making it my own way. A cold pasta salad is always a perfect summer dish. This one is particularly healthy and light with the tuna and vegetables.
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 [...]