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. Like a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
I looked around for the English translation of this commonly used vegetable in the Philippines which we call “upo” and almost identified it as winter melon. Apparently, the winter melon is “kundol” back home. This vegetable pictured above is a bottle gourd. It’s a light and delicately flavored vegetable we often use sauted with pork [...]
It’s getting cooler in Colorado! Autumn officially arrives tonight (as of this writing), the 22nd of September. But we’ve been getting some cool days for quite a few weeks now. Today was a particularly cold and wet one.
A thick soup sounded perfect for lunch so I scrounged around my pantry and freezer to see what I could put together. Luckily, [...]
I finally made a Chicken Mami that satisfied my craving for this very common Filipino dish. The noodles were always the key, for me anyway, and it so happened that I found a good brand of noodles at the Filipino Sari-Sari Store today.
Chicken and noodles go so well together every country probably has its own version. In [...]
This is a third of the brown stock I made for the onion soup I posted about the other day. I’ve bottled it up like the precious liquid it is and is now sitting in the freezer waiting for the next dish. I haven’t decided what that’s going to be just yet.
From the first time I had this soup years ago at the old Bistro Burgos in Makati, I fell for it. The last time I had it was at Johnnys Cafe in Omaha which was sometime last year when Spouse and I were on a business trip there. Steak houses should have the best onion [...]
I’ve always been a soup person, and it’s a real surprise for me to find that not everyone is. Soups can be a whole, heavy meal in itself or a light lunch or in-between snack. This soup of Portugese origins is a meal all by itself, light enough but substantial depending on how you make [...]
As kids, we probably were all subjected to the same, endless spiel about how you’re supposed to eat green, leafy vegetables. I heard it at home and in school…on and on and on….
Kale is one of those leafy, green vegetables loaded with numerous vitamins and minerals that’s all good for your health. You can classify [...]
