Baby back ribs with miso sauce
It took me all day to decide whether I should post this recipe. Two reasons. First, I wasn’t able to take good photos of the baked baby back ribs because we were in a hurry to have dinner last night. Second, I did this dish a second time today for lunch but using pork spare [...]...
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Salmon and portobello mushroom kebabs
My mother will be staying with us over the holidays, she’s on a low sodium and low fat diet so I’m trying to brush up on my healthy cooking. I’ve done two wonderful tilapia dishes so far (they’ll be posted before the New Year) but the recipe for these grilled salmon and portobello...
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Miso soup with fresh clams
A couple of weeks ago, I bought a kilo and a half of fresh clams not knowing exactly whether I would use them for a pasta dish or a soup. By the time they had been soaked and cleaned, I felt it would be boring to cook them in just any old familiar way. A [...]...
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General Tso’s chicken
The thing about stir fries is that they cannot be cooked in advance. Which makes them none-too-ideal dishes for large gatherings especially if, like me, you prefer to distribute the cooking over several days so that you don’t look and feel like wilted vegetable by the time the guests arrive.
But...
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Sinampalukang manok (sour soup with chicken and tamarind leaves)
My mother has a cousin who cooked delicious sinampalukang manok. She would make a huge pot each time and it always amazed me how she could strip the leaves from the tiny branches so fast. I cooked a pot of sinampalukang manok a few days ago and I found out that stripping the leaves from [...]...
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Holiday menu: mid-afternoon coffee and tea party
Even before All Saints’ Day, I’d already gotten a number of requests for holiday menu ideas. If my readers’ concerns are anything by which to judge the mindset of most Filipinos, I’d say it’s true that we really mean to live up to the image that the Philippines has the longest...
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Pineapple and chicken rice
And so I bring home a taste of Phuket. Last Saturday, I cooked this chicken and pineapple rice and my daughters and I had it for lunch. I would have cooked it days earlier, heaven knows how excited I was to try it, but my older daughter (who took the photo for this article) is [...]...
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If I were to prepare an Asian-themed New Year meal…
I thought about starting a separate blog for Holiday menu ideas, but, what the heck? There’s no reason why they can’t all be published here. That way, you won’t have to switch from one location to another. No need to get confused, right? Most of us are already much too harassed as it...
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10-minute stir fry: beef, asparagus and corn
It’s Immaculate Concepcion Day, a holiday for many schools, including Alex’s which is not even a Catholic school. Go figure. Anyway, it means no one got up early and there wasn’t much time to prepare lunch. I thawed a pack of beef and by the time the ice had melted, I had about 15 minutes...
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