Southern vs. Filipino Breakfast
My husband loves breakfast, and since the girls went on summer vacation, we have been indulging too much. We’ve even had breakfast food for late dinner! We got us some true blue country ham, which reminds me of tuyo (salted, dried sardines), strangely enough, because of it’s saltiness, and it’s strong smell. It smells […]
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Chinatown Street Food
One of my favorite things to do in L.A. is visit Chinatown. Not only do you find great bargains, but also great food, and yes, even street food. Too bad that we forgot to take a photo of it, but we even saw them squeezing fresh sugar cane for a natural sugar high.
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Yard Long Beans with Peanut Butter Sauce
The yard long beans from our garden have been bountiful, and I wanted to try a new recipe using them. Sometime ago I saw a recipe for long beans pecel and I had been wanting to try it. This was my chance. Pecel is an Indonesian peanut butter based sauce usually served over boiled vegetables. […]
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Cooking Meme
Being tagged for a cooking meme by CeliaK brought back a flood of memories for me, so I decided on a slightly different take on the meme. I have combined the first three questions, so I can reminisce a little about my lola, who was an early influence on my cooking, and growing up in […]
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Fruits of the Garden
The veggies from the garden have started coming in, and we can’t get rid of them fast enough! The zucchini and cucumbers have been putting out like crazy, the tomatoes are finally ripening, and the “sitaw” or yard long beans have gone nuts. We have so much of the long beans, we don’t know what […]
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Snails Ilokano Style (Leddeg)
Karen’s comment in the Manila Bulletin article below about rice paddy snails reminded me of this delicacy. My mom visited last month to pick up the girls, and while she was here we made a trip to the Chinese grocery store in Raleigh. I have seen these snails there before, but I never bought any […]
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Manila Bulletin Roundtable
Miss Annalyn S. Jusay, of the Manila Bulletin has graciously included us in her recent roundtable of food bloggers. She sent a few of us Filipino food bloggers questions about our blogs, and our take on food. We got a bit carried away answering her questions that she has to break up her article into […]
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Jade’s Pizza
Jade is presently on summer vacation, but the girl has not stopped cooking. She has been dazzling her grandma and aunts with her cooking. She has even put her Auntie O’s brand new kitchen to good use, making this scrumptious looking pizza for her and her cousins.Before & After BakingI’m not really sure what she […]
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