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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 a bit like funky feet, but if you can get past that, which really, it dissipates as it cooks, is really quite delicious.On this day, since we had plenty of green tomatoes, we decided to have some fried green tomatoes along with liver pudding (another southern specialty) and country ham, of course accompanied with buttery grits. Yummy cholesterol heaven! The ham is so salty that I parboiled it first and threw out the first water, added … Read entire article »
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. One of the cookbooks I bought called New Asian Cooking (published by Bay Books) has an Indonesian recipe called Gado Gado, and it has a peanut sauce recipe on it too, but I found another version here that I thought might be a tad better, and has the ingredients that I have on hand. I changed the proportions some, and made a couple of additions. I think my version was not so bad. My husband … Read entire article »
Filed under: side dishes, Thai, vegetables
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 the province. What is your first memory of baking/cooking on your own?Who had the most influence on your cooking?Do you have an old photo as “evidence” of an early exposure to the culinary world and would you like to share it?Cooking, it seems, has always been a part of my life starting with the first tea set and kitchen set I received for Christmas presents. But my first “real cooking” experience happened during one of our … Read entire article »
Filed under: meme
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 because one, I wasn’t sure if they were the right kind and two, I wasn’t sure how I would fix it. She was excited to see these, because she says she hadn’t even seen them in LA. She says they are called “leddeg” in Ilokano. I think they are river snails. When we got them home, we gave them a good washing and soaked them in water for a while. Mom was glad to see … Read entire article »
Filed under: Filipino, seafood, secret pot, soup
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 two parts . Other food bloggers in the roundtable are: Karen of the Pilgrims Pots & Pans, TingAling of the World Class Cuisine, CeliaK of the English Patis, and Stef of Stefoodie.net.Go check out the roundtable, part I.Photo compliments of Karen at Pilgrims Pots & Pans. … Read entire article »
Filed under: announcements, miscellaneous
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 has on the pizza, I’ll let her write her recipe down whenever she gets a chance. … Read entire article »
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