LP7 - Potato & Ground Beef Torta
Lasang Pinoy as hosted this month by ChichaJo of 80 Breakfasts explores breakfast food. This months it also happens that I’m kicking off a brand new topic on poverty on Blogkadahan.com. As I was getting my posts ready, I realized how inter-twined the two topics were; at least in my personal experience anyway. I often […]
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The Scent of Summer Grilling
Although it has been a relatively mild winter for us, we are already hankering for spring and summer to come around again. Our garden is waiting to be tilled and the grill is ready for it’s cover to be lifted. WE are ready to start cooking outside again…the scent of burning coals and fresh herbs […]
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Buttermilk Banana Bread
Here’s another way to use up buttermilk and also over ripe bananas. It’s perfect for breakfast or afterschool snack. When I baked this a few weeks ago, I had plenty of buttermilk to use up. This past weekend though, when I found two over ripe bananas and wanted to make this bread again, I was […]
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Cooking Tip: Make Your Own Buttermilk
I noticed from the comments to the herbed buttermilk fried chicken recipe below that many cooks do not have access to buttermilk. No worry, sometimes due to my own laziness to go to the grocery store I don’t have buttermilk in my ref either. I have used this substitute for buttermilk before, and have not […]
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Lasang Pinoy 7 - Gising Na! Almusal!
The next round of Lasang Pinoy will be all about almusal or breakfast. Fittingly, this round is hosted by the queen of breakfast herself, ChichaJo of 80 Breakfasts.
Write about your favorite Pinoy breakfast or if you have any other breakfast that you have somehow blessed with Pinoyness, by all means share your new creation. […]
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Herbed Buttermilk Fried Chicken
I just realized that although we’ve posted a fried chicken recipe before, we hadn’t posted a buttermilk fried chicken yet. We just had this recently, as I was trying to use up some buttermilk that was getting close to it’s expiration date. This takes a bit of planning ahead as opposed to my usual 30-minute […]
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Lolo Jose’s Shiitake Surprise
Not too long ago, one of the topics on Blogkadahan.com, the group blog I belong to, is Filipino cuisine where we talked about the food that most of us grew up with. There were so many great recipes posted that I didn’t know where to start. One of the recipes that caught my eye is […]
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White Bean Soup w/ Ham
The best thing about comfort foods is that it is usually simple to make. I found the ham bone in the freezer that I saved from the Honey Baked Ham that Sister O sent us over the holidays so I thought I better make soup. This was so easy to make and perfect for a […]
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