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Tahini
I was getting ready to make the baba ganoush to go with the Lavosh challenge for Daring Bakers when I realized I didn’t have any tahini in my pantry. I remembered that I had some sesame seeds that I had bought at the Asian market, so I decided to make Tahini first. Tahini is simply [...]
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Lavash Crackers
Daring Bakers everywhere baked crackers for the month of September. These are savory treats this time, Lavash Crackers!
This month’s hosts, Natalie from Gluten A Go Go, and co-host Shel, of Musings From the Fishbowl chose the vegan and/or gluten free recipe to challenge us with. Now I don’t know much about vegan or gluten cooking, [...]
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Spicy Sitaw
These are the green beans (sitaw) from our garden. These are the yardlong, asparagus, snake beans variety but you can also use regular string beans for this recipe. There was a handful of them left after Jade used some for a stirfry dish so I decided to cook them up when I fried up the [...]
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LaPiS - FRIED Okra
This week’s theme for Lasang Pinoy Sunday is FRIED and it just so happened that I was frying up some fried chicken last week and decided to fry up some okra from the garden too. I usually make a stew with okra but then I end up eating it by myself. When I fry it [...]
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LaPis - Colorful
I’m still playing catch up with Lasang Pinoy Sundays, so before another Sunday comes around, here is this week’s theme, COLORFUL.
Let me recall some previously colorful dishes that have been posted in this blog:
There’s the Stirfried Chicken and Asparagus that was one of the earliest dishes posted on this blog.
This is Beef Salpicon, great with [...]
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LaPiS - Baon
Oops, sorry I’m a week behind so let me do two Lasang Pinoy Sunday entries this week. This entry is for last week’s theme which was BAON. Baon means something you take with you. It could be lunch, snack or dinner, if you’ve put it in a container to eat elsewhere, that’s your ‘BAON’.
This first [...]
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A Vote for Market Manila
One of my favorite food blogs, Market Manila, is in the running for the Philippine Blogs Award’s Blogger’s Choice Award.
Why do I love the Market Man? For one, anyone who loves pork as much as this guy is after my own heart. I mean, just look at the screen shot I took of his [...]
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Fried Garlic
There is nothing better than fried garlic to kick things up a notch. This is heaven on earth for garlic lovers. If you’re a garlic lover, you’re probably an old pro at frying them up. They are a great topping for just about anything savory. When I’m in a garlic peeling and chopping mood, I [...]
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