Nilaga: Oxtail Soup with Potatoes and Vegetables
Although it was scorching hot and humid outside, we couldn’t resist having one of our favorite soups, oxtail soup. The weather has never been a hindrance to our enjoyment of soups. Why whenever we are in Las Vegas, we must have our dose of Oxtail Soup at the California and you know how hot it gets over there! The last time we were in Las Vegas was last summer. It had been several years since we were … Read entire article »
Mung Beans with Pepper Leaves Soup
I am surprised how many people do not realize that the leaves of most pepper plants are also edible. I had mentioned to someone that I was having this soup with pepper leaves and they were genuinely surprised. Well, they are quite good, actually, and very mild sort of green unlike what you might expect it being the producer of such fiery fruits. Well I had forgotten about these poor pepper leaves and I just recently … Read entire article »
Hot & Sour Soup
Another cold night and another request for soup. So we went to MY choice of soups this time, and decided to have something on the spicy side.As usual though, since this was another spontaneous craving, I didn’t have all the ingredients that we usually like to have in this soup. So this one is lacking tofu and bamboo shoots, and we used fresh button mushrooms instead of dried shitakes, even so, this soup still hit … Read entire article »
Starry Tomato Soup with Meatballs
My daughter loves soup. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ve probably figured this out already based on the number of soup recipes. She particularly loves pastas and not too long ago, she wanted spaghetti and meatballs. Homemade meatballs, she specified. I figured if I’m going to make meatballs, might as well make some extra and freeze them for later use. So when she had a hankering for some soup, we luckily still had … Read entire article »
Easy French Onion Soup for One
French Onion Soup is really one of the easiest soups to make but you almost always end up with a big batch and as good as it is, it’s really not that popular in our house. Only my youngest daughter and I really crave this. So most of the time, we order it when we’re eating out. Sometimes though, the French Onion soups you order out tend to be a little salty. I don’t know … Read entire article »
Corn & Egg Drop Soup
This is the accompanying soup when I made the Chinese braised ribs last week when the Clone was sick. This was all she had of that meal which was a good thing because her dad just about devoured all the ribs! Anyway, this is a very simple recipe and all you really need is a good, flavorful chicken broth. Luckily, I had plenty of homemade frozen chicken broth. Of course, a good canned broth will work … Read entire article »
Pesang Isda – Fish in Ginger Soup
A friend cooked this for me once when the only Filipino fish soup I knew was sinigang. I thought she had forgotten the souring agent but I was wrong. For those who do not like the sourness of the ubiquitous Filipino sinigang, this is a nice, mild alternative. It is delicately spiced like your grandmother’s tinola (or chicken soup) and actually, it is exactly the same as chicken tinola except that you use fish instead. When I … Read entire article »
Arroz Caldo – Chicken Soup with Rice
All the rich foods of the holidays, and having a snowy after-Christmas morning had me yearning for something simple and comforting. I had cooked a very plain version of this dish for my sick daughter a couple of weeks ago. It was more plain rice porridge than what we Filipinos recognize as Arroz Caldo or Lugaw or Congee, no matter how it is called. The rice soup we know is usually adorned with a multitude … Read entire article »
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