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Chicken Stewed in Coconut Milk
My wandering blogger friend Sha posted this recipe on facebook and I just had to try it. I had all the ingredients on hand, and the process was easy enough for a weekday meal, so why not? This was a very tasty dish and my family love it! Their verdict? “It’s like chicken curry without the curry!” LOL! Leave it to them to sum up a seemingly exotic dish with one pronouncement! : Chicken Stewed in … Read entire article »
Coconut Soup Dessert: Ginataan Halo-Halo
Whenever my family made this Filipino dessert, they just called it Guinataan and we all knew what was coming. When I published my original post on Guinataan on this blog years ago, I received several comments correcting my nomenclature and to an extent they were right. Ginataan is a general term to describe anything cooked in ‘gata’ or coconut milk. So since I am updating this recipe with a better photo, I thought I would … Read entire article »
Cocoflan
I had just made a double batch of coconut cake with seven minute frosting for my sister-in-law’s birthday and had some egg yolks left over from making the frosting. I decided to make leche flan but when I checked the cupboard, I realized I didn’t have any condensed milk. I had coconut milk though, so I decided to experiment. It came out ok, I just ended up cooking it longer than usual as I had put it in a small soufle’ dish and it was deeper than usual; and I’m not sure if the proportions I used had too much liquids in it. Anyways, it took about two hours before it looked like it had set. Next time, I will probably use a shallower dish and reduce the cream to … Read entire article »
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Guinataan
In the wake of the very successful Lasang Pinoy event, I now have a long list of must try recipes. One of the posts that tickled my tastebuds, is a post from WatsOn about foods cooked with coconut milk. It reminded my of my mom’s guinataan. She cooked some while I was in California last month, and it was really delicious. Unfortunately, the next night, on the second go round of it, she forgot about … Read entire article »
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