Pork Chile Verde »
I bought some tomatillos (green tomatoes) with the thought of making salsa verde with it but then I saw this dish from Cooking Light Magazine (the same one where I found the Kahlua Cookies), which is even better: salsa verde with pork and chillies!Well, it’s actually Tequila Pork Chile (Chili, Chilli?!) Verde; it’s quite [...]
Arroz ala Cubana »
Ever since I was little, we always have rice for breakfast to start our day. Sometimes it’s champorado or rice porridge but most of the time its rice, egg and meat or dried fish with chocolate drink and sometimes coffee (yes, I started drinking coffee at a very young age, about 8 I [...]
Pork Tenderloin with Orange-Chilli Glaze »
Did you know that pork tenderloin is as healthy as chicken breast? You do? Well,then good for you, but in case you don’t, read the facts here.
Pork tenderloin is one of my favorite cut of meat. It’s perfect for quick and easy meal, it takes almost no time to cook, it’s as versatile as [...]
Slow-Cooked Beef »
I haven’t met a person who doesn’t like home-cooked delicious dish like this (except for vegans and vegetarians, of course). And the most amazing thing about this is, it’s super easy. No, stirring, no watching for the pot to boil, etc. Once you get it all inside the slow-cooker, you don’t need to [...]
Picadillo »
Back in college my two sisters and I lived in a boarding house and whoever comes home first will have to cook dinner and that unfortunately for all of us, was most of the time, me. As much as we dreaded my cooking, we didn’t have a choice then, but to eat it. [...]
Pork, Cabbage and Potato Stew »
I had this dish for the first time under the shade of an Indian Mango Tree. My family and I went for a visit on my grandma’s house on the farm, and my aunt prepared a simple lunch of fried fish, green mangoes with bagoong and this cabbage and potato stew. It was [...]
Siomai (Pork Dumplings) »
Siomai or dumplings as it’s popularly known are super easy to make, if you are not particular about it’s appearance. You can disguise it with sauce, it taste super-good. You don’t need to wrap it nicely just make sure that you seal it properly. Steam (if you know how; this is a bad [...]
Baby Back Ribs »
There are a lot of ways you can cook this “baby” (back ribs) and a lot of people have their own special marinade/ sauce but whatever the method: boiled, grilled, broiled, braised, I know one thing for sure that makes it sooo good: long and slow cooking.
You have to be patient with this type of [...]
Meatball Soup »
I was supposed to do siomai (steamed dumplings) but I ran out of wonton wrappers, I only have half a pack and wasted most of it in practising, most of it got torn, I managed to make some that looked close to decent, I steamed them, some have the wrapper stuck in [...]
Pork Adobo »
For the life of me I couldn’t replicate my mother’s adobo. It amazes me how she can cook the same adobo without measuring anything. I’ve been cooking adobo the same way she does but gets different result everytime, sometimes it’s good, other times blah. My family doesn’t get excited over my adobo because [...]
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