Asian cooking, culture and stories of recipes
A long time ago, at my childhood home in the #Philippines, my mother cooked Pork Pata Tim patiently, for long hours on the stove-top or else outdoors in a clay pot over kindled wood. We savored the sweet-salty flavors of this pork hocks/knuckles stew poured on a bed of steaming rice for our Sunday dinners….
This Chinese Fried Noodles with Shrimps dish has fresh, pre-boiled Hong Kong-style noodles which I purchase at the Asian grocery. After blanching the noodles for a few seconds, stir-fry it with shrimps, vegetables and add the seasonings.
‘Putong babi’ is Kapampangan which translates to ‘bread with pork’, but you can use either pork or beef. This is a Filipino sweet-flavored meaty snack on bread. You can cook picadillo, a classic entrée of ground pork-beef mixture with potatoes, peas, carrots, and use the leftovers to make ‘putong babi’. “Paradadas” is its traditional name in…
Every time I go to Starbucks, I can’t resist buying a slice of its signature lemon cake. But it gets expensive. So, I baked my own version of a Lemon Loaf Cake with Kalamansi Frosting. It was dreamy and superb. The Starbucks lemon loaf cake is my secret guilty pleasure if we’re ever at the…
A long time ago, at my childhood home in the #Philippines, my mother cooked Pork Pata Tim patiently, for long hours on the stove-top or else outdoors in a clay pot over kindled wood. We savored the sweet-salty flavors of this pork hocks/knuckles stew poured on a bed of steaming rice for our Sunday dinners….
We still had scorching-hot days this week, even if summer was ending. So, I cooked Adobong Pinangat na Balatong – Adobo Green Beans in Coconut with Shrimp Paste. It cooks faster than you can say the name in a sentence. The best thing was that I had all the ingredients in my refrigerator as I’m…
Of all the produce I find during summer here in America, tomatoes are the most beautiful to me. They come in all colors, varieties, shapes, flavors and textures. So, it came naturally for me to cook this Chinese Beef with Tomatoes for dinner. This was inspired by a previous blog post where I had written…
