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Umami Days

Umami Days

Meaty with a dash of veggies

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Taiwanese braised pork belly served over rice with pickled cucumber and halved egg on the side

Taiwanese braised pork belly

Cabbage and mushroom pancake

Cabbage and mushroom pancake

Teriyaki bacon rice balls

Teriyaki bacon rice balls

Connie Veneracion, 2020

Hi, I’m Connie!

Home cook and writer by passion, photographer by necessity, and good food, coffee and wine lover forever. I create, test and publish recipes for family meals, and write cooking tips and food stories. More about me and my umami blogs.

Ham and kimchi fried rice

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Sopas (Filipino creamy chicken macaroni soup)

Sopas on the Christmas table


Macaroni salad

Salads from Christmas past


Halloween shortbread butter cookies by @the.yellow.kitchen.ph

Halloween in suburbia


Old China dim sum in a hotbox, a self-heating, portable food box

Dim sum in a hotbox


20-minute soy calamansi chicken

30-minute meals


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