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Christmas.

We don’t get snow, we don’t have a fireplace and we don’t believe in Santa Claus. But we love good home-cooked meals and the food is always better during the holidays.

Ham and kimchi fried rice

8 dishes you can cook with leftover Christmas ham

Sopas (Filipino creamy chicken macaroni soup)

Sopas on the Christmas table

Macaroni salad

Salads from Christmas past

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.

General Tso's chicken served over rice

General Tso’s chicken

Cook time: 15 minutes minutes

Servings: 4 people

White beef stew

Creamy white beef stew

Cook time: 2 hours hours 30 minutes minutes

Servings: 4 people

Sweet sour chicken karaage

Sweet sour chicken karaage

Cook time: 20 minutes minutes

Servings: 4 people

Cuba Libre cocktail drink

Cuba libre

Cook time: 0 minutes minutes

Servings: 1 glass

Sauteed pea shoots and garlic

Sauteed pea shoots and garlic

Cook time: 3 minutes minutes

Servings: 2 people

Breakfast Sausage Burrito

All-day breakfast sausage and egg burrito

Cook time: 20 minutes minutes

Servings: 3 people

Layered cocktail drinks: absinthe B-55 (for fans of coffee and spice), soju and passionfruit cocktail (for Korean liquor buffs) and pineapple upside-down cake (for vodka devotees)

3 layered drinks for the discerning cocktail fan

Cook time: 0 minutes minutes

Servings: 1 glass

Mango vodka cocktail

Mango vodka cocktail

Cook time: 0 minutes minutes

Servings: 1 glass

Soy sauce eggs (shoyu tamago)

Soy sauce eggs (shoyu tamago)

Cook time: 0 minutes minutes

Servings: 4 shoyu (soy sauce) eggs

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