Umami Days – Congee days and ramen nights

Asian cold noodle salad

Symbolic food on Lunar New Year

Pork dumpling soup

Chinese dishes from my childhood

Chinese-style fried rice

How to cook Chinese-style fried rice

Shrimp, mushroom and sausage fried rice

Are all Asian fried rice dishes derived from Chinese fried rice?

Sweet and savory spring rolls with different kinds of wrapper

How to wrap, store and reheat spring rolls

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.

Nasi goreng (Indonesian fried rice)

Cook time: 8

Servings: 2 people

Banana bread (it's a cake) with cachew nuts and chocolate morsels

Banana bread with chocolate chips and nuts

Cook time: 30

Servings: 3 small cakes

Pancakes stuffed with sausage meat served with egg

Longganisa (sausage) pancakes

Cook time: 15

Servings: 8 pancakes

Sigarilyas at tinapang bangus sa gata (winged beans and smoked milkfish in coconut milk) with mandarin oranges on the background

Sigarilyas at tinapang bangus sa gata (winged beans and smoked milkfish in coconut milk)

Cook time: 15

Servings: 4 people

Vietnamese banana and cashew nut spring rolls served with mango coconut ice cream

Vietnamese banana and cashew nut spring rolls

Cook time: 5

Servings: 4 people

Italian-style sweet and sour pork stew (spezzatino agrodolce) garnished with basil

Italian-style sweet sour pork stew (spezzatino agrodolce)

Cook time: 1 30

Servings: 4 people