Homemade Cajun seasoning
Ingredients may vary, but the mainstays are paprika, cayenne, garlic, pepper and oregano. Cayenne provides the heat. Paprika gives Cajun seasoning its distinctive red …
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Whole shrimps with lemon garlic butter sauce
If there’s an annual award for the country with the longest Christmas season, the Philippines will win each and every year. As early as the first of September, …
What to do with leftover grilled skewered meat
Skewered meat is lovely when fresh off the grill but reheating can turn the meat dry. I like to chop the meat instead and add it to fried rice.
Getting over the myth that breakfast is the most important meal
It isn’t, really. I know that goes against what we were taught growing up. What generations and generations of us were taught, in fact. But we’ll get into that.
Roasted pork belly with ginger, garlic and scallions
What porchetta is to the Italians is, today, lechon belly to Filipinos. It’s the same dish: rolled pork belly roasted until the pork skin is browned and crisp. This …
Steamed tuna and tofu with soy chili sauce
A dish I cooked about a year ago. Easy to prep, simple to cook, tantalizing to smell and just lovely to eat. I didn’t publish a recipe earlier because I wanted to …
Pork hock stewed in balsamic-pineapple sauce
A spin on the Filipino dish called paksiw na pata ng baboy — sliced pork hock stewed in vinegar, brown sugar and soy sauce with bulaklak ng saging (banana blossoms) and …