8 dishes you can cook with leftover Christmas ham
If you're thinking of getting a whole leg of ham but you're worried about what to do with leftovers, I have a list of ways you can serve it without getting repetitious.
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Sopas on the Christmas table
Filipino sopas is an adaptation of the American chicken noodle soup. It has been served by mothers, grandmothers, aunts and grand-aunts who came before me, and it was …
Salads from Christmas past
There were three salads that never failed to make an appearance on the Christmas dinner table when I was growing up. Chicken potato salad or chicken macaroni salad, …
Halloween in suburbia
Halloween parties in the Philippines often take place on the weekend before October 31st. Our village had its bash on October 25 with over 300 adults and children in …
Dim sum in a hotbox
Hotbox is the brand name of the "first self-heating, portable food box" made in the Philippines. The Old China dim sum hotbox has two strings. One end of each string is …
30-minute meals
What main dishes can be cooked in 30 minutes or less? Stir fries (ones that don't entail lengthy prep anyway), pasta (excluding lasagne or cannelloni or any of those …
Today I learned that Alaska (walleye) pollock is a cod
Pollocks and cods belong to different genera. Pollocks are members of the genus Pollachius but what is sold as Alaska or walleye pollock belong to the genus Gadus …