Months ago, I received a copy of Jamie’s Food Revolution. After looking it over — and illegitimately finding a way to watch the TV series from here in Holland (thanks, IP disguising software!), I decided that the best way to review it would be to test it out with the core audience, i.e. inexperienced cooks. [...]
We’ve been having a bit of a heat wave here in NL. (Keep in mind that ‘heat wave’ here means ‘perfect weather’ anywhere else.) It was the perfect opportunity to bust out our hidden-way-back-in-the-cabinet ice shaver for some cold treats. Tonight I decided to make a Filipino classic, mais con hielo, and it’s also my [...]
For this month’s Kulinarya Cooking Club barbecue theme, I decided to tackle the mother of all Filipino chicken barbecue traditions: chicken inasal.
Inasal chicken is the traditional grilled chicken from Negros, an island in the Visayas. The place with legendary inasal is Bacolod, where chicken inasal is practically a religion. It’s so popular that it has [...]
In the Philippine countryside, May 2010.
This is my first post for Kulinarya Cooking Club, a group of Filipino bloggers dedicated to sharing Filipino recipes. This month’s theme is polvoron, one of my favorite sweets.
Polvoron is powdered milk candy, so named for its crumbly texture (polvo meaning powder or dust in Spanish). In this way, it resembles the classic Spanish polvorones, [...]
This is my first entry in Beets N Squash YOU! a monthly themed recipe contest with a featured vegetable. This month it’s my favorite spring veg: asparagus.
My usual preparation for asparagus is simple: grilled or stir-fried with garlic and salt. It’s one of those vegetables that needs very little attention to taste great.
But, with Easter [...]
Recently my friend Justine posted a link to a Korean dessert called gyung-dan, which are basically little chewy cakes of rice flour, sometimes filled with sweet bean paste, and rolled in sesame seeds. Right away this made me think of palitaw, one of my favorite Filipino kakanin, or desserts. Palitaw is boiled sweet rice flour [...]
Caldereta is one of my favorite comfort foods. Traditionally, it is a Filipino beef stew with tomatoes. This is a dish you will often see at turo-turo places otherwise known as point-point joints. At the point-point joint, you point at the steam tray that looks best to you. More accurately, the steam tray that [...]
Although my favorite way to eat Nutella is slathered on bread, I thought for World Nutella Day (four years old this year, I might add!) I would combine two of my favorite things: steamed pudding and Nutella.
Steamed pudding is basically a cake that is steamed rather than baked, then turned out onto a plate. What’s [...]
My New Year’s cooking resolution is to cook more Filipino food, specifically food that I grew up eating. The other week I was having a discussion with my 6-year-old, and told him I was cooking one of Grandma’s recipes. He was like, “oh, so you’re making Chinese food?” Um, nooooo.
I cook a lot, and I [...]
Last year, my sister had clued me in to the wonders of bacon jam. I didnt get a chance to try it, but fortunately, our friends Michelle and Tuffer brought us some from Seattle last month. Yes, these are people willing to schlep over meat products across the ocean. And for that, I am immensely [...]
Whenever I crave sweets and want to bake something quickly, but dont want to OD on chocolate, I make blondies. And when I think about making blondies, my train of thought goes to Blondie, which then goes to Heart of Glass, which is an audio parasite that immediately embeds itself into my brain for several [...]
As a Filipino-American child, what is one of the greatest things about waking up in the morning? You have the privilege of eating chocolate and rice for breakfast.
Chomporado, or chocolate rice porridge, is served hot with lots of sugar and milk to taste. My mom likes to eat it with heavy cream, and some like [...]
The maple syrup that I’ve been able to find here has generally been disappointing. Yes, it’s maple syrup, but I think it’s the equivalent of Grade A Light in North America. My favorite is U.S. Grade A Dark Amber because it has really strong maple flavor, which is perfect for baking. (Wikipedia breaks down maple [...]
One of my favorite combinations for fruit desserts is nectarines with berries. I end up using nectarines more frequently than peaches because, well, I’m lazy: nectarines, unlike peaches, don’t require peeling. The skins are thinner so they aren’t so noticeable when baked in a dessert, so it’s a great fruit for quick desserts like [...]
When my mom came to visit last month, she brought one of the best gifts a mom from Wisconsin can give: several pounds of Nueskes bacon. Oh, you dont know Nueskes bacon?
Then, my friend, you have not had bacon. Nueskes is like, the cream of the bacon crop. The sort of bacon that makes you [...]
We just moved house, but in our old garden, we had an entire section of mint. If you plant mint in the right sort of soil (moist, with a fair amount of sun), it will grow like gangbusters. (That word is weirdly Hudsucker Proxy. Gangbusters I tell yas!!) Basically, it will grow like well, weeds.
If [...]
Note: I wrote this piece for my friend Tuffer’s magazine project. I’ll post the link to it soon!
Last weekend was a crazy pop cultural roller coaster. After wallowing in an endless rotation of Jackson 5 singles and seriously epic music videos, I came up for air to do some baking. And what better way to [...]
Ive been horrible about the Bread Bakers Apprentice Challenge: no book at first, then problems finding the right flour, then a lack of time, blahblahblah fishcakes.
No more excuses. I couldnt find the right flour, but I had AP flour on hand, so I went ahead and made the BBA challah. I was instantly reminded [...]
Maki sushi costs a fortune where I live. And did I mention that it’s also generally pretty terrible? Two reasons not to buy it!
It’s so much cheaper to roll your own sushi. This is totally a??’what’s in the house’??recipe (if you’ve been reading this blog, you’ll find that there are??quite a few of those!) A [...]
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