Grilled kielbasa and beans
I don’t bother too much with cooking when there’s just myself at home. Which is most of the day for five days a week. Yesterday, I grilled a kielbasa then poured the heated contents of a can of pork and beans over it. With buttered toast, it was a great lunch!
It’s really nothing extraordinary. I’ve [...]
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Homemade broth
The stock of meat in the freezer will have to be replenished over the weekend. There were some small packages remaining. The contents of each package were too little to make a complete dish though. The back of a chicken, parts of the pork spare ribs that weren’t meaty enough to go into the stir [...]
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Beef and asparagus stir fry
Cooking time was ten minutes flat. I made it early this morning for the kids’ packed lunch. This was supposed to be part of last night’s dinner, along with a new recipe for fresh vegetable lumpia but I was too sick to do any cooking all day yesterday. To make this beef and asparagus stir [...]
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Butter-garlic mushrooms
It’s the simplest thing to cook, really! Saute lots of finely minced garlic in lots of butter until fragrant, add the fresh white button mushrooms, sprinkle lightly with some salt and cook over high heat until lightly browned. Add about 1/4 cup of water, cover and simmer for three minutes. Uncover, turn up the heat [...]
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Pork spare ribs stir fry
Stir fries cook in a jiffy. The secret, as most Chinese cookbooks will tell you, is in the correct temeprature and the size of the ingredients. The heat has to be turned up to the max and the ingredients have to be small. If the meat pieces are too large, the outside will burn while [...]
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Cheese omelet
It’s such a luxury to be able to get up at 9.00 a.m., have a leisurely cup of coffee or two before it’s time to make breakfast. It’s Saturday and after a gruelling week and a late Friday night at the movies, we just wanted to relax. Unrushed, I was able to prepare a full [...]
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Lamb stew
I went to the bank early this afternoon and decided to make a quick trip to the supermarket on the way home. I was just planning to buy onions and carrots but then I couldn’t resist the stewing lamb. So, the planned fish dinner became a lamb stew dinner.
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Pork, asparagus and mushrooms stirfry
This dish is made with pre-boiled liempo (pork belly), canned asparagus, sliced caps of shiitake mushrooms and sweet peas. While most Chinese-style stirfries use thinly sliced tenderloin or some other tender cut of meat for fast cooking, I found out that I can use other cuts of meat, and cut them in bigger pieces too, [...]
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