Barbequed beef short ribs
Beef short ribs are usually sold chopped up for cooking stews. My husband bought the uncut beef short ribs from Price Smart and they seemed to me that they were calling out to be barbequed.
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Sam’s Japanese rolls
My 12-year-old daughter was craving for maki last Sunday but the only Japanese restaurant in the mall where we were was one her dad didn’t care to go to. She was so disappointed that, on our way home, I decided to pass by the supermarket. I bought a pack of nori and crab sticks. I [...]
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Beef pares
Just like Manang Kusinera who gets nostalgic over beef pares, I occasionally think about the times I’ve enjoyed steaming bowls of rice and tender boiled beef topped with lots of toasted garlic and chopped onion leaves. Pares, literally “pair”, means the combination of rice and beef. In Philippine eateries, the customer may opt to enjoy [...]
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Easy dessert crepes
I found a recipe for crepes at the back of a Maya pancake mix box and I’ve been having crepes for breakfast for two days. The batter is really just a diluted pancake batter with an additional egg. Of course, I never did it the easy way until two days ago. I used to make [...]
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Korean beef stew
There’s a fastfood place called Kimchi found in most malls in Metro Manila and Korean Beef Stew is its specialty. The stew is so good that I tried duplicating it at home. Spicy, sweet, salty and very aromatic. In my previous attempts\, I tried cooking it like asado. They tasted similar and, except for the [...]
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Mango syrup for pancakes
When my husband came home yesterday with a jar of mango jam, I immediately imagined crepes with mango syrup. See, this jam is thick, not the kind that drips off a spoon. It has the consistency of ube halaya (if you’re not a Filipino, that would be similar to the consistency of peanut butter). It [...]
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Easy gravy
The secret of a good gravy is in the drippings of fried or grilled meat. But did you know that you can make a good gravy without the fatty drippings? I know. It sounds like a sacrilege to the world’s most loved accompaniment for fried chicken. But when we consider that the base of the [...]
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Basil and garlic toast
What a morning! No one woke up to the blaring of the alarm clock. It was 7.00 o’clock when my husband was roused by the honking of the school bus. Darn, and the kids were still sleeping soundly. He sent off the bus and we woke up the kids. He would have to drive them [...]
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