Food articles posted in Jan 2007

Smoked ham and cheese toasties

Based on e-mails and comments, my baked macaroni appears to be one of the most popular (and most often cooked) recipes in my food blog. Most everyone agrees that it’s all about the creamy cheesy topping.
Okay. Now, imagine that the creamy cheesy topping were a little thicker — not of pouring consistency but of spreading [...]

Fish fillets with pepper and thyme

The idea came from a fish dish that Jamie Oliver did in one of his cooking shows. He pressed the herbs and spices into the fish fillets and then fried them. I did it the way he did some months ago and the herbs burned before the fish was cooked through. Perhaps, the temperature of [...]

Chicken, ham and leeks fried rice

I sliced the breast meat from a partially thawed whole chicken to make this fried rice for my daughters’ packed school lunch this morning. To add variety, I also added sliced smoked ham. I would have loved to use a medley of vegetables but the only veggies we had were the light green portion of [...]

Special puto

The recipe is a modification of Nora Daza’s puto recipe in her Galing-galing Cookbook. I was intrigued by it because stiffly beaten egg whites were among the ingredients. Since that would give the puto a texture similar to that of chiffon cake, I thought I’d give it a try. And it was because of the [...]

Mini leche flan

I didn’t make leche flan over the Holiday season. I made them earlier today. And I only did so because I didn’t know what to do with the four egg yolks after I used the egg whites to make puto (steamed rice cakes). After I decided that leche flan was the best solution, I figured [...]

Ground pork and vegetables frittata

It’s the first school day of 2007 and we’re back to waking up at dawn and preparing the kids’ packed school lunches. My husband had some kind of amnesia and woke everybody up an hour earlier. He thought that the school bus would be coming at 6.00 a.m. when, in fact, it arrives at 7.00 [...]

An all-Filipino menu at a family reunion

You’ve heard it before — Filipinos are really big on family reunions over the Christmas holidays and food is always an important feature in these gatherings.
And when we Filipinos say “family”, most of the time, we don’t only mean parents and siblings but aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews and grandchildren. It isn’t uncommon to have [...]

Roast duckling on New Year’s eve

Let me tell you about our New Year’s eve dinner. Well, actually, it’s something between dinner and media noche because we had the meal at around 9.30 p.m. Roast duckling served on flour tortillas with shredded leeks and hoisin sauce. Should have been Chinese dumpling wrappers (not siomai wrappers but thicker ones) instead of flour [...]

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Chicken dishes

• Chicken and macaroni salad
• Chicken, ham and potatoes pie
• Chicken & Broccoli Pasta
• Baked chicken in sour cream
• Olympic chili coco chicken
• Chicken salad sandwich and cheese sticks
• A different kind of chicken casserole
• Bacon-wrapped chicken livers
• Savory oven-grilled chicken
• Southern style fried chicken

Superb soups

• Serving idea for store-bought siomai (pork dumplings)
• Fish head soup with coconut cream
• Cock-a-leekie soup, Pinoy style
• Save the meat from the soup bones
• Real cream of mushroom soup
• Macaroni soup
• Creamed cabbage soup
• Chunky Beef and Macaroni Soup
• Chicken soup for a rainy day
• Budget cooking, part 1 (macaroni soup)

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