Salmon salad with mango-lemon dressing
Have I ever mentioned that salmon is my favorite fish in the whole world? It is, actually. Not tuna, not tilapia, not bangus, but salmon — smoked, preferably, but quite alright just fresh. My daughters are very much aware of my preference that they decided to give me Nick Nairn’s Top 100 Salmon Recipes cookbook for Christmas. This salad has been adapted from a recipe in Mr. Nairn’s book.
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Pizza topping on my pasta
If the noodles look picture pretty, I have my daughter Sam to thank for. Or, perhaps, blame would be a better word. We were at Clark Field over the weekend, had a blast with the Sale! Sale! Sale! at the duty-free shops and among the loot we brought home was pasta in shapes that I don’t normally find in local supermarkets.
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Rainy day grilled chicken and pasta Alfredo
It’s not so much how many ingredients you put in your chicken marinade but, more often, it is how much time you allowed the chicken to absorb the flavors.
In the same manner, it’s not so much how fancy or how colorful a pasta dish is but, rather, what you serve it with.
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What’s in your macaroni salad?
Macaroni salad was a very common family reunion party fare when I was a child. My father and my aunt, his sister, had their own versions and both were really great. My father’s version included hard-boiled quail eggs; my aunt’s had lots of pineapple tidbits and pickle relish.
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Midnight snack: crepes, bananas and guava jelly
We were watching some DVDs last night and, close to midnight, we found ourselves hungry only to discover there was no bread in the house to make some quick sandwiches. There were boxes of cereals and lots of milk but cereals just don’t seem right for a midnight snack. My daughter, Alex, wanted some crepes but there was no pancake mix either. Alas, with heavy feet (we were in the middle of a very funny movie), I dragged myself into the kitchen to make some crepes from scratch.
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Mixed herbs, pork steaks and oven-fried potato chips
Sunday is daddy-in-the-kitchen day. Otherwise, we eat out. Not last night though. My hubby cooked pork steaks and I made a side dish of oven-fried potato chips.
Both the potato chips and the pork steaks were seasoned with mixed dried herbs that I discovered at the supermarket a couple of weeks ago.
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How do you like your French fries?
It might interest you to know that French fries might not have originated in France but in that part of Europe that eventually became Belgium. There are newspaper accounts of Belgians selling fried potatoes at fairs during the 18th century. Of course, they weren’t known as French fries then. The “French” part came much later. During World War I, British or American soldiers tasted the fried potatoes and, because French was the language spoken in Belgium, called them French fries. You can read all about that in Wikipedia which provides great sources in the footnotes for further reading. I’m not into food history but the “French” part did interest me. I have to say that I experienced some sort of déjà vu when I thought about how American Indians came to be called as such after some ignorant explorers thought they had landed in India when, in fact, they reached another part of the world.
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(Something like) pasta a la putanesca
With the interval of postings on this blog, you’d think we haven’t been eating at home. It’s not that I haven’t been cooking; it’s just that I haven’t been blogging too much lately. At least, not in my personal blogs. There’s this project in my kids’ school and I was focused on it for the [...]
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