Browsing Tag VEGETABLES

  I have been invited by my good friend Nami to guest post at her blog — Just One Cookbook.  I am very honored to be posting for her great readers so it took me a while to come up with this theme.  It is a quick and easy recipe — Stir Fried Shrimp & [...]

  Black bean garlic paste has this salty-spicy-sweet quality that enhances the flavor of a lot of Asian dishes. Basically, this paste or sauce is made from fermented beans AKA Douchi, soy sauce, and garlic. It is one of my favorite ingredients especially for flavoring the sauce of my dish. So, whenever I visit my [...]

Ginisang Ampalaya – Fine Filipino Dish This is another one of those “love it or hate it” kind of food. I remember someone asked me. . . “Why do you like eating that stuff?” I just asked back. . . “Why do you like drinking strong-black coffee, isn’t that the same bitterness?” Don’t get me [...]

Adobong Sitaw or String Beans Adobo or Long Beans Adobo is a very simple dish to cook. It is usually done in a traditional way of cooking the meat — adobo style, then just cook it again with the string Beans AKA Sitaw. Here in the States, string beans are readily available in most Asian [...]

Another no-meat Friday especially for a Catholic family like ours and this is going to go on until after the lent season which will be Easter Sunday. Well, this is what I cooked and served for my family last night and everyone enjoyed it, so I guess Mister Carnivore like me can’t complain huh!. I [...]

Growing up as a Filipino Catholic under a strict guidance of a Filipino Catholic parents especially my father was not a walk on a park. There’s a lot of rules in the house and one of the rules was the strict observance of the lent season; that means we always have No-Meat-Fridays during the season. [...]

Pinangat na isda or stewed fish reminds me of sinigang and also Tom Yum – – their distant cousin in Southeast Asian Countries like Thailand. They all have this sourness in their flavors (minus the heat) that give us pleasure each time we take a sip of their soup. To me, this dish and its [...]

Kulinarya’s March theme is about Filipino vegetable dish and “Vegetable” playing the main role. There are a lot of savory Filipino vegetable dish like Pinakbet, Adobong Sitaw (String Beans Adobo), Ukoy (Shrimp Fritters), Rellenong Talong (Stuffed Eggplant), etc. I chose Tofu (in the the Philippines, we call it Tokwa), because of its versatility as far [...]

This delicious dish – Beef with Asparagus Pancit is my post for the Kulinarya Club’s challenge for the month of February. One of the many wonderful folks in the group came up with a challenge, which is of course in time for the month where most of us celebrate Valentines. The rule is this, and [...]

I tried googling this dish but I couldn’t find anything that refers to it. Wait a minute. Googling? Sorry, up to now I still feel uncomfortable using that word as a verb but I guess I’ll get used to it. Anyway, I looked and used all the possible keywords but it turned out – NOTHING! [...]

It’s always our family’s belief that if you start the first day of the year with abundance of good things, you will have abundance of good things throughout the year! So, every New Year’s day, we welcome the year with food – Lots of it. This year, we cooked different varieties of seafood like Fish, [...]

||||||||||||||| Seafood is something our family love to feast on and can’t get enough of. Whether we are in Fisherman’s Wharf in Ventura here in California or just a simple-fun weekend get-together in our backyard; crab is always one of the favorites. In this recipe, we will use Blue Crabs which are medium size crabs. [...]

Whether it’s Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year, we will always have this main dish leftover that we don’t know what to do with. It can be Chicken, Turkey, or Ham. If you have this dilemma every year, why not make a Filipino style macaroni soup out of it. In this recipe we will use Ham [...]

Lo Mein is a noodle dish where ingredients come in different variations. Some are cooked with beef, chicken, pork, seafood or just vegetables. My favorite is the combination of chicken, seafood, and vegetables. I like cooking this dish using thick Chinese Noodles and of course you can always get it from your favorite Asian Supermarkets [...]

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Chicken Tinola is a chicken soup (some prefer to call it chicken stew) that every moms, grandmas, and aunts always made and prepared. Purest would insist on using green papaya, and chili pepper leaves as their veggies but of course you may always substitute papaya with chayote, and chili pepper leaves with spinach. Here in [...]

You would either love or hate Pinakbet. I remember disliking this dish when my dad used to cook it for us.  Of course my sisters and I ate it with a smile on our faces or else we wouldn’t have deserts after the meal.  Let’s just say this is for adults only type of dish. [...]