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One of the easiest and perhaps most common party dishes we get served in our family is grilled pork. It is usually pork liempo or pork belly. But sometimes, the aunts also serve grilled pork ribs, or grilled porkchop. Instead of complicated long marinade recipes with a dozen or so ingredients, my aunt use a very simple marinade mixture. The…
Sukiyaki is a Japanese noodle soup. It is cooked by preparing tender thin slices of beef cooked on a pan-grilled on a skillet, with noodles, tofu and vegetables, and a broth made with dashi, mirin, Japanese soy sauce, and sugar. Here is my simple Sukiyaki recipe formulated with the help of my aunts.
I love pasta. And I love tomatoes and tomato-based dishes. Needless to say, I love pasta with tomato-based sauces. And one of the first pasta dishes I learned how to make on my own when I was still in college was Spaghetti alla Puttanesca. Back then I didn’t even know how to make Pomodoro and other basic sauces and tomato…
One of Daddy’s favorite dishes is Seafood Paella. When I made it for his birthday, I almost failed because there was just too much seafood that the oven’s heat wasn’t enough to cook the rice. But I have cooked it twice already. Successfully.
One of the things that made be weep and bleed during my Basic Skills Course at the Center for Asian Culinary Studies was Beef Stew which we made on Day 12 Beef Fabrication Day. It was the first time I spent hours just cooking. I volunteered to make the Beef Stew because I was a big fan of beef stew….
Our aunts decided to have me and my cousins take charge of the Noche Buena. They made the menu, while we prepared everything on it. It was a steak dinner that they wanted, so that’s what we prepared. My cousin Tinky was tasked as our purchaser in Manila. She scoured the Salcedo Market to find good quality but affordable Angus…
Several of my classmates in Cucina Nueve were invited by our classmate Emmie Hitgano to cater a buffet lunch for the VIP guests of the fiesta of Trento, Agusan del Sur last October 4, 2009. The chosen ones were Earl Jimenez, John Agonia, and Rabbie Kyle Garcia. Other members of the class went to Trento to join the festivities and…
As opening salvo for this new blog, I am sharing one of my more popular vlogs in which I learn how to bake Italian Cream Puffs.
