I had a vegetable chilli the other day at work and I thought I would make my own without the chilli. When I got home I, luckily, got most of the ingredients except for courgette. Also the beans had been pre-soaked and frozen so I just grabbed everything from the fridge and started swinging my [...]
Read more »My first Ratatouille was a Success!
ratatouille This is my first ratatouille and I got the recipe from Courgette Recipes. These past few weeks we always got a couple of courgettes from our allotment and since they’re sort of foreign vegetables to me I knew not how to cook them, much more in a various ways. I have tried them in stir [...]
Read more »Bitter Gourd Omelette (Ampalaya na may Itlog)
Ingredients: 1 Large Bitter Gourd 2 Eggs 1 Small Onion 1 Clove Garlic 1 Tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil 1/4 Teaspoons Salt Method: Cut the bitter gourd in half and remove the seeds. Slice very very thinly (as thin as you can). Rub them with salt. Squeeze as much liquid as you can to lessen [...]
Read more »Alfalfa Sprouts Salad
Hmm, what’s not to love about alfalfa sprout? Rich in enzymes, packed with vitamins and boasts of healing properties, alfalfa is no doubt one of the wonder foods. Here I prepared it with plum tomatoes, extra virgin olive oil, a pinch of salt and some dried herbs from my garden. It’s as simple as that [...]
Read more »Cassava Cake Recipe
This non-dairy cassava cake is one of my specialities. Living abroad, I have to learn to make native Filipino cakes for when I feel home-sick. It doesn’t normally use condensed milk but sugar and coconut milk only. Ingredients: 1 Pack Frozen Grated Cassava 1/2 Can Condensed Milk 1 Cup Coconut Milk 1/2 Cup Sugar 1/2 [...]
Read more »How to make soy milk
step by step process of making soy milk I wasn’t a big fan of soy milk until lately. For me it tasted horrible unless flavoured to conceal its taste. On the other hand, I can’t handle dairy milk well and there’s a plethora of reasons why I should drink soy milk. Number 1 is [...]
Read more »How to make plain Arroz Caldo (Lugaw)
Arroz Caldo or lugaw is a favourite food in the Philippines especially when it’s raining. It is usually cooked with chicken or pork but here I made a plain one. Ingredients: 1/2 Cup Sticky Rice, washed 1 1/2 C Water 1/2 Vegetable Stock 1 Knob Ginger, cut in strips 2 Cloves Garlic, crushed 1 [...]
Read more »4 Easy Steps to Make Fried Rice with Egg
My all-time favourite when I was in Thailand was fried rice with egg or Kao Pad Gai or Ghai, One is chicken, one is egg; I can never tell which is which but with my limited Thai I always endeavoured to demonstrate or gesticulate that I wanted the one with egg not with chicken. Disappointingly, [...]
Read more »3 Step Pancit Recipe
Here’s another one of my favourite food from home, pancit bihon or bihon guisado, as we call it in the Philippines. It’s a noodle made with green bean or corn starch with stir fried vegetables. Usual ingredients include carrots and cabbage but I use other vegetables as well. Normally, they also stirfry the noodle with the [...]
Read more »Vegan Pinakbet
Pinakbet is a native dish from Ilocos in the northern Philippines. It is usually seasoned with bagoong or salted anchovies. But my husband can’t even stand the smell of fish sauce which is normally used to substitute bagoong. So here I have to use only salt or vegetable stock, hence, my vegan pinakbet. Ingredients: 1 [...]
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