Easy Recipes for Home Cooks
Pork belly roast is a favourite at our place although we don’t cook if very often, but when we do it’s got to be done properly. It should have a shatteringly lovely crackle, the meat has to be moist tender and it should have the Filipino touch. Lots of garlic, […]
We are not very big on salads in our family, as my son would say “I’m not friends with salad!”. And I would never ever order salad if I’m eating out. That’s not to say that we don’t like vegetables as there’s a lot of veggies in our diet, not […]
I have yet to meet anyone who doesn’t like hot chocolate. While you can buy packaged hot chocolate mix, the homemade version made with real cocoa powder is the best. If you make a batch beforehand you can have rich hot chocolate in minutes which is so much more satisfying […]
Something hot and spicy? Meet the Chicken Inasal Skewers. The word “inasal” means grilled or barbecued in the Visayas region where I come from. It has the characteristic flavour of the region- sourness from the vinegar or calamansi and the heady aroma of garlic and lemongrass. The traditional preferred cuts […]
Mussels are the easiest of the molluscs to prepare, because they have a relatively small amount of muscle tissue, which means they cook in a flash! They are best cooked on a shallow pan, so that you can remove them as they open. The mussels are cooked once they’re open. […]
Breakfast Pie for breakfast lunch or dinner. It has all the elements of a hearty breakfast of bacon eggs potatoes leeks and melty cheese covered in puff pastry and baked until puffed and golden. Perfect as is but can be improved with a side of green salad and lots of […]