Easy Recipes for Home Cooks
Tidbits to tide you over while you wait for the main event….
The sourness of the traditional and much loved Filipino dish Sisig, which is essentially a chopped salad is said to cure hangovers. It is ironic, that sisig has now become one of the most popular pulutan to go with drinks. Hang on, what is Sisig? If awards were being handed […]
In the part of the Philippines where I grew up, for New Year’s Eve we would gather all the “round” fruits we could get our hands on, such as grapes, orange, apples and watermelon for good luck. We also made sure our rice storage bin was full,and the house sparkling […]
These Laughing Sesame Balls are a specialty of the Visayan Region in the Philippines where I come from. When fried, the sesame coated dough, splits open resulting in the characteristic smile. It has a crispy outside and cake like within. How do they taste? Like doughnuts but crispier! What you […]
Take a cup of red lentils and thirty minutes of your time to make this vibrant and delightfully filling Red Lentil Soup. Red Lentils, some root vegetables and the characteristic fragrant Persian spices of cumin, paprika and turmeric makes this soup taste sensational. This is one of the many frugal […]
It’s soup season here in Sydney with temperatures barely judging 10°C with blustery winds. The Chicken Noodle Soup (Sopas) , is a favourite at ours, not only when the weather is cold but all year round. It’s also the go to dish to make when some one is feeling under […]
Where I come from in the Philippines, although we eat a lot of vegetables specially green leafy ones, herbs are used sparingly in our cooking. Most of the time, it’s just a garnish, a sprinkle or two even just an afterthought. That’s why when I first visited Iran, I was […]