Easy Recipes for Home Cooks
Rice in any shape or form, the staple of Filipino kitchens.
Pasta and noodles for long life…
This Persian Beef & Carrot Rice (Havij Polow) , is a celebration dish for sure but don’t let the many steps in this recipe deter you because it is actually very easy to make. I like to think of this as the Persian version of the Chinese fried rice and […]
There are as many ways to cook rice as there are ways to skin a cat. This, by far is my favourite. It is foolproof and it results in fluffy deliciousness of grain separated rice. Flavoured with the unmistakable Middle Eastern yellow hue of saffron and dotted with rich butter. […]
Jolibee Restaurant is a popular burger and fried chicken joint in the Philippines. One of their best selling menu items is their Filipino Style Spaghetti with Hotdog. This Jolibee Copycat version, is sweeter than its Italian counterpart and won’t probably be recognised by any self respecting Italian. However, the Filipinos […]
Bam-I is a contraction of two Hokkien words ba (beef) and mee (noodles). Among the various noodle dishes cooked in the Philippines, bam-i noodles originated from the Visayan regions and uses both Canton noodles and rice or mung bean vermicelli in the one dish. I myself like to cook this […]
In the Philippines rice is usually eaten as an accompaniment to the main dish of protein and vegetables. In Arroz Caldo, literally “Hot Rice” in Spanish, rice is the main ingredient. Arroz Caldo is a ginger flavoured rice porridge topped with various condiments including finely sliced chicken, boiled eggs, garlic […]
Pancit Buko is a new discovery for me although I grew up in coconut country. Buko is the flesh of young coconut. The shredded young coconut meat as a substitute for noodles is a revelation. It’s soft chewy and nutty …you could say a Merci Buko moment, ahem pardon my […]