Easy Recipes for Home Cooks
The Cassava Cake with Custard Topping is a quintessential Filipino cake made of grated cassava. What’s special about the cassava, is that when raw it’s an unassuming white starchy root vegetable, but cooks into a springy chewy texture. I have made Cassava Cake a hundred times before and so many […]
Amarettis It never ceases to amaze me how a few simple ingredients transform into something amazing – it’s almost magic! A little bit of ground hazelnuts, some sugar, a little bit of egg whites some flavourings and a little bit of rolling and you’ve got yourself Hazelnut and Chocolate Amaretti. […]
Every year I look forward to the stone fruit season which starts around November here in Australia. Apricots peaches and mangoes are some of my favourite fruits and it’s inevitable that they will make their way into my cooking, as in this easy and delicious Asian inspired Apricot Chicken. If […]
As a transplant from the Philippines, now residing in Sydney, there’s nothing better than a bowl of piping hot Pork Sinigang, to chase away the homesickness blues. The wind could be fierce and blustering outside, but one taste of the sour broth and I’m happily transported back to my hometown […]
I used to frequent a small coffee shop near work, who served the best coffee. Not only that , the coffee came with a free Amaretti Cookie. The only problem was, the cookie was the size of my thumb nail and not nearly enough for me. Of course I had […]
We have Nando’s BBQ chicken to thank for, for bringing the taste of Portugal to our shores. Nando’s Peri-Peri Chicken is juicy and moist with the perfectly balanced flavours of salty and sweet, tangy from lemon and vinegar with the just the right hint of spices and loaded with garlic. […]