12 Nov, 2009
Wok stir-fried broccoli with oyster sauce has to be one of my all-time favorite vegetable dishes. I could eat this once a week! If I have been particularly bad and consumed a phenomenal amount of fat-laden dishes in a given period, I try to detox with a lot of veggies, and this…
08 Nov, 2009
You need to be a bitter green fan to enjoy this dish. Or at least enjoy strongly flavored greens. We served this braised gai choy with some leftover lechon, presumably to help temper the evils of cholesterol overload, and it worked flavorwise. But I can see how this would also…
02 Nov, 2009
I was anxious to use the newly arrived bounty of ingredients as soon as possible, so we invited some friends over for dinner, and decided to make a salad as a starter. Before deciding on the final roster of ingredients for the salad, we first tried out a critical pairing to see if…
28 Oct, 2009
I know it sounds like a bit of a joke. You make a “healthy” vegetable soup, but then add jamon iberico to the pot!? But many times I cook based on what I find in the groceries and markets, and sometimes tweak classic recipes just a bit hoping it will all turn…
05 Oct, 2009
Lumpia or fried spring rolls are another of those filipinized chinese dishes that has evolved over the years. Like adobo (meat stew with vinegar) or sinigang (sour soup), each household seems to have their version of what goes into the filling of their lumpia. Several years ago I did a…
01 Oct, 2009
Some unusually bright green and uniquely bumpy “Japanese Bitter Gourds” were in the vegetable section of the grocery last week, and I purchased two of them to try. Always on the lookout for the novel or unusual, I am so happy that the Dole company keeps trying to innovate and grow new produce items,…