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The sauce is the same as the one I used for the vegetarian steam-fried mushrooms and green beans. But this dish of steamed mussels with spicy...
A tasty and aromatic seafood dish that requires five minutes of preparation and 20 minutes steaming. I call it Vietnamese-style steamed fish steaks because the seasoning...
Fresh mussels were soaked, the beards discarded then thrown into an extremely hot oven for a minute just until the shells opened. When cool enough to handle, the...
Since I first sampled sinigang na tiyan ng salmon at Gerry’s Grill over a decade ago, I dreamed of cooking my own version at home. In...
While Spanish paella has arborio rice tinted with saffron threads, Filipino arroz a la Valenciana has glutinous rice colored by either kasubha or annatto seeds. Chicken...
Lightly browned salmon steak is braised in lemon-butter sauce in this fish version of an Italian favorite. Salmon piccata rocks! But… But… Isn’t there a similar...
One of the easiest Filipino dishes to cook, adobong pusit was so often served at home when I was a child. Because of an allergy, I...
Citrusy, tangy, spicy and ultra aromatic, these lemongrass tamarind mussels were stir fried. Cooking time was less than ten minutes and a greater part of that...
In April, 2003, I posted a tuna lumpia (spring rolls) recipe using cooked fresh tuna. That recipe was updated (with better photos) in 2011. Although I...
We don’t have a tortilla press yet so Alex still uses a rolling pin to make tortilla. With that process, forming perfect circles is not always...
If Alex could have her way, we’d probably have pasta every two to three days. But her father is not a huge fan of pasta so...
My family spent Independence Day eating the best darn grilled food. Alex’s idea although the fact that it was Independence Day yesterday was a mere coincidence....
Alex‘s shrimps with sweet mangoes and pineapple whet our appetite in a bittersweet way. As we enjoyed every succulent morsel, we were reminded at the same time...
The fish version of tom kha gai, Thai fish coconut milk soup, or tom kha pla, is similarly cooked and seasoned with lemongrass, galangal, chilies, kaffir...
Fresh juicy shrimps, sweet peas and whole roasted cashew nuts are stir fried for no more than five minutes to make this vibrant dish. Shrimps peas...
