Too many pumpkin recipes popping up on the web these days. I bet I’ll see more as Thanksgiving draws nearer. We don’t do Thanksgiving in the Philippines ...
Superb Soup Recipes
Simple, chunky, rustic or show-stoppingly stunning, soups are comforting and uncomplicated to eat. Light soups are wonderful for balmy days; chunky and rich soups are warming on cold and rainy nights. Here are soup recipes for every day or night and for every weather condition. Choose from noodle soups to chowders and everything in between.
Slow Cooker Filipino Picadillo Soup
Picadillo soup is comfort food for my family. This one cooked overnight while we slept. Well, partially, at least. The slab of beef was cooked with bones ...
Asparagus and Mushroom Soup
Dieticians say it's a good idea to start a meal with a soup or salad. The starter course fills up the tummy partially and tells the brain that it won't ...
Slow Cooker Minestrone
A chunky vegetable soup with no fixed recipe, Italian minestrone is cooked with whatever vegetables are in season. It may contain meat, rice or pasta. This ...
Game-changing Boiled Meat and Vegetables
There's a boiled meat and vegetable dish in just about every cuisine. The meat may be pork, beef, lamb, venison, mutton or even offal. What vegetables are ...
Peas and Potato Soup
A thick and creamy peas and potato soup that takes just a little over 30 minutes to make. I first made this soup on one of those weekends when ...
Creamy Chicken, Corn and Macaroni Soup
Feeling a bit under the weather? These drastic changes in the weather and temperature are more than enough to make anyone’s body chemistry run amuck. If ...
Hainanese-style Chicken Noodle Soup
If you're a fan of Hainanese chicken rice but cooking a whole chicken is simply too much, here's a trick: use chicken thigh fillets instead. You can cook ...
Chicken, Bacon and Tomato Noodle Soup
Although I adore creamy chicken noodle soup, I adore variety even more. I had a piece of ham bone and I thought I'd experiment with a different kind of ...
Chicken, Leeks and Potato Soup
Based on Julia Child's potage parmentier, I added chicken meat to make my chicken, leeks and potato soup because I am more carnivorous than ...
Halang-halang (Chili Coconut Chicken Soup)
When I first posted a recipe for halang-halang, the only thing I knew about the dish was that it was similar to tinola except for the addition of coconut ...
Chicken Asparagus Eggdrop Soup
I was first introduced to chicken-asparagus soup in a Chinese restaurant in Caloocan City called Boy Ching Woo. Some twenty-odd years ago, it was the only ...
Free Range Chickens Make the Tastiest Broth
I’ve already proven to myself that the meat of free range chicken is tastier and shrinkage is a lot less during cooking. A few days ago, I proved to myself ...
Sukiyaki-style Chicken Noodle Soup
Traditional sukiyaki is not a soup but a hotpot dish. This sukiyaki-style chicken noodle soup has many of the flavors of the traditional dish but the ...