What do you do with excess sauce from a pot of meat stew? I cooked kaldereta earlier, I made sure that there was plenty of sauce because my family likes to ...
Cooking with Leftovers
Ratatouille Pasta With Bacon and Parmesan
While stews are associated with cold weather, it isn't necessarily true for vegetable stews like ratatouille. Whatever the temperature outside, whether ...
Phyllo Chicken Mushroom Spinach Pie
Creamy and cheesy chicken, mushroom and vegetable filling sandwiched between layers of phyllo pastry. So pretty and so delicious—you probably can't tell ...
Chicken Potato Salad With French Beans
Made with the leftover breast of yesterday's rotisserie chicken (lechon manok for Filipinos), this chicken potato salad with French beans has textures I ...
Duck and White Asparagus Soup
We had roast duck on New Year's Eve but we didn't finish it. There was too much food. In addition to the duck, we had shrimps crusted with crushed corn ...
Toss Cooked Pasta in Leftover Stew
For many of us who cook up a storm over the holidays, we spend the first week or so of the New Year consuming leftovers from our holiday feasts. If meat ...
Claypot Pork and Sausage Rice Bowl
This claypot pork and sausage rice bowl is an exercise in cooking with leftovers. We had cold rice, we had fried pork belly, we had quail eggs, we had ...
Linguine and clams with 3-cheese sauce
Some sauces are so good that any leftover is worth keeping and recycling. That was the case with Alex's 3-cheese chicken. I scraped the sauce left in the ...
Cow leg, chorizo and lentil stew
Yes, there will be more of Alex's cooking. The girl cooks faster than she hands over the documentation so the publication of her more recent cooking ...
Mushroom and parsley rice
We all know that the rice cooker is meant for cooking rice. Some brave souls have cooked food other than rice in a rice cooker -- from tofu to bread to ...
A Christmas ham story
A funny thing happened while we were preparing for our Christmas Eve meal. As agreed upon, I did not cook regular food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. ...
Crisp fried pulled pork (a.k.a. leftover lechon)
This time of the year brings back memories. When I was a very young lawyer, I worked in an office where Christmas parties were always delicious affairs. ...
Honey and Sesame Seed Biscuits
Part of learning how to bake is finding ways to be not wasteful. Baking ingredients are not cheap and whether it's gas or electricity that powers your ...
Paksiw na lechon
Paksiw is the generic name for stews made with vinegar. Lechon is a roasted whole pig sold either whole or by the kilo with an accompanying sweet-sour ...