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In the Philippines, grilled and skewered pork is called pork barbecue. Right. It doesn’t matter what the marinade is. If it’s pork and it’s skewered and...
Bicol Express is a Filipino dish of browned pork cooked with finger chilies and coconut cream. Ultra hot, rich and creamy. Keto diet friendly if served...
Speedy discovers the most unusual recipes. Ironically, the ones he finds are recipes I won’t even give a second thought to and I start asking myself...
Bring a little sunshine to your New Year’s Eve party with this fresh and bright pineapple grapefruit coconut rum cocktail! No bartending skills required.
Whether you treat them as cocktail food or drink, it doesn’t matter. It’s a punch, if you ask me. These tipsy melon balls are infused with...
When you have an ingredient as flavorful as bacon, you don’t need a lot of other seasonings to make a tasty dish. Speedy surprised us with...
If a movie can have a sequel, so can a good sandwich. This sandwich — imagined and created by Speedy — is so named because the fillings...
Speedy made it based on a video from Real Simple. This blueberry smoothie has rolled oats, yogurt and… ginger. Yes, ginger! As strange as that may...
Speedy watches more food and cooking shows these days than I do. And the two hosts he doesn’t like to miss are Nigella Lawson and Laura...
There is a program on Asian Food Channel called Return to River Cottage hosted by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. An old show, actually, that originally started airing in...
Think BLT but, instead of bacon, it’s tripe so tender it almost melts in the mouth. And, seasoned with lemon juice and finely sliced chilies, the...
How many ways have we made turon? Let me count: 1. Cheesy turon 2. Turon with toffee and peanut butter sauce 3. Turon with bacon and...
Speedy saw campfire cones featured on some TV show on Facebook, he was immediately smitten and, less than twenty-four hours later, he had all the ingredients...
It’s not really a pizza — that’s why, in the title, “pizza” is enclosed in quotes. But it is like a pizza because the eggplant “pizza”...
If you Google “melon cocktail”, you’ll find that there are two categories. The first is an alcoholic drink; the second is a dessert. This falls under...
I'm Connie Veneracion, retired lawyer and columnist, wife for 28 years and mom of two.
CASA means house, but it is also an acronym for the first names of the Veneracion family.
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