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Vietnamese Style Fried Rice
2008-01-27 01:17:00
Have you had enough rice yet? Not us! This is a dish Jade cooked all by herself from beginning to end. INGREDIENTS: Day-old (cold) rice 3 Eggs Salt & Pepper Oil 1/2 Onion, sliced 2 cloves garlic, chopped 1/4 inch ginger, minced 1/4 lb. pork loin, cut into bite sized pieces 1/2 cup Green beans, cut into half inch length 1 small carrot, diced 2 Tbsp. Oyster ...
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Left Over Fried Rice
2008-01-11 20:51:00
Like Lalaine at CookMobile, I have had rice in the brain all month. It’s not a bad way to start of the new year, I say. I still have the puto experiment to get on with, so no, the rice challenge is definitely not over for me. This is a common dish in our house. I ...
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LP 22 Round UP - Rice to the Challenge!
2008-01-06 19:31:00
Many thanks to everyone who participated in this past month’s Lasang Pinoy, Rice to the Challenge ! For the year’s end, we decided to feature the ubiquitous rice and all the ways it could be cooked. Visit the food blogs below to see how they rose up to the challenge. Binagoongan Rice from the Cook Mobile ...
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LP 22 - Puto
2008-01-06 16:23:00
When I first started brainstorming about what to make for LP 22, I thought of trying my hand at making Tapey, a rice wine common during the holiday season in my mom’s hometown. It requires a yeast called bubud, to encourage fermentation, that I was determined to search for. But, holiday preparations got in the ...
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LP 22 - Kutsinta
2008-01-04 05:28:00
I grew up eating these and yet and I never really saw anyone make it. Most times my mom or one of our aunts would buy it for our snack from hawkers who come through the neighborhoods shouting, “pooooto, kutsinta” as they walk down the streets. We’d start running after the guy and tell him ...
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LP 22 - Rice with Mung Beans Dessert
2007-12-27 19:14:00
I have been wanting to try out this dish ever since the English Patis posted the recipe on her website and then put the photo of it on her header, reminding me to make it every time I visited her food blog. This dish, in the Philippines, is called Ginataang Totong or Totong Balatong. Ginataan ...
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Roasted Leg of Lamb
2007-12-14 19:54:00
We eat so much chicken that some days we just can’t stand even the thought of chicken! So enter lamb. Costco has started selling these boneless lamb legs for a very reasonable price so we decided to get one for a change.I actually cooked this towards the end of the summer when we still have ...
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Pearl Tapioca Pudding with Coconut Cream
2007-12-09 02:58:00
The girls have been into bobas or pearl tea drinks lately so they’ve been having me cook pearl pearls for their concoctions. I had cooked a little too much tapioca pearls for their needs one time so rather than having them sit in the refrigerator, I decided to make tapioca pudding. But since they are ...
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Lasang Pinoy 22: Rice to the Challenge!
2007-12-05 10:56:00
Lasang Pinoy is a monthly blogging event that promotes Filipino cuisine and I am honored to host this month?s event. The theme I have chosen is RICE! We have gone through 21 months of Lasang Pinoy and we?ve covered a spectrum of Filipino dishes. Every one of those dishes, if you notice, always paired well ...
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Beef with Broccoli Stirfry
2007-12-05 08:55:00
When I cooked the Beef with Bittermelon Stirfy, I had to cook something else that the girls would eat. So this one, I cooked exactly the same way as the bittermelon stirfy but with different vegetables.
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Beef with Bittermelon Stirfry
2007-12-04 02:42:00
I had one bittermelon plant come in our garden this summer. One! Out of a whole pack. But, it was ok. I’ll stop whining about it now because if I had more than one, I’d have bittermelon coming out of my ears. As it was, I’ve had bittermelon every kind of ways and by the ...
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Cauliflower with Buttered Mushrooms
2007-12-02 01:48:00
Here’s a new side dish I cooked up for Thanksgiving this year. It’s very simple and yet complements any Thanksgiving menu perfectly or any meal for that matter.
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Caramel Cake
2007-11-26 08:36:00
My husband has always raved about his Aunt’s Caramel Cake , but we’ve never gotten the recipe out of her. Yeah, she’s one of those cooks…her caramel cake will end with her. Too bad. Anyway, this is my attempt, and it came out pretty close, he says. I think it was a little on the sweet ...

Toasted Pumpkin Seeds
2007-11-21 06:23:00
Being the frugal cook that I am, I try not to waste anything when I’m cooking. So whenever we’ve carved pumpkins in the past, I always roasted the seeds so as not to waste them. I was always disappointed with the result as they were never as good as the commercially bought ones. They were ...
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Carrot Soup
2007-11-19 21:42:00
The cold has been at our house for the last few weeks, and when your throat is sore, there is nothing more soothing than a warm bowl of soup. I prefer something hot and sour but The Clone will go for anything soupy and creamy. This was her choice for lunch the other day. Out ...
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Sauteed Bittermelon with Oyster Sauce
2007-11-11 17:55:00
I still have a bunch of bitter melons in the fridge and I don’t want to freeze them as I just don’t think frozen bitter melon tastes good so I have been eating bittermelon once or twice a week. If you don’t know what bitter melon is, Momordica charantia is a tropical plant common in Southeast ...
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Apple Cobbler
2007-11-02 05:47:00
I am a lazy baker so any dish where you don’t fuss over beating things and sifting things is my kind of baking. I didn’t want to be bothered with pie crust so I thought I would just dump things in a dish and bake; that’s how I came up with this concoction which is ...
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Mungo: Mung Bean Soup
2007-10-24 05:22:00
This is another dish where there are as many variations as there are regions in the Philippines. Some prefer it thick some like it soupy. Some like to put different types of vegetables with it. Me, I happen to like mine on the soupy side and I like it best with bittermelon (ampalaya) leaves. I ...
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Chicken Bistek 2
2007-10-15 18:29:00
Often when I am being unimaginative, I always turn to old favorites and standbys. Guess what, most of them are the types that are quick and easy to make! So is it any wonder that we fall back again on Chicken Bistek on a day when we just did not feel like cooking anything elaborate ...
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Spring Rolls
2007-10-07 15:26:00
I finally had a chance to try my hand out at making my own spring rolls and decided to have a wrap up day when the girls had their sushi rolling day. This would have been a great entry for Lasang Pinoy’s Binalot event, but things just didn’t synch up right and I missed the ...
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Zucchini Basil Muffins
2007-10-02 13:13:00
I think I can finally start posting the backlog of recipes that I tried out this summer. I finally got all the little bugs out of this new website, or so I hope. Anyway, this zucchini and basil muffin was a pleasant surprise, using two ingredients from our garden in a new way.
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Welcome to our kitchen!
2007-09-17 05:45:00
Hello, all! Come in, pull up a chair, have a cup of coffee and chat for a while. That’s usually my routine when friends come to visit. We never sit in the living room, we immediately go to where the good stuff is, the kitchen!  I’m still decorating and putting things in their proper place, so bear ...
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California Rolls
2007-09-07 17:39:00
I was really hoping I would have the new site set up by now, but I just haven’t found the right template or header design yet. I do like the three column design though. Anyway, since I’m still here, I thought I would post the girls’ new obsession, their own maki sushi!
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