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Violet was apparently the ?in? color in the Philippines at the time I had my annual vacation last December 2010 to January 2011. Lots of mall rats (shoppers and roamers alike) were seen prominently sporting something in purple like shirts, blouses, bags,

There are few recipes which i have heard but never tried so far, One such recipe is Using this Mudakithan Keerai or ballon vine leaves, Its available in the village side or else u can ask your regular veggie wala to bring (yes they will do , only they can

Mango is originally from India but you can find this tree in Venezuela, Peru, Mexico, Spain, Costa Rica, Paraguay, China, Colombia and Italy. This tree do not require to much water, so it can survive in very dry climate and resist fire A very importa

We have been cooking distinct variations of the known and well love Filipino dish ?adobo? lately. Just last week I prepared the ?adobong manok sa dilaw? which is basically a chicken adobo flavored with turmeric instead of soy sauce. Earlier before tha

Ingredients: Chicken- 1/2 kg Onion-1 Chopped Tomato-1 Chopped Turmeric powder- 1/2 tbsp Chilli powder- 1 1/2 tsp Coriander powder- 1/2 tbsp Mustard seeds -1/2 tbsp Cumin – 1/2 tbsp Fennel seeds- 1/2 tbsp Red Chillies- 5 Coriander seeds-2 tbsp Ging

Here's an impressive meal to serve the next time you have dinner guests - assuming Chilean Sea Bass is south of $40 a pound! Really any seafood would do...I imagine it would be equally delicious with the likes of halibut, salmon or shrimp.

Another dish for Chinese New Year, Braised Chicken Feet With Mushroom And Sea Cucumber. My whole family is a huge fans of chicken feet including all my girls. Chicken feet is very high in protein and i personally think that it is really very scrumptious.

I know I am still yet to feature here the popular beef dish called ?bistek?, a type of beef steak prepared the Filipino-style, but I have already shared a fish variation of the entree in my post ?bistik na bangus? . While I remained unable to post the re

I had an excellent meal at Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen near Atlanta recently. We arrived kind of late on a Saturday evening and found a full restaurant, a full courtyard/patio, and a 30-45 minute wait. It was worth the wait! We quickly found a table o

I have stubbornly held on to Summer, even though Labor Day has come and gone. I still have summer tomatoes to pick, and I'm still wearing shorts and flip-flops on the weekends! Just last weekend, we grilled Rib-Eye steaks and were sipping cold beer, whil

If you live in New England, you know what kind of veggies we get here during the winter or for that matter all year round! Same old veggies and nothing new :) Yard long beans are one which we can see almost all the time in the Indian grocery store. I am

Spanish Style Sardines Spanish Style Sardines is a different variant of cooking sardines where fish is pressure cooked in oil, other methods known is cooking in brine or tomato sauce. This food item is known for its preserved or canned versions which

Today is National Peach Cobbler Day! I made this cobbler over the weekend and it was so yummy. Who doesn't like cobbler!! peach, cherry, apple blackberry or even strawberry whatever flavor it is, it's always a nice treat. I call this Semi Homemade Peac

This is the 4th random recipes that I have picked up from Philips, MyKitchen ( www.philips.com.sg/kitchen ) recipes site. Since this Thursday is Chinese New Year, I am sure most of you would like to prepare one or two simple Chinese New Year Auspicious

I find an opportunity to bake at the drop of a hat.A new appealing recipe with ingredients ready in my kitchen sees me rushing to line my pans and pull out my weighing scale and hand held mixer,switch on the music and bake to glory.But when someone asks m

Nido Soup Nido Soup is the Filipino version of the Chinese Bird s Nest Soup. The name came from a place in El Nido, Palawan (An island in the South West part of the Philippines) where these nests are harvested. This dish is a really expensive delicac

We are great fans of fish in this house, especially haddock and cod. It goes without saying that we only buy and eat fish that is responsibly sourced and caught. We do also occasionally eat salmon and tuna and Todd loves mackeral. Me, I'm not such

Hokkaido bread, isn't it something familar to you? Hokkaido bread is actually bread made with a famous local dairy product of Hokkaido, Japan. Hokkaido milk is very popular among the Japanese because of the rich creamy milk flavour of the dairy itse

Reel versus Real We all are familiar with the famous Hide and seek advertisement where Hrithik endorses the product. But unfortunately the quality of the product has not been so stabl

What is spicy, tangy, sweet, savoury, crispy, cool, hot, crunchy all the same time? An explosion of flavours in your mouth that will tease and tantalize your taste buds so much so that you keep craving for more long after your stomach's full. Its our all

Among the well-known spicy yet very yummy dishes of the Bicol Region of the Southern Philippines which elicit my appetite are ?Bicol Express? and ?Laing?. The two dishes are both basically vegetable entrees with some pork meat and/or select dried fish or

When I saw this recipe on the Martha Stewart show, I started following Whisk Kid's blog . She does amazing layered cakes. The idea that you can make a cake (and keep it secret what is inside), sounded fun. So I decided to do this for Marcus. He is ha

Historically, Lap means "ritual" in old Chinese, it was very often that surplus meat after the ritual would be cured for use in times of scarcity. These preserved delicacies are called "Lap-mei" in Cantonese and are often mistaken that they are waxed beca

This is my first "BARBIE Cake"...the result of baking course 2 weeks before my little one bday. I made it especially for her 3rd bday. Special cake for special day. She was very happy afterall watching me made a new creation of the cake. She is not the on