Stop and Smell the Power of Filipino Cooking
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Shoo away lockdown blues with the scent of garlic and grilled squid.
Read MoreThe Happy Home Cook: Begucan Kapampangan - Guisadong Bagoong
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I learned to make the Kapampangan-style Begucan or Guisadong Bagoong from my late aunt, in Tarlac, my hometown. Auntie Danding Pineda came from generations of excellent Pampanguena cooks.
Read MoreThe Happy Home Cook: Easy Tuna Pasta with Vegetables
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This Easy Tuna Pasta with Vegetables takes minutes to make, including opening the can and boiling the pasta.
Read MoreThe Happy Home Cook: Chocolate Bark Crackers with Salted Caramel
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On Valentine’s day, or during the love month, say I love you with these homemade Chocolate Bark Crackers with Salted Caramel made of a base of regular crackers, topped with melted brown sugar, butter and chocolates.
Read MoreConnecting the Pots, Food from the Philippines to America
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Malou Perez-Nievera’s cookbook records an expatriate’s culinary journey.
Read MoreThe Happy Home Cook: Instant Pot Inabraw na Hipon at Gulay
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This dish Inabraw na Hipon at Gulay is a basic vegetable stew that is arranged in layers then boiled. The term abrao or abraw in Ilocano refers to cooking mixed vegetables with bagoong (shrimp paste).
Read MoreLast Christmas
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A father’s advice to her immigrating daughter always gives a warm glow to her Christmases away from home.
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The Happy Home Cook: Biko Kulabasa - Rice Coconut Cake with Squash
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Biko Kulabasa, made with kabocha squash, often appeared at our family’s holiday table during my childhood in the Philippines. There was something appealing about the dark yellow, sticky rice cake, the granules plump and glistening and the entire round delicacy ensconced in a bilao (woven flat basket) lined with banana leaves.
Read MoreFood Historian Ige Ramos Serves Cavite’s Unsung Cuisine
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Get a taste of Cavite cuisine from a new food history book.
Read MoreWatch Out World: Cinelle Barnes, Essayist Empowered by Endurance
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Cinelle Barnes’ sheer desire to survive leads to opportunities to go to college and graduate school, to become a journalist and eventually a best-selling author.
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