A Festival in a Cookbook
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Here’s a book with an adobo recipe for everyone -- the carnivore, the pescatarian, the vegetarian, and the one who loves a good homespun adobo any day.
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The Happy Home Cook: Adobong Dilaw
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Lyn B. Gamboa, president of the Negros Cultural Foundation, based in Silay City, Negros Occidental contributed this recipe to the new cookbook The Adobo Chronicles: A Collection of Unique Adobo Recipes and Candid Essays on the Filipino Adobo.
Read MoreThe Happy Home Cook: Steamed Stuffed Bitter Melon a la Siomai
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If you have the acquired taste for bitter melon, you might enjoy a recipe of this steamed gourd stuffed with a ground pork mixture. Think about it as having siomai with a twist!
Read MoreThe Happy Home Cook: Crab in Coconut Sauce (Ginataang Alimango)
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This creamy, sweet and spicy dish is one of my family's favorites.
Read MoreThe Happy Home Cook: Turon with Jackfruit
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There’s no magic trick here. No big, ta-dah moment. No vegan substitutions you need to seek. Turon is a Filipino dish that is traditionally vegan. So what I will be sharing here is the traditional way of making it. That is if you really must have a recipe for it. After all, Turon is so simple to make; you might as well eyeball everything. In other words, not only it’s already vegan, it’s fool-proof to make too.
Read MoreThe Happy Home Cook: Beer-Braised Pork Chops
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Whenever I prepare recipes needing beer, everything depends on where I am. In California and Hawaii, I’d usually use Bud Light or Corona. But when I’m in the Philippines, my beer of choice is San Mig Light, and that’s what I used in preparing this pork chop recipe!
Read MoreThe Happy Home Cook: Holiday Pavlova
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We visited Australia during the Christmas holidays and Pavlovas were served in almost every home. This dessert with its layers of cloud-like white meringue, whipped cream topping and jewel- like fresh fruits is said to be inspired by its namesake, the famous Russian prima ballerina Pavlova.
Read MoreThe Happy Home Cook: Munggo with Ham
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This recipe is another super easy one and if you like mung beans, this is a winner.
Read MoreThe Happy Home Cook: Oriental Beef with Fried Noodles
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This is an all-time favorite noodle entree which Nora’s daughter, Nina was happy to share.
Read MoreThe Happy Home Cook: Cassava Cheesecake
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Growing up we always had cassava cake, it was my mother’s go to dish. We have always had a take on my mum’s cassava cake at our pop ups, for me it is a fitting way to pay tribute to my mum and to how Sarap got started in the first place.
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