Share Healthy eating does not have to be boring. It is about eating smart. You don’t have to be perfect and you don’t have to completely eliminate foods you enjoy to have a healthy diet. I’ll be showcasing some healthy dishes for the next three days. Pot pies are usually associated with meat or chicken fillings. A pot pie is a baked savory pie...

Share Crispy Spinach or Crispy kangkong is basically an appetizer during parties. Don’t expect to get Vitamin A because they are all lost after the extreme heat. The most you can get are fibers and that urge to munch on something crunchy other than potato chips. So try this out. Ingredients 2 bundles of Kangkong ( or spinach) or roughly 1/4 kilo 2...

Share I never got to appreciate laing until I came here to Manila and got exposed to all sorts of food from the various regions of the Philippines. Dishes cooked with coconut milk is my all time favorite dish. No wonder, laing then became one of my favorite dishes. I loved the hotness and the coconut milk mixture. I am sure you will too. Ingredients 15-20...

Share Whenever I go home to my hometown in Cebu, I make it a point to buy Lumpiang Ngohiong. I recently went to Cebu for my 35th High School reunion and the first thing I looked for was the Ngohiong. Well, what is Ngohiong? It looks like kikiam but the taste of ngohiong is excellent. It’s similar to our Lumpia Shanghai except the stuffings are...

Share Remember the last time I invited you to join a cooking demo for Pumpkin inspired dishes? For those celebrating Halloween, here is a Pinoy dish from the Dona Elena Cuisnera Club where Chef Golda Liamzon presented this pumpkin-inspired okoy recipe. Here it goes: Ingredients: 4 cups pumpkin, grated ½ k suaje, head on, spiny parts removed 1 pc red...

Share I know some of you miss Chicharon or Pork Cracklings. Here is a recipe from Chef Jill Sandique where she featured a soup recipe using lentils and pork cracklings. This recipe is not about pork cracklings though. The US Dry Bean Council (DBC) and USA Dry Pea and Lentil Council (DPLC) wants to change the way people see the humble peas and beans as...

Share This is a memorable recipe that my sister, Lorna picked up at one of these local TV cooking shows. I tried it out and I love its simplicity. I think this dish may even be called “Chop Suey”. Of course, I have now eliminated the monosodium glutamate (MSG) or ajinomoto. Remember, it’s the sesame oil that gives this dish a piquant...

Share I am sure most of you are familiar with Chili Con Carne. It’s a spicy and hot dish which my children just love to devour with hot steaming rice . There is another bean dish that is quite the opposite of the Chili Con Carne. It has a sweet taste to it. With ingredients like chorizo bilbao, bacon and pata, you can just imagine the combination of...

Share I am not too fond of deep fried foods so whenever I cook this, I use Olive oil which is the healthier oil. I love dipping it though with vinegar and garlic sauce. I will show you two ways to prepare Lumpia Ubod, the fried and fresh lumpia version. Ubod Mixture 2 kilos ubod (coconut heart) cut in shoestring manner, boiled and drained 2 cloves of...

Share I tried out this simple eggplant omelet recipe from Kristine Keefer, public relations coordinator for the French Laundry in Yountville, California. Kristine Keefer, public relations coordinator for the French Laundry in Yountville, left her native Philippines after college to attend the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. This omelet can...