Fish and Chips (+mushy peas)
It’s Friday! Fish and chips day in England! Preparing the fish: Smother with salt and leave for an hour at least; Dredge with gram flour and glutinous rice flour (ratio […]
Creative cooking 2 – pulses
Here in the UK, the first food supplies that got wiped out from the shelves were, in the following order: flour, pasta, rice, pulses (dry and tinned). We happened to […]
Creative cooking 1
I would say it was Divine Providence that even before this unprecedented time (Gary Lineker’s gone tired of the phrase), we’d always been well-stocked as we took advantage of weekend […]
Fish pesa (pesang isda 🐠)
This is similar to the chicken pesa I’ve previously posted–but using fish, of course, this this time. Ingredients: oil for sauteing 1 medium-sized white onion (julienned) 1-inch ginger (thinly sliced) […]
Sotanghon (quite)
Sotanghon is glass noodles and not to be confused with rice noodles. The former is made from either mung bean, potato or tapioca; it is bouncy and does not break […]
Misua
Misua is a type of noodle, but in the Philippines it is also synonymous to a dish–a poor man’s dish. In the Asian shops here in the UK, they sell […]
Lasagna
This is the second time I’ve made lasagna. The first time it was too dry, so I made sure this time to put plenty of tomatoes (tinned, actually) for the […]
Salmon plait
I’ve been wanting to post this for years, but as it is not my recipe, I don’t know how it’s made (I don’t watch how to either). This was my […]
Beef mechado
In my town, beef mechado falls under fiesta food–so this was something I only got to eat at the neighbours’ as our family does not observe the town fiesta. I […]
Seaweed broth
I had plenty of nori sheets which I wasn’t able to use since I de-constructed my sushi. Maybe I can re-create the miso soup served at the Tokyo Tokyo chain […]
