Filipino Beef Tapa Recipe
Cured slices of beef and fried in a tablespoon of oil over medium heat. Best for steamed white rice or any fried rice.
Chicken and Shrimp Scampi Recipe
Scampi for more than 3 decades My original reference for this chicken and shrimp scampi recipe was from Good Housekeeping magazine, October 2002 issue, where it was featured in their “as …
Sauteed Ground Beef and Cauliflower, Carrots and Broccoli
I know that the title of the recipe is a total brain freeze! My original recipe title was ground beef and cauliflower, using one full head of cauliflower. But due …
How to Make Cauliflower Rice: 4 Flavorful Variations
A head of cauliflower and two tablespoons of butter (substitutions vary) are all you need to transform that vegetable into rice. Why make it into rice if I eat it …
How to Cook Zucchini Omelet
Zucchini omelet is one healthy way to use this vegetable before it becomes less-than-fresh because I find fresh zucchini’s life span in Saudi Arabia to be short. There are other …
Fresh Tomato and Carrot Soup
Confession: I changed the name of this recipe to tomato and carrot soup for autonomy reasons. My original recipe was tomato soup, just tomatoes. However, while dining with my hubby …
The Secrets of Perfecting Dry Chicken Adobo
Filipino Chicken Adobo, Intensely from Saudi Arabia Dry chicken adobo is a variation of the basic chicken adobo, but it is literally dry – that’s why the name. I have …
Dynamite Cheese Sticks (Dynamite Lumpia)
Dynamite? Why are they called dynamite cheese sticks? It is obvious, I can tell, that the reason they are called dynamite cheese sticks or dynamite lumpia is that the stick-shaped …
Bangus na Sinigang sa Bayabas
What is Sinigang sa Bayabas? Sinigang means “to stew in souring agents.” “Bayabas” is the Tagalog (Filipino language) term for guava fruit. Therefore, sinigang sa bayabas means to stew with …
Pandesal – The Versatile Philippine Bread
Until about half a century ago and being a breakfast item, pandesal was available at certain times in the morning either from the bakeries or was peddled in the …
