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Salad of Celery Root and Carrots
1/2 cup julienned celery root 1/2 cup julienned carrots 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar 1/4 teaspoon salt pinch of sugar Toss everything in a bowl. Fast, easy, and healthy, you can serve this as a salad or a light craving-food-in-between-meals… Continue reading
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Zuppa di Tartufo Nero (Black Truffle Soup)
black truffle tuber melanosporum parsnips pastinaca sativa celery root or celeriac apium graveolens Black Truffle Soup Zuppa di Tartufo Nero Black Truffle Soup 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 cup chopped peeled celery root 1/4 cup sliced leeks (rinsed well) 3/4… Continue reading
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Lentil, Kale and Sausage Soup
Recipe here. A quick lunch item or first entree, and healthful too. I used Palacios brand Spanish chorizo as I didn’t have any smoked kielbasa. 8-yo Paco ate it, and he usually dislikes any bean-type soup. Continue reading
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Chicken Tinola
A Filipino soup, flavored with ginger and pepper leaves. The traditional vegetable that goes in it is papaya, but my family prefers chayote squash or christophene (sechium edule). Chayote goes by many names, like mirliton, custard marrow, vegetable pear (probably… Continue reading
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Lychee Ice Cream Recipe posted
Link fixed. – 07 July 2008 Wanna learn how to make lychee ice cream? Continue reading
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Pansit Palabok
Normally I would go for an all-from-scratch recipe, but since tonight is karate night and I need to get something on the table really quick, AND I’ve got bihon downstairs, AND I’ve got shrimp in the freezer, AND I haven’t… Continue reading
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Brazo de Mercedes
This recipe is actually from Joy, my good friend and Aisa’s ninang from St. Lou: In 1989 when we were both unmarried and looking for stuff to do on the weekends, we’d bake. One Saturday it was Black Forest cake… Continue reading
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Putong Puti
1/1/08 Update!: The new recipe can be found by clicking right HERE. another guest was asking for the putong puti recipe. i am posting a simple one here as i’m putting it in the cookbook. The simplest putong puti is… Continue reading