Asian cooking

• Chicken and asparagus eggdrop soup
• Pearl Balls
• Vietnamese barbecued pork with garlic and egg fried rice
• Turkey tails stir fry
• Steamed fish with oyster sauce
• Cold soba noodles
• Cabbage rolls soup
• Chicken and coconut cream soup
• Braised eggplants
• Lo mein, not chow mein

Asian Pantry

• Lemongrass (tanglad)
• Green curry paste: how hot do you want your food?
• Ginger
• Mango sauce
• Miso paste
• What’s for breakfast?
• Siling haba and siling labuyo (hot chili peppers)
• Udon
• Bihon noodles
• Bread: everyone has his favorite

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Turmeric (yellow ginger)

Turmeric belongs to the ginger family. To give you an idea of the size, that’s a teaspoon in the photo. What I wanted was to buy a turmeric plant for my small herb garden. But the available plant was too big to transport. I bought a pack of turmeric instead — P50.00 for quite a lot of turmeric at the Manila Seedling Bank in Quezon City. I only need to cut them and bury them in the soil and roots will grow. Since I have more than enough for the planting project, I used some of the yellow ginger for cooking (see the chicken in caramel sauce recipe). The yellow orange stains on my hands are still prominent 24 hours later.

In the mood for more food?

1. Gabi (taro) and bangus (milkfish) cakes
2. Tinapa (smoked fish)
3. Corned Beef and Shredded Cabbage
4. Baked mussels (tahong), the simple way
5. Danggit and Tabo-an Market: a Cebu story
6. Peanut cakes
7. Pork barbecue fried rice
8. Fazoli’s: Italian food at Eastwood City
9. Fresh pineapples
10. Speedy’s picadillo