Food Without Borders

When­ever we have a guest over for din­ner, I always find myself strug­gling to come up with at least one new dish inspired by that per­son. For me cre­at­ing a sig­na­ture dish for that per­son becomes my gift to them. Recently we had a friend from Thai­land come for din­ner, and as usual I was […]

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I am not a big fan of lamb. Though I’ve tried it so many ways and have felt a lit­tle uncul­tured in not lik­ing it, I don’t seem to have a taste for it. Now, I love gyros — but I guess since it’s mixed with beef and is supremely salty that doesn’t count. Or […]

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I love the taste of ube-macapuno, the Fil­ipino sweet potato with young sweet green coconut. Prob­lem is, it’s hard to find ube here. I became obsessed with ube and it pur­ple colour right after try­ing a Goldilock’s ube cooler; a drink which is sort of a sweet smoothie but not as thick. Ube is purple […]

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I decided to try my hand at Brennan’s Cashew Car­rot torte, which is described as a grown-up car­rot cake. In my Brennan’s cook­book I found the ingre­di­ents to be fairly accu­rate, how­ever the book has been short on instruc­tions and tech­nique. Read­ing through the cake recipe I real­ized that if you have not made a cake […]

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We were look­ing for a fun and tasty Sat­ur­day bak­ing adven­ture for our 3 year old. It had to be some­thing quick since snack time was upon us. Muffins are easy and force you to be quick since once the dry ingre­di­ents are wet you need to get every­thing in the oven within 30 min­utes. I am […]

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It really is true what they say — there are as many adobo recipes as there are peo­ple who make it. I decided I would write down my recipe which I con­sider to be a very good ver­sion of a Fil­ipino adobo. I like my adobo chicken crispy but not with too much oil. My […]

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This is ded­i­cated to Rio’s win of the 2016 games. Caipir­inha is Brazil’s national drink; it is usu­ally made using limes, which are some­what sour. I was look­ing to do some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent with the fruit from my cala­masi trees this week­end. So cala­mansi is the per­fect cit­rus fruit to give this tra­di­tional drink […]

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I think I’ve picked the last lon­gans (or lon­gons) of the sea­son here — well at least my plant does not have any­more to give. I was very happy that it sur­vived the win­ter last year, so I can now look for­ward to an even big­ger har­vest next year. Now what to do with longans? […]

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Grow­ing up, Sun­days were reserved for homey meals — soul food, com­fort food, fam­ily food. I like to the con­tinue this tra­di­tion with my wife and kid. So every Sun­day I try to make some­thing a lit­tle extra spe­cial. Sun­days are my day to use [uhmmm..] but­ter, oil or coconut milk. It’s my day not […]

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This is my ver­sion of a beau­ti­ful brunch salad that we pre­pared in a cook­ing class. It’s hearty enough to be served as a meal. What I really like about it is that it gives you so many won­der­ful flavours and tex­tures while still be  very well bal­anced salad. Sour­ness from the cher­ries, savoury peppery […]

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