August 2013

Guest Post : MJ from MJs Kitchen featuring Calabacitas 2

Guest Post : MJ from MJs Kitchen featuring Calabacitas

Calabacitas is a traditional late summer / early fall dish here in New Mexico, because it’s best made with local, fresh ingredients: roasted green chile, summer squash, and corn. There are 101 variations of calabacitas, but the one I make is my favorite. It’s that time of the year again...

Cathy's Lechon Rice 1

Cathy’s Lechon Rice

Cathy’s Lechon Rice is a dish popular in Baguio where rice is served with good amount of crispy pork alongside vegetables drenched in a thick brown savoury gravy. There was one occasion here in New Zealand where me and a friend of ours had some reminiscing stories to share as...

Cathy's Lechon Rice 5

Lor Mee

Lor Mee is a noodle dish found in Malaysia and Singapore where thick yellow noodles are served in a very starchy gravy alongside other ingredients such as ngo hiang, fish cake or balls, fried meat dumplings, half a boiled egg and slices of pork belly to name some. Lor Mee...

Pinapaitan 1

Pinapaitan

Pinapaitan is a very popular dish in the Northern Part of the Philippines more specifically in Ilocos Region, the original dish consists of goat and ox innards and its meat flavoured with bile, tamarind and chillies. Pinapaitan is a very popular dish in the Northern Part of the Philippines more...

Tahini and Almond Cookies 1

Tahini and Almond Cookies

This Tahini and Almond Cookies are really simple, richly flavoured and very fragrant so what are you waiting for try this out as well and you will be surprised. The first time I had this was when my colleague made one and let us try it, at first I thought...

Guest Post : JJ from Food Jaunts featuring Hearty Tuscan Salad 2

Guest Post : JJ from Food Jaunts featuring Hearty Tuscan Salad

White beans, eggs, cheese, cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, and romaine lettuce is what makes this delicious Hearty Tuscan Salad prepared by JJ from Food Jaunts. It’s that time of the year again where we feature exceptional bloggers here at Ang Sarap, so every Fridays in the months of June, July and...

Salt and Pepper Squid 1

Salt and Pepper Squid

One of the simplest way to prepare squid is with just salt and pepper then deep fried and its called Salt and Pepper Squid, would you have guessed that 🙂 So far if were talking about the reward to effort ratio I guess this recipe will easily win it without...

Tahini and Almond Cookies 4

Tom Yum Gai

Tom Yum Gai is Traditionally cooked using Chickenboiled in a hot and sour soup flavoured by lemon grass, chillies, galangal, lime juice or tamarind juice and kaffir lime leaves. Tom Yum is my favourite Thai dish, and it will go easily on my top 5, when I eat this dish...

Crab and Corn Egg Drop Soup 7

Sampalok Candy

Sampalok candy is a simple concoction of Tamarind and Sugar rolled into balls, popular candy in the Philippines and Thailand. Tamarind is a widely used ingredient in South East Asian countries like the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.  It is used in almost anything from soups and sauces, the sweet,...

Tahini and Almond Cookies 6

Tinapa

Tinapa is a Filipino culinary term to define smoked fish, it is a popular delicacy which is usually made out of milkfish or galunggong (mackerel scad), usually sold in wet markets or specialty shops together with other dried fish products like daing and tuyo. Tinapa is a Filipino culinary term...