I've been wondering all day why there were so many photos of dishes with asparagus at Food Gawker until I read

Talk about whacking the brain to cook a quick dinner that could make good use of 1) ham that's been in the fre

No, I'm not talking about bottled chili and garlic sauce. What went into this dish are chopped fresh garlic an

All three dishes that I prepared for tonight's dinner were based on Thai recipes. But, for one reason or anoth

For all my proclamations that I'm going to do a lot of Italian cooking, dinner last night was my daughters' fa

When I cooked squash and potato soup in the past, I went by a 1:2 ratio, that is, one part squash for two part

I'm not really a cookie person. The only cookies I can't resist are brownies. So when I came across a white ch

It's been one of my frustrations for a long, long time -- to be able to make my own pizza using home made pizz

Ever since I had the mushroom pasta and mussels with white sauce at La Maison, I had been planning on replicat

If you're as much of a dim sum lover as I am, you must have tried just about every item on the dim sum cart. A

Sponge cake topped with custard glazed with caramelized sugar. That, essentially, is what a custard cake is. I

Two things about the yakisoba I cooked for lunch today: First, most yakisoba recipes I found online use ready

You like cupcakes and you like them with frosting but you feel you don't have the time, the patience or the sk

Adapted from a recipe in Nigel Slater's The Kitchen Diaries, this cheesecake was baked without a baine marie (

Inspired by a steamed fish cooked in an episode of Food Safari, this steamed whole fish with black bean sauce

What the Chinese name for this dish is, I still have to discover. Some say it is hong ba or hong ma but it app

Last week, I attended the culminating activity of a student leadership program. Cocktails were served three ti

You see them in Chinese restaurants as strips of reddish meat suspended on hooks alongside roast duck. They're

Wontons require some effort to prepare at home but with practice, the preparation becomes easier the next time

The original recipe, found in a cookbook (whose title I can no longer recall) more than a decade ago, uses por

When you have more lamb chops than you care to grill, when you feel like another meal with grilled lamb chops

Story has it that when 12-year-old Kris Aquino arrived in the country in 1983 after the murder of her father,

There is a difference between gelatin and the gulaman bars that we find in the local markets. Gelatin is an an

Discovering a pack of gelatin in the pantry yesterday, I sent the house helper to the market to buy six coconu

Pasta with pesto is a dish I enjoy plain, with turkey meat, chicken, mussels, scallops and, yes, bacon. Nothin

Balut. Either you love it or you don't. Me, I love balut. I eat everything but the hard white stone but only i

Kilawin or kinilaw is a Filipino dish with meat or seafood is marinated in citrus juices which pickle the se

Thinking of easy to prepare but delicious and memorable canapes for a cocktail party on New Year's Eve? Try sp

This recipe was updated on June 8, 2016.

The first time I baked food for the gods, I used a recipe printed on a Maya Hotcake Mix box. The second time r

Over two years ago, I posted a recipe for a side vegetable dish that accompanied fried whole tilapia. Cauliflo

There is a recipe called chicken, tomatoes and pineapple stew in the archive, my version of a dish cooked by m

Another simple baking project that even an amateur baker like me cannot possibly mess up. These mango and cash

Chunky, meaty Bolognese sauce made with red wine and served with spinach fettuccine. There are so many variati

It's a Thai dish but the similarity to the most common Filipino mussel soup is uncanny. Thai mussel soup

Spicy, salty, a bit pungent with a heady aroma, this classic and very popular Chinese dish from the Sichuan (S