https://thequirinokitchen.com/category/reviews/ Asian cooking, culture and stories of recipes Tue, 09 Apr 2024 17:40:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://thequirinokitchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-favicon-32x32.png https://thequirinokitchen.com/category/reviews/ 32 32 https://thequirinokitchen.com/spanish-style-filipino-cocido-with-eggplant-hash-and-tomato-sauce/ https://thequirinokitchen.com/spanish-style-filipino-cocido-with-eggplant-hash-and-tomato-sauce/#comments Wed, 13 Nov 2019 01:29:45 +0000 https://www.asianinamericamag.com/?p=11477 My mother's Spanish-style Filipino Cocido was a dish from my childhood in the Philippines. Mom cooked this for our Sunday family meal. What looks like a multi-course meal is actually easy to cook by simmering all the meats: ham, chicken, beef, pork, Spanish chorizos and vegetables together. Serve the clear broth as soup with sides of garlicky eggplant hash, homemade tomato sauce and sweet plantains. ]]> https://thequirinokitchen.com/spanish-style-filipino-cocido-with-eggplant-hash-and-tomato-sauce/feed/ 1 11477 https://thequirinokitchen.com/how-to-make-salted-egg-flavored-potato-chips/ https://thequirinokitchen.com/how-to-make-salted-egg-flavored-potato-chips/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2019 19:50:23 +0000 https://www.asianinamericamag.com/?p=7568 Salted egg-flavored Potato Chips, a current craze in the Philippines are great for Super Bowl Sunday or an appetizer any day. When my cousin Janet brought me back salted egg chips as pasalubong (gifts from travel) from the Philippines, my family craved for more long after the chips were gone. These chips are not yet sold widely in America, if at all. So I made my own. ]]> https://thequirinokitchen.com/how-to-make-salted-egg-flavored-potato-chips/feed/ 2 7568 https://thequirinokitchen.com/how-to-cook-christmas-filipino-recipes-in-the-instant-pot-and-my-new-cookbook/ https://thequirinokitchen.com/how-to-cook-christmas-filipino-recipes-in-the-instant-pot-and-my-new-cookbook/#respond Sun, 09 Dec 2018 19:43:17 +0000 https://www.asianinamericamag.com/?p=7473 At Christmas we need a more efficient way to cook for family and friends who will come to the traditional Noche Buena feast or Christmas parties. To help you, my latest cookbook of Filipino recipes using North America’s popular Instant Pot appliance just released:  Instant Filipino Recipes: My Mother’s Traditional Philippine Food In a Multicooker...]]> https://thequirinokitchen.com/how-to-cook-christmas-filipino-recipes-in-the-instant-pot-and-my-new-cookbook/feed/ 0 7473 https://thequirinokitchen.com/how-to-make-macaroni-and-cheese-with-spam-from-pulutan/ https://thequirinokitchen.com/how-to-make-macaroni-and-cheese-with-spam-from-pulutan/#respond Sun, 16 Sep 2018 23:37:49 +0000 https://www.asianinamericamag.com/?p=7337 When cookbook author Marvin Gapultos a.k.a. @BurntLumpia sent me as a gift his new cookbook Pulutan! Filipino Bar Bites, Appetizers and Street Eats I was delighted. Marvin also gave me his first cookbook The Adobo Roads five years ago and it’s a kitchen staple. I cooked Macaroni and Cheese with Spam from the Pulutan cookbook...]]> https://thequirinokitchen.com/how-to-make-macaroni-and-cheese-with-spam-from-pulutan/feed/ 0 7337 https://thequirinokitchen.com/how-to-cook-poached-red-snapper-with-chickpeas-and-tomatoes/ https://thequirinokitchen.com/how-to-cook-poached-red-snapper-with-chickpeas-and-tomatoes/#respond Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:00:32 +0000 https://www.asianinamericamag.com/?p=7282 ]  I made a sumptuous Red Snapper with Chickpeas and Tomatoes and it was from the new cookbook The Weeknight Mediterranean Kitchen by Samantha Ferraro. What is Mediterranean food? It has been defined as a cuisine with a diversity of ingredients from geographical areas like Greece, Italy, Spain, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey....]]> https://thequirinokitchen.com/how-to-cook-poached-red-snapper-with-chickpeas-and-tomatoes/feed/ 0 7282 https://thequirinokitchen.com/how-to-bake-the-british-victoria-sandwich-sponge-cake/ https://thequirinokitchen.com/how-to-bake-the-british-victoria-sandwich-sponge-cake/#comments Thu, 17 May 2018 21:13:47 +0000 https://www.asianinamericamag.com/?p=7174 This Victoria Sandwich is a two-layer sponge cake with a lemon curd filling. I enjoyed slices of this popular British dessert during afternoon tea while visiting London a few years ago. I tried baking this cake when I returned to my American kitchen and it was marvelous. The Victoria Sandwich we enjoyed at The Orangery in Kensington Palace had a raspberry-cream filling. I chose to use lemon curd for my version and it was unforgettable.]]> https://thequirinokitchen.com/how-to-bake-the-british-victoria-sandwich-sponge-cake/feed/ 2 7174 https://thequirinokitchen.com/cook-pasta-alfredo-primavera-instant-pot/ https://thequirinokitchen.com/cook-pasta-alfredo-primavera-instant-pot/#respond Sat, 03 Mar 2018 21:00:52 +0000 https://www.asianinamericamag.com/?p=7037 This Instant Pot Pasta Alfredo Primavera was cooked in under 35 minutes in my multi-cooker. The original recipe uses penne, but I chose pappardelle. The rich, thick creamy sauce combined with the sliced button mushrooms, made for a very appealing and hard-to-resist pasta meal. ]]> https://thequirinokitchen.com/cook-pasta-alfredo-primavera-instant-pot/feed/ 0 7037 https://thequirinokitchen.com/cook-coconut-meatballs-sweet-sour-sauce/ https://thequirinokitchen.com/cook-coconut-meatballs-sweet-sour-sauce/#respond Sun, 17 Dec 2017 01:06:07 +0000 https://www.asianinamericamag.com/?p=6887 This recipe for Coconut Meatballs with Sweet-Sour Sauce is the kind of dish you can serve for a festive family party during the holidays or just be a meal by itself on weekends. This recipe used slivers of coconut meat mixed into the meatballs. Typically, in the Philippines, it is easy to find fresh coconuts and grate the fresh meat for use in this recipe. But since I live in suburban New Jersey with no fresh coconut trees around me, then I used the frozen coconut meat, which are easy to find in Asian markets. The familiar favorite agrio-dulce or sweet-sour sauce poured all over the baked meatballs makes this an enticing-looking entrée that will be forever on your holiday menu.]]> https://thequirinokitchen.com/cook-coconut-meatballs-sweet-sour-sauce/feed/ 0 6887 https://thequirinokitchen.com/make-peach-mango-custard-pie/ https://thequirinokitchen.com/make-peach-mango-custard-pie/#comments Sun, 03 Sep 2017 23:30:56 +0000 https://www.asianinamericamag.com/?p=6734 This Peach-Mango Custard Pie is a combination of the best summer fruits we enjoy at our home. Firm and ripe fresh peach slices were boiled with sugar and the citrusy calamansi for a jam-like consistency. Similarly, I cut in cubes fully-ripe mangoes and cooked them with panocha (palm sugar discs) with hints of calamansi, too. The combined fruits baked well on a bed of glistening vanilla-flavored custard all encased in a homemade flaky crust.]]> https://thequirinokitchen.com/make-peach-mango-custard-pie/feed/ 4 6734 https://thequirinokitchen.com/tupig-tarlac-hometown-story/ https://thequirinokitchen.com/tupig-tarlac-hometown-story/#respond Fri, 18 Aug 2017 17:50:12 +0000 https://www.asianinamericamag.com/?p=6694 On a journey back to my hometown, Tarlac in the Philippines, I was in search of our town’s specialty “tupig“. If you haven’t tried it yet, tupig (say ‘too-pig’) are char-grilled sweet rice logs with coconut and molasses wrapped in banana leaves.  I remember them well from meriendas we had at home. There was always...]]> https://thequirinokitchen.com/tupig-tarlac-hometown-story/feed/ 0 6694