Kitchen Stories
Family stories seasoned with Filipino heart
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Adobo Lechon Kawali
I fried the pork belly until it came up to temperature. I was anxiously hungry and it seemed crackingly crispy enough. It smelled good. It looked good. It tasted good. But only hitting the tongue. I chomped down and chewed, and chewed and chewed. And then, chewed. This is a lot tougher than I remember.…
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Kain Na! A Filipino-American Cooking Show
We had a hard time finding cooking shows featuring Filipino food. So, we made our own! Recently, I got together with a few friends to make a media entertainment group called Awkward Hi 5. Among the various programming we’re putting up, we came up with a Filipino-American cooking show – Kain Na! In each episode,…
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Crispy Sinangag – Garlic Crispy Fried Rice
“It is not a meal unless there is rice,” my grandma would say, sometimes even putting rice in her bowl of spaghetti. Growing up, I soon found out that this phrase echoed in many other Filipino households. Traditionally, every Filipino meal is accompanied with rice. The same is true for practically all of Asia. Rice…
