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New Burnt Lumpia Website

2013-03-03T20:17:48-08:00

Hello all. Although this Typepad incarnation of my blog has served me fantastically well for the past 6 years(!), I've finally decided to update and redesign the whole thing and move on over to Wordpress. My new blog can be...

The Adobo Road Cookbook Trailer

2013-01-28T21:07:25-08:00

Movie trailers are great in that they provide movie-goers a whiff of things to come. Give a movie studio two minutes, and they'll cram the best parts of their upcoming 2-hour Rom-Com-Mystery-Psycho-Thriller-DocuDrama-Kung-Fu-Vampire-vs-Zombie-epic into that trailer and hope it's enough to...

Spam & Egg On A Crispy Fried Rice Cake

2013-01-21T09:00:00-08:00

When you have the foresight to store any leftover steamed rice in your refrigerator, you've got plenty of fried rice fodder for the next morning. Cold leftover rice is ideal for turning into fried rice since the rice grains can...

Cookbook Update: All Done & Available for Preorder... The Adobo Road Cookbook!

2012-12-05T12:19:08-08:00

Well, it's finally done. My debut cookbook entitled The Adobo Road Cookbook: A Filipino Food Journey—From Food Blog, To Food Truck, and Beyond is done and now available for preorder! After developing over 100 recipes (99 made the cut), shooting...

FOOD Magazine December 2012

2012-12-02T15:42:14-08:00

Wow. Is it December already? I barely get a chance to breathe and there goes November and Thanksgiving! Anyways, I just wanted to quickly check in (you know, before December's over) and give a little plug to the current issue...

Chicken Pipian

2012-10-31T12:38:30-07:00

Between the years of 1565-1815, Spain transported goods between Mexico and the Philippines (two of Spain's colonies) via the Manila-Acapulco Galleons. These giant wooden ships traveled across the Pacific from Manila to Acapulco only once or twice a year. Once...

Bistek & Pancit: Together At Last

2012-10-21T18:58:23-07:00

The Chinese influence on Filipino cuisine is perhaps most evident in the Philippines' vast array of noodle dishes known as Pancit. Pancit Miki, Pancit Molo, Pancit Palabok—all Filipino noodle dishes, and all of Chinese origin. And although Pancit Molo is...

Oven-Roasted Pinakbet with Bacon

2012-08-29T15:08:06-07:00

I didn't know it until I started writing this particular post, but 5 years ago, I wrote about how I first learned to make the Filipino vegetable stew known as Pinakbet. In that old post, I boldly proclaimed that Pinakbet...

Cookbook Update: A Title Change, and a Quick Peek Inside

2012-08-22T08:40:35-07:00

Since turning in my cookbook manuscript to my editor a few months back, things, for the most part, have been relatively quiet. As a first-time author, I'm learning that there's a lot of waiting involved in the publishing process. But...

Homemade Tofu

2012-07-09T09:50:23-07:00

Whether you eat tofu on the regular or not, chances are that you've never considered actually making the bean curd from scratch. I mean, who the hell makes tofu from scratch, right? And why would you want to make tofu...