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Braised Bitter Melon With Ground Pork

April 12, 2017 by Lani Cooks 6 Comments

Braised Bitter Melon With Ground Pork Serving Bowl

Bitter melon has always played a crucial role in my diet from a young age to this date. It’s is a gourd-like vegetable plant with green wrinkly skin that is highly nutritious, but tastes really bitter.

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Filed Under: Main Dishes Tagged With: Asian, Filipino, Gluten Free, Healthy, Organic, Paleo

Baked Spicy Sesame Chicken Legs

October 26, 2016 by Lani Cooks Leave a Comment

Baked Spicy Sesame Chicken_Serving

Why do I love this chicken dish? The answer is quite simple because it’s tasty, spicy and I love the strong nutty smell from the sesame oil and it takes only 15 minutes to prepare this dish.

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Filed Under: Main Dishes, Side Dishes, Snacks and Appetizers Tagged With: Asian, Baking, Chicken, Filipino, Gluten Free, Organic, Paleo

Beef Liver Steaks With Spanish Onions

May 14, 2016 by Lani Cooks 14 Comments

Beef Liver with Onions_Plated

Lots of people turn their backs away when it comes to eating liver because of its musky odor, gooey and bitter taste. Liver with onions was the traditional way of cooking liver when I was growing up and still is today.

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Filed Under: Main Dishes Tagged With: Asian, Filipino, Gluten Free, Healthy, Liver, Paleo

Flan de leche

March 26, 2016 by Lani Cooks 8 Comments

Flan de leche

Flan de leche is a custard dessert with a layer of soft caramel on top. A legacy of the Spanish, this dessert is very popular not only in the Philippines and Cuba, but throughout the world. It’s also known as leche flan, creme caramel, caramel pudding, custard pudding and many other names.

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Filed Under: Desserts Tagged With: Creme Caramel, Cuban, Custards, Desserts, Eggs, Filipino, Flan, Flan De Leche, Leche Flan, Spanish

Mashed Purple Yams

March 20, 2016 by Lani Cooks 10 Comments

Mashed Purple Yam

Purple yam or “ube” as we called it in the Philippines is a very popular root vegetable when I was growing up, and it’s even more popular these days around the globe. It’s used in a variety of desserts, as well as a flavor for ice cream, milk, swiss rolls, tarts, cookies, cakes, and other pastries.

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Filed Under: Side Dishes Tagged With: Asian, Filipino, Gluten Free, Paleo, Purple Yams, Vegetarian

Crockpot Cuban Picadillo

December 6, 2015 by Lani Cooks 17 Comments

Crockpot Cuban Picadillo Serving Plate

“Picadillo” means savory ground beef. It seems every Cuban cook has a it’s own special way of making picadillo. Tia Esther, my husband’s aunt, taught me how to cook this dish during one of our visits to Florida. Here’s my own version of this Cuban delight.

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Filed Under: Main Dishes Tagged With: Crockpot, Cuban, Filipino, Gluten Free, Meat, Organic, Paleo, Slow Cooker, Spanish

Filipino Chicken Adobo

November 1, 2015 by Lani Cooks 4 Comments

Filipino Chicken Adobo

The food in the Philippines is highly influenced by more than 300 years of Spanish rule. This also means Filipino food differs greatly from the rest of the South East Asian cuisine. Adobo is considered by many as the national dish, although it originally hails from Mexico :)

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Filed Under: Main Dishes Tagged With: Asian, Chicken, Filipino, Gluten Free, Paleo

Braised Chayote with Ground Pork

April 19, 2015 by Lani Cooks 17 Comments

Braised Chayote Bow

This recipe comes from the Philippines, my homeland. My mother used to make this dish for us when we were growing up.

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Filed Under: Main Dishes Tagged With: Cast Iron Cooking, Chayote, Filipino, Paleo

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