Sancocho-inspired slow cooked pork hock and vegetables
Slices of pork hock go into the slow cooker with sliced sausages, onion, garlic, bay leaves, oregano and tomatoes. When tender, cabbage wedges, sweet yellow corn and saba bananas are added.
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Creamed spinach, bacon and mushroom spaghetti
Let me explain the dish. The first time I made it was in 2011. I was so smitten with creamed spinach that I was pairing it with meat, seafood and chicken. Finally, I tried it with pasta and I loved it. Still, being more carnivore than herbivore, I just had to add bacon. In this updated recipe, mushrooms join bacon to give an already excellent dish even more flavor and texture.
Blanched Chinese broccoli with ground pork adobo
They are not traditional partners but boldly flavored Filipino adobo, made even richer with the addition of oyster sauce, is just so good with lightly seasoned greens.
Tilapia fillets and baby portobello in lemon cream sauce
Earthy mushrooms, citrusy sauce and moist fish flesh in one simple but magnificent dish.
Salmon, papaya and moringa (malunggay) leaves soup
Salmon collar and strips of belly are simmered with semi-ripe papaya and moringa leaves in a broth flavored with shallots, lemongrass, galangal, garlic and fish sauce.