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Roast pork loin with mustard and thyme

Roast pork loin with mustard and thyme

Roast pork loin smothered with mustard and fresh thyme is served with asparagus cooked in a special vinaigrette.
Cook time: 50 minutes minutes
Servings: 6 people
Taro puffs (wu gok)

Taro puffs (wu gok)

A beloved dim sum dish, the outside is crisp but the taro is soft and creamy beneath the crust. And, inside, a generous amount of well-seasoned moist meat.
Cook time: 40 minutes minutes
Servings: 10 taro puffs
Boiled beef shank, marrow and vegetable soup (bulalo)

Boiled beef shank, marrow and vegetable soup (bulalo)

In the Philippines, bulalo refers to (1) the bone marrow from the beef shank, (2) a cut of bone-in beef shank, or (3) a meat and vegetable soup cooked with beef shank with the marrow intact.
In this recipe, we cook the soup and vegetable dish in the slow cooker.
Cook time: 6 hours hours
Servings: 4 people
Chicken, baby potatoes and fresh mushroom salad

Chicken, baby potatoes and fresh mushroom salad

Baby potatoes are boiled in salted water, combined with blanched button mushrooms and boiled chicken meat and tossed with a simple vinaigrette of olive oil, lemon juice, grated garlic, salt and pepper.
Cook time: 10 minutes minutes
Servings: 2 people
Miso soup with tofu and wakame

Miso soup with tofu and wakame

Basic miso soup is a canvas painted with two fundamentals — dashi and miso. What else you add to that template is up to you. This is the miso soup that the world is most familiar with — cooked with wakame, scallions and soft tofu.
Cook time: 5 minutes minutes
Servings: 6 people
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