we cook filipino
...because we care.
...because we don't have to give up the food we love to stick to a healthy eating plan.
...because we'd like to enjoy life and Filipino food in all its flavorful, healthful, and heartful goodness.
51 Heart-Healthy Recipes
The 51 delicious recipes in this book are not just "from the heart"-
-they are also "good for the heart"--specifically included for their health benefits. The result is a cookbook presenting food as something central to Filipino culture and emotional wellbeing as well as being nutritious and amazingly tasty!
Some of the recipes are:
- Skinless Longanisa (Turkey and Pork Breakfast Sausage)
- Ube pandesal (Purple Yam Bread Rolls)
- Fresh Lumpia (Veggie Rolls with Date and Peanut sauce)
- Balatong at Lamandagat (Stewed Mung Beans with Prawns and Seared Snapper)
- Warm Pinakbet Salad (Roasted Veggie Salad with Bagoong-Calamansi Citronette)
- Vegan Sisig (Mushroom and Tofu Hash)
- Vegan Bicol Express (Spicy Squash and Jackfruit Stew in Coconut Milk)
- Adobong Lechon Manok (Roast Chicken Adobo)
- Tris di Kakanin (Trio of Native Sweets: Pichi-Pichi, Espasol, & Tibok-Tibok)
- and many more
36 inspiring stories
Moving narrative essays:
- Award-winning writer, blogger and podcaster Liren Baker explains how family recipes were passed down to her by her Tita Leah after her mother had passed away.
- James Beard finalist Carlo Lamagna, chef-owner of Magna Kusina in Portland, Oregon, tells us how culture shock turns into culinary adventure whenever he goes to the Philippines.
- Amormia Orino moved to Atlanta in 2018 and started hosting Kamayan (communal feasts)--she shares a heart-wrenching story about her aging mother.
- Grace Guinto, chief baking officer of Sweet Cora, a catering business that adds Filipino flavors to local Aussie sweet treats, talks of the recipes her mother left her as "love notes from the heavens"
- Helen Orimaco-Pumatong, chef-instructor at Vancouver Community College, recounts how a trip back to the Philippines for her grandmother's funeral led to unexpected happiness.
- Washington DC restaurateur Meshelle Armstrong delights as she narrates what her meals were like as a child raised by a super busy single working mom.
- Plus 30 stories more from around the globe!
COOKING TIPS AND TECHNIQUES
Learn how to...
- enhance flavor to the max using Filipino food cooking methods
- prep garlic, one of the three base ingredients of many Filipino dishes, to retain most of its heart-healthy nutrients
- salt to heighten flavor and lessen your sodium intake
- sweeten sauces, such as banana ketchup and fresh lumpia sauce and dishes such as longanisa, Food for the Gods and kakanin without extra added sugar
- increase the nutrient content of a cup of white rice and reduce its caloric value
- instantly add flavor to stir-fries and stews without adding extra sodium to your diet
- brew a flavorful homemade broth in seconds, useful for making lugaw, monggo, adobo, pancit, etc.
- make your own crispylicious Chichenjoy-like fried chicken--no deep-frying involved!
- make a low-sodium and vegan patis (fish sauce)
- and a lot more