Escabeche (Sweet and Sour)

Fried Fish Escabeche Filipino escabeche is a sweet and sour sauce that is poured over fried fish.  Many Spanish influenced countries have their own variations of the escabeche dish.  Hispanics from Mexico also call a kind of pickled Jalapeno peppers that are cooked in oil, vinegar, carrots and onions that they call “en escabeche”. ThereContinue reading “Escabeche (Sweet and Sour)”

Ham and Bean Soup

Papa’s recipe (not the sweet pork and beans) Around the Christmas holidays in the Philippines we would cook a large dried ham.  This ham is a whole salt cured ham, smoked and dried imported from China. And because it is almost mummified it took forever and a day to boil it in a conglomeration ofContinue reading “Ham and Bean Soup”