If you have a deep craving to try new flavors from a classic cuisine, cook from this collection of traditional Filipino recipes transformed to today's dishes in an American kitchen. Award-winning journalist, author and recipe blogger Elizabeth Ann Besa-Quirino presents "My Mother's Philippine Recipes" her second cookbook, a follow up to her first cookbook "How to Cook Philippine Desserts, Cakes and Snacks". Betty Ann, born and raised in the Philippines, of the popular blog Asian In America (www.AsianInAmericaMag.com), shares a special collection of her mother's recipes from her childhood, often cooked and served to family and friends who stopped by their home in Tarlac. Friends relished the multi-course meals her mother prepared, cooked with produce ingredients harvested from their backyard and farms, expertly grown by her father. Some family favorites in this cookbook: Sinigang na Baka with Lemongrass, Tokwa't Lechon, Pancit Palabok, Street-style Fish Balls, Carne Asada Kapampangan, Crispy Pata, Pork Barbecue, Spanish Cocido, Lechon Manok, Beef Kalitiran Pot Roast, Pastillas de Ube, Pastillas de Leche, Ube Puto-Leche Flan and some new dishes like Salted-Egg Potato Chips, Vegetable Siomai, Kangkong Salad with Salted Egg Dressing, Mango Tempura. In this cookbook of 30 selected recipes each with full- color photographs, the author sets out to demystify the notion that mom's cooking is hard to do. Betty Ann, now based in New Jersey, shares that you just need the right ingredients to recreate the flavors, the memories and the love mom put into each recipe. This cookbook is for the novice who wants to learn how to cook classic Filipino dishes or for the culinary pro who needs traditional inspiration.
About the Author: Elizabeth Ann Besa-Quirino is a multi-awarded winner of the Plaridel Writing Awards for best in journalism, given by the Philippine-American Press Club in San Francisco, CA. Her food essay "A Hundred Mangoes In a Bottle" has won a Doreen Gamboa Fernandez Food Writing Award. She was an awardee of the FWN Filipina Women's Network 100 Most Influential Women of the World in 2013. Elizabeth Ann is an author, journalist, food writer, correspondent and blogs about Filipino recipes on her popular site Asian in America (www.AsianInAmericaMag.com). Born in the Philippines and raised in Tarlac, Betty Ann's way of life was molded early on by her parents' farming and agricultural business. She grew up learning to cook from her mother, Lulu Reyes Besa who made dishes from the produce grown in their backyard and farm. Her childhood home in Tarlac was well-known to friends and family as the 'home along the highway', a welcome stopover and conveniently halfway between Manila and Baguio. She wrote the cookbook "How to Cook Philippine Desserts: Cakes and Snacks" [Filipino Cookbook Recipes of Asian In America]. She co-authored the history book "Statesman and Survivor Elpidio Quirino, 6th President of the Philippines. She created, illustrated and published "Color and Cook Food Coloring Book" on original Filipino food art. All books are sold on Amazon.com. Her writing has been published on Positively Filipino, the premiere online magazine; FOOD Magazine by ABS-CBN Inc.; Rustan's Sans Rival Magalogue; and Quirk Books Community blog (Philadelphia, PA). She has appeared on the TV network KACL- LA 18's "Halo-Halo with Kat Iniba" which aired in California and Hawaii. She is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals and the Culinary Historians of the Philippines. Based in New Jersey, USA, Betty Ann travels often to the Philippines and throughout Asia in search of traditional recipes and stories about culture and personalities.