-
Grandma Lan’s Vietnamese Thanksgiving Quail
·
Last year, in a special Thanksgiving collaboration withI Am An Immigrant, Cooking with Granny traveled to California to tell the refugee immigrant story behind Grandma Lan’s crispy Vietnamese quail. It’s baked, fried, and flambeed – and served with a side of her famous fish sauce. Under Communist rule in Vietnam, Grandma Lan thrived as an… Read more
-
Cooking With Granny: Grandma Louisa’s Trinidadian hot sauce
·
Grandma Louisa’s hot sauce is pure fire. And I like to say, if you need protective gear to cook, then count me in. It must be extraordinary. And it is. This hot sauce contains 135 (!!!) Scotch bonnets, four types of peppers, exotic fruits like pickled mangoes and gooseberries, and some other weird little ingredients… Read more
-
Cooking With Granny: Grandma Lumen’s Filipino purple yam pudding
·
Grandma Lumen left the Philippines to become a public school teacher in the Bronx for more than 15years. But she never forgot the family recipe for her favorite Filipino dessert, ube halaya, or purple yam pudding.This woman is just one fantastic person whose poise and influence shine at the Philippine Consulate where it seemed like… Read more
-
Cooking With Granny: A Puerto Rican Grandma’s pernil & arroz con gandules
·
Almost everything Maria Esposito knows about cooking, she learned from her grandma who raised her back in Puerto Rico. She brought those cooking chops to the Bronx where adaptation was key. Now a grandma herself in Warwick, N.Y., Maria imparts her culinary wisdom to you wonderfully hungry viewers in this DOUBLE-DISH feature on pernil and… Read more