30 Mar, 2006
If you are observing meatless Fridays, here is an absolutely easy, delicious and healthy dish for you. I never feel like I am “abstaining†when I have a nice bowl of pasta, or a fillet of sole, or a broiled lobster for that matter, but I don’t make the rules on this Friday…
29 Mar, 2006
I am a huge fan of fresh herbs and I always envy those photographs of kitchen gardens that are just bursting with various herbs at the ready for the cook’s scissors. I also have a kitchen garden which has some hardy herbs like tanglad (lemongrass), pandan (screwpine leaves), oregano (nothing can kill this),…
28 Mar, 2006
Several months ago we had a good family friend out at the beach for the weekend. RM is the guy who helped me get this blog started and also the one who generously doubled my book donation drive during the holidays. He had asked if I would teach him how to make…
27 Mar, 2006
Finer Italian restaurants in the U.S. used to serve a side dish of broccoli rabe with garlic that I really took a liking to when I lived there many years ago. It is a bit bitter but delicious. I have never been able to get broccoli rabe here (though I found broccolini…
25 Mar, 2006
My previous post on a totally benign fish pan elicited an incredibly negative reaction from Mylai Dimaculangan, in her first comment on Marketmanila.com. I was prepared to take it at face value or with perhaps “it’s a bad hair day†explanation. But it didn’t stop there. She added several comments (that…
24 Mar, 2006
Kitchen gadgets are almost always a “luxuryâ€â€¦you can get a pretty good meal on the table with just some matches, a sharp knife and perhaps a spoon or fork (besides the ingredients for the dish, of course!). However, if you get beyond that puritan ethic, a whole new world of things for the…
24 Mar, 2006
Another all-time comfort food favorite in our home is “Pesang Manok†or boiled chicken soup. As with almost any chicken broth based soup, there is something incredibly soothing and restorative about it, something homey and bound-to-make-you-feel-better regardless of what ails you. It could be a cold or bout of flu, or sometimes,…
21 Mar, 2006
This is Visayan “comfort food†at its finest. The essence of this dish is burned into the memory banks of anyone who grew up in Cebu and the rest of the Visayas. As a kid, we used to visit our grandmother in Cebu and despite her being generous in every respect food…