20 Mar, 2006
We had passed Mano’s Greek Taverna several dozen times in the 7 months since it opened its doors just a few meters from the Tagaytay rotunda when driving up from Manila via Santa Rosa. It always seemed inconvenient to stop and we kept putting it off until one of my readers Spanx suggested…
19 Mar, 2006
Any guesses as to what this under all this stuff? A fried fish, of course… Ever since I can remember, I adored fried fish with escabeche sauce. I think it was the fact that the sweet sour sauce basically masked whatever it covered and so if I had to get through a…
19 Mar, 2006
Talk about jurassic fish. At the tail end of my visit to the Tabo-an market in Cebu (see previous post), I was pointed in the direction of some semi-dried lapu-lapu (grouper). Apparently a local specialty, I was assured it was scrumptious and coveted by buwad (dried fish) aficionados, so how could I resist…
17 Mar, 2006
Talk about the motherload of dried, semi-dried and fermented fish!!! The Tabo-an Market near downtown Cebu is one of the most massive and pungent dried fish markets in the South. I suppose there are many such markets in all major provincial cities but this was just impressive in scale, volume of goods and…
15 Mar, 2006
What the heck are these strange looking creatures, you ask? Swaki, I am told. Not actually sure if that is spelled right or it could be suaki, I suppose. These kinder and gentler sea urchins are a delicacy and their roe? are eaten soon after they are plucked from clean and…
12 Mar, 2006
Here is a simple and easy to do coleslaw recipe that is a far cry from the mushy watery and sweet versions you get at most Manila restaurants (fast food or not)… First I like to hand slice some red and green cabbage (usually double the amount for the green), slice some good…
11 Mar, 2006
I had a lot of boiled chicken as a result of the chicken broth I made a few days ago so I decided to use some of it experimenting with a healthier type of chicken salad sandwich or two. Instead of adding the more predictable gobs of high-fat mayonnaise, I decided to chop…
10 Mar, 2006
Mangoes are in the market big time! Just a friendly seasonal reminder that the summer season is starting and the mangoes are beautiful at the moment…big, juicy, dense and sweet. Not all, of course, but there are really good ones out there at the moment. Mangoes are perhaps my all time…