31 Jul, 2006
I was doing a reconnaissance mission through our pantry (actually a large closet) which is jam-packed with stuff and I came across the salt “section.” Tucked away behind 10 inches of shelf frontage were about a dozen different containers of salt! And this only covers the imported salts! I also stock local…
31 Jul, 2006
I was at a bazaar at Fort Bonifacio yesterday and noticed several food vendors selling “Food for the Gods” so I decided to buy several of them and compare them against each other in a Marketmanila taste-test… First of all, these are nothing more than Date & Walnut Bars, so whoever came up…
30 Jul, 2006
Mixing too many ingredients, flavors, cooking methods, etc. can very easily result in a horrific meal. Luckily, this experimental Pan Asian Fusion Meal I created for Lasang Pinoy 12 or the first anniversary edition, turned out remarkably good. I didn’t go to the market that day with a specific list in hand….
30 Jul, 2006
The twelfth edition of “Lasang Pinoy,” is this month, and the theme, by host Ces of Essences, is fusion cooking. Frankly, I thought I would have great difficulty coming up with something for this month’s LP12 entry. I considered skipping it all together. I typically cringe at the thought of fusion…
30 Jul, 2006
Every once in a while, we get a hankering for halo-halo and we set out a “Halo-halo Buffet” at home consisting of bottled beans, macapuno, kaong, nata, etc. or homemade ingredients such as minatamis na saging, ube jaleya, langka, etc. Once everyone has picked the stuff they like (amazing how many folks can’t…
28 Jul, 2006
Based on the recent Marketmanila survey on favorite pinoy dishes…Sinigang na Baboy (Sour Soup with Pork) came out in the top 3 individual dishes, while sinigang as a dish (fish, prawns, pork, beef) was clearly the number one favorite overall… As I reviewed my archives, I realized I had done a post on Sinigang…
27 Jul, 2006
I was clearing out an old ancestral house of my parents a few months ago and came across these great shots of my mom with a platter of her “famous” lumpiang ubod. I put them away and forgot about them until last week when my daughter’s homework was do a family tree…
27 Jul, 2006
Ubod or heart of palm is the fibrous pith from the central core of the coconut palm tree. I always assumed the entire center core was edible, but it seems the ubod that you buy tends to come from the top of the palm tree, nearest the leaves…essentially it is the youngest part…