17 May, 2007
For some reason, we didn’t eat much champorado or tsampurado or chocolate rice pudding in our home when I was growing up. That is a real surprise, since my mother’s ancestral home in a coastal Boholano town was located close to lots of cacao trees and she was an expert at brewing up…
16 May, 2007
When there are good saba bananas around, and a lot of them, we inevitably make some minatamis na saba. A simple, soul satisfying dish, this is almost as much a Marketman favorite as banana turon. We simply stew the whole or chopped bananas in coconut milk and brown sugar until cooked. …
15 May, 2007
The morning after the serious merienda, followed by the Surf, Turf and Sky Meal a la Marketman, we had yet another huge meal for breakfast and after that we just had to take a walk around the property or physically explode. The home that we were visiting that weekend has one of the…
14 May, 2007
A day or two after baking the blueberry pie, I still had about 1/8th of the pie in the fridge. The Kid and Mrs. MM are apparently not too fond of blueberry pie so the question was what to do with the leftovers. I looked into the fridge and freezer and spied…
14 May, 2007
After the extravagant caviar, salmon and pesto/walnut appetizers, the crab cakes and the steaks with foie gras, what does one serve for dessert? I guess a lighter fruit based option would be good… but I decided to just bake some pies in the morning and bring them to the dinner already ready to…
13 May, 2007
Happy Mother’s Day!!! This was the special dinner I prepared for friends who had recently tied the knot, it would be brilliant for a Mother’s Day Dinner as well. I was cooking in a friend’s kitchen, and as a tourist or guest cook, I tried to make a minimum of fuss in…
12 May, 2007
Here is a decadent, delicious and totally fattening way to start off a weekend of good eating… merienda on the veranda with three fantastic options… first, a caviar pie made up of cream cheese, chopped eggs, and black fish roe that is plastered all along the external part of the “pie†with some snuck…
10 May, 2007
This coming Sunday is Mother’s Day, so the next few posts might give you some nice ideas for celebrating it… A good friend of ours got married in January, out of the country, and we were unable to attend. Instead, we promised to cook them a special dinner once they got back….