31 Aug, 2007
Mrs. MM and I dropped in at the Manila International Book Fair at the World Trade Center near Roxas Boulevard a few hours ago. I am always good for an hour or so at this fair, spending a good 75% of it at the Fully Booked booth. But horror of horrors, Fully…
31 Aug, 2007
I was rushing through the Metro Grocery yesterday and was thrilled with two salt finds. The first, and more unusual, are 4 pound boxes of Morton’s Ice Cream Salt at PHP105 a box. Marketed specifically for use with churn-style ice cream makers, (we have a classic white Mountain version that can make…
30 Aug, 2007
THIS FOOD BLOG IS ON A SERIOUS DIET. I just stepped on the scale and was shocked, but I mean SHOCKED to read 189.9 pounds, or nearly 16 pounds heavier than my svelte James Bond post from the beaches of Coron last April or so. It sounds like the address of a…
29 Aug, 2007
We took a quick roadtrip last Sunday to Carcar, Cebu, a 40 kilometer and roughly 1 hour drive to the South of the City of Cebu. We went ostensibly for a bit of historical sightseeing, but really we just wanted to load up on the famous chicharon from Carcar… The original site…
29 Aug, 2007
You can count this dish as one of my failed experiments, albeit still edible. The objective was to replicate a side order dish that we used to have at a fairly well-known Italian restaurant in New York in the 1980’s called Patsy’s… fried zucchini. What used to arrive at the table was…
28 Aug, 2007
These photos were taken just minutes ago. Since most folks in Luzon can’t see the full lunar eclipse this evening due to cloud cover, I am posting these photos from less cloudy Cebu. Taken from the top of a 24 storey building with a standard point and shoot canon camera, they are…
28 Aug, 2007
Okay, this is the last of the tarts for a while. Since I had so much tart dough left over from the birthday celebrations, I made several dayap/lime curd tarts. And since we had guests over for dinner one evening, I decided to gussy up the tarts a bit with some fresh…
28 Aug, 2007
Long-time readers of this blog know I absolutely adore our native dayap (limes). Dayap has a fragrance that is so clean, brisk, bracing and freshly citrusy. I purchased several kilos of dayap a while back and still had some in the fridge, so I decided to make some dayap curd and then…