17 Aug, 2008
After the first course of tuna tartare, we shifted from raw and piquant flavors to a rich and buttery seared foie gras, with some sauteed green apples and plated with a garnish of fresh pomegranate “seeds”… I took one horrible and unusable photo of the foie, so I don’t have a picture of…
17 Aug, 2008
A big thank you to Margaux Salcedo for mentioning Marketmanila.com in her column in The Sunday Inquirer Magazine today entitled “Amazing Food Journeys at a Click”… I think this is the second or possibly third time she has mentioned the blog, so of course I am thrilled. For readers visiting this site for…
16 Aug, 2008
What is foie gras, and why does it sometimes draw as much flak as eating veal? Before I do a post on the seared foie gras that I served at the “blogger’s dinner,” I thought I should do this introductory post on the raw ingredient. Foie gras, literally translated, is a “fatty…
15 Aug, 2008
Eric Ripert is the Executive Chef at Le Bernardin in New York. Le Bernardin is one of the finest seafood restaurants in the world. And this is completely his recipe, from his book “A Return to Cooking” by Eric Ripert and Michael Ruhlmann. Eating at Le Bernardin is a very special experience,…
14 Aug, 2008
Three of us only managed to devour two and a half short ribs with tomatoes and fennel at dinner the other night. And the leftovers were put to good use. As suggested in the Bruce Aidell’s cookbook, we used the leftovers for a seond meal at lunch the next day. All…
14 Aug, 2008
I love tomatoey stews. Actually, I generally like tomatoes and tomato sauces of all kinds. So when the cook told me we still had four wonderful beef short ribs in the freezer, the last of the meat that my sister brought from New York a few weeks ago, I decided to try this…
13 Aug, 2008
I dropped by the agricultural fair at the Provincial Capitol of Cebu last week, in honor of the 439th Founder’s Day of the Province of Cebu, and was pleased to find several stalls with fruits and vegetables brought in by the farmers themselves. The first thing that caught my eye was this enormous…
13 Aug, 2008
You may be wondering WHAT in the world I am doing writing a post about a magazine with this cover photo of Amanda Griffin scantily clad, strategically wet and dripping with honey… But it is touted as “The Appetite Issue,” and you can’t judge a magazine by it’s cover, right? Actually, it’s…