28 Feb, 2009
When Mrs. MM and I lived in Singapore, we would probably have Hainanese Chicken Rice once a week at one local place or another. It was one of our favorite comfort foods in the island city. It was so good and so cheap at hawker stalls, restaurants and mall food courts, that…
28 Feb, 2009
For most weeks of the year, there is almost always a situation where it would be nice to send or give a little gift of some sort. A birthday, an anniversary, a friend at work celebrating a promotion, a thank you for a meal or gesture of a friend, a sick relative in…
27 Feb, 2009
It’s The Lenten Season and I have given up Diet Coke or Coke Light and other cola type products for the next 40 days. Not so much as a sacrifice, more because I got blood test results back the other day and if numbers are to be believed, I have managed to reduce…
26 Feb, 2009
It isn’t often that I sit back on the couch on a lazy morning, armed with a cup of Earl Grey Tea, and rip open my subscription copy of Gourmet Magazine, turn a page or two and jump right back up and head to the kitchen to bake. The recipe that inspired immediate…
25 Feb, 2009
I have never made a Pinoy style kaldereta (baka or kambing/beef or goat) before. And I wasn’t totally thrilled with the outcome of this recipe, say a 7.5/10.0 so I haven’t added the “a la Marketman” to it yet. It’s been almost a year since I made a fairly decent beef mechado,…
25 Feb, 2009
I have always been intrigued with tales of royalty or paranoid leaders throughout history who employed “tasters” to ensure that their food wasn’t poisoned. Then after a few minutes, if the taster didn’t fall to the floor, clutching his/her stomach or throat, writhing in pain, the royal feast could continue. I suppose…
24 Feb, 2009
I love these photos of some chocolate chip cookies cooling on cookie racks over some newspapers. The Teen took the photos a few weeks ago, while waiting for some freshly baked cookies to cool down. We probably make a batch of chocolate chip cookies at least once a month, and The Teen is…
24 Feb, 2009
Some Saturdays we feel really lazy and want to just buy our lunch and eat it in the comfort of home… in other words, not eat at a restaurant. And if I happen by the Salcedo market, I will almost always drop by at Tita Cely Kalaw’s stall and I don’t really have…