02 Nov, 2009
It’s been several years since my last post using the wonderful and ancient grain called farro, here. I had a couple of cups of uncooked farro in the pantry and decided to make another version of the salad, to be served at an evening meal as a foil to a salty, crisp fried…
04 Oct, 2009
It’s been THAT kind of week. And for me, comfort food is the easy, temporary palliative for the blahs. And there are few dishes more comforting for many Filipinos than fried dried fish. In the tropics, and among large archipelagos, dried fish is one of the most basic and reliable sources of…
28 Apr, 2009
We had a wonderful version of this dish at Pendy’s in Bacolod. It was lighter and less rich (sum-ul is the Visayan term I would use), with just enough chopped bits of liver and vegetables. The noodles seemed to cooked just enough, oddly “al dente” in texture, I thought, particularly in comparison…