23 Dec, 2010
It never fails. For some reason, the favorite party of nearly every Christmas season is the holiday crew party… I keep thinking that “this year we will keep it simple” or “a minimum of fuss and clean-up” but somehow it always turns out bigger than ever. With roughly 45 people last night,…
20 Dec, 2010
Marketman received this wonderful ham stand three Christmases ago, and it has been displayed as a piece of “food art” in a kitchen cabinet… Delicious hams with their hooves still on are typically prohibitively expensive, so when I serendipitously ran across a rather nice looking Jamon Serrano Reserva at S&L Fine Foods recently, at…
18 Dec, 2010
A scarecrow in a lush field of palay or rice… Who would have thought this could be the setting for a couple of gingerbread houses? Several years ago, one of this blog’s regular readers suggested that I attempt to do a Filipino-themed gingerbread creation. It seemed like a farfetched idea, the gingerbread…
17 Dec, 2010
It took roughly 70+ man hours of work to complete this year’s gingerbread creation. And it is small compared with previous years houses. Every single member of Marketman & family’s household contributed something to this edition. Call it the bayanihan approach to gingerbread. An interesting mix of Western tradition with…
16 Dec, 2010
Marketman is utterly CRAZED at the moment. A proverbial whirling dervish. In Cebu for the next few hours trying to make sure the Zubuchon crew is girded for the order books that are bursting at the seams. We have stopped taking orders for Manila for December 24th, so if you are…
13 Dec, 2010
Christmas was just around the corner and I was in a bit of a panic over the weekend as we were WAY BEHIND our normally organized holiday schedule. Mrs. MM and The Teen are cheese fiends, so we try and make sure there is a wide selection of cheese in the fridge during…
10 Dec, 2010
I will be brutally honest. A Zubuchon is BEST consumed fresh off the coals, while steam is still coming out of its rear end. There are no ifs or buts (pun intended) about it. And if you live in Cebu City, that can certainly be arranged. Butt, :) after 9+…
09 Dec, 2010
Zubuchon now delivers whole lechons by airfreight to Manila for pick-up from the airport, so it was a thrill to see one of our lechons featured in the December 2010 Yummy Magazine Holiday Issue! In the magazine’s feature entitled “The Holiday Table”, a Zubuchon snores gently at the back of the heaping buffet…