Dalanghita / Naranjita
08 Jul, 2011
Why did I assume dalanghita and dalandan were one and the same? Duhh…
08 Jul, 2011
Why did I assume dalanghita and dalandan were one and the same? Duhh…
20 May, 2011
Few things get my salivary glands pumping like a seriously tart green mango. And few memories of “contraband” and “illicit” food from grade school bring bigger smiles to my face than these sweet and savory marinated mango slices from street food vendors or shops/counters that sold champoy, dikiam and the like in local…
04 Apr, 2011
The family was back in Coron/Culion a couple of weeks ago for a two night visit, and it just happened to be the height of kasoy season again. I have written about Kasoy before, in posts I link at the bottom of this post, so I won’t get into repeating information from earlier…
05 Mar, 2011
Sister arrived with a bounty of Meyer lemons in her luggage. Unfortunately, they were worse for wear from the trip, bruised in the luggage or upset with the nearly frozen temperatures in the hold of the plane. I have written about Meyer lemons before, and they are apparently a cross between a…
27 Feb, 2011
I have been meaning to try my hand at cooking Kansi, that Ilonggo soup that seems like a cross between a beef nilaga and a sinigang, uniquely soured with batuan. But without the batuan, this plan was on hold… As if reading my mind, a friend “M” just dropped off this veritable bounty…
31 Jan, 2011
I was at the FTI AANI market in Taguig last Saturday and here are a couple of my finds that made it into my basket. First, some nice looking small red radishes. I’ve never really eaten many red radishes, even when I lived in the West, but these looked so appealing that…
29 Nov, 2010
That’s a tomato knife in the photo above. Talk about specific use kitchen implements! But it worked like a charm! This isn’t so much a recipe as an ode to simply gorgeous tomatoes. I am SO HAPPY that many farmers in the U.S. now raise these wonderful varieties of tomatoes…