07 Nov, 2009
I was messing around in the kitchen, trying to come up with a sandwich that was first delicious, and second, used lechon somehow. First I made a paksiw na lechon and shredded the meat and placed it in a pan de sal. It tasted great, but it looked pretty boring. I…
04 Nov, 2009
I’m not sure what gave rise to this, but the past year or two has really seen the renaissance of pork or anything porcine in nature. When the magazine Time Out New York issued its annual “100 Best Things We Ate And Drank This Year” in December 2008, and this $9 sandwich from…
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…
02 Nov, 2009
I was anxious to use the newly arrived bounty of ingredients as soon as possible, so we invited some friends over for dinner, and decided to make a salad as a starter. Before deciding on the final roster of ingredients for the salad, we first tried out a critical pairing to see if…
29 Oct, 2009
I regularly browse through the second hand or unsold food magazines at mall stores like “Book Sale” and other shady re-retailers of books and magazines. Sometimes the stuff looks like it might have come out of someone’s garbage, other times they are unsold issues of magazines that somehow make it to the Philippines….
28 Oct, 2009
I know it sounds like a bit of a joke. You make a “healthy” vegetable soup, but then add jamon iberico to the pot!? But many times I cook based on what I find in the groceries and markets, and sometimes tweak classic recipes just a bit hoping it will all turn…
25 Oct, 2009
For some reason the Japanese have really taken food (and other) packaging to incredibly lofty levels. A visit to any major Tokyo department store’s food hall is always so incredibly awe-inspiring. So it didn’t surprise me at all when I spied a very eye-catching section of pork products for sale at the…
24 Oct, 2009
This is express comfort food. Easy, economical and relatively healthy. We cook some version of this soup in our household at least twice a year. A more detailed recipe was posted a couple of years ago, here, but even this version is slightly different. From the freezer into the…