http://www.marketmanila.com A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:41:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/mock-thanksgiving-dinner http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/mock-thanksgiving-dinner#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:53:06 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=6127 The concept of a Thanksgiving dinner to celebrate the bountiful harvest of the past summer and to give thanks for all the good things in life before the hard cold winter sets in is something I have always enjoyed. Of course it also happens to have become a major food holiday so that can't hurt either. But if you've lived in New England and can empathize with the early English settlers in the region some 400 years ago, and the harsh winters they endured, it's easier to appreciate the underpinnings of the holiday. When we first moved back to Manila, we used to have a Thanksgiving dinner every year, complete with turkey and and several side dishes. But in the last few years, we have skipped the holiday due to other commitments, or scaled it back a bit. Last year, we had what I will call a "Mock Thanksgiving Dinner"...]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/mock-thanksgiving-dinner/feed 36 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/french-farmed-oscietra-caviar http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/french-farmed-oscietra-caviar#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:11:13 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=9356 Once a year seems like a nice frequency to enjoy some really good caviar. With the holidays approaching, some of you might be in the mood for salted fish eggs... Last year, my caviar post on Iranian Beluga Caviar was something special, and I don't anticipate more of that quality of wild caviar for many, many more years. So when this small tin of very good French farmed Oscietra arrived at our home on a little ice, I wondered what I had done in the recent past to deserve this extravagant gift...]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/french-farmed-oscietra-caviar/feed 17 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/stir-fried-broccoli-with-oyster-sauce http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/stir-fried-broccoli-with-oyster-sauce#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:58:03 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=8232 Wok stir-fried broccoli with oyster sauce has to be one of my all-time favorite vegetable dishes. I could eat this once a week! If I have been particularly bad and consumed a phenomenal amount of fat-laden dishes in a given period, I try to detox with a lot of veggies, and this is almost always one of the dishes I rely upon to even out the evil with the good. When I worked in New York in the early 1990's, I used to order Chinese take out at least once a week, and my two white wax-lined cardboard boxes would almost ALWAYS contain shredded szechuan beef and an order of broccoli with oyster sauce... ]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/stir-fried-broccoli-with-oyster-sauce/feed 29 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/tablea-brownies-a-la-mary-ann-aboitiz-arculli http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/tablea-brownies-a-la-mary-ann-aboitiz-arculli#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:01:19 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=9449 When I got my copy of Martinis & Aprons, I bookmarked several recipes that I found interesting, including this recipe for tablea brownies. I have made a LOT of brownies in my 30+ years of baking and always relied on Bakers Unsweetened Chocolate as the base for those brownies. I suppose I should have thought to experiment with tablea sooner, but didn't. So how did they turn out? Just look at them! They were surprisingly good! And the chocolate, while less intensely chocolately and slightly less dark, was a pretty darned good option at say 1/3 the price. And I already used the most expensive tableas we had in the pantry, from La Resureccion in Binondo!]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/tablea-brownies-a-la-mary-ann-aboitiz-arculli/feed 28 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/pan-de-sisig-a-la-marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/pan-de-sisig-a-la-marketman#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:50:56 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=9413 Deadly. In a wickedly good way. Do not attempt this when you are particularly hungry, like a half hour before lunch, as you will eat far more than you should. After the Zubuchonwich experiments, we just HAD to test a Pan de Sisig. OMG, why hasn't anyone else done this before? Or have I somehow missed this wonderful concoction that we just tried hours ago and instantly fell in love with?]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/pan-de-sisig-a-la-marketman/feed 31