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Homemade “Maytahes Dibang” or “Day-Old, Batanes-Style Flying Fish” a la Marketman (Attempt #2)

18 Apr, 2018

My first attempt at dried flying fish or dibang, here, yielded so-so results.

Homemade “Maytahes Dibang” or “Day-Old, Batanes-Style Flying Fish” a la Marketman (Attempt #1)

17 Apr, 2018

It happens less often now, but I have a history of eating something wonderful (and often deceptively simple) and wondering if I can replicate it at home to ensure availability.

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Grilled Lumot (Very Large Squid) a la Marketman

09 Apr, 2018

We were at the beach last week, with a very good old friend (and his family) from high school that hadn’t been back to Manila in 36 years since we graduated from high school.

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Pinangat na Bangus sa Sampalok / Milkfish Soured in Tamarind Broth a la Marketman

08 Mar, 2018

The house is awash with tamarind puree.

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‘Nduja Carbonara

03 Jul, 2017

Andrew Carmellini’s recipe for an ‘Nduja carbonara or “Calabrian Carbonara” in a recent Food & Wine Magazine was the tipping point to hunt down the ingredient from Italy and see what it was like.

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A Faster Callos…

25 Apr, 2017

“Faster” is relative, of course.

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Crab Three Ways…

07 Feb, 2017

When my eldest brother announced he was going to try and bring 10 hectares of family fishponds in the outskirts of Lucena City back from the dead, we all wished him well.

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