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CATEGORY: ‘Main Courses’

Grilled Tomahawk Steaks a la Marketman

12 Jul, 2014

A few people emailed me after my previous post asking for “more detailed” instructions on how to do the tomahawk steaks on the grill.

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Mrs. MM’s Birthday Meal

10 Jul, 2014

It was a casual dinner, and some of us were even dressed in shorts…

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South Africa 5 — A Light Lunch…

04 Jun, 2014

Shortly after arriving at Singita, we decided to head to the outdoor deck for some lunch.

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Except in some snazzy restaurants in Manila whose kitchens are run by foreigners or influenced by Filipino chefs who have trained abroad, I don’t think octopus is a common ingredient on local menus at all.

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Seafood Lunch at Sugar Beach, Bantayan, Cebu

24 May, 2014

After shopping at the Bantayan fresh seafood market in this previous post, we took our purchases to one of the cooking stalls at Sugar Beach, left some instructions on how we preferred each type of seafood cooked, and went back to our hotel to pack up and check out before lunch.

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Soy Sauce & Tanduay Rum Sticky Ribs a la Marketman

22 May, 2014

The inspiration are those dryish, savory sweet short spare ribs served in Chinese restaurants in the U.S. — we used to have them at Shun Lee Palace in New York, but practically every Chinese take-out place had a version of them.

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Baltimore-Style Steamed Crab a la Marketman

15 May, 2014

When I was about 14 years old, my sister and her family used to make a “pilgrimage” to Baltimore from New York once every summer or so (when I happened to be in New York on holiday) to get some Maryland style steamed crab.

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