A Market Driven Cioppino…
10 Jan, 2012
We try to make this dish at least once a year; almost always when we are at the beach house and have access to the seafood from the Nasugbu market.
10 Jan, 2012
We try to make this dish at least once a year; almost always when we are at the beach house and have access to the seafood from the Nasugbu market.
30 Dec, 2011
After Christmas, we retired to the beach for a few days to relax and “detox” from all the holiday food.
21 Dec, 2011
A throwback to 1960′s elegant sit-down dinners where suburban moms in Hepburn like attire tried hard to impress guests…
01 Nov, 2011
Think of this as the “ferrari” of pork rib sinigangs.
15 Aug, 2011
There are a lot of Koreans who live and/or visit Cebu. Several have come into Zubuchon and stared clueless at our pictureless menus. Waiters and customers struggle to communicate, but in the end, food makes it to the table… I do feel for them, having recently ventured into a hole in the…
29 Mar, 2011
The discovery of two full heads of chicory or escarole at the Centris Sunday Market had me giddy with produce excitement… :) As I get older, I find I am more attracted to bitter flavors and crave broccoli rabe, ampalaya, arugula or radicchio, mustasa and when available, escarole. So despite my strict…
01 Mar, 2011
This is the first time I have ever cooked Kansi, that Ilonggo soup redolent with beefy broth that is soured with mashed batuan, a fruit that is a cousin of mangosteen. Everyone in the house thought this was excellent. We are not Kansi experts by any measure, but as a flavorful, satisfying,…
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…