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Crispy Pork Trotter and Mixed Vegetables
Pinakbet is a reknowed Cagayan mixed vegetable recipe even outside of the Philippines. This potfull of indigenous items consist of a sufrito (garlic, onions, tomatoes) mixed in with ginger, anchovie sauce (the thick muddy version), eggplants, green chilies, cobatcha squash, bitter mellon, okra, long beans (sometimes, shortbeans or broadbeans when ( Read more... ) -
Starbucks Philippines
I hesitate going to Starbucks because their coffee is so darn over-roasted to my taste. No matter the snobbery if you might call it that, I had not much of a choice while at the Makati Stock Exchange today ( Read more... ) -
Seafood Gumbo
Seafood Gumbo - Of squid and shrimp, I sure wished we also had blue crabs. Oh well. It was a great dish nontheless.
Crispy herb roasted chicken - boiled with ginger, onions and salt. Drip dry for 30 mins. and store in refrigerator to dry further, uncovered for another 30mins. Place in convection oven for 35 mins at highest heat. Chicken ( Read more... ) -
Goto with egg
Goto is a porridge of glutinous rice in chicken broth. In most cases, it would have tripe or chicken. In this instance, it was a quick lunch while grocery shopping. The peddler suggested I get egg in it. As I looked back up to check on the dish he was steadily placing on my tray, I noticed a hard boiled egg. Unusual to me, the hard boiled egg ( Read more... ) -
Now what?
Whew! I"m glad the night is over, and so are my frequent visits to the bathroom. It's been a horrible night of sorts. Now, I realize that it must have been what I ate last night. It just did not sit well with me already taking strong Corticosteriod pills and all ( Read more... ) -
Rigatoni
Chicken Rigatoni with green peas. This garlicky and buttery recipe hits the spot. I'm pretty sure the food cost of two leg quarters (400g ea), half a stick of butter, a cup of frozen peas, one medium onion, 4 cloves of garlic, basil, S&P and olive oil is way low ( Read more... ) -
Kamay Kainan Restaurant
Yes, it is a buffet-style restaurant at P245 (drinks not included). Reading through postings online, one writer claims that this restaurant's price is by far cheapest in the Metro. Cheap or otherwise, we stumbled into it two weeks ago while wondering about the outer edges of the Market Market Mall in Taguig City, a suburb of Metro Manila. It was ( Read more... ) -
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Green Caviar Salad - (Caulerpa Lentillifera) 1lb. seasoned with 2tbsp. of fish sauce and 4 Roma tomatoes. Tossed and served ( Read more... ) -
Goat meat never tasted so good!
My niece took us to Cendong's Garden Restaurant despite the rainy downpour.
Kilawin - roasted goat meat skin diced, red onions, Bird's Eye chili peppers, ginger, lime, sea salt and vinegar.
Pancit - combination of dried egg noodles and rice noodles.
Best of all - Wood-fired oysters in half-shells with lots of fresh minced garlic. OMG! -
Bibingka
Waffles, anyone? This Philippine version of a waffle is cooked with coals above and under supported by a thin sheet of metal lined with banana leaves. It sure smells great! Among the ingredients; eggs, rice flour, salt, baking powder, salted eggs and when cooked, a sprinkling of freshly grated coconuts and brown sugar. Yummy.