Pork Sinigang
Featured, Filipino, Pork, Soup Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
One of our avid readers sharing her quick and easy sinigang rendition…
Tokwa’t Baboy (Tofu/Pork Mash Up)
Featured, Filipino, Pork Monday, November 28th, 2011
Tokwa means tofu while baboy means pork in Filipino. This is a simple mash up of boiled pork parts such as belly and ears and fried tofu soaked in soy-vinegar sauce.
Pork Binagoongan
Featured, Filipino, Pork Thursday, August 25th, 2011
(Chicago) – This is one hell of a Filipino dish that makes me want to eat 5 cups of rice in one meal. “Binagoongan” is a shrimp paste dish with lots of meat and usually made super spicy. Some people like it with lesser meat but more …
Bloody Good Dinuguan
Featured, Filipino, Pork Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Dinuguan is a popular stew dish in the Philippines made up of pork blood, pork meat, some offals (liver, intestines, etc) and vinegar.
Tortang Talong
Featured, Filipino, Pork, Vegetable Monday, August 8th, 2011
(Chicago) – This a simple and ever popular Filipino eggplant omelet. This dish could be simplified some more and just reduce the ingredients to eggplant, egg and oil. But I like my torta with some stuffing to make it heavier …
Red Wine Braised Pork Belly
Featured, French, Pork Monday, June 27th, 2011
(Chicago) – Braising does wonders on the food. Also called as pot roasting, it is simmering meat or vegetable over low heat for a long period of time. And the outcome …
Spare Ribs Caldereta
Featured, Filipino, Pork Friday, June 17th, 2011
(Chicago) – I have a full slab of pork ribs in my freezer for quite some time and I don’t know what to do with it. The previous slabs became 2 different barbecue
Inihaw na Spare Ribs
Featured, Filipino, Pork Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
(Chicago) – Just when I thought that summer has fully arrived 2 weeks ago and I could start using my outdoor grill, the chilly winds came back last week and …
Baby-Back Ribs Adobo
Featured, Filipino, Pork Saturday, April 30th, 2011
(Chicago) – Pinoys can never have enough adobo recipes. I must say this recipe below is one of my most favorite of all time. Thanks to Amy Besa’s …
Pambansang Sabaw: Sinigang
Featured, Filipino, Pork Friday, April 22nd, 2011
(Chicago) – If the title sounds Greek to you, actually, it is Filipino and it means, the national stew is sinigang which is a dish meat and vegetables stewed in a sour broth…
Pata Estofado
Featured, Filipino, Pork Sunday, April 17th, 2011
(Chicago) – The abundance of skin, fats and soft tissues in pig’s trotters/feet or simply called, ”pata”, in Filipino, makes me love this part of the pig. Given enough time to cook…
Monggo Guisado
Featured, Filipino, Pork, Vegetable Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
(Chicago) – Guisadong Monggo is one of my favorite Filipino dishes. It’s not expensive to make and highly nutritious. You can omit or limit the pork and bagoong if you have dietary constraints…
Embutibol
Featured, Filipino, Pork Saturday, February 26th, 2011
(Chicago) - Embutido is a Filipino meat loaf. It is meat mixture formed in a foot-long log, wrapped in foil, steamed and served in slices. Some cook it twice by pan frying the embutido slices to gain some color and crunch. So if you are serving embutido in a party, your Filipino guests knows exactly [...]
Hot and Spicy Bicol Express
Featured, Filipino, Pork Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
(Chicago) – Pork belly and coconut milk? This combination is a no-brainer –one of my all-time favorite Pinoy dishes . The spiciness and creaminess of this dish make it perfect with rice. And any dish that makes me eat humongous amount of rice is an ultimate comfort food for me. This is one of them. [...]
The Spanish in Us: Pork Afritada
Featured, Filipino, Pork Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
(Chicago) – There’s always something Spanish in every Filipino. It is evident in the last names of most of us, in skin color of a few, in religious belief of the majority, in facial structure, in politics, in public festivities, in architecture, in our alphabet and in many other aspects of our lives. With the [...]
Pinoy Menudo
Featured, Filipino, Pork Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
(Chicago) - One of the major (major! ) effects of food blogging to me is that my appreciation of Filipino food has grown significantly. How many times I denounced my homeland cuisine whenever I was asked if Filipino food was my favorite cuisine. I gave bulls**t reasons such as Filipino dishes are oily, unhealthy or [...]
Tocino, Less the Cancer
Featured, Filipino, Pork Thursday, January 6th, 2011
(Chicago) - We, Pinoys, love our tocino. I am personally addicted to this especially if it comes with a mound of fried rice and over-easy eggs. For the uninitiated, tocino is a highly sweet cured meat, either pork or chicken, which is usually bright red in color and very popular in the Philippines But as [...]
Thai Minced Pork with Basil (Baby Craving Chronicle #7)
Asian, Featured, Pork, Vergel's Kitchen Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
(Singapore) – During Vergel’s short stint as a cook in a famous Thai restaurant here in Singapore, he learned to cook most of the signature Thai dishes that they were serving. I was never a fan of Thai food, but when he took me for dinner at the restaurant he was working at, I instantly [...]
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