Cheesy Macaroni with Bacon
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Night Cap at Fish
(New York) - This city can be really exhausting. Waking up early to start travailing the touristy routes, shopping, food tasting, meeting up with local friends, club hopping and so forth. Coming to New York surely breaks the monotony of my life in Chicago but it solicits some verve. Sometimes I just want to sit [...]
Café Intermezzo
(Atlanta) – This place was my second home in Atlanta when I was still living there a few years ago. I have been numerous times to this café for afternoon coffee, Sunday tea, brunch, lunch, dinner, pre-party cocktails, late night drink and night cap; so many times I couldn’t count anymore. My friend Cha introduced [...]
Grilled Lemony Chicken
(Chicago) – I have a very short list of ideas for a marinade whenever my palate is asking for some meaty goodness. Most of the time I do the basic salt-and-pepper combo or the ever sweet Filipino-style mixture. I just realized that if I am really a certified carnivore, which I proudly profess, I should [...]
Pea Soup with Mint
(Chicago) – Green is my favorite color whenever spring comes. If something becomes my favorite, it will be evident in the clothes I wear, things I buy and even in the food I fancy to eat. Yes, I notice that I eat more green vegetables during spring-summer time. And pea soup with mint is a [...]
Chicken w/ Tomato-Parmesan Sauce (Baby Craving Chronicle #2)
(Singapore) – Alright, time for dinner! Wonder what Chef Vergel has prepared for me and our baby… Wow, this time, he prepared something quite new, something he hasn’t done before – which he ended up calling Chicken with Tomato and Parmesan Sauce. I usually prefer red meat or the thigh part when it comes to [...]
Quick Fix Dinner: Chicken with Mushroom Sauce
(Singapore) – Living and working in Singapore is not easy. People back home, in Manila, thinks that life’s a vacation in here; not at all. Work hours are longer and stress level is sky-high consistently. We deserve a treat after long-hours of drudgery. However, eating out is not always an option since it is pretty [...]
Just curious… Xtremely Espresso
(Singapore) - Nothing much to say, but just wanted to check with the readers, by any chance, have you encountered an enormously sized pizza ever? My husband and I did. Size is approximately my diameter + my husband’s haha!
Recipes
24. Apr, 2012
Pinoy Chicken Curry
If I will think of one Filipino dish that can’t be eaten without a lot of rice, I think it is Chicken Curry. The coconut-curry sauce is just perfect for white steamy rice. Though not originally Pinoy …
29. Mar, 2012
Embutido: Pinoy Meatloaf
Americans have their meatloaf and Italians have their meatball. We, Pinoys, have our very own embutido. The sweetness of the vegetables, meaty juice from the meat and a touch of creaminess from …
24. Mar, 2012
Cagbalete Island: Another Outdoor Culinary 101 with the Lakwatserong Kusinero
(Cagbalete Island, Quezon Province, Philippines) – The menu when we went to Cagbalete Island early this year was probably the most Pinoy of all the food that Chef Janjie had prepared for his …
21. Dec, 2011
Chicken Sopas
This is a typical Filipino pasta/noodle soup that is inexpensive, highly nutritious and a complete meal in itself- it has protein, starch and vegetable all in one dish.
28. Nov, 2011
Tokwa’t Baboy (Tofu/Pork Mash Up)
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.
03. Nov, 2011
Easy, Lemony Chicken Inasal
Chicken Inasal is now big in the Philippines. This is a popular chicken grill that originated from Bacolod in Iloilo region. This dish left a good imprint in my food memory for the first time I tried it when I was a kid. I can …
12. Oct, 2011
Pancit Malabon
Pancit Malabon is a native Filipino noodle dish using tubular rice noodles with shrimp-base thick sauce, just like palabok or luglog, and with generous garnishing of pork crackling and seafood such as shrimp…
22. Sep, 2011
Fried Fish Twist: Sarciado
Fish sarciado is a typical Filipino dish which is directly translated as fish with sauce. The fish is usually fried first and then simmered in sauce that is made of fresh tomatoes and eggs. However, I do mine …
14. Sep, 2011
Pancit Canton
There are only 3 Filipino noodles dishes that are being rotated every time there is a special occasion in my family back home in Manila; it’s either Filipino-style sweet spaghetti, pancit bihon or pancit…
08. Sep, 2011
Pritong Chicken Adobo
It could be interesting to know how many versions of Filipino adobo exist currently. There are only a few ingredients used in adobo but there are countless twists and turns that you can do …
01. Sep, 2011
Pinoy-Style Fried Chicken
This is no Jollibee or KFC. But in some hidden corner of my mind, I remember my grandmother putting vinegar to chicken before frying them. I asked some elderly Pinoys as well and they affirmed that this is pretty common. Vinegar …
25. Aug, 2011
Pork Binagoongan
(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 …
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