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Braised chicken and potatoes with rosemary
It’s that time of the year when I am again going to whine endlessly about the heat and how physically painful it is to cook. But I cook anyway. And that means the whining is nothing but whining. If some psychologists are to be believed, whining as a form of releasing frustration may actually be [...]
Bulawan Floating Restaurant on Good Friday
We’ve been to Bulawan before. The last time, Speedy and I had lunch there on a weekday, on a whim, and the experience was just so relaxing and peaceful, and the food so good that, right there and then, I decided I’d write a story. The story was published as a feature article in Manila [...]
Baked eggs with ham, greens and cheese
If you’re looking for a new way to serve eggs, this is something to try. Not that baked eggs is anything new. I’ve done something like this in the past — eggs, longganisa (native sausages), spinach and cheese — although the technique was more of a novelty rather than something I wanted to repeat often [...]
Tinapa (smoked fish) fried rice
Except for some irritants, it’s been a great weekend and first day of the week. Sunday evening, Sam and I had time to talk — really talk — and, gee, my firstborn is no longer a child and I need to constantly remind myself of that. Then, Alex arrived with her friends, we talked theater [...]
Chinese broccoli and tamarind soup
It’s really just sinigang, simplified, milder and with none of the traditional vegetables that go into the soup. We were having fried danggit (rabbitfish) and poqui-poqui, and I just wanted a simple soup to go with them — simple to prepare and simple to digest. There was a jar of homemade broth that I had [...]
Oysters with adobo sauce
Salmon may be my favorite fish but the oyster is my favorite seafood. Too bad that there are very few variations on how oysters are served in the Philippines (at least, very few that I’m aware of). Although the ultimate experience is prying open the shells of barely blanched oysters and eating the soft, slippery [...]
Yellow rice with fresh mussels and mixed vegetables
So what do you do when your daughter calls up and says she’s bringing home three friends and “can we have dinner at the house?” You say, “yes, of course” and, after switching off the phone, you panic — out of your daughter’s earshot. You panic — gracefully. After the moment of panic passes, you [...]
Pork and cabbage frittata
Soup bones (which we really can’t live without because we haven’t used bouillon cubes in years) were at a bargain price yesterday. Buy one, take one. I browned one pack in the oven, transferred the bones to a huge pot, threw in aromatics, simmered them to make broth and, after dividing the broth among freezer [...]
Spaghetti with ground pork and black olives
I learned two valuable lessons today. First, when you run out of sausages to cook with your pasta, use plain ground pork and season it as though you were making sausage. Brown the meat well over medium heat so that the cooking is prolonged a little, giving the ground pork more time to absorb the [...]
Pork, string beans and saba bananas with honey and chili
I’m getting more and more enamored of the idea of throwing together meat (or seafood), vegetables and fruits in one dish. I love the play of colors, I love the diversity in textures, I love the interplay of flavors. It also means hearty dishes with only a fraction of the meat we’ve been so used [...]
