The other night was vegetarian night. Dinner was peperonata di patate, an Italian pepper and potato stew. It took more than an hour to simmer the vegetables to tenderness and to get the sauce to thicken to the right consistency. By the time dinner was almost ready, Speedy asked absent-mindedly what was in the stew, [...]
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Chili and garlic burgers with vegetables fried rice
In the white chocolate, lemon and poppy seed cake post, there was a question about whether poppy seeds were added to the cake for appearance or taste. I told her it’s 90% flavor and 10% appearance. Come to think of it, the visual appeal of poppy seeds is just coincidental. It’s a very Generation Y [...]Quality-only Ad Network. Simple!Powered by InfluAds
Chocolate and coffee cocktail. Hot and spicy. Served with ice.
Four of my favorite things in the world come together in this hot and cold cocktail drink. Yes, hot and cold. Just read on and you’ll find out why. And what are the four favorite things? Chocolate, coffee, Kahlua Coffee Liqueur and Bailey’s Irish Cream. But that’s not all. This cocktail drink is also a [...]Quality-only Ad Network. Simple!Powered by InfluAds
Mother?s Day special for moms on a low-fat diet: steamed pompano with ginger sauce
Most of my friends who cook think that commercial broth cubes are an essential ingredient of steamed whole fish. I beg to disagree. Using broth cubes takes the control out of the cook because you're stuck with the flavors in the broth cubes. Worse, the MSG content of broth cubes kill the natural flavors of the fish and who the heck wants that? Might as well eat canned fish.Quality-only Ad Network. Simple!Powered by InfluAds
How to make a very ?meaty? pasta sauce with very little meat
When Sam announced a couple of weeks ago that she would be inviting some half a dozen friends to spend the weekend, the announcement came with a “preferred menu” — sinigang na baboy, the immortal baked mac, and butterscotch and chocolate fudge combo brownies. Considering how hot summer has been so far this year and [...]Quality-only Ad Network. Simple!Powered by InfluAds
Small Talk Cafe in Legazpi City: Alex made me drool over the photos
On Monday evening, I posted tons of photos from Alex’s Bicol trip except the ones taken at Small Talk Cafe. I was reserving them for last because I thought they deserved a separate post. Less than twelve hours later, Mayon Volcano spewed ash 500 meters into the air killing at least five people, four of [...]Quality-only Ad Network. Simple!Powered by InfluAds
Snow peas and zucchini stir fry
I was planning a very simple stir fry with bits and pieces of vegetables from the fridge so I thought I’d bump up the dish a bit by serving the stir fry with eggs. The idea was to boil the eggs just until the whites were firm but the yolks still runny. The stir fry [...]Quality-only Ad Network. Simple!Powered by InfluAds
Basil, garlic and pepper rice
Sam’s dinner last night. Vegetarian. The crisp brown things on top of the rice? That’s vegetarian “beef” made from soya. The salad is just a combination of romaine lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers. The rice… ah, now that is what this post is about. The rice was cooked with broth instead of water. The aromatics were [...]Quality-only Ad Network. Simple!Powered by InfluAds
Ratatouille-inspired summer garden pasta: light on the meat, heavy on the veggies
I wish I could say that this pasta dish is a toast to summer but it isn’t. It’s a toast to the rain that fell late yesterday afternoon that finally broke the suffocating heat of the past week. Yes, a downpour. Yes, I danced in the rain. Literally. And I almost sang out loud as [...]
Pork stew. Light enough for summer. Filling enough for dinner.
Speedy and I saw Broken City recently and I was shocked at how Catherine Zeta-Jones looked. Her facial muscles appeared frozen. Too bad. I always considered her to be one of the most beautiful actresses of my generation. So youthful and fresh in Zorro, so casually sexy in Entrapment and such a wonderful actress in [...]
Portobello mushroom and bacon sandwiches
If good mushrooms weren’t so darn hard to source and if they weren’t so expensive, I’d eat them every single day. Unfortunately, the only reasonably priced mushrooms available all year ’round are oyster mushrooms and small ones at that. Button mushrooms aren’t all that hard to find either but they aren’t cheap. But the rest? [...]
