Sayote (chayote) guisado plus
A reader once lamented on the lack of variety in Filipino cooking. Mostly, she observed, there were only basic cooking techniques: sauteeing, soup and de-sarsa (with sauce). As far as I am concerned, those are not insufficient. The trick is combining them with other techniques to come up with more variety in cooked dishes. Take [...]
Continue reading 'Sayote (chayote) guisado plus' »
Sayote (chayote)
Light green and pear-shaped with a thick skin and a hard core, chayote, or sayote as it is called in the Philippines, grows on vines. It is known as as vegetable pear or mirliton in some parts of the world. In France, it is known as christophene. According to Gourmet Sleuth, chayote was first domesticated [...]
Continue reading 'Sayote (chayote)' »
Lemonade-salabat chicken
If the name of the recipe sounds strange, that’s because this is a rather strange, and wickedly flavorful, dish. My 11-year-old wanted chicken with sweet and sour sauce for lunch but we did not have the vegetables to go with the dish. Besides, I wasn’t so sure if chunks of chicken would be good for [...]
Continue reading 'Lemonade-salabat chicken' »
About tocino
In modern-day Filipino language the dish that you see in the photo is called tosilog, a contraction of tocino, singangag at itlog, a popular breakfast dish that consists of strips of tocino (cured pork), fried rice and fried egg, sunny side up. While the term tosilog is a relatively recent phenomenon, the dish itself is [...]
Continue reading 'About tocino' »
Cafe Ysabel’s carrot cake
It is a carrot cake from Cafe Ysabel, a restaurant owned and operated by Filipino chef Gene Gonzalez. My husband bought it (the cake, not the restaurant) last Monday.
I was first introduced to GeneÕs cakes when I was a young lawyer working in an office along Timog Avenue in Quezon City. A friend, whose [...]
Continue reading 'Cafe Ysabel’s carrot cake' »
Newspaper article on food blogs
Lance posted a comment that Pinoy Cook was mentioned in an article in The Honolulu Advertiser.
The same article came out in the Washington Post, the link to which was sent by Filipino photo blogger Jerwin Pasco.
It isnÕt just my food blog that was mentioned. A lot were. The article also points one important reason out [...]
Continue reading 'Newspaper article on food blogs' »
A few kitchen tips
This isn’t a recipe entry. The photos are merely to help explain. This entry is about a baked fish, leftovers and cooking torta (frittata), with some tips on cookware.
That’s a baked talakitok in the first photo. Talakitok is a non-oily and fleshy fish with a hard external bone on the skin just above the [...]
Continue reading 'A few kitchen tips' »
Suman
Suman is a Filipino dish of sticky rice wrapped in banana or coconut leaves. There are numerous varieties of suman with each region having its own version of the dish. The suman on the plate in the photo is called suman sa lihia, so called because it is flavored with lihia or lye water.
The [...]
Continue reading 'Suman' »
