Gotohan sa Marikina
Goto means beef tripe; gotohan means an eatery where the specialty is lugaw (rice porridge or congee) with beef tripe (my version here). Marikina is a city within Metro Manila and adjacent to Antipolo City in the province of Rizal where we live. I hope that explains the title for the non-Filipino speaking readers. I [...]
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Orange porkloin steaks and buttered veggies
I sliced a slab of pork loin into one-inch thick steaks, seasoned them lightly with herbed salt, browned them in butter then cooked them in fresh orange juice until the juice thickened. Then I served them with buttered vegetables. This was today’s lunch and I would have posted the photo and the recipe earlier but [...]
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Causeway seafood restaurant
Definitely one of my familyÕs favorite Chinese restaurants, the first Causeway Seafood Restaurant in the Philippines opened along Banawe Avenue in Quezon City about eight years ago. We were one of it’s first patrons. A branch opened along E. Rodriquez Avenue in Libis, Quezon City, just across Eastwood City, a few years ago. It was [...]
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Another fresh buko (coconut) and fruit salad
It might seem a bit odd to foreigners that we call a sweet dessert like this a salad in the Philippines. I actually think it a bit odd too. In the first place, fruit salads in the Philippines are served either as a snack or a dessert, never as a dish that preceeds the main [...]
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Sago (tapioca or pearl balls)
The recent craze is to serve the humble sago (tapioca or pearl balls) with milk and powdered artificial flavoring. I am not exactly into artificial flavoring especially the ones with artificial sweeteners. They always leave a nasty aftertaste. What I did earlier today was to make some sago drinks the traditional way. Well, almost the [...]
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What’s for breakfast?
Unlike the traditional (and very heavy) Filipino breakfast of sinangag (fried rice), fried fish or meat and fried eggs, my family normally has bread for breakfast. Pan de sal, white loaf bread or my favorite Frances loaf (whenever available) is served with tuna or chicken salad, cold meat, eggs, butter, jam… not all of those [...]
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Dad’s-turn-to-cook porkchops
When I was still working outside the home, I used to worry a lot about what my kids ate when I went on out-of-town conferences. I would be especially bothered if the trips extended to several days. After the first few times, I started to relax since there were no complaints from the kids. I [...]
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Sweet and sour chicken fillets
Will you believe me if I said that the breast of a 900-gram chicken can feed three people? My 12-year-old and 11-year-old daughters and I had this for lunch today. It is still basically the classic Chinese sweet and sour dish. However, instead of pork, I used the deboned meat of a chicken breast.
There was [...]
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