The Old Spaghetti House
I threw a small birthday dinner party on October 30th at The Old Spaghetti House in the Grilla Bar & Restaurant along Sumulong Highway in Antipolo. The Old Spaghetti House is a restaurant within a restaurant. Kinda like a family restaurant in what is otherwise a watering hole for adults. The food was from the [...]
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Baked river cobbler fillets
To escape frying, I have resorted to grilling, and cooking a lot of fish soups and steamed fish dishes. Then I saw an episode of Avventura in the Discovery Travel & Living Channel. This rustic restaurant innkeeper baked a whole fish with a lot of vegetables, herbs and spices. I decided to try it. This is a much simpler version of the Italian baked fish though…
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Pandan chicken
As far as I know, pandan chicken is a Thai dish. I have a friend who cooks this dish by deep frying each pandan wrapped chicken fillet. But me, I hate frying.
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Bacon-wrapped chicken livers
When I originally posted this recipe in the old blog, I couldn’t remember the exact name for the dish. Then, a reader said it was called rumaki. Instant recall. That was exactly how it was called in Chocolate Kiss in U.P. where I first enjoyed it over lunch with the Dean of the College of [...]
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Lemon-butter-garlic prawns
This is one of the blog entries that I thought had been lost forever. Thanks to Kulasa who had been trying out some of my recipes, I can repost the easy recipe for the prawn dish that I distinctly remember that my kids just loved.
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Caesar’s salad dressing
My kids used to enjoy only Thousand Island and Ranch salad dressings with their vegetables. Then, I saw an episode of Bob Blumer’s The Surreal Gourmet on the Discovery Travel & Living Channel where he did his version of Caesar’s salad dressing and I decided to try it myself. I wasn’t sure how my kids [...]
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