Food articles posted in Apr 2006

Fresh pineapples

Like most tropical countries, fresh fruits flood the market during the hot summer months. While there are fruits that are abundant all year round, pineapples, melons, watermelons and mangoes are traditional summer harvests. There are a lot of horticulture projects aimed at making them all-season fruits but before and after summer, they are not as [...]

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April 11, 2006 | Asian Pantry

Ostrich chop suey

Ostrich meat is not common in the Philippines. I’m sure that cost is a significant factor. It used to sell at PhP 600.00+ per kilo and only Shopwise in Libis, Quezon City, had it. It was a surprise to find ostrich meat at the Antipolo branch of Shopwise. The price had gone down too to PhP 423.75 per kilo. Not bad since there’s hardly any wastage when cooking ostrich meat. No fat or bones to discard. And since ostrich meat cooks so fast, it doesn’t shrink so much either…

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April 10, 2006 | Asian cooking, Chinese recipes

Lasang Pinoy 8: mocha latte and choco latte

Alex making mocha latte I know I’m done posting my entry for Lasang Pinoy 8 but my kids took turns making mocha latte and choco latte earlier tonight and… why waste such a wonderful story? Because it really was quite a story–I ended up drinking one tall glass of mocha latte and two short glasses of choco latte. How could I say no after all their effort, eh? Of course, after that, I swore I won’t eat a thing tomorrow.

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April 7, 2006 | Drinks

Buko (coconut) juice

For the first time since we moved to the hilly suburb of Antipolo almost five years ago, today was the first time I walked through the streets of the main commercial part of the town with a camera in my hand. I wasn’t exactly sure what I was going to photograph but the way it [...]

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April 7, 2006 | Food trips & events

Lasang Pinoy 8 : Creative cookery with children

My entry for Lasang Pinoy 8, published in the April 6, 2006 edition of the Manila Standard Today.
Creative cookery with children
Lasang Pinoy is an ongoing project of Filipino food bloggers. I wrote about it before but, in case you didn’t catch that column, Filipino food bloggers from all over the world post entries on a [...]

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April 5, 2006 | Food trips & events

Lemongrass cooler at Vieux Chalet

So, the graduation ceremony that was originally scheduled for Friday, March 31st and which was postponed because of the rains, took place yesterday, April 3rd. My 12-year-old will be a high school freshman in June. We obliged her by having dinner at her place of choice–Vieux Chalet Swiss Inn. Contrary to my usual practice of [...]

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April 5, 2006 | Food trips & events

Beef short ribs braised in green mango jam

I did this recipe last year using chicken–one of those that got deleted in the infamous database disaster last December. Chicken thighs braised in green mango jam. I couldn’t repost the chicken recipe because I really can’t remember the exact steps in making it. It was a kind of cook-as-you-go-along dish. The only thing I was sure of was using the green mango jam that I discovered at Tiendesitas last year. I decided to recreate the dish, with my usual cook-as-you-go-along procedure, but this time using beef short ribs. And because it is summer–mango season–I served the braised beef short ribs with slices of fresh ripe mangoes…