Food articles posted in Jul 2006

Turkey empanada

Empanada is a mini pie. Actually, it’s more like the Italian calzone but the crust is flaky and sweet just like those of pastries. Based on the name itself, empanadas must have found their way to the Philippines via Spain. If you search the web, you will find that a lot of former Spanish colonies [...]

Pritong tilapia (fried St. Peter’s fish) and cheese-topped chili-cauliflower bake

As predictable as night after day, when my husband arrived home from work and found me frying tilapia (St. Peter’s fish) in the kitchen, his first question was, “May kamatis ba tayo (Do we have tomatoes)?” I told him yes, but we weren’t having the pritong tilapia with tomatoes and itlog na maalat. He knew better than to object.

Even before I started frying the fish, I had already prepared a baked vegetable dish made with cauliflower and chopped finger chili topped with crumbled quickmelt cheese and chopped parsley. I kept it in the oven to keep it warm…

Lasang Pinoy 12 (fusion cooking ): sauteed mongo sprouts and asparagus with oyster sauce

So, we take the humble togue guisado and transform it. But this dish is really more than just about fusion cooking. This is about pacifying two bickering adolescents. My 13-year-old daughter Sam wanted an asparagus dish for dinner last Sunday while 12-year-old Alex wanted togue (mongo or mung bean sprouts). In fact, they had been arguing since the night before when we were in the supermarket and choosing what vegetables we would cook for the next couple of days. So I combined the vegetables they wanted to eat. Sam even had an extra plate of asparagus all to herself.

Spanish tortilla

This is soooo easy to make. And the cooked dish looked just swell. Tasted great too. We had this Spanish Tortilla for lunch last Sunday, storm and all, and my family loved it. The original recipe is for an all-vegetable dish. My modification consisted of the addition of a can of tuna flakes (lemon and butter flavor), the adjustment of the proportion of the ingredients for what I considered a more balanced dish and the substitution of green peas for bell peppers which we didn’t have in the house last Sunday.

Mani (peanuts)

You can boil or steam, shell and eat them while hot. You can enjoy them as candies or as a jam. Or you can enjoy them fried and salted like the ones in the photo. I am, of course, talking about peanuts. My husband likes to buy them raw then we’d boil them at home [...]

Blue marlin with hoisin sauce and sesame seeds

My kids’ packed lunch a couple of days ago. To be quite honest, I haven’t been doing a lot of cooking lately. When I had the flu last week, we survived on delivery and canned goods. Good thing my kids can do wonders with canned meat; otherwise, the fast foods with delivery service would have [...]

Sam’s butterscotch brownies

I meant to post two entries last Saturday but some things got in my way. First, my broadband (sic) internet slowed to a crawl which made uploading photos tedious. Then, on Saturday afternoon, right after lunch, I caught a bug that kept me in bed until early Sunday afternoon. Feeling well enough to go out [...]

Zensho Teppanyaki Restaurant and Sushi Bar

One thing about Japanese food is that they’re no good unless freshly prepared. That’s why many say that Saisaki’s eat-all-you-can buffet is second, or even third, class. Zensho Teppanyaki Restaurant and Sushi Bar, along Tomas Morato near the corner of Roces Avenue in Quezon City, has an eat-all-you-can promo too, with a twist. It’s a [...]

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