Food articles posted in Jul 2006

Shoppersville’s banana cream pie

Shoppersville, along Katipunan Road in Quezon City, has a bakeshop on the second storey that sells the most wonderful cakes. Note that these are not commercial-looking cakes that are so perfectly crafted that not an inch looks misplaced. Shoppersville’s cakes in fact look home-made–imperfect symmetry and all. But they are just wonderful. The chocolate cake [...]

Fried chicken and vegetable salad

…this dish made with fried breaded strips of chicken thigh fillets, romaine lettuce and cherry tomatoes was today’s lunch. The idea was to make a salad a la KFC. Although my kids dug into the salad (Sam loved those cherry tomatoes!), what they really did was to eat the fried strips of chicken with fried rice. The salad was just a salad for them and not a main dish as it was for me.

The dressing for the salad is sort of a cheater’s Caesar’s salad dressing…

Baked pompano and red cabbage

Despite the convenience of fish fillets, they cannot compare to the flavors of whole fish. The flavor is in the bones and the head, really. So, a lot of the flavor is lost during filleting. I must admit though that using fillets means less garbage that rots but where fresh whole fish is available, frozen fish fillets don’t seem so attractive.

Red cabbage, available in better wet markets and supermarkets, is more strongly-flavored than the green variety. The texture is the same although, uncut, red cabbage is more firmly packed. You can use green cabbage, of course, to cook this dish. I had red in the fridge and I thought it would make a rather colorless dish a lot brighter and more attractive.

Honey-lemon drink

Live interaction with readers is one thing that a column writer does not enjoy. Lucky me, I was a blogger before I was a newspaper columnist so I know the value of real feedbacks–minus, of course, the kind of muck that seems to be the staple of political blogs. I do get my share in The Sassy Lawyer’s Journal.

The interaction in this blog, in particular, has been a wonderful source of insights, information, cooking tips and even health advice. In the comment thread of my honey-lemon-ginger chicken recipe, reader Malou shares her favorite hot drink made, quite simply, with fresh lemon juice, honey and hot water.

After the school bus picked up the kids this morning, instead of going for my second cup of coffee, as is my habit, I tried Malou’s concoction and, I must say, I enjoyed it tremendously. It was very good.

Lasang Pinoy 12: fusion cooking and my beef tapa sandwich

When I read from Ces’ food blog that it’s going to be fusion cooking for the 12th edition of Lasang Pinoy, I got overly excited. This is my passion–turning traditional, often boring, recipes into dishes that are more today. I started digging into my archives to find out which of my previously posted recipes would be worth including in this post. There are so many but I chose… three to represent three categories of Filipino dishes: rice, meat and desserts…

In addition to that, I present a wonderful new way to serve the classic beef tapa–as a sandwich.

Lechon

This entry is dedicated to Jayred whose last lechon experience in Switzerland was a disappointment.

The mainstay of every barrio fiesta, lechon is the Philippines’ national food. A whole pig is cleaned out of its entrails, stuffed with banana leaves - sometimes with paella - and roasted slowly over live coals while the skin is [...]

Honey-lemon-ginger chicken

Sounds like a cure for sore throat, doesn’t it? This honey-lemon-ginger chicken recipe was born by accident. One of those mornings when everyone was in a rush and I cooked while half-asleep, my first cup of coffee still half full. And the photo had been sitting in my harddrive for three weeks [...]

Lunch at Manila’s Chinatown - President Restaurant

It was a double celebration of sorts and a family reunion as well last Sunday. My husband celebrated his birthday last month, got a much welcome promotion at work and my brother-in-law Richie is home for a short vacation from Beirut. I would have preferred an all-day swimming party but there was not much time [...]

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Noche Buena

• Roast duckling on New Year’s eve
• Cooking for Christmas and the New Year
• A Christmas Eve story
• Buko pandan
• Rellenong manok (stuffed deboned whole chicken)
• Peach pata hamonado
• Chili garlic prawns
• Smoked salmon and cream cheese canapés
• Adobo, quail eggs and rice
• Pepperoni and cheese stuffed bread rolls

School lunchbox

• Blue marlin with hoisin sauce and sesame seeds
• Bangus a la pobre
• School lunch: chicken adobo fried rice
• Sukiyaki-cut beef with Kecap Manis
• Butter-fried fish and corn
• Ground pork and vegetables frittata
• Packed school lunch idea: chicken gizzards with fresh asparagus
• Ox tongue with gravy
• Roast pork and cabbage fried rice
• Fish and broccoli in oyster sauce