Food articles posted in Feb 2007

Tamtanco’s ube and Good Shepherd’s strawberry jam

I don’t remember buying ube jam in Baguio City when I was a child. Perhaps, it’s because we made ube halaya at home so often we never really considered it a treat. To be more accurate, my grandparents used to make ube halaya in oversized carajays over burning wood in the backyard. The ube (purple [...]

Tupig from Pangasinan

Tupig is a native delicacy made with glutinous rice and grated coconuts wrapped in wilted banana leaves and cooked over live coals. Tupig-making is an important source of livelihood in Pangasinan.

We were on the road to Manila from Baguio and, when we reached Pangasinan, tupig hawkers swarmed around the car. We had enjoyed tupig before [...]

Razon’s halo-halo and flavored suman

The same day we bought the potted herbs at Market! Market! in Global City, my husband, Speedy, suggested we eat a quick snack at the outdoor food court before proceeding to the bookstore for some school supplies for the kids. He also suggested we buy the potted herbs last so we could carry them directly [...]

Pork barbecue fried rice

I’m posting this recipe under ’school lunches’ although this pork barbecue fried rice never quite made it to the kids’ lunch boxes. They both stayed home today. Sam has been feeling sick since Tuesday and, yesterday afternoon, Alex was down with some kind of bug as well. It might be the abrupt change of weather, [...]

Danggit and Tabo-an Market: a Cebu story

You can’t talk about Cebuano food specialties without mentioning danggit. Danggit (rabbit fish) are small thin fish popularly sold in dried salted form. One of my husband’s officemates was in Cebu on business and his pasalubong was a bag of danggit and a pack of Shamrock otap. I started munching on the otap around midnight, [...]

Fish fillets and togue (mung bean sprouts) stir fry

Last Thursday, Alex came home with two classmates. They were going to make polvoron to sell at the school fair the following day and the day after that. I thawed a kilo of fish fillets that I planned to cook into a sweet and sour dish. The problem was that the vegetables I had in [...]

Tamales Obando

A year or so ago, I knew of only two places in Metro Manila where I could find FIlipino delicacies and specialty food from various regions, the products organized according to the region from which they originate. There was Market! Market! and then there was Tiendesitas.

On the one hand, these are not exactly the kind [...]

Tortang sisig at talong

I love sisig. Everyone in my family does. But, for the life of me, I can’t cook sisig — it just entails too much work from cleaning the pig’s head to the boiling to the grilling to the chopping… It’s just easier to order sisig in restaurants where it is a specialty. These days, however, [...]

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