Food articles posted in Feb 2007

Chocolate cheesecake

I’ve been dying to make this chocolate cheesecake since I saw Nigella Lawson make one in her TV cooking show. In fact, I was planning on baking the cheesecake on Valentine’s Day but the first three days of the week are always tight. I finally did it yesterday and… it’s just great. Just great! So [...]

Tortang sardinas at togue (canned sardines and mongo sprout frittata)

In my tortang tilapia entry, reader Felixberto commented, “I’ve been making torta using ligo sardines. Haven’t tried tilapia, With sardines, my torta crumbles… I was wondering, should I put in the veggies first before the fish?” And my response was, “…perhaps the best way is to mix the cooked veggies with the beaten eggs, pour [...]

Grilled herbed liempo (pork belly) and potatoes

Pork, the much maligned meat. In the forums, Ann, who works in Riyadh, says they try to cook Filipino food despite the absence of pork. JMom, in Durham, NC, sympathized because, being “such a porker, I wouldn’t know what to do if I had to live without it!”
Well, my family loves pork, bad press or [...]

Napoleones

I’ve always wondered if it was French in origin but the pastry called Napoleones is closely associated with Bacolod City in the province of Negros, the sugar capital of the Philippines. Fellow Filipino food blogger Kai wrote, “Napoleones possibly was adapted from the napoleon, which is how the French pastry mille-fuille (a thousand leaves) is [...]

Ground beef, mushrooms and quail eggs in oyster sauce

I was planning on cooking Scotch Eggs but I got lazy last night after cooking an entire tikoy a few hours earlier. Besides, I had fresh mushrooms in the fridge that I didn’t want to go to waste. So, why not a stir fried dish? It would be fast, it entails less work and the [...]

Tikoy: Kung Hei Fat Choi!

Tikoy is someting I will forever associate with my late paternal grandfather. No, he wasn’t Chinese but he had this love affair with Chinese food and cuisine. It was from him that I learned the rudiments of siomai-making. He was very fond of tikoy. When I was a kid and celebrating the Chinese New Year [...]

Pork and mushrooms adobo

Mention Filipino cooking and adobo comes to mind. For some reason, the dish itself is an unequivocal declaration of being Pinoy. I like the way The Wily Filipino puts it: “It’s an unambiguous declaration of ethnic presence, an olfactory attack on the mainstream: We’re here and you can smell it… adobo is uncomplicated, a symbol [...]

Sunday lunch in the garden

The weather during the past two weeks has been wonderful and we try to enjoy it to the hilt by having our meals in the garden. The cool weather also means that outdoor grilling won’t be synonymous with a steam bath. Hence, I heard no complaints from my husband when I suggested grilling fish for [...]

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House On A Hill

Amateur baker

• Corn muffins a la Kenny Rogers
• Chocolate cheesecake
• Heavenly lemon-orange cheesecake
• Chocolate-kissed muesli cookies
• Oatmeal cookies and a cookie fest
• Corn bread
• Turkey empanada
• Salmon, cheese and cabbage quiche
• Sam’s butterscotch brownies
• Martha Stewart’s plum coffee muffins

Oh, so sweet!

• Peaches and cream
• Mango-rum sorbet
• Easy dessert crepes
• Coffee jelly dessert
• Mango custard
• Refrigerator cake
• Chocolate coated gummy bears
• Crepes a la mode
• Midnight snack: crepes, bananas and guava jelly
• Mango and jelly (jango) dessert