Blueberry oatmeal pancakes
While I try to figure out the newsletter problem being experienced by some Yahoo! users (I may have to get a third party program for the newsletter), let me introduce a new category in my recipes blog — breakfast. I’m not going to cook different brands of pancake mixes. Nooo… it’s something else. We’re re-learning [...]
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Adobong pusit sa gata (squid adobo in coconut cream)
Adobong pusit is a familiar dish, popular and rather common Filipino dish. In fact, when one mentions pusit (squid), the first three dishes that come to mind are the traditional adobong pusit (squid), calamares and grilled pusit. But if there is such a thing as adobong manok sa gata (chicken adobo in coconut cream or [...]
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Samosas, a delightful vegetarian appetizer
I am not one to shy away from strong spicy smells. I have long been intrigued by Indian cuisine but never had the chance to really explore it. A major factor is the availability of traditional Indian spices. While Malaysian and Thai spices are becoming more available in the country, it has always seemed that [...]
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Penang Hill Restaurant
We like our “first” to be memorable. Our first plane ride, our first date, our first day at work… even our first taste of a foreign cuisine. When I chose to eat at Penang Hill at the Promenade in Greenhills over my daughters’ objections who wanted a repeat of our Teriyaki Boy dinner just a [...]
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Swiss rosti (a.k.a. fried potatoes)
Ahhh… the mystery of European cuisine. I always thought that only professionally trained chefs could make Swiss rosti until I found out it was just fried potatoes. Amazing how Europeans refer to Asian cuisine as “exotic” and how we Asians, in turn, are awed by their seemingly sophisticated food. When, in fact…
Anyway… so I made [...]
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Maiz con hielo
The spelling may differ — maiz con yelo, mais con yelo, maiz con hielo… But they all refer to the same thing — a cold and refreshing snack made with sweet corn, shaved ice, milk and sugar. Serve it plain or top it with crisp pinipig, crushed corn flakes or even with ice cream. If [...]
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Dessert and breakfast at Bag of Beans
Rarely do I find a restaurant that looks good by day and by night. And even more rare are restaurants where both the main meal and the dessert are good. In most cases, a restaurant would have a specialty—either one or more of the main entrees OR dessert. Bag of Beans in Tagaytay City has [...]
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Tagaytap trip 2: Looking for the best bulalo in Tagaytay?
The first part of the Tagaytay food trip series was posted last year so this second installment is really long overdue. Reasons are many. I was planning on submitting a Tagaytay feature for the Life & Travel section of Manila Standard Today but the delay in the publication of articles I previously submitted made me [...]
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