Food articles posted in Aug 2007

Mixed seafood rice with turmeric and coconut cream

The ideal way of cooking this rice and seafood dish is to cook the seafood in coconut cream then toss in the cooked rice. But since I am allergic to crustaceans, I had to cook the seafood separately so that none of the juices of the shrimps would be absorbed by the rice. It did [...]

Fried tokwa (firm tofu)

There was this e-mail asking me about tofu. At first, I thought the question was about the difference between firm tofu and silken tofu but, when I reached the end of the [kilometric] e-mail, I wasn’t sure anymore what the question was. From what I gathered — and I could be wrong — it was about which kind of tofu, silken or firm, was good for frying. I hope I got that right. Actually, even if I got the question wrong, the e-mail provided a pretty interesting topic for a food article and I hope that other readers will find this tokwa frying entry useful.

Chili garlic shrimps with coriander paste and Kecap Manis

Despite my allergy to all things crustacean, I do cook prawns, shrimps and crabs occasionally for my family. There was a time when seasoning was mostly a hit-and-miss affair since it’s too risky for me to keep on checking how the sauce tastes. I can’t take a small piece of the animal either — that [...]

Bread: everyone has his favorite

It isn’t unusual to find more than one kind of bread in our house at any given time. The common sliced loaf bread is a staple but, often, you’ll find any one or more of these breads in the kitchen: focaccia, danish/croissants, pan de sal and French bread. If tortilla can be classified as a [...]

The Padi’s Point experience

I had very fond memories of Padi’s Point. Back in the College of Law, friends and I often drove up to Antipolo just to view the sunset over bottles of beer and some cheap finger foods (usually peanuts). More often than not, we landed at the “stilts” — nipa huts along the edge of Sumulong [...]

Food tripping in Taiwan

The following article was published today in the Life & Travel section of the Manila Standard Today. Links are supplied here for easy reference.
I was quite prepared to eat Chinese dimsum for five days in Taiwan. In fact, I was looking forward to it. Dimsum for five days would have been a heavenly gastronomic feast [...]

Vietnamese chicken and pineapple dish

Until I started leafing through my new Vietnamese and Malaysian cookbooks, I never realized how much similarity there is among the cuisines of Southeast Asian countries. For instance, there is a Malaysian dish very much like our own nilagang baka but comes with whole caps of black Chinese mushrooms and is served with soy sauce [...]

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House On A Hill

Fish & seafood

• Braised tilapia
• Baked fish and spinach
• Sweet and spicy talakitok in a flash
• Sardines frittata in tortilla
• Fish fillets in white wine and cream-and-cheese sauce
• Mackerel frittata
• Pasta with clams in red wine sauce
• Baked pompano and red cabbage
• Baked scallops
• Fish fillets with pepper and thyme

Superb soups

• One pot of broth, 2 soup dishes
• Chicken soup for a rainy day
• Kalabasa (squash) and potato soup
• Kalabasa (squash) soup
• Budget cooking, part 1 (macaroni soup)
• Fish head soup with coconut cream
• Chicken and misua soup, version 2
• Chunky beef, tomato and eggplant soup
• Real cream of mushroom soup
• Creamed cabbage soup