Food articles posted in Feb 2008

Salmon, cheese and cabbage quiche

In the 1985 James Bond film A View To A Kill, Bond offers to make dinner while staying in the mansion of Stacey Sutton. He takes a baked dish out of the oven, the clueless American heiress asks what it is and Bond replies that it is a quiche. The term is unfamiliar to her and Bond explains that it is an omelet. Personally, I’d describe a quiche as a cross between an omelet and a pie.

Coriander seeds

Wikipedia says all parts of the coriander plant are edible. I am only familiar with the many uses of the leaves and seeds.

Coriander seeds are not always available in supermarkets but you will find them in 99% of the wet markets. Most vegetables sell them. As a trivia, my grandmother made my brother take baths with coriander-infused water when he caught chicken pox. The coriander is supposed to hasten the period of illness. Whether that’s a medical fact or old wives’ tale…

Miso paste

Bought at The Landmark Supermarket, TriNoma Mall after two attempts at making miso soup using local miso — you know, the kind used for the dipping sauce of pesa soup and the yellow kind that goes into sinigang sa miso. I’ll tell you about those two attempts another time. For purposes of this entry, Japanese miso paste is not the same as local miso.

Turmeric (yellow ginger)

Turmeric belongs to the ginger family. To give you an idea of the size, that’s a teaspoon in the photo. What I wanted was to buy a turmeric plant for my small herb garden. But the available plant was too big to transport. I bought a pack of turmeric instead — P50.00 for quite a [...]

Pork and asparagus egg drop soup

Based on the view count, the chicken in caramel sauce appears to be quite popular. Easy and tasty is always attractive. To the newbie cook, it means less chances of messing up. To the busy mom, it means less time sweating it out in the kitchen. To the seasoned cook, it’s a rest from those laborious works of art. To the diner, good food is good food.

I should tell you though that I served the chicken in caramel sauce with a soup.

Chicken in caramel sauce

…while the Japanese teriyaki and the Vietnamese chicken in caramel sauce may appear similar, and even taste somewhat similar to the untrained diner, two dishes cannot be more unlike. While both have that sweet-salty flavor, Japanese teriyaki is sweetened with sake and mirin and salted with soy sauce, the Vietnamese chicken caramel is sweetened with sugar and salted with fish sauce. The only thing they have in common is the ginger.

Lumpiang ubod (heart of palm spring rolls)

The last time I made lumpiang ubod, my firstborn (now 15) was still a baby and we were living at my in-laws’. I had too many excuses for not making lumpiang ubod all these years — I had no non-stick pan to make those crepe-like wrappers, it was such a hassle going to the market so early in the morning for the ubod choice cuts, the weather’s too hot…

Asian coleslaw

The inspiration is from Videojug. I always thought that ALL THAT OLIVE OIL was necessary to make raw vegetables edible but it seems not. As long as the combination of vegetables is right and the dressing is good, a salad can be a wonderful thing. I modified the Videojug recipe, of course, to suit my preferences. Instead of white cabbage, I used Chinese cabbage (pechay baguio). I also changed the sugar-vinegar ratio in the dressing to 1:1.

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