Sinigang ng ulo ng maya-maya (fish head in sour soup)
I know, I’ve got so many versions of sinigang (sour soup) on this blog that, perhaps, I shouldn’t bother posting this one. But I will, anyway, for two reasons:
1) The kangkong (water spinach or swamp spinach in the right photo below) that I used here is not the ordinary kind that grows most anywhere [...]
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Ensaladang Pipino (Cucumber Salad)
There first time I served this salad at a dinner party, my friends were a little hesitant about trying it because they thought that the red stuff were hot chili peppers. They aren’t. They’re chopped pimientoes, I told them. After trying it, one of them asked if I could make some for her husband’s birthday [...]
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Sinigang na tiyan ng salmon (salmon belly sour soup)
Since I first sampled this salmon belly sinigang at Gerry’s Grill, I’ve been dreaming of cooking my own version at home. Gee, it was a very satisfying dinner we just had. Actually, I have a weakness for fish belly and it doesn’t matter what kind of fish–tuna, bangus (milkfish), blue marlin, tangigue, maya-maya and, of [...]
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Nilagang manok 2
Nilagang manok, literally boiled chicken, is a soup dish made with cut chicken and a variety of vegetables. It’s a rather simple dish, really, easy to prepare and only takes about 40 minutes to cook. The basic recipe for nilagang manok was among my earliest blog entries. The only difference between that dish and this [...]
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Rice, chicken and vegetables dish
This dish is actually a cross between a soup and lugaw (congee). Uncooked rice is added while the chicken cooks. The amount of rice, though, is much less than what is required to make lugaw.
Tomorrow is market day I only had two small chickens left in the freezer, each weighing less than a kilo. Since [...]
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Pinatisang manok (chicken soup with fermented fish sauce)
This is a classic Filipino dish. It looks and tastes very similar to tinola. Even the basic cooking procedure is the same. The difference of pinatisang manok with tinola is that it does not count wedges of raw papaya among its ingredients. Hence, the broth has none of the flavor that papaya imparts.
Pinatisang manok [...]
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Ensaladang Talong (eggplant salad)
We’re having something very sinful tonight. %-P Crispy pata. While pressure-cooking the pata, the salad was prepared. While the crispy pata is cooking in hot oil–where it is making a lot of spattering noises as well–I’m posting this.
There are several versions for making this oil-free salad. Some cut the talong (eggplants) in chunks, [...]
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Stuffed Ampalaya (bitter melon)
Sometimes referred to a bitter gourd, ampalaya (bitter melon), mormodica chatantia, is also known in some Visayan regions as amargozo. It is a vegetable that grows on vines. The average length is eight to twelve inches. As the English names suggest, ampalaya has a bitter taste. This is one of the vegetables I avoided [...]
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