Pesang isda : a delicate fish soup
Isda means fish. Pesang Isda is a fish soup dish with vegetables. It is served with miso (crumbled soy bean curd) sauce; it is this sauce that makes pesa special.
In the Philippines, soup dishes are hardly ever just stock with a few pieces of meat and vegetables. Soup is not served before the main meal. [...]
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Nilagang baka : boiled beef and vegetables
Nilaga means boiled; baka means beef. Nilagang Baka, or boiled beef, is a fairly easy dish to prepare. It only involves one basic process–boiling. To be more specific, the boiling involved in cooking Nilagang Baka refers to slow cooking.
A succuessful Nilagang Baka dish has three basic features :
1. a very good broth;
2. fork tender beef; [...]
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Speedy’s picadillo
Traditionally, picadillo was cooked with either beef AND chayote, or beef AND potatoes. My father (who was a really fantastic cook) used to make both versions, depending on which vegetable was available. So did I, until a few nights ago when I just felt that beef AND chayote was already too boring, while beef AND [...]
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Chicken sinigang
“Sinigang” is a sour soup. A good “sinigang” results in the correct blend of saltiness and sourness of the soup. Its main ingredient can either be meat or seafood. Its soup base is either tamarind (usually when using meat) or guava (for fish or shrimp).
To make the base for sinigang during my grandmother’s time, [...]
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Bean sprout lumpia
Bean sprout lumpia, or lumpiang togue, as it is popularly known to the Filipinos, is so named because the bean sprout is the dominant ingredient. But that’s not really a strict rule. The proportion between the different vegetables can be changed. You can have more carrots and green beans. Or you can add more tofu [...]
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