Steamed pompano with ginger sauce
Most of my friends who cook think that commercial broth cubes are an essential ingredient of steamed whole fish. I beg to disagree. Using broth cubes takes the control out of the cook because you’re stuck with the flavors in the broth cubes. Worse, the MSG content of broth cubes kill the natural flavors of the fish and who the heck wants that? Might as well eat canned fish.
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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 [...]
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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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Fish lumpia (spring roll) with gata (coco milk)
Why fried lumpia (spring rolls) has come to be known in the Philippines as lumpiang Shanghai, I have no idea. I do know, however, that ground or minced pork is not the only good filling for fried spring rolls. Vegetables, turkey, canned tuna, tinapang bangus and ripe mangoes, and even bananas are just as great. [...]
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Fish fillets with pepper and thyme
The idea came from a fish dish that Jamie Oliver did in one of his cooking shows. He pressed the herbs and spices into the fish fillets and then fried them. I did it the way he did some months ago and the herbs burned before the fish was cooked through. Perhaps, the temperature of [...]
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