Cassava bibingka with custard topping
Kamoteng-kahoy (cassava) is a root crop. Even if you’re not familiar with the root crop itself, you would probably be familiar with by-products of cassava. Tapioca balls (sago) are made from cassava. Tapioca starch is the best thickener for Chinese-style stir fried dishes. Cassava suffered from some very bad publicity two years ago when school [...]
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Pork barbecue fried rice
I’m posting this recipe under ’school lunches’ although this pork barbecue fried rice never quite made it to the kids’ lunch boxes. They both stayed home today. Sam has been feeling sick since Tuesday and, yesterday afternoon, Alex was down with some kind of bug as well. It might be the abrupt change of weather, [...]
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Fish fillets and togue (mung bean sprouts) stir fry
Last Thursday, Alex came home with two classmates. They were going to make polvoron to sell at the school fair the following day and the day after that. I thawed a kilo of fish fillets that I planned to cook into a sweet and sour dish. The problem was that the vegetables I had in [...]
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Tortang sisig at talong
I love sisig. Everyone in my family does. But, for the life of me, I can’t cook sisig — it just entails too much work from cleaning the pig’s head to the boiling to the grilling to the chopping… It’s just easier to order sisig in restaurants where it is a specialty. These days, however, [...]
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Tortang sardinas at togue (canned sardines and mongo sprout frittata)
In my tortang tilapia entry, reader Felixberto commented, “I’ve been making torta using ligo sardines. Haven’t tried tilapia, With sardines, my torta crumbles… I was wondering, should I put in the veggies first before the fish?” And my response was, “…perhaps the best way is to mix the cooked veggies with the beaten eggs, pour [...]
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Grilled herbed liempo (pork belly) and potatoes
Pork, the much maligned meat. In the forums, Ann, who works in Riyadh, says they try to cook Filipino food despite the absence of pork. JMom, in Durham, NC, sympathized because, being “such a porker, I wouldn’t know what to do if I had to live without it!”
Well, my family loves pork, bad press or [...]
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Ground beef, mushrooms and quail eggs in oyster sauce
I was planning on cooking Scotch Eggs but I got lazy last night after cooking an entire tikoy a few hours earlier. Besides, I had fresh mushrooms in the fridge that I didn’t want to go to waste. So, why not a stir fried dish? It would be fast, it entails less work and the [...]
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Pork and mushrooms adobo
Mention Filipino cooking and adobo comes to mind. For some reason, the dish itself is an unequivocal declaration of being Pinoy. I like the way The Wily Filipino puts it: “It’s an unambiguous declaration of ethnic presence, an olfactory attack on the mainstream: We’re here and you can smell it… adobo is uncomplicated, a symbol [...]
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