Asian cooking

• Beef curry
• Pork and mushrooms noodle soup
• Pearl Balls
• Ostrich chop suey
• Lasang Pinoy 24: Coconut custard
• Crispy chicken strips with sweet and sour sauce
• When tofu met pesto
• Jipan Japanese bakery and coffee shop
• Beef asado noodle soup
• Steamed fish in sesame oil

Asia & beyond

• Tortang sisig at talong
• Sunday lunch in the garden
• Radical farmer’s pie
• Mango syrup for pancakes
• Baked macaroni for a Halloween party
• Pork, spinach and Pinoy pesto
• Pritong tilapia (fried St. Peter’s fish) and cheese-topped chili-cauliflower bake
• Ground beef, mushrooms and quail eggs in oyster sauce
• Pork loin chops with cream cheese sauce
• Chicken, squash and zucchini saute

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Hotdog on a toothpick

UPDATE on October 30, 2008:

Click here for the recipe of real corn dogs.

The proper name is corndog. You can buy them frozen in boxes or you can make your own. They are also sold freshly cooked in parks, amusement centers, malls and supermarket lobbies mostly in small stalls. A favorite with kids, it is basically hotdog dipped in pancake batter then deep-fried until golden brown.

So, why do I call it hotdog on a toothpick. When you buy this snack, frozen or freshly cooked, it is a regular sized hotdog threaded on a bamboo skewer. To cook it that way, you need a deep fryer and so much cooking oil to make sure that the whole batter-dipped hotdog is submerged in hot oil. I do not have a deep fryer or any similar utensil deep enough to hold the whole hotdog. So, I cut each hotdog into thirds, insert a toothpick in each portion, dip them in pancake batter then deep-fry them. It’s the same thing but smaller.

To make this snack, make sure that the hotdogs have thawed completely. Otherwise, the bread will cook while the hotdog may still be cold at the center.

In the mood for more food?

• Chocolate polvoron
• Balon-balonan at kangkong (gizzards and water spinach)
• Dampa sa Libis
• Tuna and fresh mango stir fry
• Chili sauce
• A secret called Vieux Chalet
• Guinataang Mongo
• Crispy Pata
• Fruity Maja
• Kowloon House