Amateur baker
- No bake chocolate-almonds-cream cheese cookie squares
- Egg (custard) pie
- Vanilla-mocha marble chiffon cake
- A cheesecake and self-frosting cupcakes
- Smoked porkloin and cheese cupcakes
- Lemon squares
- Strawberry streusel cake
- Oatmeal cookies and a cookie fest
- Blueberry and apple squares
- Chocolate cheesecake
Noche Buena
- Fried lapu-lapu with pineapple sauce
- Kalabasa (squash) and potato soup
- Mango cream pie
- Liver paté
- Roast duckling on New Year’s eve
- A Christmas Eve story
- Cucumber and coconut smoothie
- Bangus belly steaks
- Pork ears barbecue
- Rellenong manok (stuffed deboned whole chicken)
School lunchbox
- Pork barbecue fried rice
- Packed school lunches
- Pinatisang bangus (milkfish soup with fish sauce)
- Crispy chicken strips with sweet and sour sauce
- Ground pork and vegetables frittata
- Tapsilog in the school lunchbox
- Ox tongue with gravy
- Chicken, ham and leeks fried rice
- School lunch: fish fillet and buttered vegetables
- School lunch: chicken, chayote and spinach
Itlog na maalat (salted eggs)
Mallard duck eggs, the same kind used for making balut and penoy, are used for making itlog na maalat or salted eggs. I don’t know if that still holds true today or whether large chicken eggs are substituted for the duck eggs which are considerably more rare and expensive than chicken eggs.
Itlog na maalat are sold cooked–hard-boiled to be more precise. The red color of the shells isn’t natural, of course. The shells are colored to distinguish them from fresh eggs. In wet markets, itlog na maalat is sold side by side with fresh eggs and imagine if the vendor gets a little confused and gives you salted eggs when, in fact, you intended to buy fresh ones. In Pateros where making itlog na maalat is a town industry, along with balut and penoy, you can buy them before the shells are dyed. My father liked to do that but it gets confusing in the kitchen. One time when he was cooking breakfast, he picked up an egg from the fridge thinking it was one of the fresh ones, cracked it open above the frying fan and was surprised when nothing dripped. Well, nothing would–he had taken a salted egg instead of a fresh one.
Salted eggs are often cut into small cubes and mixed with diced tomatoes to make a salad that is the traditional accompaniment for tinapa or any fried or grilled fish. You don’t have to limit the salad to salted eggs and tomatoes, however. You can be a little more creative by adding fresh herbs and some subtle seasonings (recipe here).
Meanwhile, sliced itlog na maalat is a great topping for home made puto (steamed rice cakes).
If you’re a Filipino living abroad and itlog na maalat is not easily obtainable in your area, making them at home is easy enough. Manang Kusinera has a blog entry that gives the details complete with photos. Manong Ken has a simpler way of doing it.
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