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Continue reading →: Unity in Diversity
Would anyone happen to know a Mexican food blogger I can contact? Why? Here’s another long-winded explanation and my way of asking for suggestions. I don’t intend to make it an event in the tradition of the Is My Blog Burning? spin-offs but the more I think about it, the more I’m…
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Continue reading →: Mango Season!
Summer is in the air! And that means the fruits of the season will soon be making their appearance, one of which is the mango. April and May are the months when the ripened fruits are at the height of their glory although we now enjoy them all year-round. Before…
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Continue reading →: IMBB 12: Tâgiló (Fermented Rice and Shrimp Paste)
I wonder if Carlo at my latest supper was thinking of the adage “one man’s meat is another’s poison” when he chose the theme of this month’s Is My Blog Burning? What a way to celebrate the 12th instalment and 1st anniversary of Alberto’s original idea! Something taboo or disgusting – in our part of the world,…
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Continue reading →: Music in My Kitchen
I was telling JMom that with her tag, my ‘uncool’ taste in music will now be found out. As I was browsing through the entries of those tagged before me, it is confirmed how musically outdated I am. If this blog tries to do a bit of food anthropology, then the music belongs…
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Continue reading →: Semi-Elaborate Pinakbet
Perhaps I’ve come close to solving the puzzle why we call sitaw (also spelled sitao in Tagalog, câmangyáng in Capampangan, utong in Ilocano and Badiriya in Lebanese Arabic) stringbeans while to many parts of the English-speaking world, they’re yard-long beans. I came across a paper from the American colonial period where they were most probably writing the English translations for our native…
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Continue reading →: Salabat: Ginger Brew
In this fast-changing world, we are in danger of losing some practices we take for granted. Everything changes but to forget some essential details of a culture such as food traditions is alarming. Even here in the Pampanga, only a few people remember our old recipes and I believe that…
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Continue reading →: IMBB 22: Mami-Style Miki (Use Your Noodle)
This was another IMBB of many options. So many noodle dishes, so little time! For this month’s theme, Amy chose Use Your Noodle to make us think and improvise around a food article beloved the world over. I am already looking forward to reading the other entries during the round-up. It is…
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Continue reading →: Be on the IMBB Portal
For three months now, the Is My Blog Burning? portal has been running, ably administered by Ronald of love Sicily. Avid followers of food blogs must feel how the IMBB has strengthened the community spirit among food bloggers. Alberto of Il Forno had a good thing going when he first put forward his idea! The aggregator Food…
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Continue reading →: IMBB 11 – Tipé Câmangyáng (Beans)
Is My Blog Burning? is the brainchild of Alberto at Il Forno and it has really caught on as bloggers the world over eagerly await and prepare for the monthly event. Today would be the eleventh edition and we anticipate the sharing of recipes around the theme ‘beans’. Cathy at my little kitchen is hosting it this…
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Continue reading →: Stringbeans? Yard-long Beans? What Beans?
Or beans by any name taste the same…Or beans of the same name are not the same…Or things I learn through blogging… They’re called câmangyáng in Capampangan and sitaw in Tagalog. All my life I thought they were called string beans in English. Weren’t we taught that at home and in school and aren’t…
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