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Continue reading →: Food Blogs and TV
We’re now irrevocably into the summer season, if the fire in the bamboo grove by the riverbank is an indication. Each year, since I can remember, parts of the riverbank near our house would burst into flames from the dry bamboo leaves. For us children, it was an excuse to…
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Continue reading →: Mangoes: Our Pride and Joy
One of the benefits of being read in a newspaper is how information seems to run after you. I would never have gotten as many leads doing academic research. Everyone seems to enjoy giving me new information. Now and then, there are eureka moments. Time and again, I get thought-provoking…
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Continue reading →: On Drinking and Drunkenness
[This was previously posted on this blog with accompanying sisig recipe. It was subsequently slightly revised for SunStar-Pampanga’s street copy.] In less than a month, Angeles City’s Sisig Festival is sure to gather its die-hard fans. Aside from the superb food and entertainment, drinks will be overflowing of course! I…
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Continue reading →: Avocado Frosty
Filipino cuisine has always been thought of as intrinsically a fusion of many influences both from the East and the West. Mind you, this is not the fusion of deliberately combining seemingly disparate ingredients but the natural co-mingling of cultures that have crossed paths through the centuries. Due to this…
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Continue reading →: Lasang Pinoy on print (again!)
How time flies! Has it already been a year? Were we not only dreaming about a food blogging event dedicated to Filipino food? Well, apparently we started a good thing. Mike over at Lafang gave us Filipino food bloggers an anniversary gift by writing a feature about Lasang Pinoy for What’s On & Expat,…
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Continue reading →: Yet another meme
I really, really do need to finish my draft posts. It’s the last quarter of the year and I don’t want to be dealing with backlog in 2007, hehehe! I should be done with the memes with this one. The beautiful Iska tagged me with Food meme around the world. Here are…
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Continue reading →: Too Much Info
I’ve been remiss with posting (what’s new?) and even with correspondence. When life interferes, I am hardly online. Before more of the same posts, here’s a meme courtesy of cabalen Ces. The instructions are to write ten things not commonly known about me. For this blog, I’ll keep them food-related. I’ll also try…
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Continue reading →: Isip / Bignay / Salamander Tree
A few years ago, isip trees (bignay, Antidesima bunius) were plentiful on the riverbank near our house. After Mt. Pinatubo’s eruption, only a handful remain. Today, a lone tree stands but is always laden with fruits in the summer. The fruit which was taken for granted seems to have found a following with…
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Continue reading →: LP X: Umba/Humba (Childhood Memories)
Food Memories from Childhood as the theme for Lasang Pinoy 10 is most fitting for me. I always say that what I know about cooking has much of its foundations in my childhood. My appreciation for the intrinsic values of traditional cooking methods was born from that period and is in no small…
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Continue reading →: Why, why, why?
I was shocked that they were shocked. What gave them the idea? or what didn’t give them the idea that I can cook? Hmmm… Today, 22 May is the feast day of our town’s patron, Santa Rita de Cascia. We had been cooking vats and large pots of food since…
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