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Continue reading →: Salé / Tanglad / Lemon grass
Meet Salé, the ever-reliable herb. In this picture, it’s still a fledgling plant not mature enough for the kitchen. This was taken sometime back and I meant to post it in a few months with a complete discussion and pictures of the fully-grown plant but comments from my previous entry on tanglé made…
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Continue reading →: Lasang Pinoy II: Albús Ítu (Cooking Up a Storm!)
Today we post our entries for the second edition of Lasang Pinoy, the Filipino food blogging event. Our month’s host is Celia Kusinera at English Patis with the theme Cooking Up a Storm! It’s a very fitting topic since normally, September is towards the end of the monsoon season. With drastic climatic shifts however, it…
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Continue reading →: Tanglé / Alagaw
Tanglé (Premna odorata Blanco syn. Premna vestita Schauer ) or alagaw in Tagalog and fragrant premna in English is indigenous to the Philippines. Its tender leaves are employed in Capampangan cuisine in a variety of ways. In our family, tanglé is indispensable in ningnang bangus (inihaw na bangus – broiled milkfish) and in some vinegared stews. From…
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Continue reading →: IMBB 19: Sabo Culubasa (I Can’t Believe I Ate Vegan!)
Sam at Becks & Posh is hosting this month’s edition of Is My Blog Burning? with the theme I Can’t Believe I Ate Vegan! Much as turning vegan has never entered my mind – I’m too much of an ecology empiricist – I have to admit it wouldn’t be such a radical change in lifestyle…
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Continue reading →: Food for Our National Soul
[Originally written for the PinoyExpats monthly online magazine.] What a fossil I am! I could be one of the last of my generation trained by grandmothers who were alive before the Second World War. Apprenticed by Lola the Keeper of Kitchen Traditions says a lot about my current cooking style.…
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New Orleans ‘paksiw’ from Manila
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Continue reading →: New Orleans ‘paksiw’ from ManilaIn the wake of typhoon Katrina, I can’t help but remember how the Manilamen lived on marshes which may as well be wiped out now. In today’s edition of the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) is the article History of ‘Manilamen’ of New Orleans lost to ‘Katrina’ which touches on food these men…
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Continue reading →: Childhood Food Memories
[Edited: Originally a food blog meme then revised for my SunStar column published in 14 December 2006.] In the Philippines, the Christmas season starts in September, so I am inviting SunStar readers to share with us their food anecdotes. It is most probably these stories that help define the Capampangan/Filipino…
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Continue reading →: IMBB 19: Grandchild’s Spicy Tokwa (I Can’t Believe I Ate Vegan!)
This is my second entry for the month’s Is My Blog Burning? with the theme I Can’t Believe I Ate Vegan! hosted by Sam at Becks and Posh. What I’m presenting is a twist on an old family favourite, my grandfather’s original spicy chicken recipe which he called Lutong Bombay (Hi Nupur!). In a way, it is…
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Continue reading →: IMBB 18: Cheese-Garlic Sticks (Summer’s Flying, Let’s Get Frying!)
Summer is long gone from this part of the hemisphere but frying is here to stay, especially in the Philippines, or Asia for that matter where a good fraction of what we eat goes through a form of frying. When At Our Table hostess Linda announced the theme for this month’s IMBB, I was…
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