Cafe Dozo, a Japanese restaurant and caf� located along Circumferential Road in Antipolo, has been in operation for a few months. We didn’t get to try it until … [Read more...]
Home – style McChicken
April 29, 2006 By 7 Comments
There is one thing and one thing only that I like in the McDonald's menu--the McChicken. Wendy's, Burger King, KFC and even Jollibee have their versions but McDonald's … [Read more...]
Lasang Pinoy 9: offal in Filipino dishes
April 28, 2006 By 15 Comments
The roundup for Lasang Pinoy 9: Lamang-loob: Odd cuts and guts is already up. I was able to squeeze in a few minutes of bloghopping last night and a visit to JMom's reminded … [Read more...]
Beef and broccoli leaves
April 28, 2006 By 9 Comments
When I cooked my beef and sotanghon dish a couple of days ago, I actually boiled a kilo of beef brisket. Half went into the noodle dish; half went into this braised dish that … [Read more...]
Beef and sotanghon (vermicelli noodles)
April 24, 2006 By 15 Comments
Minor renovations in the house started today. Since we're far from the center of the town, my husband suggested that I cook extra for lunch to include the workers. It turned … [Read more...]
Pininyahang manok (pineapple chicken)
April 21, 2006 By 51 Comments
A few weeks ago, I received an e-mail from a reader wondering where my recipe for pininyahang manok (pineapple chicken) had gone. I was a bit flustered at first because I … [Read more...]
Cattleya Farm Resort
April 21, 2006 By 42 Comments
Thanks, Filipinas magazine!
April 19, 2006 By 10 Comments
It was reader Lourdes in the comment thread of my second Lasang Pinoy 8 entry who first informed me that this blog was featured in the April, 2006 edition of Filipinas … [Read more...]
Mocha Blends
April 18, 2006 By
Mocha Blends is a cafŽ--one of the few we hadn’t tried until last weekend. We went to see Ice Age 2 at the Robinson’s East Mall and we decided to have an early … [Read more...]
City lights
April 17, 2006 By 11 Comments
There is a restaurant along Sumulong Highway called Cloud 9 that offers a 180 degree panoramic view of Metro Manila's city lights. Almost right across Padi's Point, you have … [Read more...]
U.P. Diliman
April 17, 2006 By 2 Comments
One of our favorite places to while away a lazy afternoon, the U.P. Diliman campus has lots of open fields where we fly kites, play ball or just enjoy a picnic. Plus, of … [Read more...]
Sweet and sour boneless tilapia fillets
April 17, 2006 By 13 Comments
According to a local magazine, tilapia is St. Peter's fish. Whether that has some historical connotation (Jesus and his disciples were fishermen, right?) or just a name given … [Read more...]
Favorito ice cream
April 17, 2006 By
Been seeing this ice cream brand in the supermarkets for some time now but didn’t get to try them until about a month ago. Right, I took the photo a month ago and forgot … [Read more...]
Green mango juice
April 17, 2006 By 15 Comments
Been craving for green mango juice. If there's anything attractive about Philippine summers, it's the abundance of mangoes--ripe and unripe. Mangoes that are just starting to … [Read more...]
Roast pork asado
April 16, 2006 By 4 Comments
The more common way of cooking pork asado is to braise a slab of pork until tender then slice it afterwards. The Chinese way of cooking pork asado is to roast marinated pork … [Read more...]
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