Chinese-style fried rice is not a Filipino recipe. Duh, that should be self-explanatory. Potato salad is not a native Filipino dish either. But paksiw is. Omelet…??? Hmmm… I’m not very sure. The term omelet is Continental but we do have our traditional version where chopped garlic, onions and tomatoes are stirred into the beaten eggs before pouring into the hot oil. What the heck am I talking about? Well, I’m talking about the dishes that I am featuring for Lasang Pinoy 15: Recycled, Reloaded!. Why am I including the Chinese-style fried rice and salad recipes? Because the way I understood the theme, it is not so much about traditional Filipino food but about the ingenuity of the Filipinos to make use of leftover food and to recycle them into great dishes.
Lasang Pinoy 15 (Recycled, Reloaded!): Cooking with leftovers
Spelling, grammar and future employment
More than once, I have written about some of my sad experiences when, working in HR some years back, I had the unfortunate responsibility of going over hundreds of application letters every time a vacancy occurred. My main conplaint complaint–how come college graduates were unable to compose decent application letters? Some didn’t even know the ... (more)
Buying flowers in Tagaytay
Three days in Tagaytay and that is the clearest photo of Taal Volcano that I could manage. Cloudy, foggy… It was sunny in Tagaytay City itself from the second day onward but down by Taal Lake, the haze never let up. So, we spent a lot of time going over the flower stalls along the ... (more)
Beef chuck and mayo
The inspiration for this dish came from a dip. A former officemate of my husband taught him to make a dip by mixing together some mayonnaise, finely chopped garlic and milk. It’s a fast and easy concoction that we have been enjoying with fried or grilled fish and meat for years. It is especially good with bangus fritters.
A couple of nights ago, I wanted to know if the simple dip could serve as a sauce for cubes of beef chuck…
Michigan vs. Sharee Miller
Came across Fatal Error (HBO) and I forgot that I intended to go to bed after the kids left for school. The best part came at the end of the movie just before the credits–it was based on a true story. According to some sites, the film was supposed to have been retitled Fatal Desire ... (more)
The Tagaytay trip part 1: La Trobada
We spent three days in Tagaytay last week. For better context, perhaps, you should start by reading this. On the first day, after checking into the hotel, we had a late lunch at La Trobada Restaurant. No, not upon anyone’s recommendation. It was a totally unfamiliar restaurant but I wanted bulalo and La Trobada sat ... (more)
The Tagaytay trip
We spent three days in Tagaytay last week. The big deal really about going there was just to enjoy the food at Bag of Beans. And do a lot of photography, naturally. But let me write this from the beginning. About a month before our scheduled trip, my husband was in Tagaytay on a business ... (more)
Child rearing and mental stimulation
First, let me quote from a news report: Researchers studied the effects of fatherhood on the brain of male Marmosets, small tree-dwelling monkeys that spend 70 percent of their time caring for newborns. The result of all this baby time, according to new research by Princeton University psychologist Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy and her colleagues, is that ... (more)
Pasta with tinapang bangus (smoked milkfish)
About a month and a half ago, I made pasta with bottled tuyo (salted dried herring), one of my many attempts at Filipinizing pasta by substituting tuyo for the traditional anchovies. Well, I did it again, a couple of days ago but, this time, with flaked tinapang bangus (smoked milkfish). You will need more salt on this one since the tinapa is not as salty as the tuyo.
7 Corners Restaurant, Crowne Plaza Hotel
Since we are the only October celebrants, my brother-in-law, Buddy, and I had a joint birthday party at the 7 Corners Restaurant of the Crowne Plaza Hotel on October 29th. My mother-in-law had her birthday party there last May and the buffet was really terrific. We were a small group of twenty since it was ... (more)
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