I usually spend an hour or two on Sunday evening OR an hour or two on Monday morning to write Tuesday’s op-ed column. This time, it’s a little different though. I submitted the column on Saturday afternoon because we were planning on going to the Balloon Fest in Clark on Sunday. As things turned out, ... (more)
Tropical sunrise
Posted on February 11, 2007 · 1 Comment
Let me take a break from the Bantay Pawikan photos… I seem to have misplaced the remaining two folders… My husband had to go out of town yesterday to do some ocular inspection of conference venues. He was up early to have the car washed. He was in the car wash somewhere in the vicinity ... (more)
Grilled herbed liempo (pork belly) and potatoes
Posted on February 10, 2007 · 33 Comments
Pork, the much maligned meat. In the forums, Ann, who works in Riyadh, says they try to cook Filipino food despite the absence of pork. JMom, in Durham, NC, sympathized because, being “such a porker, I wouldn’t know what to do if I had to live without it!” Well, my family loves pork, bad press ... (more)
Napoleones
Posted on February 10, 2007 ·
I’ve always wondered if it was French in origin but the pastry called Napoleones is closely associated with Bacolod City in the province of Negros, the sugar capital of the Philippines. Fellow Filipino food blogger Kai wrote, “Napoleones possibly was adapted from the napoleon, which is how the French pastry mille-fuille (a thousand leaves) is ... (more)
Ground beef, mushrooms and quail eggs in oyster sauce
Posted on February 9, 2007 · 15 Comments
I was planning on cooking Scotch Eggs but I got lazy last night after cooking an entire tikoy a few hours earlier. Besides, I had fresh mushrooms in the fridge that I didn’t want to go to waste. So, why not a stir fried dish? It would be fast, it entails less work and the ... (more)
Kitchen cabinet
Posted on February 9, 2007 · 37 Comments
We have a house on a hill; not a mansion on a hill. Which means space is limited. Which means vertical additions are the best options. Walls, we have lots of — empty walls. And, for the past two weeks, I’ve been striving to put them to good use. I mentioned several days ago that ... (more)
Tikoy: Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Posted on February 9, 2007 ·
Tikoy is someting I will forever associate with my late paternal grandfather. No, he wasn’t Chinese but he had this love affair with Chinese food and cuisine. It was from him that I learned the rudiments of siomai-making. He was very fond of tikoy. When I was a kid and celebrating the Chinese New Year ... (more)
Pork and mushrooms adobo
Posted on February 7, 2007 · 36 Comments
Mention Filipino cooking and adobo comes to mind. For some reason, the dish itself is an unequivocal declaration of being Pinoy. I like the way The Wily Filipino puts it: “It’s an unambiguous declaration of ethnic presence, an olfactory attack on the mainstream: We’re here and you can smell it… adobo is uncomplicated, a symbol ... (more)
Pinoy Moms Network
Posted on February 7, 2007 · 1 Comment
I won’t bore you with the details. Suffice to say that I have come to a point when I realized that what mothers are saying makes more sense than what the self-anointed political pundits are trying to force down our throats. It is us, mothers, who nurture our children and help shape the persons they ... (more)
0 is not 2; 2 is not 4
Posted on February 5, 2007 · 9 Comments
There is a scene in the film The Devil Wears Prada where Andy (Anne Hathaway), after deciding to ditch being smart and become fashionable to fit in with the magazine’s employee image, asked Nigel (Stanley Tucci) to help her find clothes that would fit her. Nigel told her he wasn’t sure there was anything for ... (more)
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