Posts Tagged as ‘Filipino Food’
December 31, 2009
A Very Filipino Christmas: Terrible (But DELICIOUS) Food Photos from Noche Buena, Etc.
October 17, 2009
Arroz Caldo: Ginger, Chicken and Rice Porridge with Fried Garlic, Scallions and Lime
On cold winter days, my Tito Maro — who used to pick my sister and me up after school — would surprise us with a big pot of arroz caldo waiting for us in the kitchen.
Min Min and I would eat about three bowls each and absolutely ruin our appetites for dinner, but we couldn’t [...]
September 30, 2009
Flan Is Such A Disgusting Name For A Food, So Just Call It Creme Caramel: Nora Daza’s Filipino Recipe for Leche Flan
A few weeks ago, my friend Becky decided to have a ROYGBIV potluck party — everyone was required to bring one food from one color of the rainbow. I took yellow and declared I would make FLAN.
FLAN!?!?! What the hell was I thinking? Who likes flan? I mean, my mother is a great maker of [...]
September 20, 2009
Ginaatang Kalabasa at Sitaw: Squash in Coconut Milk and Homemade Shrimp Stock
Finally, in honor of my new Filipino cookbook, Kulinarya, I decided to make ginaatang kalabasa at sitaw, a coconut milk stew of buttercup squash, green beans and shrimp with ginger.
It was incredibly easy to make — I had no idea it only took 5 minutes for squash to cook (I thought it would take FOREVER, [...]
August 26, 2009
Happy Birthday, Sinigang!
When I was a little kid, I used to get so excited when Nanay or Mommy or Tita Pinky made sinigang that I would start singing “Happy Birthday, Sinigang!” in front of the mirror in the bathroom to get myself revved up for my most favorite food in the whole world.
Sinigang really isn’t that special, [...]
May 22, 2009
Nanay’s Recipe for Beef Tapa for Tapsilog, Or If You Wanted to Use Pork, Salmuera
A typical Filipino breakfast consists of two fried eggs, garlic-fried rice and some kind of crispy-fried meat: bacon, tocino, longanisa, ham, corned beef, fried corned beef hash, Vienna sausage, kielbasa, Spam, hot dog, hell, even a slice of bologna if there isn’t anything else. But my favorite out of all these meats will have to [...]
May 8, 2009
Nora Daza’s Recipe for Ho To Tay, Filipino-Chinese Dumpling Soup
My Tita Jean is a fantastic cook. During Noche Buena (Christmas Eve in Tagalog), she cooked ho to tay, a Filipino-Chinese dumpling soup recipe, and made her own dumplings and stock. The stock has little bits of blanched bok choy and fried garlic in it. It’s a fairly complicated dish to make, as there are [...]
