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 [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Filipino Food’
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 [...]
January 24, 2009
My Uncle’s Recipe for Baked Spanish Cod. If You Don’t Like It, I Will Be Personally Offended Because It’s My Favorite Food.
Baked Spanish fish is probably one of my most favorite foods in the whole wide world. It’s a combination of pizza, fish and lemon…with shrimp, and I’m sure that’s a terrible, terrible description, but if you read the recipe you’ll see there’s some semblance to it. Recipe: 1 medium-sized whole rock cod, cleaned OR 6 [...]
August 18, 2008
Tito Maro’s Recipe for Java Rice — A Filipino Take on an Indonesian Dish (Hint: It Involves Ketchup)
I honestly have no idea what Java rice is and I’m not even sure if it’s really Indonesian (my uncle says it is, but he makes things up all the time, so we can’t quite be sure). But whatever it is, my uncle’s Java rice is the shit. I guess you could say that it’s [...]
July 21, 2008
Escabeche: If I Could Afford Fish Right Now, I’d Make It, But I’m Poor
As we’ve learned from this lovely blog, Filipino cuisine is the love child of Spanish and Chinese cooking. Escabeche, pickled fish, is a perfect example of this hybrid flavor palette. It has a very Chinese sweet and sour taste, cooked in a Spanish technique (think ceviche). For Filipinos, this is basically fried fish with atchara [...]
May 2, 2008
Retro 1970s Filipino Recipes: Nora Daza’s Cookbook, "Galing, Galing" Brings "American" Food to the Filipino Masses
My mom gave me a copy of her favorite go-to Filipino cookbook, Nora Daza’s “Galing, Galing: Food as prepared in Philippine homes” before my senior year because she was tired of me calling her and my gramma all the time, asking how to prepare adobo or sinigang. What I love about this cookbook is that [...]
May 2, 2008
Ginataang Manok (Chicken and Coconut Milk Stew): It’s Frikkin Great
I had a weird request for my mom a couple of weeks ago for my weekly care package: “Will ya throw a couple of cans of coconut milk in there?” I really wanted to recreate the fragrant, ginger-infused chicken and coconut soup my grandma used to make for me as a kid, ginataang (pronounced “ginut-ung”) [...]
