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Nov 13th
Sunday Lafang: AMPALAYA CON CARNE
today, i woke up late from an all-night packing and organizing two balikbayan boxes to be sent back home. laziness wells up as i was having my morning ritual of coffee, pandesal and yosi, hence my planned outing to go and look at the pinoy sunday street food stalls outside the catholic church here had [...]
Nov 4th
GINISANG SITAW at SIGARILYAS
today, supermarkets and shops around town are closed as it is the first day of hari raya aidil fitri, the muslim festival of sacrifice, which follows the fasting month of ramadan. been looking forward to go for my usual round of houses to visit and enjoy specially-prepared malay dishes (and desserts!) but laziness struck once [...]
Sep 18th
Sunday Lafang: Celia Kusinera’s GISOK
while doing my usual weekend grocery run yesterday, i was at the same time contemplating what recipe to experiment on. i decided to go for celia kusinera’s GISOK instead of the italian bollito misto i had for lunch in the hotel. with all the ingredients on hand, i went home to prepare and marinated the [...]
Sep 12th
AND, WHAT I ATE LAST NIGHT . . .
we’ve been busy in the hotel lately and i have never had the chance to post anything for the past couple of days, except play around with the html tags of my blog’s template . . . as a result, the sidebar contents have misaligned and some links are now with bullets which, am still [...]
Aug 9th
SPICY TALONG
My first recipe . . . I’ve started experimenting on my own version of this dish a month ago after my holidays from the Philippines . . . It is one of the signature dishes in my ninang’s resto called “tapayan” . . . When i saw it on the menu, I decided to order [...]