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For Day 1 of the Davao Food Appreciation Tour 2010 (DFAT), the team had dinner at Pablo’s Steaks and Crabs. We tried their new menu offerings, one of which was the Cream Cheese Stuffed Chicken. Imagine rich cream cheese stuff inside juicy tender chicken meat coated with crispy breading and perfectly deep fried without any hint to greasiness. That’s that…
Crepelato, one of our new favorite places in Davao is famous for their yummy gelato, crepes, and pastries. But there’s one more thing we love from Crepelato, their Bulalo! Bulalo is a Filipino beef soup. The meat used is the beef shank and the bone marrow. Because of this, the soup has a different flavor from most other Filipino beef…
Those times when I didn’t eat rice and I dined in Chinese dim sum restaurants, I’d eat raddish cake with my dim sum. In Chinese dim sum, it’s Lobak go. Radish cake is also called turnip cake. It is made of shredded radish (or daikon), rice flour, and some other ingredients such as Chinese ham, dried shrimps, and carrots. It…
Here’s a wonderful innovation by Cafe Demitasse: Chicken Pesto Parmigiana. Parmigiana is originally made with eggplants layered in such a way that it resembles the shutters of a window. From this visual, the dish was named “parmigiana” an adaptation of the word “parmiciana” meaning window shutters.
One of Daddy’s favorite dishes is Seafood Paella. When I made it for his birthday, I almost failed because there was just too much seafood that the oven’s heat wasn’t enough to cook the rice. But I have cooked it twice already. Successfully.
One of the things that made be weep and bleed during my Basic Skills Course at the Center for Asian Culinary Studies was Beef Stew which we made on Day 12 Beef Fabrication Day. It was the first time I spent hours just cooking. I volunteered to make the Beef Stew because I was a big fan of beef stew….
PABLO’S Steaks and Crabs is best know for their steaks and crabs. Obviously a no brainer, right? But for the DFAT 2010 Team, one of Pablo’s best dishes is their Angel Hair Pasta with Shrimps in Garlic and Olive Oil.
Our aunts decided to have me and my cousins take charge of the Noche Buena. They made the menu, while we prepared everything on it. It was a steak dinner that they wanted, so that’s what we prepared. My cousin Tinky was tasked as our purchaser in Manila. She scoured the Salcedo Market to find good quality but affordable Angus…
Blueberry New York Cheese Cake To finish off our Sunday Lunch we decided to make some Blueberry New York Cheesecake. We decided on this since one of our cousins is allergic to chocolates and I was also trying to avoid chocolates. According to the Joy of Baking New York Cheesecakes as distinct from Italian Cheesecakes because they use cream cheese…
There used to be a time when Sundays meant Sunday Lunch at Lola’s house. Each family would bring a dish made by aunts who all had a gift for cooking and baking. There would be Sundays when we stuffed ourselves silly with home-cooked Filipino dishes such as Imbao Soup, Kare-kare or various versions of Adobo. There would be times when…
Here are some notes from the dinner party I made for Mommy’s Birthday. I prepared the Anchovy Pasta specifically for Daddy who loooves anchovies. Turns out everybody loved it. And they like capers as much as I do. I prepared too much (1 kilo for 8 adults) but they all ended up taking home some anchovy yummy-ness.
Last week, my cousins suggested I cook for our Mommy’s birthday. We had quite a blast with her surprise party last year, which included belly dancers and an Arabian Nights theme. This time, we settled for a quiet dinner with just us relatives, although nothing is ever quiet when we’re together. The menu planning was quite hard since my elder…
