CYG felt the urge to cook a big pot of soup today because she didn’t want to cook for the next two or three days. So here is my lunch and dinner ’til Friday – minestrone cooked on a clay oven called “dalican” (from Ilocos of course courtesy of Moosh moosh). The heat comes [...]
We were supposed to have steak and salad. Goat stew triumphed in the end! Not for the squeamish.
Traditionally, this is eaten with cold beer. In Manila, they call it “papaitan” (where we come from , we call it “swam“). The goat’s stomach content, ideally just grass, adds a bitter taste to [...]
My Mom decided to spend Christmas in Manila because she thought CYG and I would be “kawawa” (translation: pitiful); our brother left for his Singapore job last November. Hmmm… our parents might have forgotten that I had spent Christmas alone before .
Apart from the boxful of Ilocos produce and food that she brought [...]
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