>Today, I finished my presentation (my second mid-term presentation, actually). This is one of the reasons why I have ignored blogging and the kitchen for quite a while. I needed to meet my deadlines for my dissertation. However, as it turned out, no matter how on time I was or I am, some things just [...]
Archive for the ‘ilocano recipe’ Category
13 Jan
>Twas` a Hiatus (Inihaw, Inabraw and Kamote Leaf-Banana Salad)
>For so many reasons (which, I will slowly disclose with every post from hereon), I let my blog go on a hiatus. Well, let me correct that, for a time ( more or less, 3 months), I didn’t even want to stay in the kitchen, nor cook anything. My hard drive though, is full of [...]
13 Sep
>Inabraw or Dinengdeng
>We called home today and they told us they were having frogs for lunch. A local delicacy. Since I have no way of getting hold of the same today, I decided to cook something close (not to frogs but to home, that is.). What`s more traditional Ilocano cooking than INABRAW? So timely because yesterday I [...]
15 Aug
>Pinakbet — Ilocano Style
> The Pinakbet is from the Ilocano word “pinakebbet” meaning “to shrivel” or “shrunk”. It is a popular dish from the northern part of the Philippines which has become as popular in other places as well and with their own version. This version is what my parents taught me. You can use just about any [...]
24 Jul
>An Ilocano Dish on a Rainy Night
>It has been raining all week in Shizuoka. Kinda reminds me of typhoon season in the Philippines, in Ilocos, which, by the way, was just ravaged by the recent typhoon. At home, while the patter of the rain lulls everyone to sleep, our stomachs automatically churn and get ready for the traditional Ilocano rainy day [...]
18 Jul
>Paksiw na Tilapia
> For the past two months, we have been regularly buying Philippine foods from Asia Yaosho via the internet. Sometimes the local supermarket have fresh tilapia but at a 900 Yen (~450PhP) price, I would rather wait till I get home to the Philippines. Fortunately, Yaosho has frozen tilapia imported, not from the Philippines, but [...]
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