Halo-halo, mix-mix and dreaming of summer
It’s damn near the kitchen sink of delicious things you can find in the PI.
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Balut, a new kind of Easter egg
Can I ask some fun-loving Filipino or Filipino American parents, in the spirit of tomorrow’s April Fools’ Day, to please hide a lavender- or pink-dyed balut in their Easter egg hunts today?
Filipino food, is this a thing now?
Take a look at this interesting graphic pulled from the pages of none other than Travel & Leisure’s April 2013 issue, AKA “The Food Issue”…. On a scale of Overhyped Continue reading
Pie and Pi on 3/14: Hoosier Mama Pie Cafe, 1618-½ W. Chicago Avenue
“Really to make a good pie, you have to make it by hand. You can’t use a sheeter [mechanized dough roller often used in mass production baking] because to be Continue reading
I have no idea what’s in season.
But this is Chicago in the middle of winter. There’s fucking nothing in season. Without modern highways, air freight, railroads, canning and other industrialized food processing techniques, refridgeration and chemical preservatives, no one could live here between September and May. I paid a little visit today to the Fulton Market, Chicago’s meatpacking district of old – from Upton Sinclair days – till now.
Lou Mitchell’s Restaurant, Chicago
Lou’s buys double eggs, which are TWO YOLKS to a shell. What freak science went into creating these kinds of eggs on a predictable, farm-manufactured basis, I don’t know, but it saves me a few bucks as I only want two normal eggs (read: two yolks, not four) so I ordered one over-easy.
How to Cook Ginataan Bilo-bilo, a Filipino sweet soup snack
In the spirit of the cold, Christmas-y season, I’d like to share one of my favorite Filipino late-evening snacks: ginataan bilo-bilo, or coconut milk and rice flour balls – a sweet, hot dessert-y soup perfect for when the mercury dips low.
60 Days to Christmas! Pasko and Bibingka time!
It’s late October and many of my friends are buying their fake blood and zombie costumes and pulling out their Michael Jackson’s Thriller long-format tracks. But here in the Philippines, we’re already looking forward to Christmas. And, BIBINGKA!
