Category: cooking
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Vegetable Lasagna Attempt #1
Despite the fact I have only a mild liking for it, today’s culinary adventure brings us to lasagna.
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Day Of Valor Potato Chips
Got this off of here, the first Google result when you search potato chips.
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Chicken Curry In A Rice Cooker
We’ve decided to forego buying a range because we just don’t have any more space in our condo makeshift ‘kitchen’. But what happens if I get the rare urge to cook? Why, use the rice cooker of course. And today it’s Chicken Curry. To be honest this is a kind of mishmash pot whose ingredients…
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Baked Chicken ala Gary
In response to Chel’s request that I write more about my diet, I’m finally gonna publish a long delayed favorite dish of mine, baked chicken. Chicken per se is healthy provided you go for white meat, and baking, like grilling, is also healthy because the fat drips off out of the chicken and not into…
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Pinakurat
Jill, a native Cebuana, has introduced me to something new called Pinakurat. Above left is the original one we found at Market Market’s open area, while the Datu Puti version we found at Rustan’s Supermarket. Pinakurat has a website! Unfortunately I can’t tell which is better since I mixed both into that container at the…
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Ginataang Tilapia, Smoldering Coffee & Stolen Tuna
I dunno what possessed me to want to make a ginataang dish from scratch. It’s easy enough to buy a can of coconut milk or even already grated and pressed coconut milk from the wet market in small plastic bags, but nooooo, I wanted to do this myself.
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How To Put Veggies In Me
The pauso pinakbet really turned out ok. Prob is I’d had to make enough to accommodate all the veggies I bought, and soon I got tired of it so I have to admit some of it went to the trash can. What a waste, but at least I learned an important lesson – portions –…
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Pauso Pinakbet
I love pinakbet. Problem is the ingredients are bad for me, ie. Bagoong, Baguio Beans (or any beans), Shrimp and Okra. Just the fact Bagoong is bad for me completely nixes this dish out obviously, as Pinakbet in English is translated ‘Meat Vegetable Stew in Shrimp Paste’. Current diet however, suggests I need to eat…
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Adobo, Commuting, and Expensive Gym Rates
I played my first game yesterday, and I ached a little bit that night but overall felt great. It was just a simple 2 on 2 with some village kids but I huffed and puffed and did fairly well, I think each team won a game. Today I had to take a meeting with someone…