Me so stupid. Host must cook for hero. Most heroes taken.
I’m talking Neanderthal again. But for my pahabol to the Anniversary Edition of Lasang Pinoy: Cooking for Heroes, I’m preparing a smallgasbord (read: a mishmash) of dishes for Apolinario Mabini, staunch anti-imperialist (though I think he pledged allegiance to the Americanos and died a few [...]
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Cooking for an anti-imperialist
Posted in lasang pinoy on November 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The not-so-hiatus hiatus post
Posted in Uncategorized on December 2, 2005 | 4 Comments »
Migration to a new PC is a go…except that I can’t find the right CPU housing for my needs. Off with the technical gobbledygook, but I’ll be posting pictures probably by next week, or the week after next, when I acquire a Pentium 4 with a roomful of memory (you didn’t know the sleepless nights [...]
Lasang Pinoy 4: Rice
Posted in Uncategorized on November 25, 2005 | 8 Comments »
(No photos as of this time since the power outlets in our house went kaput last night.)
Even the richest Filipino cannot survive on putanesca alone; to keep him from jumping up from the dining table and murdering the cook, he must be served rice on a fairly regular basis. (Cecile C.A. Balgos, The Tastes That [...]
Recipe: Crabs in coconut milk
Posted in Uncategorized on November 14, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
The reason why the waistline has been way past the tape after spending All Soul’s Day in Baler. Unlike most bloggers I don’t go to the gym anymore.
The secret behind the very tasty sauce of this dish is the use of the broth after steaming (technically it’s not steaming, but boiling the crabs in about [...]
Katti (Kat-ti)
Posted in Uncategorized on November 11, 2005 | 2 Comments »
And so Fire Water Husband is partly back, still acclimatizing back to work. The family’s gone to Baler, Aurora for All Souls’ Day and we were supposed to be back to Laguna by the second of November. Tough luck, since our van can’t make it to the steep roads of Pantabangan when rains rendered the [...]
Hiatus
Posted in Uncategorized on October 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Work mounts up because we’re in for a long weekend, ergo my internet engineers will be on holiday too (j/k!). I’ll be offline most of the time during the first week of November.
Until then. I’ll figure out ways to come up with bandwidth-friendly posts for you while presenting foodporn the way I want them to.
I [...]
Lasang Pinoy 3: Streetfood
Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2005 | 6 Comments »
Stef invited me to join Lasang Pinoy 3, hosted by Kai with Streetfood as this month’s theme. The beaucon question is: “If you were a Pinoy streetfood, what would you be?”
I’m quite predictable on this one, yes, I will be food found on the streets of Ilocos, particularly at the plaza of Vigan. I am [...]
(The quasi-mandatory) About Me
Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2005 | 1 Comment »
There are blogs and there are food blogs.
Now that I’ve gone through the hassle of an opening statement, I took a deep breath and opened Fire Water Husband. I practically switched on and off this blog, called it by different names (one of which went by The Empire of Wansuy) and debated with myself [...]
Recipe: Dinengdeng
Posted in Uncategorized on October 13, 2005 | 3 Comments »
“Modern technology…allows me to guarantee the exact time and temperature for cooking the dishes. That’s progress. But when it means banalizing the taste of products, that’s a step back, and, cook that I am, I rebel.”
–Alain Ducasse
Like clothes to a man, it’s not the grilled fish, honey, that makes a dinengdeng. The lifeblood of [...]
The blossoming of foodporn
Posted in Uncategorized on October 10, 2005 | 2 Comments »
One of the stars in the universe of Ilocano vegetables. Perfect for a sour type of dinengdeng. Remove the sticky stamen (which resembles matchsticks) and soak a handful in salt and water while preparing to prevent oxidation. Put a tablespoon or two of bagoong Pangasinan in two cups of boiling water, simmer for a few [...]
