Blog Posts on delicacy
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idiay tiendaan, talipapa, merkado publiko, market (part 2) by PINAKBET REPUBLIC on May 25, 2012More forays in local public wet market, roadside and/or makeshift market stalls... This a continuation of an earlier post about tiendaan. I keep on going to the market myself to buy ingredients for the next dish. I also stop by some roadside stalls w...
Bicol’s Delicacy by Reminders for the Faulty Memory on May 19, 2012I’ve been flooding with a lot of Caramoan pictures the past days and I’m nearing the end of it. Promise, lol. Anyway, since I went to Bicol last weekend, as the usual Filipino custom, we bought goodies to take home. Bicol is very well kno...
octopus adobo and octopus salad by PINAKBET REPUBLIC on May 18, 2012Kurita. Octopus. At its freshest state of being, freshly caught and brought out from the sea, kurita is priceless for its sweet succulence. I chanced upon a kurita in the local wet market one Sunday morning. I decided to make it into an adobo a kurit...
pancit, pancit manen! by Makan on May 7, 2012Pancit time again! And but of course, pancit batil-patung, it is, and always, an all-time favorite in Cagayan, particularly in this Tuguegarao part of the place. So, come now and help me down these helpings: … and this here (below) is my own pa...
kilawen a pusit/laki, squid ceviche by PINAKBET REPUBLIC on May 6, 2012Laki. Or pusit. Squid. Preferably fresh, it's prepared, cooked, and served in a variety of ways. As a soup with souring agents like tomatoes or pias, stewed, as an adobo, grilled, stuffed, as a kilawen, etc. It's an all-year round sea bount...
kinilnat a kamotit by Makan on Apr 12, 2012Boiled, slightly. Or blanched. Camote tops is top salad amongst Pinoys especially Ilokanos who are crazy about leafy green veggies. You wash and rinse the camote tops, rinse but with little water clinging to the leaves and then put it in in a hot pan...
jumping salad by PINAKBET REPUBLIC on Apr 4, 2012Live "salad" of shrimps literally jumping out. Holy week. Lent. And yes, if we have to be faithful to our faith, we shun meat this week of the year. Which is just good because it's a healthy thing. So let's have some veggies and fi...
Gaya-gaya Puto Maya! by FOODIPINO on Apr 3, 2012Gaya-gaya Puto Maya! Folks of my circa would remember this-- Filipino limericks that kids would shout at play. We teased playmates gaya-gaya putomaya (copycat!) but never knew what putomaya was. On my first ever trip to Davao sometime back, I f...
pangngaldaw @ tamboli by Makan on Mar 22, 2012Coming from a seminar-workshop on mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) with focus on Ilokano literature, held at Cagayan State University campus in Sanchez Mira, Cagayan, we’re on our way home to Tuguegarao City. We’re tir...
pancit & red horse by Makan on Mar 22, 2012I don’t know why I suddenly felt sad one late afternoon after a tiresome motorbiking in the highways and alleys of Tuguegarao, after my near-death encounter when an speedy wayward van slammed into a concrete arch post just a few minutes before...
