Blog Posts on vegetables, fruits, sides

a la Niçoise salad by baby rambutan on Feb 22, 2012this is what i hunger for, when i’ve overindulged and i’m feeling guilty. there’s a lot of fun in scrounging around the veggie bin and the pantry shelves, checking for the ingredients, and afterwards i almost feel smug. just a compo...

jai, or Buddha’s delight by baby rambutan on Jan 23, 2012==or one fine lucky riot of a dish! my kids look forward to this now, our New Year’s dinner of jai. this year, as husband noticed, i “pulled out all the stops!” each ingredient has a special meaning to usher in a lucky welcome for t...

summer=strawberries! by baby rambutan on Jul 21, 2011i’ve been eating them straight out of the box, washed of course, but i think they’d be just wonderful with cakes and whipped cream…not that i have the go-ahead from the doctors or nurses or nutritionists but i would really really go...

old mother, pock-marked too, cooked tofu by baby rambutan on Sep 21, 2010yeah you got that right…old mothers need to eat (or drink) lots of tofu, soy, soy-based products. here’s one from the book*: pock-marked mother’s tofu “ma po dou fu”….quite easy to make, kids love, and you feel li...

lovely, lovely laing (dried taro leaves stewed in coconut milk) by baby rambutan on Sep 14, 2010i thought all along i had a post on laing! it’s a dish of dried gabi leaves stewed in coconut milk and shrimp paste from the Bicol Region (famous for the use of coconuts and chilies in their cuisine) which i never had at home, but which i fir...

summer eats by baby rambutan on Jul 21, 2010one hot day in July, when i was feeling sluggishly sloth-y, and not feeling like doing any cooking, let alone moving at all…the urge to eat this moved me greatly. i should have this memorized by now! from Delia Smith’s Summer Collection...

missing you by baby rambutan on Jun 16, 2010(tinadtad na manggang hilaw) finely grated green mango, ready to be embellished with tomatoes, onions, bagoong, patis, chicharon, chilies…but i love it just the way it is. i wasn’t able to compose a travelogue, or a collage of photos even...

getting LOST by baby rambutan on Apr 26, 2010This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of NAVTEQ. All opinions are 100% mine. I have a secret longing that i haven’t told my husband about. I want a GPS Navigation system in the car! I know how he feels and I do agree with him on prin...

lumpia, fried; and lumpia, fresh–and a bit of wishful thinking by baby rambutan on Mar 30, 2010so who isn’t on a health kick these days? you just can’t escape it even if you don’t have any health issues (lucky you *inggit*envy*)–tv and print ads and emails all beseech you to watch your weight, read food labels, work out, eat less, and...

finally, sunshine; and the Irish soda bread recipe by baby rambutan on Mar 17, 2010we’ve survived 10 inches of rain in three days (not totally unscathed, as we sustained roof and ceiling damage, but all in all not too bad, in this state where some families were totally devastated, sad to say), and the reward was a glorious da...