Good old-fashioned cooking in Taguig
A restaurant with old-world charm and ambiance, which serves food reminiscent of heritage Filipino cuisine, is tucked away in a gated village in Taguig City.
September 12, 2013
A restaurant with old-world charm and ambiance, which serves food reminiscent of heritage Filipino cuisine, is tucked away in a gated village in Taguig City.
In the interest of pursuing better health, my husband and I now eat more vegetables and seafood, rather than meat. But sometimes I’m at a loss as to what side dish to serve with the fish.
Mandarin Oriental Manila celebrates the Mid-Autumn Moon on Sept. 18.
On September 28, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., chef Robby Goco of the Cyma Greek Taverna restaurant chain will launch a new dining concept and hold a cooking demo at The Maya Kitchen.
Sometimes you find yourself eating at a restaurant that is so abysmal and so dire beyond redemption, that your entire paradigm of good and bad shifts downward a couple of notches. Restaurants that I had formerly deemed mediocre and unworthy suddenly shine like gilded beacons of culinary excellence by comparison.
When a bomb recently exploded in Cagayan de Oro (CDO), my first thought was of our friends there. Were they safe? I had walked near the place where the explosion happened, ate at some of the restaurants in that row. A call helped to ease my mind about my friends. And it helped that I was to see them in a few weeks.
Eating Your Way to Wellness was a program I started with St. Luke’s Global. Ever since, I’ve been trying to look for ingredients that are grown and raised as naturally as possible.
We had a neighbor in Sta. Maria, Bulacan, named Ka Viniang, who made the most delicious puto pandan. It was moist, with a tempered sweetness and a somewhat sticky topmost layer. She used to grind the rice with a stone grinder. Around the mid-2000s, she started to grow weak until she stopped making puto.
“Foodprints” is a new show on the ABS-CBN Lifestyle Channel. It is a food show many viewers will be able to relate with. Its ultimate goal is to bring world recognition to Philippine cuisine via reports on undiscovered or little-known dishes of the country. So far, we in the show have visited two provinces, Ilocos Norte and Bulacan.
Healthy diet and delicious food seem hard to reconcile these days. For every strip of bacon, a piece of ham or roast beef, one can’t help but worry about the added calories. Another is the affordability of having a healthy meal if one is to follow a diet program.
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