Choose your fries

Clockwise from top-left:
Espada from Dagupan
Fried eggplants (my favorite way of having eggplants, sliced thinly) from Baguio
Fried dried squid from Cebu (pasalubong from Pauline)
Fried bagnet from Vigan (pasalubong from my wife who went on a business trip there).

And unifying them all, vinegar with crushed garlic dip!

Panagbenga 2008: Food delights

Aside from the stunningly beautiful ornamental plants and crafts that were featured in the Panagbenga (Flower Festival) in Baguio City, Philippines, food tripping was also the agenda of the day! Many of the booths along Session Road offered a rich variety, from street food to gourmet delights.

Rice cakes are popular food fare. Shawarma also seems to make a comeback during Panagbenga, as this can be found in abundance.


















Local produce such as coffee and honey are available here.
Restaurants set-up dining areas by the pedestrian lanes and along the main thoroughfare.




































IceCream while taking a leisurely stroll in a cool Baguio evening? Why not!

My Nanay's Adobo recipe

My Nanay is the best cook in the whole wide world!

Of course you can refute that, saying that your mother is the best cook in the whole wide world. But I kid you not. Even my friends can attest to how much they love my mother's cooking. From the simple suman (rice cake wrapped in banana leaves) and that impeccably sweet sauce, to simple dinengdeng and bopis, to the more elaborate kare-kare with that heavenly peanut sauce, my mother tops it all. There she is at the photo at the left, with my Tatay and son Jo-Lo.

Now that I live and work far away from my parents, her cooking ha become even more endearing to me. When I advise her that we will be visiting them, she would likely ask what I would like to have for lunch.

I would like to dedicate the first post to my Nanay, and share with you her recipe for adobo.

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