I bought dried fish from the Filipino Sari-Sari Store the other day…my craving for a Filipino breakfast overcame my apprehensions about getting one of good-quality. This wasn’t so bad. But man…was it salty! My tastes must have changed more than I realized. I used to enjoy dried fish.
The Filipino food bloggers’ event, Lasang Pinoy celebrates it’s first year anniversary this month of August. Congratulations and here’s to more participants and anniversaries!
This month’s theme, Definitively Pinoy, was not so easy for me. I wanted to do the Ilokano dishes “dinengdeng” or “pinakbet” that my mother does so well. I could, but it just wouldn’t be [...]
This is Number 6 in the Top Ten Flavors from Ben & Jerry’s. I’m surprised it isn’t higher on the list! I scooped out a bit of the ice cream to show some of the chunks. If you’ll look closely, the ice cream is almost overflowing. That’s really because of the lower air pressure in Colorado. [...]
We went food shopping at the Peterson AFB Commissary this afternoon and I saw MRE packs on a shelf. It’s not the first time they went on sale at the commissary. They had individual packs going for $7.32 and boxes at about $87.00. As I was sifting through the packs, Spouse came up to me [...]
Green papayas are not always available in the Filipino Sari-Sari Store here in Colorado Springs. I normally use potatoes or chayote for my Chicken Tinola but there’s no substitute for green papayas when it comes to Atsara. I picked up a bottle of this Tropical Atsara to go with my Daing na Bangus.
Atsara is anything [...]
Aahhh…bangus. I haven’t found a Filipino bangus in stores here since I moved five years ago. Most of the time, the bangus (milkfish) available in stores here are from Taiwan. It’s just not the same.
Last time I was at the Filipino Sari-Sari Store, they had Philippine bangus! It’s frozen and vacuum-packed and it’s from Saranggani [...]
I’ve been kicking myself since last night for not having this ice cream flavor from Haagen Dazs sooner.
A flavor description you’ll find on the inside of the lid says that black walnuts are more intensely flavored than regular English walnuts and they meant it! This ice cream almost tasted like a mix of regular walnuts [...]
Someone told me about this product saying it was a good substitute to fresh egg noodles. I found it at the frozen food section at Wal*Mart and bought one to see if they were really good. It’s made locally in Denver, Colorado.
If I hadn’t made my own noodles for a homemamde chicken noodle soup I [...]
When I was a kid, my sisters and I could spend hours talking about things we’d just heard or read about. Our favorite topic was always food. Of course, we would stray sometimes and talk about the usual stuff, places or things and activites or something. But we would always go back to food, especially [...]
I found more chocolate bars I’ve never tried before at the Commissary of Peterson AFB. Had to try them…just because.
One was the Mozart Piano Bar I expected would have a bar looking somehow like a piano, but did not. The other was a Schluckwerder Marzipan bar which turned out to look very unappetizingly-shaped. They are [...]
That’s what Pass Key Restaurant in Pueblo, Colorado says of its signature sandwich, the Pass Key Special. It’s an Italian sausage sandwich served on a loaf with lettuce and plenty of mustard, fries and sweet peppers.
You can have it with your choice of cheese: American, Swiss or Provolone. I chose provolone to go with mine. [...]
If you see this artificially-colored bag of young rice cereal at your local Asian store, don’t even bother to pick it up from the shelves. Save yourself the trouble.
It’s made by a company in Vietnam called Himing Co. Ltd. and is labeled “Cereal Flakes”. It doesn’t come with a manufacture or expiry date.
I got it [...]
