Filipino

PARBOILED CURRY MARINATED CHICKEN…ROASTED

PARBOILED CURRY MARINATED CHICKEN…ROASTED (Curry Marinated Chicken-Boiled-Roasted) Visitors coming was asked by my daughter to prep a quick and simple chicken course to complement “pot luck” items brought by couples. CLQ (chicken leg quarter) came to mind quite swiftly. Dashed to nearby cold storage and got hold of raw mats to use. Behold. Prep time: […]

BUTTER FRIED PARBOILED “LIEMPO”

BUTTER FRIED PARBOILED “LIEMPO” (Parboiled Pork Belly Butter Fried-Sprinkled with Texan Meat Rub) Pork belly is one of the most modifiable parts of pig meat. Be it roasted, grilled, fried, BBQed, be processed into bacon strips, “sinigang” (tamarind soup base with veggies), “nilaga” (plain boiled and dumped with vegetables different from “sinigang”) and countless more […]

BAGWANG TOPPED “PINAKBET”

BAGWANG TOPPED “PINAKBET” (Deep Fried Bagwang Garnished Stewed Veggies) Bagwang is spices and herbs-rich processed pork neck available only at Manila Q. (www.manilaq.net) It’s the technological recasting of Ilocos’ (a northern Philippine province) Bagnet (our inspiration for the innovation-boiled deep fried pork belly cubes) World of differences: Bagnet-pork belly from Philippines, boiled in salt, double-triple […]