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[10 Nov 2009 | 7 Comments | ]
The most simple eggplant recipe

Imagine yourself in a dream. You are disoriented while falling in an unending space of white. In a slow motion moment you can see your all-white outfit flapping like wings. You ask yourself, is this heaven? You don’t know if you are falling from heaven or to heaven. Now you argue with yourself, who said the way to heaven is up? You are sure of one thing though; you do not know what’s happening.
Eggplant.
Fat eggplant.
Long, fat eggplant.
You are holding a long, fat eggplant.
And then you wake up. You are in front …

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[8 Nov 2009 | 9 Comments | ]
Filipinas For Sale

If you arrived in this site for the sole intention of buying yourself a Filipina bride like what Alec Baldwin has announced on TV, I tell you right now, this site is a Filipino food blog. I am sorry to disappoint your careful Google-ing, I don’t have Filipinas for sale here.
If you are still reading then why don’t you go here first to read more about this site.
I would’ve wanted to shoo you away even more but I’m pretty sure you’ve seen this parked youtube video because I do not have …

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[3 Nov 2009 | 7 Comments | ]
Whole Fried Fish with Vegetables

Congratulations. Now you know how to fry a whole fish. You can now have a crunchy-on-the-outside-moist-in-the-inside-fishy-fishy anytime you want to. But I tell you, you will get tired of it like reruns of Seinfeld or Friends or Sex and the City (which commercial TV has an endless fetish with, they can’t stop airing it) so on we jump to the next pedestal of enlightenment in our journey to exploiting fried fish.
27th Sun of the 4th Moon, 1521 Anno Domini:
Ferdinand Magellan was the name of the conquistador espesyal that decided to lord …

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[26 Oct 2009 | 12 Comments | ]
How to fry a whole fish

There are people that don’t eat fish. Each one has a distinct reason why. Here are a few. Fishes smell vile. Fishes smell repulsive. Fishes smell awful. I can’t believe something wiggly and slimy is edible. Fish is vomit. I love fishes and eating them is just cruel. Fish are just nasty creatures they should be killed rather than eaten. I tried eating fish but it just won’t get in my system. I know fish tastes like chicken breast but I don’t eat it. Fishes have high quantity of mercury …

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[18 Oct 2009 | 5 Comments | ]
How To Cook Rice Perfectly

The politician on the left is essential so don’t wonder. Click this link first before reading on:
How does one make steamed rice without an electric rice cooker/steamer?
Have you chosen any of the suggestions there? Have you heard of rice poisoning? Anybody know if any one of them are still alive?
Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to give you Oryza Sativa. And no, she is not from the collection of DVDs of your shady uncle, she is actually your mother. She is the life source of the vast part of the human population, the …