Don’t mind the title, it’s lame. Moving on.
So somebody told you to cook for them? Congratulations. You are now a level 2 cook. You now have the authority to hurt your friend’s feelings by telling her she sucks because she only cooks in Cafe World in Facebook. Now, this is the time for you to make slow strides, stretch, don’t panic, relax, breathe deeply and carefully and read the following advice on how to impress your guests with your cooking (again, I hate the title… but the google god sent …

If you don’t know what Kinilaw is, it is Sashimi in steroids.
Ceviche, Cebiche or Seviche is its nearest cousin; Filipinos look like Mexicans.
If you don’t know what Ceviche is, it is Sashimi in steroids.
Any seafood that  can be eaten raw, meaning fresh, meaning smelling like the sea, meaning you bought it yourself and you are dead sure you won’t kill yourself, can be made into the illustrious Kinilaw. And to be straightforward, the following ingredients are the only things you need for half a kilo of your fresh seafood:
Vinegar. Just …

It was always a great delight for us to drop by Salcedo Market in Makati every Saturday. As far as I can remember, Salcedo Market is the only market in the Philippines that gives foreigners a venue for their products. The moment you enter the market you are taken to a different place. There’s the French Cuisine guy on the left (and the Filipina ladies that are more  than amused by the way he speaks), the Spaniard and his Paella on the right and Hitler’s cousin and his fat sausages …

And so you go to your mom’s house furiously hungry  for a lot of reasons, either you don’t want to spend your own money to eat, you  are too lazy to do anything, or you just want to let your mom see that it’s her fault you are famished. You kick the door open because it is still your house. Nobody is home. You rustle towards the kitchen and rip everything in sight. You try overturning the kitchen table but suddenly your eyes light up like halogen when you see …

For people who are new in the kitchen, in this spare ribs recipe, you will learn how to love the food that you make because this beauty will be the start of you as the envy of your friends, the secret weapon of your family and the most attractive first date anyone can have…thus is the power of the hand that rocks the wok.
Let’s start our love affair with a trip to the market. Tell yourself to do your market this weekend. You want to do it this weekend because …