My friend Venice, we used to work together. And one day she took this large tureen of oxtail soup to the office. It was Hawaiian-style oxtail soup. So delicious. And when I asked her for the recipe she gave me a small bag of gow pee — almost-black dried tangerine peel. Oxtail soup just doesn’t taste right without it.
Ingredients:
Soup
- 3 lbs. oxtails
- about 3″ ginger, sliced thinly
- 6 oz. raw peanuts
- 3-4 Chinese dates
- 3 anise flowers
- 1 piece gow pee
- Chinese mustard or bok choy
- Szechuan peppercorns (a tablespoon or so, in a small cloth bag)
- 2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp ground pepper
- water
- 1/3 to 1/2c sherry
Dip
- chopped cilantro
- chopped green onion
- grated ginger
- soy sauce
Instructions:
- Place oxtail in a deep pot, cover with about 2″ of water. Boil for 20-25min. Rinse with cool water.
- Return oxtail to a clean pot, add the rest of the soup ingredients except for the mustard and sherry. Boil and then simmer for about 2 hours.
- Chop the mustard into 2″ wide pieces. Add to soup shortly before serving.
- Add sherry to taste. Boil for about 5 minutes. Serve.
- Serve the soy sauce with the cilantro, green onion, and ginger on the side.
So everyone has their own version of adobo (I personally love my lola’s soupy adobo with pork tongue, chicken, and liver). I’ve tried doing the Cendrillon version, but for some reason the adobo comes out horribly sour.
This is my latest and greatest, which came out pretty good. J didn’t squish his face and say Omigod! this time (that’s what he did with my 2 Cendrillon recipe attempts).
Ingredients:
- 4 cuts chicken thigh and leg, trim excess fat and skin
- 1 or 2 chicken livers
- 1 or 2 chicken gizzards
- 4 eggs
- 1 c cane vinegar (Datu Puti)
- 2/3 c soy sauce (Silver Swan or Coconut)
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1 1/2 tsp peppercorns, approx. (crush about 1/3 of the peppercorns)
- 1/2 tsp salt, appox.
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 head garlic, cloves peeled and crushed
Steps:
- Mix vinegar, soy sauce, honey, peppercorns, salt, bay leaf in a dutch oven. Adjust to taste.
- Add chicken, including livers and gizzards.
- Cook over low heat for 45 min. Do not uncover or mix during this time. Uncover, cook for 10min more.
- Remove chicken and liver and set aside.
- Chop 1 liver and return to sauce. Reduce sauce til thickened.
- Add eggs with shell to sauce to cook while sauce is reducing. Remove after 7min, peel and set aside.
- When sauce is reduced, return chicken and eggs. Serve or keep for the next day.
- Fry or bake the chicken if you want the skin crisp. (Remove from sauce for frying and baking.)
What the heck eh? Food’s been on my mind lately. My sister-in-law made this when we were in Paris. Quick and yummy. I will post photos once I take them.
Ingredients: approximate quantities, I taste while preparing
- 4:3 ratio olive oil to balsamic vinegar (I usually go 4 t olive oil, 3t balsamic)
- 1 clove garlic, pounded
- salt and pepper
- about 1/4 lb of Parma ham
- 1/2 c pine nuts, toasted
- 1/4 c sun dried tomatoes, sliced thinly
- 1 lb rotelli pasta or some other corkscrew type
- 1/2 lb arugula (or more), rinse and spun
Steps:
- Cook pasta, drain.
- Bake the parma ham till crisp, chop into 1/2″ x 1/2″ pieces, or just crumble
- Toast the pine nuts till light brown (just a couple minutes)
- Place the olive oil, garlic, some salt and pepper in a small jar, cover and shake till well mixed and a bit thickened.
- Toss pasta in dressing, add arugula, parma ham, tomatoes, and pine nuts.
- If you want this cold, cool the ham, pasta, and pine nuts before mixing.
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We’d like to seek your help please.
Our dog Cocoa, a 6-year-old black Pom, went missing last March 9, 2009 in Paranaque. We believe he was stolen as he had a collar and a dog tag with his address when he disappeared, but nobody’s come forward to bring him home. We’ve reported the incident to our barangay, and have been desperately trying to find him since. In the course of our search, an ice cream vendor informed us that a vehicle had been spotted stealing dogs from homeowners.
There’s been recent development about our dog’s disappearance. Last Sunday, we received word somebody saw our dog being sold in a rundown pet shop called Bravo Poultry and Supply along Lopez-Sucat, Paranaque (near Liana’s) 4 days prior. My friend visited the said store immediately to pretend to have seen the dog and to buy him. But he was told by the person manning the pet store that they already sold the dog 2 days prior for 10k. My friend managed to get info that the dog they sold did not have papers. We suspect this may really have been our dog because it seemed so unlikely that this pet shop would have a black pom while the other dogs there did not have any pedigree. Also, the location is quite dubious because we live in a neighboring village.
We suspect the buyer may try to use our dog for stud services or what have you. We are asking for your help in alerting your contacts, vets included, should they encounter our pet. We have begun e-mailing and distributing posters to vets in our area but we still have a long way to go. After all, the buyer may not be from Paranaque. We are not limiting our search to that area. Also, advertisements about a black male pom may surface in various pet websites so we’ve begun alerting the admins of these sites.
Moreover, the buyer may want to get in touch with us. Our dog has an enlarged heart. The buyer was misled into thinking he bought an otherwise healthy dog and may not know the dog he bought is in need of medical care.
We hope you can help us keep an eye out for him, maybe by blogging about it also? We really do care for our dog and treat him as a member of our family.
Thank you
Please contact trina992590 AT yahoo DOT com
Here are more photos of Cocoa.
Ooo it’s been hard to get started again, so I won’t overthink this and just do (sort of like my yoga which I am loving, but it is a PAIN to motivate to get to the studio).
So, got these today on sale. Nice no? And they’ve got an internal heel so hopefully it won’t be such a pain walking to work.
I think I am really good at finding things at a discount…too much internet time kasi.
Happy 2009. Didn’t last year go fast?
if someone uses the nickname “SeduceMe” I can pretty much say I don’t think much would want to
if someone uses the nickname “GandaKo” you can pretty much figure out how she looks
I will have gone 9 times in the last 2 weeks. A few times I have thought twice about going, but I’ve gotten to convincing myself I will be happy I forced myself to go once I am in the studio. And I am.
You see its too hard to do anything more than try to breathe, do the poses, and not drink water. So all the annoyances and worries are ignored for an hour and a half.
I am not even a citizen, but I do pay taxes. So it was a nervous thing to not be able to vote and have a say. But when Barack Obama won I felt like it was the Edsa revolution, when people were in the streets and there was all that pride and possibility.
(Well, you know what came after…but) this now is really breathtaking.
I attended a Bikram yoga class after about 2 years of not going and I have forgotten how hot it could be! Actually I think they got the room hotter than the 110degrees it should have been. I felt like I would vaporize.
Then after that I walked out into 55degree weather and the sweat on my head cooled and gave me a headache.
So much for healing hee. But I did enjoy it and I didn’t die so I’ll try to be back soon.
Dear friends,
Bear with us as we share
this photo of Reno with you. This was taken last October 3. He was rescued in Cubao by PAWS volunteers Daisy Medel and Joe Claret. Reno was found huddled by the side of the street with a bloodied face. He had tumors on his face and his body also bore marks of neglect and abuse.
Under the caring hands of Dr David Arceo, the dog whom we did not think would survive, had shown dramatic improvement. (see photos dated October 20 below)
We call Reno our “Miracle Dog” because, unlike Romeo/Juliet, we did not send out an alert since the prognosis was not very good. Rescuers were advised to pray and hope for the best.
Last week, Dr Arceo texted us with this message: “This dog continues to surprise. The other eye which I thought was completely blind and hopeless, is now a feasible, seeing eye! He is now on his second round of chemotherapy..”
Dogs with special medical needs like Reno are not included in the PAWS Shelter’s monthly budget /overhead cost of P80,000 (about $1,800).
Please help us continue Reno’s treatment by sending financial support to:
Account Name: The Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)
Bank: PNB
Account Number: 072-830174-0
Donors may fax a copy of their validated deposit slips to 724-1986 and indicate their mailing address on the slips so that we can send official receipts.
Donors may also call Dr. David Arceo at Companion Animal Clinic, Antipolo, Rizal tel 6682050 to ask about what other medicines they can sponsor.
Thank you.
-The Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)
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