ILOILO FOOD TRIP

Pork is probably the Pinoys most favored meat as there are as many pork dishes as the 7107 island making up the Philippine archipelago. Whether grilled, fried, sauced up, ground pork or in broth, there's one recipe that will surely tickle your tummy and fulfill your gastronomic fantasies! Here are some links to several Pork Recipes posted on this blog

So what's in today's LunchBox? For appetizer, there's Cucumber-Tomato salad in vinegar dressing perfect to whet your appetite. Cross between appetizer and side dish is Radish with Ground Pork yet it can become an ulam on its own. There's a Healthy Torta made with lobo-lobo fish (dulong) which is not fried at all! And the main gastronomic events are the  Pinakbet  and  Chicken Inasal  - a perfect combo of meat and veggies.   Click for the Recipes Pinakbet   |  Chicken Inasal  |  Torta nga Lobo-lobo     Ginisa nga Labanos

Most likely you've encountered labanos or radish in a Sinigang recipe or as an appetizer with vinegar dressing. But on its own, I love its peppery-bitter (or how might you call it) taste. If it's in season or if its really cheap in the market , we'd have like a "Labanos Festival" at home. And here's one of the simplest recipes using radish. Here's the recipe for Labanos Guisado with Ground Pork .

Passed by these "fresh fishes for sale" stall at the Iloilo Terminal Market and I can't help but take a snapshot of this "fishy" scene. It seems that they are screaming with freshness (the Iloilo Fish Port Complex is just nearby) to every passerby. And with these fish in mind, I recall and summarize some of the fish recipes (just click on the caption in each photo) on this blog and I hope you find them useful. Fish be with you...

Bilong-bilong is a flat silvery fish often called moonfish as it is round and silver as the moon. It is also called chabita outside the Ilonggo region. Most often it is made pinamalhan or just plain fried or grilled. But another recipe called binuro is also well-loved. Here's a simple recipe on how to prepare and cook Binuro na Bilong-bilong.

Delicious and flavourful - beef mami could satisfy any hunger almost all the time. Complete with carbohydrates, protein and the vitamins and minerals you get from vegetables it may come with, its a complete meal unto itself. Whether you enjoy it at your favorite place or one you can make at home, enjoy beef mami the way you like it!  Here's a simple recipe for Beef Mami with Egg

One of the most common fruit trees in our yard, we might have around 10 and the question that still remain unanswered is that what is star apple in the local dialect? Kaymito is the Tagalog name but I've grown calling this to be star apple ever since. And there are two varieties, the purple and the white with green skin. The former is the most common and is perfect with condensed milk as dessert or freeze a little bit then it becomes a fruity ice cream!