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laowlaowpantz: Leche Flan | The Close-Eye-Factor

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:04:22 -0400

laowlaowpantz: Leche Flan | The Close-Eye-Factor:

Excerpted from my sometimey food blog Saowsaowface.

that’s a blud-clot rudebwoy leche flan, ya dig?

People tell me my Leche Flan is the shit. People that don’t really eat Leche Flan when it’s put out, eat mine. The reason for this is because I give a shit. Leche Flan is dumb…

Healthy Filipino Foodhack 004: Quinoa-based champorado...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:21:00 -0400

Healthy Filipino Foodhack 004: Quinoa-based champorado (Chocolate rice porridge)

Quinoa instead of rice.

One spoon maple almond butter + one spoon Nutella + 1 tsp Chia seeds + dash Himalayan salt + splash almond milk.

UNAGI (BROILED EEL) + QUINOA + EGG = UNAQUILOG or UNAQUISILOG A...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:23:56 -0400

UNAGI (BROILED EEL) + QUINOA + EGG = UNAQUILOG or UNAQUISILOG

A quinoa based hack on the filipino breakfast “bangsilog” —- substituting quinoa for rice, and bbq eel for the fried bangus/milkfish.

I wasn’t feeling well today. And I couldn’t think of anything I wanted for breakfast. Until I searched my tummy mind and realized I wanted bangsilog. So I yelped Bangsilog in Berkeley and there is nothing nearby.

I had no rice or bangus/milkfish in the house, but I did have the following ingredients: frozen bbq eel filet, eggs, quinoa, garlic green onions, tomato, sweet and sour sauce, agave and korean bbq sauce.

I broiled the unagi in the toaster oven, browned the garlic and fried the steamed quinoa. I threw the eel in the frying pan to sear both sides bc I like it crunchy, then took the eel sauce in the pan, added agave, kbbq sauce, sweet n sour and reduced it to drizzle over the grilled unagi. all is topped with sea salt and green onions, with sunny side up eggs and chopped tomatoes.

Healthy Filipino Foodhack 002: Chicken Mango Kalokohan

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:03:46 -0400

Kalokohan is one of my favorite and most familiar Tagalog words. It’s also one of the most familiar as I heard it a lot growing up. Translation: Craziness, hijinx, shenanigans

This is the result of some of my culinary intuitions, or “hey you know what would be good with this” masochistically curious palate.

Red onion, garlic, ginger, red peppers, organic heirloom tomatoes, diced fresh mango, diced dried mango, green beans, green onions, raw apple cider vinegar, mango nectar, splash of vodka (sake last time), chicken thighs.

Healthy Filipino Foodhack 001: Quinoazzcaldo - quinoa-based lugaw)

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:55:00 -0400

Arroz caldo on the Spanish tip. Congee on the Chinese tip. Lugaw on the Malay (?)

Hot rice porridge with garlic and ginger.

Great for the immune system.

Easy to eat, and especially when it’s cold, or you’re feeling sick - it’s heavenly. But that’s just too much rice to eat so fast.

To de-carbify it I use quinoa instead of rice. So it’s also packed with protein. And yes, if you let it cook enough it does congee-l. Chicken thighs are preferable to chicken breast because the thigh meat doesn’t dry out.

Garnished with slices of hard-boiled egg, toasted garlic, green onions, patis, lemon, himalayan salt.

Philippines: Off the beaten path

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:05:07 -0400

Philippines: Off the beaten path