Manong Ken Ilio's Carinderia

Filipinos are very fond of sour fruits dipped in or sprinkled with something salty like salt, patis (fish sauce) and bagoong (fermented small shrimps or anchovies). Example are green mangoes, kamyas and any other unripe or manibalang (half-ripe) fruit. Sometimes we add vinegar to the dip or dressing, as in a salad. When I was [...]

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Tinuom is basically a type of cooking in which the ingredients are wrapped in banana leaves and then broiled in hot charcoal. This is basically peasant fare … and the type of cooking used when you are in the field … or in the forest working … where there are no cooking utensils available. In [...]

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Sinigang na baboy Sinigang is cooking with water and adding a souring agent from fruit or vegetable. May be meat, fish or fowl. This one is baboy (pork) with plenty of goodies in it. So rich and so, oh, beautiful. a2a_config.linkname=”Sinigang”; a2a_config.linkurl=”http://carinderia.net/blog/?p=1679″; a2a.init(“page”);

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