As I mentioned recently, I got a new cookbook and Trinity has been itching to try it out. We happened to have ground beef on hand, so we decided to try Picadillo, a ground beef and vegetable stew. It was mighty tasty and very fast to make. Check out the Flickr set for the directions. Warning: it does require fish sauce, aka patis. Hahah! PinoyCook, by the way, has a chicken version.
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Kitchen essentials
If you watch HGTV as much as I do (compulsively, I can’t help it!), you might believe kitchen essentials include a backsplash, a skylight, heated bamboo floors, stainless steel appliances, cherry wood cabinets, granite countertops…I’m sorry, what? Ooops, I was just drooling there, my bad.
Yes, yes, I know. Short of either winning the lottery or writing a best-selling novel (or even maybe selling a blog!), this ain’t going to happen. Hey, a girl can dream, right?
Anyway, this all comes up because of a recent article in the LAT about kitchen essentials. These may not be my essentials, but it was still an interesting list. It includes:
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Where are the Filipino cookbooks?
Trinity and I were at Barnes & Noble the other night. He went off to find his favorite books and I wandered over to the cookbooks. For some reason, there are at least two or three titles about Chinese, Korean, Thai and Indian cooking — but just one about Filipino cooking. What’s up with that?