Mel's Davao Food Tour

25/05/2022

Hello from Davao.
Thank you for all the inquiries about the food tour. But SORRY that we have not restarted yet.
Our go-to places have not reopened yet.Also, I have not been able to create/find alternatives as of now.

04/04/2022

Wow, this is massively inspiring.
We should find sponsors to distribute this book to schools. I trained as a teacher so can see its potential resource in science, sibika, art and digital classes.
Congratulations for this epic work- @ Juan Miguel Santos, our modern-day Blanco. Thank you also to Richard Foronda Heydarian for shining a light on this important work. I always follow you and this post shows the range of your advocacies. At masaya ang mga live “classes mo. “ Lagi ako’ng present.

To raise awareness on conservation.

03/04/2022

Grilled Cheese Sandwich ala Alice Waters. Chef Alice of Chez Panisse described her method of grilling cheese sandwich in her book “ Coming To My Senses” which I am reading now. So the following morning, I grilled cheese sandwiches for breakfast. Soooooo good.
This is done in a cast iron pan doused with
olive oil. This is then weighed down to press the bread firmly. I used a pan topped with canned soup as weights.
Mama loved it.

21/03/2022

Kitakits sa Huwebes! Magsayo ta!

Pukawin ang damdaming makabayan!

Magsamasama tayo ngayong March 24, 2022, ika-8 ng umaga, sa Davao del Sur Coliseum, Barangay Matti, Digos City para sa Kalinaw Dabaw People's Rally.

Dabaw, gamit ang ating pinag-isang lakas, maipapanalo natin ito!

18/02/2022

Banish the almires.
Mama is uber-strict about Mongo Soup preparation. She insists on having a bowl of shrimp
heads pounded on the almires to use in the soup.
The flavor of the soup has to be shrimp-rich.
But it is hard labor- literally.

Tonight, I banished the almires, yet achieved the same flavorful soup. How?

I boiled the shrimp heads in water. When the boiling broth turned orange, the broth was poured into the boiling mongo.

So, instead of using the almires, I used different pots to cook the ingredients separately. The sauteeing of the other ingredients was also done separately. Ultimately, they were all simmered together.

The result was a very flavorful mongo soup.
Mama approved!

14/02/2022

Valentine’s treat for two at home. heavenly burnt cheesecake. Na pang Lolas at home. 🤪🤪

31/01/2022

Health
Strength
Abundance to all

Happy Chinese New Year 2022!

04/12/2021

Welcome Home Boodle Lunch
How do you properly welcome home a sister who finally managed to come home this Christmas?
Well, give her a boodle lunch.

This is how I pulled it off.
Not quite all mixed up.

We used bilao as plates. But lined these, as well as the table, with banana leaves. All these were sanitized with food grade homemade sanitizer ( hydrogen peroxide solution).

Then the food was arranged around the table consisting of lechon, Kinilaw, Pako Salad, Crabs and Shrimps. As side dishes, we had corn and boiled banana.

For dessert, we kept it simple with fresh buko spiked with ube liqueur and fresh durian.

soooo good.