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While browsing the web and looking for a banana catsup articles, I found an article from Manila Bulletin about using catsup as one of the ingredients. It’s intertesing so I post it here. Read the article below:
Original article: http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2009/02/08/20090208147407.html
My favorite ingredient: Banana Catsup
by Sol Jose Vanzi
Jafran was the very first banana catsup our family patronized. [...]

I’ll eat this fried tilapia with kamatis and bagoong alamang (shrimp paste) under the mango tree
Ampalaya is also known as Bitter melon.

Wikipedia:
Momordica charantia is a tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitaceae, widely grown for edible fruit, which is among the most bitter of all vegetables. English names for the plant and [...]

Wow, another food I can’t resist especially if you have calamansi/lemon with bagoong monamon (Anchovy Paste).

While browsing YouTube.com, I came accross this cute little girl demonstrating how to cook Kare-Kare. Well, since my previous post is all about ginisang bagoong alamang this is worth posting. Yummy!

Instructions:
4 tablespoons cooking oil
1/2 cup minced tomatoes
3 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon finely minced garlic
1 cup pork butt sliced into 1/4 inch pieces or less
vinegar to taste
1/2 cup finely minced onion
one 12-ounce jar of bagoong alamang or shrimp paste (sold in Oriental food stores)
How to cook:
In a skillet, heat oil and saute garlic until light brown, onion [...]

Ingredients:
1 cup cooking oil
3 tbsp crushed garlic
1 cup chopped onions
2 long red chili peppers
1/2 cup #3 brown sugar or muscovado
1/2 cup banana catsup
1 kilo bagoong alamang
How to cook:

1. Saute garlic and onions in hot oil until limp. Add peppers, sugar, and catsup; stir until oil separates. Pour in bagoong and cook over low heat, stirring [...]

Ingredients:
Use only good fresh fish (anchovies are preffered).
How to cook:

1. Wash the fish thoroughly with clean fresh water.
2. Mix the fish with clean pure salt.
( 1 part salt to 3 parts fish ) by measure
( 2 parts salt to 7 parts fish) by weight
3. Place the fish in fly proof, clean containers with a minimum.
4. [...]