FoodRecap

Pinoy food technologies, resources, news and reviews. Includes food safety and health issues

Eating a Raw Gummy Bacon?

raw gummy bacon

Bacon cannot be eaten raw. In fact, bacon are pre-cooked during processing. Then it needs a little frying or grilling before serving. It can be eaten as is, as viand, as replacement for or addition to hamburger patties, as ingredient of spread, as hotdog barbecue wrap and many more. During ancient time, people used to [...]

Is it True that Cellphone can Cook Pop Corn and Eggs? Boil Water?

cellphone cook egg and pop corn

Are you still trying to cook popcorn and egg using cell phones? This video became viral with over seven million views and still counting. Other curious people experimented the same setup. Some experiments were success but some were failures. I am thinking that if the cellphone vibration is enough to pop the corn like the [...]

Eating a Raw Immature / Young Okra, Lady’s Finger

eating a raw okra

My wife is slicing okra to cook it as vegetable ingredients. Most people do the same thing for okra, cooking it first before eating. I love eating cook okra even if it has a slimy mouth feel. Even a plain boiled okra, rice and soy sauce is enough meal for me. This friend of mind [...]

Bugs / Insects as Staple Food Source

cricket as staple food

Eating bug as food is not new to us or a new discovery. In fact its like an old news paper stored in a stock room a hundred years ago. If you are not eating bugs, perhaps you have seen someone eating them from television shows, magazine, newspapers and the internet. Bugs / insects that [...]

Ulasimang Bato Salad, Pansit Pansitan

ulasimang bato salad

I have a previous post of How to make Pancit Pancitan Tea. This medicinal herb is getting popular because it is one of the ten medicinal herbs approved by the Department of Health. This herb is a cure for rheumatism and gout. If you are interested on how to cure these two illness or how [...]

Is Bullfrog / Toad Edible ?

bullfrog

I always thought that bullfrogs are not edible.  I always try to lure the bullfrog away because our elders said that it might spit poison.  They also said that bullfrog alone can kill a snake and bayawak, monitor lizard. The only edible frog I know is the palakang bukid, a small frog that can found [...]

Uses and Benefits of Pungapong

pungapong 2

Would you like to eat this kind of plant? AMORPHOPHALLUS CAMPANULATUS (Roxb.) Blume. Arum campanulatum Roxb. Arum decurrens Blanco Amorphophallus decurrens Kunth Local names: Anto (Bis.); apon (Tag.); apong-apong (Tag.); bagang (Ibn.); bagong (Bik., Sul.); oroi (Bis.); pamangkilon (Bis.); pungapung (Tag.); tigi-nga-magmanto (Ilk.); tokod-banua (Pamp.). Pungapung is commonly found in most, or all, provinces of [...]