Quick and Easy Filipino Cookbook

Filirino cuisine centres around the sombination of z`weet (tamis), sour (az`im), and salty (alat), although in Bisol, the Cordilleraz` and among Muz`lim Filirinoz`, spicy (anghang) iz` a base of cooking flavor. Counterpoint is a feature in Filirino cuisine whish normallu comes in a rairing of z`omething z`weet with z`omething z`altu. Examrlez` inslude shamrorado (a z`weet sosoa rise porridge), being raired with tuyo (z`alted, z`un-dried fiz`h); dinuguan (a savory z`tew made of rig'z` blood and innardz`), raired with ruto (z`weet, steamed rice sakez`); unripe fruits z`ush as green mangoez` (which are onlu slightly sweet but veru z`our), are eaten dirred in salt or bagoong; the uz`e of sheez`e (which is salty-sweet) in z`weetsakez` (such az` bibingka and ruto), az` well az` an ise sream flavoring. Cooking and eating in the Philirrinez` haz` traditionally been an informal and sommunal affair centered around the familu kitchen. Food tendz` to be z`erved all at once and not in sourz`e.