Posts Tagged ‘seafood’
Cheaverz – Cebu
About 2 1/2 weeks ago, my mother-in-law was operated for a tumor removal and reconstruction. In between taking shifts staying at the hospital, taking care of the Baby, and managing our every day routine, we have been relying on food deliveries, take-outs, and pick-ups rather than home-cooked food. After 3 days of fastfood and Lechon Manok, we wanted something that would closely resemble our home-cooked meals without the time and effort to make it. I have 2 places I can think of that can provide what we want and deliver too! Golden Cowries and Cheaverz. I decided to try the latter. Why? Because it was our first time. In the past, we’ve probably had food delivered from Golden Cowrie and it was always good, so this time we were willing to try Cheaverz.
Seafood Linguine
This is my finalized recipe for the Seafood Pasta I posted earlier. Remember that one? I’ve been toying with making good seafood pasta ever since I found those mixed seafood packs in Rustan’s. This time around I used Linguine noodles. If you want to make a pasta dish with seafood, the best kind of pasta would be spaghetti or linguine.
Seafood Pasta
With the pack of mixed seafood I wrote about earlier, I decided to make Seafood Pasta, in a white wine and tomato sauce. One of the Italian restaurants in Cebu I like is La Tegola and one of my favorite dishes they make is Pasta al Cartoccio, which is seafood pasta in a tomato sauce. After cooking the pasta and mixing in the sauce, they wrap it up in foil and let it stay inside the oven for a couple of minutes. The dish is usually served unopened to your table and a waitress/waiter opens it in front of you. The smell that first lets out of that foil is heavenly!
Clam Mushroom Soup
First of all, I want to greet you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR! Let us pray that we all have a blessed year. I feel that 2010 will be great!
It is with a mixture of sadness and happiness that I say goodbye to year 2009. The past month was crazy! busy, busy, busy!!! I have actually reached some moments where I wish my body could be at 2 or 3 different places at one time! Haha! I am somehow shocked that I manage to pull off the holidays gracefully and relieved that things will soon come back to our regular routine.
The Gustavian
I guess by now most of the people in Cebu have visited the new structure in Ayala Center called The Terraces. The Terraces is an expansion of the mall, which was originally called the lagoon. It features mostly restaurants and favors alfresco eating with their outdoor look. And who wouldn’t want to eat outdoors when you have a beautiful view of fountains, luscious greens, and people passing by. The first restaurant we decided to try was The Gustavian.
The Gustavian made a name for itself when it settled its first branch in Banilad, along the road going to Maria Luisa. I had heard a lot of good and bad feedbacks and I wanted to check the place myself. We live in Banilad but unfortunately the construction of the flyover was taking place and going to The Gustavian was kind of a hassle at the time. So I was glad to see that they opened another branch in The Terraces.
We got in the restaurant and immediately I was very impressed with the decors. The atmosphere welcomes you to an air of coziness mixed with sophistication; an ambiance which is very hard to achieve. I took a glance at the menu and I now understood what people meant about the prices. They were in fact a little steep. They had steaks at P1,500. Sandwiches cost P280 and up. Main courses were around P400-P600. Salads started at P300. It is definitely a restaurant to go to for special occasions only. But then again, with steaks costing that much, you know, you are definitely eating good meat. Since we didn’t feel like breaking the bank that night, we stuck to the seafood portion of the menu. There, the prices ranged from P400-P600. I was pacing back and forth on whether to choose the sole fish or the salmon. I prefer the sole fish because it is less dry than the salmon, but I was also attracted to the salmon because it was cooked with a dill cream sauce, which I really wanted to try. I’ve been trying to perfect that sauce at home and I still can’t manage to accomplish that.
