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The weekend is almost here and I’ve been looking inside our fridge to make a list of things to buy at the market. Lo and behold! I see some leftover ingredients here! A lonely carrot, some celery, a cup of milk, and an odd looking veggie here and there, you run out of ideas sometimes on what to do with them.

This is where  comes in handy!

Just go over at Foodista.com, type in the ingredient you have in the house, click search, and in a few seconds they will show you all the recipes that they have that includes this ingredient!

So, what am I going to do with my leftover carrot and celery?

I’m making a delicious carrot salad with them!

Carrot salad by psd from Flickr

Yummy!

This is just so awesome!

The creative team of Foodista has come up with a way for recipe lovers and contributors to personalize their recipes! Yay! this means that YOU have the choice if the recipe you submitted can be changed or modified by other people.

When you submit or share a recipe, you canselect this entry as a public recipe (where everyone can edit) or personal recipe (where only you can edit). To know more about it, do visit Foodsita here. You can also know more about the projects in store for Foodista through this link

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Philippines airs on Monday, February 16 at 10pm EST on the Travel Channel. (In the Philippines, that is on February 17, 10AM)

I can’t wait to watch this show! Just this morning, Ingrid Getzan of the Travel Channel sent me an email on what to expect on this episode, here’s what she told me:

In the next episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, we get to see a sensitive side of Tony. He recognizes his large Filipino audience and that the Philippines is a country and food culture that he really wants ‘to do right by.’

You may recognize one of his hosts while there, Augusto, a runner up from the Fan-atic special, which aired last season. Although Augusto wasn’t picked, he made an impression on Tony, and in turn, he is treated to a reunion with his family and ‘the best pig…ever’ at a spectacularly large cookout.

He also delves deep into what exactly it means to be Filipino by exploring their history and the many prominent cultures of the islands. He travels to Manila, Pampanga, and Cebu, visiting a dampa and dining on adobo shrimp, sisig, crab (keep a look out for the stuffed crab – I almost booked a ticket immediately!), goat heads soup, ox tail and of course, lechon.

I know I say this every time, but don’t watch hungry!

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Philippines airs on Monday, February 16 at 10pm EST on the Travel Channel.

Here is a preview video you may post on your blog:
http://www.viddler.com/explore/TravelChannel/videos/87/

Tony will write about the episode on his blog:
http://anthony-bourdain-blog.travelchannel.com/

If you have ideas on how Travel Channel or Anthony Bourdain might be able to promote your blog or better contribute to your interests – please be sure to let me know.

Have a great weekend,
Ingrid Getzan
Room 214 on behalf of the Travel Channel

Isn’t that great!  Thank you so much Ingrid! You can also check out  Tony’s blog here. Here is the preview just incase you havent seen it yet.

I think it’s cool that Tony got to sample our local fishball If you want to know more about Philippine or Filipino Cuisine then watch this episode. Set your Tivo okay?

I came across a post by the Squirrel queen that gave me Trader Joe Envy!

Foodista has quite a number of posts about food and ingredients that they buy from Trader Joe’s. It wasn’t until I saw this video that I wished we had something like this around our place!

Check out the video in youtube about Trader Joes, it has a catchy tune from the song Waters of March really nice!

Just wanted to share with y’all that one of my fave blogs, Foodista, had officially launched their online food and cooking encyclopedia! Seattlepi.com got the scoop on the launch with an article on the Foodista founders, Barnaby Dorfman and Sheri Wetherell.

photo by Scott Ecklund/Seattlepi.com

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