Isa munang buntong hininga
Guess what I just discovered in our last visit to Costco......canned lump crab meat from the Philippines! Yep, yep Philippine crabs. Just can't figure out if it's alimango or alimasag. Eh, what the heck, whichever it is it's yummy crabmeat from home. Nothing beats the sweet meat of our crabs.
If I'm not mistaken Phillips is the brandname of the crabmeat and it comes in black cans. However if you go to Costco and find 3 cans that are slightly different from one another, don't be confused. Although under one brand the crabmeat comes from three separate countries: Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam.
Okay, enough of that. I've been dreaming of crabcakes since I bought the crabmeat but, alas, I've ran out of mayo. So what's the next best thing to make with already-picked-no-shells crab meat - rellenong alimango. Sans crab top shells to put the mixture into so I just shaped them into patties. They turned out great. One bite and it reminded of the tortang giniling we had at Pampanga. So simple yet so filling and satisfying. Hence it's more of a tortang alimango than a rellenong alimango.
What went into the mixture:
1 potato chopped finely
1 onion minced
1 red bell pepper chopped finely
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
1 tsp salt
1 egg
