Palabok, you can find a lot of different versions of it in Luzon alone: Jollibee, Razon’s, Pansit ng mga taga Malabon, Red Ribbon and the list goes on but my most favorite is my mom’s. I love chunky and meaty sauces! My mom has been cooking this for 15 years...
Guinataang Halo Halo or Binignit is a Filipino hot dessert / snack dish that is made out of different root crops (sweet potato, taro, yam and cassava), cardaba bananas , tapioca pearls, galapong (rice flour dough) and jack fruit served in a sweet coconut sauce. This odd combination is where...
Figs and Toasted Almonds Baked Brie is a a perfect mixture of savoury and sweet goodness, serve it with crackers and bread while enjoying your wine. A colleague of mine who once in a while shares her gardens produce had given me again another fruit and this time it was...
Niu Rou Mien, a really hearty noodle dish and a really good dish to have on a really hungry tummy, it combines all the goodness of a beefy soup, large chunks of tender shanks, thick noodles and crispy vegetable greens. For Filipino’s the best description I can give this is...
Fen si is also known as mung bean vermicelli or glass noodles, the latter of which sounds prettier and refers to its opaque appearance. The noodles made of mung bean starch are slippery, bouncy, and smoother than the vermicelli made from rice. It’s that time of the year again where...
Guinataang Alimango at Langka is a dish made out of crabs and young jackfruit cooked in coconut milk, it works well with freshly cooked jasmine rice and eating it the Filipino way only by hands. Philippines have an array of choices when it comes to seafood and vegetable curries, this...
This Spinach and Mushroom Stir Fry it so simple and really easy to prepare, all you need is saute mushrooms with garlic and mix it with blanched spinach. My constant hunt for easy and simple meat free vegetable recipes is quite challenging, especially for a carnivorous person like me but...
Creamy Tomato Mushroom Spaghetti is another type of Filipino style spaghetti, with slight hint of sweetness but what it’s known for is the use of cream of mushrooms yielding a creamy, sweet, savoury and earthy spaghetti. I guess I had already mentioned before that in Philippines spaghetti is a big...
This Sweet and Spicy Fish Balls is inspired from that street food but I added some twist and served it with additional ingredients like pineapples and capsicum. Fishballs is a staple street food in the Philippines, you see moving street hawkers with deep frying carts peddling it on most of...
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