December 2021

Ube Meringue

When you have lots of unused egg whites make meringues 🤣🤣🤣 Ube Meringue is a simple sweet dessert made with egg white and ube extract quickly baked in low heat until crisp in texture. After making these ensaymada I had leftover egg whites from four eggs and for it not...

Top 12 Tipid Noche Buena Recipes

We all know how COVID had affected us financially, many of our us had reduced times at their workplace, some had hibernated places of work and at its worst, people lost their jobs, all of which affected their regular earnings. It is indeed tough times specially for our fellow Filipinos...

Pork Pastel

Our chicken pastel recipe was a hit, now let’s try if this pork version would be much better. Pork Pastel is a Filipino dish of tender pork cubes cooked together with potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, red bell pepper, green bell pepper and chorizo in a rich creamy sauce perfect in drenching...

Top 5 Recipe Card Makers to Present Your Recipes Effectively

From a traditional style with food photography and introductory text to outlines and pull-out papercraft, these instances of cookbook formats are superior to any printable and editable formula book layout that you may find on Google. Credibility sells, and that goes for the two plans and visual plan. Here are...

Belly Worship (Auckland, New Zealand)

Even before our first lockdown happened here in Auckland, I always wanted to try this Asian fusion restaurant called Belly Worship. People from my past workplace always ask me if I had tried this place as they rave about their menu items, from vegan options to amazing tasty fusion dishes...

Chicken Pastil

If Luzon has binalot then Mindanao has this, Pastil. Chicken Pastil is a Filipino breakfast recipe popular in Mindanao prepared with steamed rice topped with shredded chicken Pastil also known as patil, patel, patir, or pater in Maranao and paster in Iranun, is a popular breakfast item in the Mindanao...

Pan de Regla

You don’t want to know the real translation of this bread; it won’t sound appetizing at all. Pan de Regla or Kalihim is a popular Filipino bakery item which is basically a bread roll filled with red pudding in the middle. I grew up with this bread, I remember this...

8 Different Types of Bananas to Eat and Enjoy

There are high chances that you may have eaten only one kind of banana in your lifetime. But, there are actually more than a thousand varieties of bananas that are divided into fifty subgroups. Bananas are one of the most widely available fruits grown in more than one hundred and...

Copycat Jollibee Honey Beef Rice

I’m a kid from the 90’s and I do well remember this dish, I just wondered why they discontinued it before. Honey Beef Rice is a dish from Jollibee which they introduced in the 90’s. It was short-lived but was relaunched this year, a dish of thinly sliced beef cooked...

Yellow Mirchi (Westgate, Auckland, New Zealand)

It has been a long time since we are able to dine in outside, Auckland was still in a lockdown until last Friday which means we can only do takeaways up until then. But now we are out of it and moved to a new Traffic Light System and that...