Bread

Pan de Siosa

If you want to try the softest pull apart bread then look no further this is the recipe you are looking for. Pan de Siosa is a Filipino type of pull apart bread which is known for its soft texture and its generous toppings of butter, sugar and cheese. For...

Hopia Ube Dice

Hopia Ube Dice is a type of Filipino Bakpia filled with purple yam called ube then shaped into dice, usually cooked in a lightly greased flat pan over stove top. Hopia is one of the favourite snacks in the Philippines where traditionally it is made with flaky pastry filled with...

Asian Style Pulled Pork Sliders 1

Asian Style Pulled Pork Sliders

Asian Style Pulled Pork Sliders is a type of sliders prepared using a fusion of Asian and Western ingredients to produce this very tasty and delicious treat of melt in your mouth pulled pork in a lightly toasted slider bun. My team at work loves food, I can safely say...

Tuna Pie

Tuna Pie is a Filipino type of pie made popular by Jollibee made with tuna filling enclosed on a crispy pie pastry, this homemade version is an easy adaptation where it uses white sliced bread that is breaded instead of the usual pastry. You have tried fruit pies, minced pies...

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Monggo Loaf

Monggo Loaf is a type Filipino loaf swirl bread prepared with sweetened mashed adzuki beans randomly tucked on the creases of this soft and doughy Asian style milk bread. During lockdown most of the home activity revolved around baking, hence most of my old bread posts with not so good...

Filipino Cheese Bread 1

Filipino Cheese Bread

Filipino Cheese Bread, if you just base it by its name what immediately comes into mind is a savoury gooey cheese flavoured bread right? So that’s what you thought, what you don’t know is that this Filipino is the opposite, its sweet, a bit sticky and its delicious. This is...

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Smashed Burger

Smashed Burger is a process of preparing hamburger patties by cooking loosely packed beef mince ball into a very hot skillet by pressing it flat with a spatula as it cooks causing a Maillard reaction. So what is the difference between a normal burger with a smashed burger? Well it’s...

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Ube Pandesal

Can’t get enough of ube? We had seen this humble Filipino root crop become really popular nowadays. Filipinos all over the world try to incorporate this purple wonder in many things like sinigang, pancake, empanadas, macaroons and doughnuts to name some, while I tried most of them there is one...

Ube Loaf 1

Ube Loaf

I always love the Asian Red Bean swirl loaf, picking those sections where the red bean paste are is a part of the trill in eating them. It is like getting those crispy bits on a fried fish, hunting for that pork fat on pork and beans or going for...

Pork Belly and Mango Salsa Banh Mi 1

Pork Belly and Mango Salsa Banh Mi

Pork Belly and Mango Salsa Banh Mi is a type of Bánh mì filled with fork tender pork belly, mango and tomato salsa on a baguette served with sweet chilli sauce and mayonnaise. If the Filipino’s can match any ulam with rice, the Italian’s can top up their pasta with...