Arroz ala Cubana »
Ever since I was little, we always have rice for breakfast to start our day. Sometimes it’s champorado or rice porridge but most of the time its rice, egg and meat or dried fish with chocolate drink and sometimes coffee (yes, I started drinking coffee at a very young age, about 8 I think, that [...]
French Onion Salisbury Steak »
Salisbury steak is actually a burger steak with a much better and kind of classy sounding name but no matter how you prefer to call it, it’s delicious either way. Burger steak or Salisbury steak if you will isn’t new to me and my family, we usually have it with mushroom gravy. What caught my [...]
Menudo »
This dish shares the same name with the latin boy band of the ’80s that my sisters were so crazy about. I remember our room with so many posters of Menudo in their colorful spandex and headbands. My two sisters and their friends were crushing on the four “older” members of the group and [...]
Purple Yam – Macapuno Mini Pies or Tarts »
You know the saying easy as pie? It always puzzles me when someone says that for I find making pies (the crust part) not really easy. I couldn’t relate to it but when I attempted to make this mini pies last weekend, I thought, hmmmn.. this must be what that saying is about. They are [...]
Saba Banana Caramel »
This simple, delicious caramelized saba banana is often eaten as dessert or snack or as topping to ice cream. In Filipino we call this minatamis na saging; It is eaten as is or as one of the many sweet ingredients in halo-halo or serve with shaved ice and milk (banana con hielo). When I was [...]
Chicken Pomodoro »
Chicken and tomatoes are two of my favorite ingredients, dishes that have these are irresistible for me. When I saw this recipe from Cuisine at Home, I heard it calling out to me..and I am powerless in this kind of situation; you know, when you can’t shake the image of a food from your mind, [...]
Dulce de Leche Candies (Yema) »
This creamy, milky candy has always been my favorite since childhood. I was so addicted to it, whenever I have extra money, I would ran to the store and buy it. This is a simpler version of yema balls. It’s cooked condensed milk, sometime with ground peanuts added. This is also more commonly found here [...]
Pork Tenderloin with Orange-Chilli Glaze »
Did you know that pork tenderloin is as healthy as chicken breast? You do? Well,then good for you, but in case you don’t, read the facts here. Pork tenderloin is one of my favorite cut of meat. It’s perfect for quick and easy meal, it takes almost no time to cook, it’s as versatile as [...]
Apple Crumble »
This recipe is from Jamie Oliver. My family and I love apple pie, I make it every weekend when there apples but this weekend, we only have 3 fuji apples left so I thought of making apple crumble instead. I like Jamie’s recipe because it’s quicker and easier to make. It pre-cooks the apples first [...]
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