Leche Flan (Whole Eggs) »
Leche flan..smooth, creamy, velvety leche flan, my all time favorite dessert. It’s just eggs, milk and sugar and yet it’s one of the most delicious thing in the world, thank you for whoever came up with this dessert. :)
Kulinarya Cooking Club is featuring this favorite Filipino dessert this month. I decided to make Gale Gand’s [...]
Embutido (Filipino Meatloaf) »
This is one of my favorite Noche Buena food. My mother seldom makes this for Christmas because we usually receive it as gift along with ham and fruitcakes. But you need not wait for someone to give you this, it’s very simple to make, just mix everything together in a bowl, roll it into [...]
Squash in Coconut Milk (Ginataang Calabasa) »
This is one of my favorite veggie dish, I’d like to share this because not only is this so delicious, it is also very simple and easy to cook..as most of my favorite dishes are. You can have this with fish or any meat- fried, broiled, grilled or steamed. You only need a [...]
Cuchinta (Kutsinta) »
Cuchinta is a type of kakanin (Philippines’ native delicacies these are snacks usually made with or containing any or combination of these: coconut,coconut milk, rice flour, glutinous rice, cassava).
Cuchinta is delicious and super easy to make and is almost fat free and low in calories..
I was actually surprise to find out how simple it [...]
Pork and Chillies in Coconut Milk (Bicol Express) »
My husband is crazy about hot and spicy food, and “trained” me to like it too. I remember my first time to eat chilli in pork sinigang, I was literally crying and sniffling, my nose just won’t quit dripping, but my husband kept encouraging me to go on, he said I’ll get used [...]
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 [...]
Chicken Afritada »
Our food (Philippine cuisine) in general is a delicious mix of different cuisines from other countries/ cultures. The most dominant was the influence of Spanish in our way of cooking, three hundred years under their rule for sure created a deep impression that eventually became the foundation for a lot of our delicious [...]
Ampalaya (Bitter Gourd) with Pork »
Ampalaya or bitter gourd is probably number one on children’s list of no-way-I-will-eat-that food for some reasons. For one it is a vegetable, two, ampalaya will not be called bitter gourd/melon for nothing, it is bitter; and three, moms always say it’s good for them.
It’s not easy to make my kids like vegetables [...]
Pichi-Pichi »
Pichi-pichi is a pretty unusual name for a food, so much more for a kakanin. I don’t know where it got it’s name from but I like it. It sounds like pica-pica which is what pichi-pichi is in essence: a bite size snack.
It is a type of kakanin which refers to the many ways [...]
Vegan Mung Beans Soup (Mongo Guisado w/o meat) »
I am not vegetarian or a vegan, no one in my family is, we love to eat meat but once in a while I do take a break from meat or at least omit it in vegetable dish like this one. You won’t actually miss the meat here, personally I don’t think it needs [...]
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