Pork Sinigang
Featured, Filipino, Pork, Soup Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
One of our avid readers sharing her quick and easy sinigang rendition…
Chicken Sopas
Featured, Filipino, Pasta, Soup Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
This is a typical Filipino pasta/noodle soup that is inexpensive, highly nutritious and a complete meal in itself- it has protein, starch and vegetable all in one dish.
Beef Caldereta
Beef, Featured, Filipino Friday, December 16th, 2011
Filipino beef tomato-based stew with liver spread. Sarap!
Tokwa’t Baboy (Tofu/Pork Mash Up)
Featured, Filipino, Pork Monday, November 28th, 2011
Tokwa means tofu while baboy means pork in Filipino. This is a simple mash up of boiled pork parts such as belly and ears and fried tofu soaked in soy-vinegar sauce.
Cheesy Macaroni with Bacon
Featured, Italian, Pasta Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Quick and easy pasta recipe
Easy, Lemony Chicken Inasal
Featured, Filipino, Poultry Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Chicken Inasal is now big in the Philippines. This is a popular chicken grill that originated from Bacolod in Iloilo region. This dish left a good imprint in my food memory for the first time I tried it when I was a kid. I can …
Pancit Malabon
Featured, Filipino, Rice/Noodles Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
Pancit Malabon is a native Filipino noodle dish using tubular rice noodles with shrimp-base thick sauce, just like palabok or luglog, and with generous garnishing of pork crackling and seafood such as shrimp…
Fried Fish Twist: Sarciado
Featured, Filipino, Seafood Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
Fish sarciado is a typical Filipino dish which is directly translated as fish with sauce. The fish is usually fried first and then simmered in sauce that is made of fresh tomatoes and eggs. However, I do mine …
Pancit Canton
Featured, Filipino, Rice/Noodles Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
There are only 3 Filipino noodles dishes that are being rotated every time there is a special occasion in my family back home in Manila; it’s either Filipino-style sweet spaghetti, pancit bihon or pancit…
Pritong Chicken Adobo
Featured, Filipino, Poultry Thursday, September 8th, 2011
It could be interesting to know how many versions of Filipino adobo exist currently. There are only a few ingredients used in adobo but there are countless twists and turns that you can do …
Pinoy-Style Fried Chicken
Featured, Filipino, Poultry Thursday, September 1st, 2011
This is no Jollibee or KFC. But in some hidden corner of my mind, I remember my grandmother putting vinegar to chicken before frying them. I asked some elderly Pinoys as well and they affirmed that this is pretty common. Vinegar …
Pork Binagoongan
Featured, Filipino, Pork Thursday, August 25th, 2011
(Chicago) – This is one hell of a Filipino dish that makes me want to eat 5 cups of rice in one meal. “Binagoongan” is a shrimp paste dish with lots of meat and usually made super spicy. Some people like it with lesser meat but more …
Bloody Good Dinuguan
Featured, Filipino, Pork Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Dinuguan is a popular stew dish in the Philippines made up of pork blood, pork meat, some offals (liver, intestines, etc) and vinegar.
Ube Pandesal
Bread/Pastry, Featured, Filipino Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
What’s for breakfast? Warm ube (purple yam) pandesal with peanut butter.
Tortang Talong
Featured, Filipino, Pork, Vegetable Monday, August 8th, 2011
(Chicago) – This a simple and ever popular Filipino eggplant omelet. This dish could be simplified some more and just reduce the ingredients to eggplant, egg and oil. But I like my torta with some stuffing to make it heavier …
Talong at Corned Beef
Beef, Featured, Filipino, Vegetable Saturday, August 6th, 2011
(Chicago) – I never like ordering food or microwaving frozen stuffs for dinners. After a long day of hard and stressful work, all I want is a home-cooked meal to bring me back to sanity. But the primary enemy is time. There’s …
Lechon Tocinong Manok
Featured, Filipino, Poultry Sunday, July 31st, 2011
(Chicago) – I was intending to make pork tocino but I didn’t realize that I used up the huge pork butt reserves for adobo the other week. But I’m still craving for that sweet, salty and garlicky flavor of tocino. All I have in my freezer is a whole…
Veggie Galore: Chopsuey
Featured, Filipino, Seafood, Vegetable Sunday, July 24th, 2011
(Chicago) – I eat vegetables but it’s not usually my preference especially if there’s a meat dish on the table. My doctor even reprimanded me for doing high protein diet …
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