How to Start a Food Blog

Do you want to have your own food blog? If you are a foodie, you might already thought of making one. The good news is it’s easy to create your own food blog. But, don’t get too excited, yet. There are a few things to consider before pushing through with the idea.

The first thing that you need to do is to define your purpose. Do you want to have a food blog because you like to write about food and want to share your recipes? Maybe, you want to tell stories about your food adventures. There are many reasons that can drive you to pursue your plan; you just need to list all of them. These reasons will help you determine the identity of the food blog that you want to create.

The next thing to do is sign-up for your own blog account. You can create an account on free blog publishing sites such as Wordpress, Blogger, and Typepad. Visit any of these sites and register. After the registration, you are all set. You can now start creating articles, recipes, and post pictures on your blog.

10 Filipino foods that will surely keep you warm in Winter

We are currently experiencing a winter storm here in the Midwest. About a foot of snow has piled-up outside and it will still accumulate overnight. I wanted to shoot some videos but I felt so lazy – must be the weather.

After having some hot soup for dinner, I thought of writing an article about Filipino foods that can help us feel warm and comfortable during the cold days – and this is it. Since its almost midnight, I don’t have the time to create a long list and do some extensive research. I’m thinking of starting with 10 foods that we already featured before and I am relying on you guys to help me add more .

How to Make the Special Siopao Sauce

Ever since we featured Siopao Asado here in our Filipino Food Blog, we have been receiving a lot of inquiries and requests for the Special Siopao Sauce that should go with it. Based on my replies on your comments, this Siopao sauce recipe should be released along with the Siopao Bola-Bola video (which I plan to feature soon) – but I’ve decided to publish this recipe ahead because more requests on this are coming in on a regular basis.

How to Butcher a Chicken

Have you ever tried to butcher a whole dressed chicken? I remember the first time to butcher a whole chicken; it was confusing. Back then, I didn’t know where to start and I have no idea as to how many parts should I divide it into. I spent more than 30 minutes to complete the [...]

Tuyo: Smelly but Lovely

It has been more than a week since I last posted an article for our What’s Cooking section so I decided to write something about what I had for breakfast this morning. After taking a shower and brushing my teeth twice, I’m now inspired to write something about one of my favorite breakfast foods: Tuyo.

Tuyo refers to salted dried fish (usually herring); this is also known as stockfish in some countries. In the Philippines, tuyo is considered as a poor mans food because of its cheap price – however, this connotation has been expunged over the years since people of different social status learned to love and enjoy it. This can be justified by the different recipes involving tuyo; these ranges from fried tuyo to gourmet pasta with tuyo.

5 Things to Consider in Making the Best Fried Rice

Fried Rice is the result when steamed or boiled rice are fried in oil or animal fat. For practical reasons, the Chinese first used this method to preserve and recycle leftover steamed rice for consumption. Nowadays, several varieties of fried rice are enjoyed throughout the world.

Making fried rice seems simple and easy. When asked as to how this is done, you might say “heat some oil and fry the steamed rice then add the other ingredients that you have”. While this statement is true, there are more things to consider that may help you make the best possible outcome out of what you have.

Humba

Humba is a sweet pork dish that resembles the famous pork adobo in terms of appearance. This is popular in the southern parts of the Philippines and is considered as one of the delicacies of the region. Pork belly, pork hocks, and pork ham are the 3 most common pig parts used to make this delightful masterpiece.

This dish uses all the ingredients of pork adobo; however, certain ingredients such as brown sugar, salted black beans, and banana blossoms make this dish stand out. There are also other variations wherein pineapple juice is used (I learned this from my friends that came from Cebu, Davao, and Gensan) – this gives more life to the dish as far as I’m concerned.

How to Make Spaghetti with Tomato and Basil

Who doesn’t want pasta? Even if pasta is not an authentic Filipino food, we still learned to love and enjoy it. In fact, there are some Filipino variations of some Italian pasta dishes that we really enjoy: like the Pinoy Spaghetti for example.

Our palate must have adjusted to the taste of different pasta dishes that we had over the years to the point that some of us consider it as our comfort food. I must admit that I love lasagna and I consider it as one of my comfort food. Is pasta one of your comfort foods too? What is your favorite pasta dish?

I noticed that people are embracing healthy pasta dishes these days. Spaghetti dishes with less meat and more vegetables are preferred because of its health benefits. It also goes without saying that preparation time is faster since vegetables cook fast.

What we have here is a very simple yet healthy pasta recipe that uses cherry tomatoes and fresh basil (I can still smell the basil as I write). This dish only took me less than 20 minutes to prepare and the taste was awesome.

I am a certified carnivore but embracing healthy habits is one thing that I am considering at this moment. I decided to first start on my eating habits; this affects the foods that I choose to eat. Don’t get me wrong. We will still be doing our favorite Pinoy recipes though healthy recipes and some food recipes for weight loss will be added- that is if you like the idea.

I would love to hear from you. Please comment on this post and share your thoughts.

How to Make the Perfect Rice Puff Dessert

Rice puffs or popped rice are grains of rice that are popped and dehydrated. This is often mixed with sweeteners such as sugar or corn syrup and eaten as breakfast cereals. There is a popular snack in the Philippines called “ampaw” which is made from sweetened popped rice.

I’m not planning to post a recipe using rice puffs until I noticed several open boxes of puffed rice cereals that my kids eat during breakfast. You know kids – they want to try every cereal that they see on TV. One box is due to expire in 3 days and I don’t want it to go to waste – so I thought of an idea on how to let my kids consume the rice puff cereal before it becomes stale.

Another World Record for the Biggest Mango

Would you believe that a single piece of mango can weight up to 2 kilos (4.4 lbs)? I thought that this was a hoax at first until I read a post published by the Department of Agriculture – Cagayan de Oro, Philippines last September 2009.

Mr. and Mrs. Sergio Bodiongan of Iligan City were able to produce the largest mango that the world has ever seen. Each piece of mango produced from their tree weighs an average of 2 kilos – extraordinary. This is not the amazing part yet; what’s astounding is that they were able to harvest the largest and heaviest mango ever. Weighing 3.5 kilos (7.7 lbs), they entered their priceless entry in the “Pinaka” (the most) contest during Sundayag 2009 (A showcase of the Best of Northern Mindanao featuring Agriculture, Trade, & Tourism destinations). This also prompted them to register their mango in the Guinness Book of World Records.

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