Dinuguan at puto is considered as a good meal combination for most Filipinos. This refers to pork blood stew and steamed rice cake. The pork is ...
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Ideal Filipino Breakfast
What is your ideal Filipino breakfast? This sounds like an easy question, but it starts to get a bit challenging to answer when you start to think ...
Barbecue
It is summer time again (here in North America). Time to clean the grill and get it running again. Steak, hot dogs, burger and bratwurst are some of ...
Delicious Warm Bulalo
Bulalo is a type of beef soup that is popular in the Philippines. This beef soup recipe is made using beef shank. It is important to use shank in ...
Beer Battered Cream Dory Fillet with Toyomansi
Have you heard about a fish called Cream Dory? If you are thinking about the movie Nemo, this is not Dory the fish that I am referring. Please, she is ...
How about Batchoy Sisig?
Who wants to try this delicious sisig? This sisig dish that I made for lunch is one of the best sisig versions that I ever had. I am saying this not ...
An Improved Meatloaf Recipe
Are you looking for the best meatloaf recipe, but could not find one? I was looking for the same thing too, and I ended-up making a good enough ...
I Want to Siomai Appreciation to Everybody
Before you say anything, I know. The title sounds corny. Please bear with me. I tried thinking of a cheesier title, but this is the best that I can ...
Time to Satisfy Your Buchi Cravings
Are you craving for Buchi? Well, I was a week ago. I tried to make my own, but I am short of sweet rice flour. I ended up craving for buchi for a ...
Delicious Grilled Pork Belly for Pulutan
Sabado (Saturday) night is the best time of the week to unwind. It is the time to be with family and friends – to eat, drink, and be merry. Shrug-off ...
Easy Crock-Pot Beef Stew for Those Who Can Wait
The temperature here in Chicago dropped drastically over the past weeks. Snow turned into ice, while the wind continues to whistle its frigid tunes. ...
Ginataang Kalabasa or Ginataang Sitaw? Call it whatever you want
Kalabasa (Calabaza or Squash; some also call this West Indian Pumpkin), string beans, and coconut milk are the main ingredients of this Filipino ...
Craving for Crispy Fried Daing
As I was about to depart from Chicago O’Hare Airport (ORD) on my way to the Philippines two weeks ago, I had only one thing in mind: to have Crispy ...
Just in Time for Lunch: Ginisang Monggo with Dilis
It’s almost lunchtime, you woke-up realizing that you weren’t able to shop for groceries the day before. Eating out is not an option; you know that ...
Sinangag na Dilis: What do you pair this with?
It has been over a year since I last tried cooking Sinangag na Dilis. As I shop for tuyo a few days ago, I noticed the dried anchovies (pinatuyong ...
Nilagang Baboy Made Me Feel Warm Today
It is getting colder this past weeks. Autumn is definitely making a statement. I was thinking of something to cook for lunch this morning as I unpack ...
Longsilog: Something Heavy for Breakfast
Care for some Longsilog? As much as I would like to share this with you, I already consumed everything this morning for breakfast. Don't fret; I can ...
Quick and Easy Corned Beef Dinner
What’s cooking last night? We had Canned Chunky Corned Beef sautéed in garlic and onions for dinner.Before telling you how good it was, allow ...
Tinapang Tawilis – An Unexpected Discovery
Tinapang Isda is the local term for smoked fish. Fishes like galunggong (hardtail mackerel or round scad) and bangus (milk fish) are boiled with salt, ...
Chicharon Bulaklak
They say that one of the age defying secrets is eating Chicharon Bulaklak; of course, they’re all joking.Chicharon Bulaklak are crispy pork ...
Tapsilog
“Almusal naman ang pag usapan natin” (Let’s talk about breakfast). There is nothing like a delicious warm Tapsilog to start-up my day. This was what I ...
Halabos na Alimasag Recipe
Care for some fresh crabs? Here are some halabos na alimasag. These are the freshest crabs that I had since I learned to eat one. How fresh are these? ...
The Dangsilog Effect
Danggit (dried rabbit fish), sinangag (garlic fried rice), and itlog (fried egg) make up a meal that is popularly known as Dangsilog. It is quite ...
A Simple Filipino Breakfast
This is my simple Filipino breakfast: Pandesal with tender juicy red hotdogs, and fried eggs. The one that I missed among the three was the tender ...
Lechon Dinner
Finally, I was able to feature Lechon here in our Filipino Food Blog. I hate to disappoint everyone but this is not a Lechon Recipe that most of you ...
Fried Tilapia Recipe
Friday is the day that we abstain from meat during lent (and you might know the reason behind it). I cooked Fried Tilapia for dinner last Friday and ...
Fried Talong with Bagoong
The first day of lent for this year started last Wednesday (Feb 17, 2010); this is also known as Ash Wednesday. During the Lenten season, Catholics ...
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 ...
Beef Lugaw
Chicago winter is one of the coldest in the country. There are weeks wherein the average temperature ranges between 5 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit; there ...
Corned Beef with Potatoes
Eating breakfast like a king is what I’ve been doing since I can remember. This improves my metabolism and fuels-up my day. There is nothing like a ...
Fried Bangus (Milkfish)
Before anything else, let me first acquaint you with a section of this blog called “What’s cookin?” This section (or category) is intended to showcase ...
Burger and Bratwurst, anyone?
Care for some burger and bratwurst? There are some days when I don't feel like eating rice. During these days, I usually have subs or sandwiches. ...
Asian Food
Today is our market day. Its the time to go to the grocery and pick-up all the food supplies needed for the week. Right now, we decided to go to Super ...
Fried Galunggong for the First Friday of Lent 2009
Today is the first Friday of lent for the year 2009 and we are having Fried Galunggong. During Friday's and the whole holy week, Roman Catholics ...