Spanish Bread
When craving strikes, it doesn’t go away easily. Ugh! Cravings! This is the reason why I made Spanish Bread. Spanish Bread is one of my panaderya (Filipino term for bakery) favorites, along with Pan de Coco and Pan de Monggo.…
Sticky Honey Butter Chicken Popcorn
Who doesn’t love a wonderful weeknight dinner after work like this Sticky Honey Butter Chicken Popcorn? Working eight hours a day can be really exhausting. Sometimes, all I wanna do when I arrive home is to get a nice shower…
Salted Chicken Eggs
Salted Egg is one of the foods you can find in the Filipino breakfast table. Traditionally, it is made using duck eggs, but I couldn’t get my hands on duck eggs so I settled with chicken eggs and it is…
Chocolate Puto Flan
Chocolate Puto Flan is my newest favorite. It is a combination of Puto and Leche Flan. Before I talk about this Chocolate Puto Flan, let me just give you a short introduction about Puto and Leche Flan. Puto is steamed…
Pastel Buns with Yema Filling
Pastel Buns is one of my favorites. It has various fillings but one of my favorites is the ones with yema (custard) filling. Pastel de Camiguin or Pastel is a kind of bread – soft bun with a sweet custard…
Filipino Chicken Curry with Chickpeas
Filipino Chicken Curry is one of my favorite dishes and I have a story to share… Once upon a time, in a far away land, there lives a princess with her parents and siblings. The queen, the princess’ mom, loves…
Mango Bread Pie
The mango season is here and I can’t let the season pass without making this Mango Bread Pie. If you know me well, then you know that I am a huge mango lover and I love anything with mangoes. It…
Pancake Cereal / Mini Pancakes
Finally, I gave in and made TikTok’s Pancake Cereal / Mini Pancakes. I was writing a blog post and the BFF showed me a video clip of Pancake Cereal / Mini Pancakes from TikTok. She wanted me to make them…
Beef Rendang (Maranao Version)
Beef Rendang is a dish that I’d love to try cooking a long time ago but I always feel intimidated just by thinking about it. Until one day, I woke up and suddenly decided to make it as a Marano…
Piaparan a Bakas
Aside from Chicken Piaparan, Piaparan a Bakas is one of my favorite Maranao dishes. In Piaparan a Bakas, “piaparan” means “with papar” (if I am not mistaken) and “bakas” is smoked tuna. Papar is the cooked grated coconut which can…
