Carinderia Style Giniling
This Carinderia Style Giniling reminds me of our former neighbor – an old couple. Carinderia is a small (usually road side) eatery or restaurant that serves local homecooked meals. In my hometown, there was an old couple who owned a…
Ube Cheese Bread Pie
Ube Cheese Bread Pie will make a great snack. It is sweet, salty and crunchy. The combination of ube and cheese has been one of my favorite combos. There are so many baked and non-baked treats that use ube and…
Gourmet Tuyo Pasta in Cream
I don’t know if you can remember, but I’ve mentioned before that when I try to cook a new pasta dish, I always end up making my Filipino Spaghetti. With all the delicious pasta I’ve eaten the past months, I…
Filipino Chicken Adobo in Calamansi
Chicken Adobo is one of the dishes I’ve been cooking for a very long time. I think all Filipino food bloggers should have a recipe of Chicken Adobo since it is like our “national dish”. 😀 Since I started blogging,…
Ube Jam
Ube Halaya or Ube Jam is a jam or dessert made from purple yam. It is a mixture of coconut milk, evaporated milk and condensed milk. This can be enjoyed as a filling for bread, can be mixed with ice…
Custard Cake
Layers of caramel, custard and vanilla sponge cake – so deliciously sweet! It is very nice how things bring back childhood memories. I don’t have much childhood memories when it comes to playing under the rain or with my playmates/school…
Shakoy (Twisted Fried Donuts)
There are so many Filipino recipes that I hope I know its history or even just the meaning of the name of the dish. Maybe it’s a language from a certain tribe that I can translate to English? Not a…
Chicken Tinola with Corn
Chicken Tinola is a common dish in the Philippines, if not popular, in which the soup is a ginger-based one. The veggies that usually go with Chicken Tinola are chayote (or green papaya) and leafy greens like chili leaves, moringa leaves,…
Mom’s Kinilaw na Isda
Fish cured in vinegar and/or citrus juices, mixed with tomatoes, onion, ginger, cucumber and coconut milk. Spiced up by bird’s eye chili or long chili. Similar to Latin America’s Ceviche, Kinilaw na Isda is so popular in the Philippines and…
Thai Pineapple Chicken
First, I want to thank Selma, Sue and Angie for featuring my last FF’s Aunt Juju’s Chocoloate Syrup Brownies. And thanks for appreciating my letter to Angie. 😀 To my surprise, Angie also told me about co-hosting today with Aunt…
