Salt, an essential ingredient not only for food but in life. A mineral mainly made out of sodium and chloride ions ( NaCl ), you can find it being used as an ingredient in almost every recipe whether sweet, savory, sour, or bitter, in drinks, in medicine that we intake or apply topically, for cleaning,…
Avocado, also called ‘butter fruit’, or ‘alligator pears’, with the scientific name ‘Persea americana’ is a native fruit from the Americas under the laurel family growing from an evergreen tree. This fruit has a dark leathery textured smooth skin, a creamy slightly earthy and nutty tasting bright green flesh, with a large pit in the…
Flat Tops is a milk chocolate candy that many Filipinos have fond childhood memories of. Created by the Philippine based company RICOA, who were also the first to create chocolate in the Philippines. Each pack contains around 30 to 100 pieces made of milk solids, hydrogenated vegetable fats (Palm oil and Palm Kernel oil), emulsifier…
Choc Nut is a small milky peanut flavored chocolate candy ‘bar’ no bigger than a thumb, hits all of the nostalgic points in many Filipino’s childhoods. These are made of milk powder, roasted peanuts crushed to a powder form, cocoa powder, vanilla, and cane sugar. Once an all time favorite kid candy has now evolved…
Puto Bumbong is a traditional Filipino dish that is basically an aromatic purple colored rice cake that’s steamed inside a bamboo tube or in this case a steamer. Puto bumbong is a beloved dish that you can easily find in the holidays especially in Christmas where rows of street vendors sell them outside churches. Where…
This icebox cake just need 2 ingredients, that is pre-made store brought cakes, arranged to layer with whipped cream, and finally sprinkled with some chocolate chips and chilled overnight. Chilled for a few hours and ready to be consumed by you and your housemates as a quick dessert that’s easily customizable and so easy to…
Chocolate is a food product made of roasted cacao seeds, that are grounded, then turned into a liquid, paste, or solid, eaten once it solidifies into a chocolate bar, or sometimes flavored by itself or with other extracts and or other ingredients like nuts, candies, and many more. These are usually consumed as a candy,…
White Sugar, also called ‘granulated sugar’, ‘table sugar’, or ‘regular sugar’ is made of cane sugar or beet sugar. One of the most common types of sugar, there are many types of varieties under this popular sweetener. The short process of this sugar start from the liquids extracted from sugarcane or beets, boiled till it…
Buko salad Ice candy is a sweet creamy coconut fruit salad turned into a frozen delicious treat. Buko salad is a well known Filipino dessert that makes use of shredded young coconut, a mixture of canned fruits or fruit cocktail that’s then mixed together with a creamy concoction of evaporated milk and condensed milk. Its…
555 Sardines Philippines is a truly Filipino product from the under Century Pacific Food, Inc. with the tagline “Super Ulam Pinoy” translating to “Super Filipino Viand” as these are not only filling but have vitamins and minerals like lycopene, protein, iodine, calcium and more. It’s been in production for around 30 years or more, ingredients…
