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…
These small fluffy delicate looking zebra cakes may be the next afternoon snack you’d want to try! With just a few as 9 simple ingredients that are inexpensive and can be easily found at your home cupboards. You can make these mini zebra cake right at home, enjoyed fresh out of the oven. Make these…
Pansit pansitan (Pansit pansitan in English is ‘Pepper Elder’ ) also called ‘ulasimag-bato’ is the name of a herbal plant like weed that you might confuse with the popular pancit dish (noodle dish) from the Filipino restaurant Manam. The Pansit pansitan plant is a shallow rooted medicinal plant that grows in slightly shaded areas eaten…
Cucumber is a refreshing lean and long green garden vegetable with a high water content from the same family as pumpkins and watermelons. These are technically fruits but are more considered and cooked as a vegetable as these have a mildly sweet and cool taste, and slightly tastes like a melon fruit. This creeping vine…
Brown sugar is a sweet product under the sucrose category with the addition of molasses or without the molasses content taken out during production, which gives it its nice golden or dark brown color. Traditionally it is called ‘partially refined or unrefined sugar’, with the production typically mixing in the molasses into white sugar instead…
