Ginataang alimasag is a popular Filipino crab dish where large crabs, string beans and squash are cooked in a creamy coconut milk sauce made by coconut milk, onion, ginger, garlic, chili flakes, fish sauce, pepper, shrimp paste and oil. This dish is believed to have originated in Batanes but is now widely enjoyed all throughout…
Pork asado is a sweet pork dish popular in Philippines, where cooked pork is served with a a sweet tomato based sauce made with tomatoes, onion, garlic, liver spread, soy sauce, bay leaves, peppercorns, tomato paste, calamansi juice, sugar, chili flakes and salt. This Kapampangan version of the pork asado is mostly favoured due to…
Pork Pata Kare Kare is a classic Filipino stew where sliced pork pata pieces are cooked in a nutty yellow thick peanut sauce made with peanuts, onion, garlic, pechay, string beans, eggplant, ground rice, annatto seeds and, cooking oil. This dish much affordable and delicious and large chunks of pata are served with green string…
The Eggplant, a fruit thats part of the nightshade family of Solanaceae species. This family includes bell peppers, white potatoes, and tomatoes. This is a seasonal vegetable planted in the second half of spring, growing in loam or sandy loam soil. Technically a fruit but treated and cooked as a vegetable, providing a deliciously good…
Ube tikoy rolls is a Filipino delicacy sweet treat made with glutinous rice flour, sugar, all purpose flour, salt, vanilla extract, coconut milk and ube flavour rolled in alternating layers of sweet and taro-flavoured rolled into perfection and sprinkled with sesame seeds. This sweet delight is patterned from the famous Chinese tikoy, usually sold during…
Ube maja blanca is is a popular Filipino coconut pudding made with corn starch, coconut milk, sugar, corn kernels, cheese, ube flavoured condensed milk and violet food colour. It is a sweet and creamy treat that bases its flavour on the ultimate combination of corn and coconut milk. Aside from this, the texture of this…
Lumpiang itlog or Egg lumpia shanghai is the newest category of lumpia, that is filled with a mixture made with eggs, onion, carrots bell pepper, mayonnaise, pepper and salt. The above creamy eggs mixture is wrapped in a lumpia wrapper and fried in oil to make a scrumptious lumpiang egg. The best thing that this…
Bangus or Milkfish ? The national fish of the Philippines, the Bangus or ‘Milkfish’ or ‘Chanos chanos’ in English, is part of the Chanidae family that lives around the Pacific and Indian Ocean. A popular fish in Southeast Asia, these have a streamlined and symmetrical appearance with a fairly large caudal fin, and can grow…
Pork katsudon is a pork cutlet which is coated in panko breadcrumbs, deep-fried, and is served on top of a big bowl of hot steaming rice together with some saucy savoury onion, creamy eggs and shredded cabbage. This dish is usually interchanged with the tonkatsu. If it’s not in a bowl with these ingredients together,…
Coffee graham float is that chilled treat made with the graham crackers, kremdensada, coffee granules and cocoa powder, which are arrange in a layer where you can enjoy all the contrasting sweet and punching flavours all at once. The kremdensada smothering each layer will truly give you the ultimate sweet treat you’ve always wanted. Coffee…
