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Chef Myrna Segismundo at the Maya Kitchen Culinary Elite Series Cooking Class
Filipino Christmas Recipes -Chef Myrna Segismundo and her Christmas Menu

When you think of Filipino Christmas food, what comes into your mind? Chef Myrna Segismundo whips up Filipino flavors for a special Christmas at the Maya Kitchen. Check out her Christmas menu! Christmas Menu Adobo Pate Fresh Salad of Ubod and Pomelos Morcon a la Emilia, Turones de Manila I was glad I was able to catch this years’ Christmas Culinary Elite schedule at the Maya Kitchen. Last year, it was Chef Jessie Sincioco who shared her Christmas Table. This year, Chef Myrna shares her Filipino Christmas menu and recipes, cooking tips and techniques for the most busy season in the kitchen. Chef Myrna is

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A Kalamay Is a Kalamay Is a Kalamay

Sweetness has always been one of our ways of enduring. It arrives in many forms in Filipino kitchens, rice coaxed into chewiness with coconut milk, sugarcane boiled into molasses, bananas

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Santol Is Peeled In One Long Strip

It’s amazing what your mind remembers when you pause long enough. This is the season when santol trees are generous, heavy with round, woolly fruit from July to August. The

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Pasko sa Pilipinas: Four Months of Christmas?

I was nine years old, living on the island of Marinduque, when I first heard the curious claim: “Sa Pilipinas, Setyembre pa lang, Pasko na.” In the Philippines, Christmas starts

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Shaved Ice Fusion in Binondo and a Binignit Halo-Halo Experiment

A bowl of shaved ice in Binondo is doing the most — and somehow pulling it off. At Uncle Fish Balls Coffee Collection, taro and sweet potato balls, grass jelly, snow fungus, and goji berries swirl together in a cold, creamy fusion of Taiwanese, Cantonese, and Filipino dessert traditions.

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The Taste of Typhoon Season

The Storms of Memory I remember the darkness after the typhoon – the electricity gone, the skies strangely clear, and the smell of woodsmoke rising from neighbors’ kitchens. In late

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Hi I'm April!

I write from the heart of a Filipino home, where every recipe has a backstory, every hack is born of necessity, and every tip is tested by real life.

RelaxLangMom is my evolving diary of practical homemaking with flavor: tipid cooking, smart home tricks, honest reviews, and quiet reflections from the kitchen to the keyboard.

I’m a writer, mom, and weekend food alchemist who believes that simplicity is about doing what matters.

Let’s make life easier, tastier, and a little more intentional.

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