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11 Halloween Monster Food Ideas for Your Neighborhood Party

Easy Halloween Food Ideas -Cupcakes, Healthy Fruits, and Breads So Halloweens are not really our thing. Reminiscent of our Spanish heritage, we have the more creepy Day of the Dead for remembering our departed love ones. But we do have a Hollywoodish fascination with Halloween and recently, neighborhood trick or treat parties are becoming a thing to be expected. In our neighborhood here in Manila, the Haloween party tradiding has been going on strong for almost 10 years now. Yearly, I get to meet a couple of moms and dads, neighborhood leaders, and the few responsible kids. And (putting the cultural effects aside) I thank

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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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