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Comforting Filipino Appetizer for Special Occasions -Smoked Milkfish and Bihod Pie with Croutons
Filipino appetizer? If you landed here because you’re looking for a Filipino appetizer for special occasions, this is it! Filipino Appetizers are usually pulutan or “hand food” designed for drinking. So we have our famous sisig, crispy pata, and all sorts of “menudencia” or innards that are either fried, inihaw, or soup such as papaitan. But this Bihod recipe is actually more of a pre-dinner appetizer, (medyo sosyal!) usually served for special occasions such as Christmas. This is a seafood putok batok recipe, if there’s such a thing, so be careful not to eat too much ha ha! I’m posting this Filipino Appetizer by Chef Jessie
PEPT Test Schedule and PEPT Reviewer for High School
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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
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
Quiapo In My Mind -Of Faith, Folklore, and Stopovers
The first thing that hits you is the density. Quiapo has its own gravity. The basilica rises like a fortress of devotion, its yellow façade soot-streaked and stubborn against the
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
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.
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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