Chicken and Siomai Soup, for those days when you’re feeling down and needs some hot love and comfort. This recipe hits the spot! Jump to the recipe. I am a soup person. In the house I grew up in, there’s always some kind of soup to partner up with fried fish or any dried viand even …
Do delicious dimsum dumplings. Jump to the recipe. I made my first Siomai when I was in pregnant for my first child. It was a flat, unaappetizing looking poor thing! My husband said that it tasted great. So I was happy with that. But memories of UP Los Banos and Papu’s Siomai always haunted me and …
Its fiesta in the Philippines! Well, technically, the whole of May is the Fiesta Season. Since we cannot go home to Marinduque for May 31 celebration, my MIL thoughfully sent me the ones I would miss most (good stuff – Marinduque Kare Kare (kind of like dinuguan but made with innards), about 4 Pata from the pig sacrifice, …
I discovered gourmet tuyo maybe about a decade ago. There was this one stall in Megamall that Paolo would delicately steer me out of every time were passing by. Its called Connies Kitchen and their bottled deli products are just to die for. I used to try and reverse engineer their products all the time. The bottled dulong, bottled daing, tinapa, bangus in corn oil, and of course, the gourmet tuyo.
One of my mother’s favorite dish when she’s on a budget is Kangkong with Tokwa in Oyster Sauce. As children, we’re not one for vegetables and we’d often get the “sermon” about children starving somewhere in Africa. When I got older, I outgrew that dislike and now it’s my turn for the speech about children …
I got some spinach from Baguio and saw this perfect recipe from Manila Spoon. Its a really simple recipe that only requires eggs, spinach, and mushroom. It also works well with kangkong if you don’t have spinach! Spinach with Mushroom and Egg Ingredients: Oil Butter Salt to taste Mushrooms (I used canned mushrooms.) A bunch …
This rice flour pancake is gluten free and just as delicious as the regular flour pancake. It’s a Mama Sita Recipe and if you use coconut milk instead of regular milk, it almost tastes like our native bibingka. Rice Flour Pancake Ingredients: 1 cup glutinous flour 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 tsp baking powder 3/4 cup …
