Easily Make Perfect Palitaw Rice Balls in Your Rice Cooker

Easily Make Perfect Palitaw Rice Balls in Your Rice Cooker 2

Hey everyone, it’s April again! Since my last post on ginataang bilo bilo using the instant pot was so well received, I thought I’d share another traditional Filipino kakanin recipe made using appliances. This time it’s palitaw – those delightful sticky rice balls often served during religious festivals such as Holy Week or Easter. They’re […]

Steamed Puto Cake With Salted Eggs

Steamed Puto Cake With Salted Eggs 4

One of the cakes I always loved growing up, especially during Christmas and holiday seasons, are the steamed cakes we call Puto cake here in the Philippines. Puto, which literally translates to “steamed rice cake” in English, brings back such fond childhood memories for me. They were a staple homemade snack in our home that […]

Easy Suman sa Lihiya in the Rice Cooker or Instant Pot

Easy Suman sa Lihiya in the Rice Cooker or Instant Pot 5

The rainy nights and cool breeze of the approaching Christmas season always take me back to special memories of suman-making as a little girl. Growing up in Marinduque, we have strong traditions surrounding these sticky rice treats during the holidays. Some of my fondest memories were staying up late with all the elders around an […]

Baking Balinghoy -The Classic Filipino Cassava Cake Recipe

Baking Balinghoy -The Classic Filipino Cassava Cake Recipe 6

Finding Cozy Comfort in Lola’s Creamy Cassava Cakes Hello momshies! Today’s post is about why comfort food is so, well, comforting. I was making this cassava cake recipe the other day and was thinking about this while I baked this cassava cake recipe.  Cassava cake is a traditional and well-loved dessert in the Philippines. It […]

Pichi Pichi Recipe : Chewy Cassava Cake Dessert You’ll Love

Pichi Pichi Recipe : Chewy Cassava Cake Dessert You'll Love 7

Dear sweet moms and parents, Today I’m sharing a beloved Filipino dessert staple that has captured the hearts and palates of island folk for generations – pichi pichi. In Manila, we’d be ordering Don Benito’s Pichi Pichi just because were suddenly missing it. But Nanay just sent me a sack of cassava and it’s kakanin […]

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