How to Cook Tinolang Manok – Chicken Tinola With Papaya Recipe
Chicken Tinola is all things the American chicken soup must be for the Filipino soul. During rainy days or cold nights, this is the perfect soup to cure loneliness, common colds, and existential angst. The tinola or chicken tinola soup is a traditional chicken Filipino soup cooked in ginger. Added with chunks of papaya and […]
Easy 5-Ingredient Spam Musubi Recipe for Baon or Kiddie Lunch
Create a delicious and easy Spam Musubi for your next snack! Just 5 ingredients and the ultimate Spam or Maling will do just as fine, and you’ll be all set with a great Hawaiian-style snack. No need for a Musubi Maker – use a DIY can molder and you’re done!
Simple Poke Poke Recipe
Tracing the Poke Poke Ilocano Connection Recently, I’ve been having these insatiable cravings. As I was walking around the neighborhood, I happened to pass by this trendy new Poke Poke restaurant near us, and I was immediately intrigued. You see, we don’t really have much exposure to Poke here, so I was curious to learn […]
Tikoy sa Latik Recipe -Tikoy Recipe with a Twist!
The Chinese New Year is coming up again and if you’re like me, who have generous Filipino-Chinese friends, bosses, or colleagues, you’ll have dozens of Tikoy in the refrigerator before the end of February. They love giving away this sticky and sweet glutinous rice as a symbol of prosperity and abundance. We usually have the […]
Coffee Jelly Recipe (Kremdensada Coffee Jelly Version)
One of my favorite easy dessert recipes to make is Coffee Jelly. Jelly desserts are really easy to make and it really just mixing together and construction. What is a Coffee Jelly? Coffee jelly is a unique Filipino dessert (I think) that is made of jelly or gelatin flavored with coffee. In this recipe, I didn’t […]
Tablea Chocolate Sauce
Transform traditional tablea into a chocolate sauce you can drizzle over ice cream, spread on pan de sal, slather over bananas and fruits or just eat on its own! On a whim, because we have no chocolate sauce and I wanted some on my pancakes, I thought I’d make some out of the tablea we […]
How to cook Pulpog or Filipino Pork Kilawin
Try this Pulpog recipe, an Ilocano dish shared by Come Forth Kitchen at the Maya Kitchen cooking class for its Filipino Top Eats edition. This Filipino grilled pork dish is perfect for a Saturday night with friends coming over for a couple of bottles of beer. There’s a chef I know who literally gets crazy […]
