This dish is so Kapampangan! We must have picked it up from our Indonesian neighbors or Indian travelers in the olden times because it’s our version of curried chicken.…
Whenever I had a sore throat, I used to buy Campbells’ Cream of Tomato Soup; that was before I learned how to make it myself. This homemade version is…
I love mushrooms so much that I was once hospitalized for eating a poisonous mushroom. If you ever get a chance to gather mushrooms from the wild, be sure…
Sigarilyas Sa Gata is one of my favorite comfort foods. Sad to say that I only discovered it the last ten years. There’s this restaurant in Robinson’s Manila, called…
One of the dishes that I miss from the Philippines is the Pinakbet and daughter Kris also swoons for it. There must be some ‘Ilocano’ blood in me to…
My son Brian has also developed a very fine nose and tongue for food. He loves to explore what is new in the Philippine food scene but not necessarily…
Although Paella Negra is an Italian/Spanish dish, it is very similar to our Adobong Pusit sans the vinegar. I first tasted this dish in the now defunct restaurant “Barcelona”…
Some time during my college days, this dessert got very popular. I don’t remember who started it all but somewhere along the years, it got so ‘commercialized’ and ‘so…
My daughter, Marise, can survive on just this Beef Vegetable Medley Soup. She eats it like it was the best thing that happened to her taste buds. This is…
People who are not used to the smell and taste of this sauce, find it very offensive and why not? It smells like rotten, putrefied garbage. But to those…
Craving for ‘tapsilog’ or ‘longsilog’? You definitely have to have ‘atchara’ to go with it. Since making the real deal is a bit tedious, one always settles for the…
Since refrigeration came only in the 1900’s, there are many Filipino foods that do not need refrigeration and this is one of them. Although this is good for the…