The beloved Ilonggo chorizo recado is given another use in pasta. Give this one a try next time you have chorizo recado on hand, or make your own!
Category: Breakfast/Brunch
A variation on the classic Filipino favorite is the ube pandesal. I have been trying to make ube pandesal for a while now, and the results were not what I wanted. The bread tasted gritty due to the dehydrated ube that I was using. Who knew all I needed to do was rehydrate the ube […]
A favorite Filipino breakfast is tocino, cured sweet pork. And it couldn’t be easier to make at home. The hardest part is waiting for it to marinate to get all the yummy flavors.
Do you miss your favorite fluffy ensaymada, but believe you cannot bake these at home? Let me tell you, you can! Read on as I share tips and tricks for fluffy ensaymada at home, even without a stand mixer.
Pandesal is the most common Filipino bread. Most of my friends who have left the Philippines to live abroad usually have pandesal on the top 10 of foods they miss from home. That, of course, includes me. Read on for a lot of tips on how to make pandesal, by hand or with the help […]
Breakfast/Brunch | Filipino Recipes
How to Make Champorado (Filipino Chocolate Rice Porridge) for One (or Two)
Chocolate for breakfast? This bowl of champorado will definitely fit the bill! It is getting cold now, and having a hot bowl of chocolate-y champorado is perfect for the chilly mornings. What is Champorado? Champorado is a chocolate rice porridge that we have for breakfast in the Philippines. It is made by cooking glutinous rice […]
Chorizo pudpud is an iconic Negrense breakfast staple. Our family’s chorizo pudpud recipe is incomparable to those I’ve tasted in restaurants or store-bought chorizo pudpud. That’s why this is much beloved and I hope it will become your family’s favorite as well. Lola Anchang was my mom’s mother. (Lola is Filipino for Grandmother.) She was […]
Baked eggs are perfect to serve at brunch. Simple to make, but look so pretty and delectable in their individual serving cups. I was getting tired of eating hardboiled eggs for breakfast. They are boring. I was on a self-imposed detox diet that would only allow me either yogurt or eggs plus fruit for breakfast. […]
Jump to Recipe Beef tapa has been and always will be one of my favorite breakfast mains. I remember when I was growing up, they would spread out the marinated beef strips on welded wire and then left in the sun to dry out. These made for some pretty chewy tapa if they were cut […]
I started drinking coffee when I was in high school, quite a long time ago. Then, it was due to the need to stay awake as I was facilitating retreats with activities that ran until the wee hours of the morning. In college, it was because I needed to study or to finish our projects. […]
