This classic snack couldn’t be easier to make. Try making these Filipino cheese cupcakes at home! In the Philippines, it is normal to eat five times a day. Aside from the three main meals, we would usually eat a snack during mid-morning and mid-afternoon. We call these snacks merienda. That thing called merienda. Our merienda […]
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For me, no other Filipino dessert screams sumptuous than sans rival. Layers of crispy cashew meringue wafers are sandwiched between French buttercream and topped with more roasted cashews. As a kid, we used to enjoy Sans Rival only on special occasions. Cashew nuts weren’t cheap; therefore Sans Rival was pricey. I remember we would order […]
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 […]
Tuna lumpia is a great alternative to pork lumpia. It is healthier, but you are not sacrificing any taste. Lumpia is more often than not present at Filipino gatherings – house parties, fiestas, birthdays and the like. Making lumpia is quite labor intensive, but it is often made with friends and family, so the work […]
(Note: there is a Print Friendly button at the bottom if you want to print the recipes. Just remove the images and other text that you don’t need.) What do you say when I tell you that from one big pork belly you can get four different weeknight meals? And you can make it ahead […]
We love paella. Even my daughter, Becca, eats a lot whenever I make this for dinner. So this dish is in heavy rotation for dinner. I always stock up on paella rice when there is a sale. But my paella wasn’t always this good. I went through a lot of unsatisfactory ones until my research […]
There’s a first time for everything. And for me this time it’s writing my first ever blog post. I´ve been toying with the idea of starting a food blog for a while now and when I researched on how to do it, all the other bloggers just kept saying to not be afraid, to just […]
