TINOLA Serves: 4 - 6 Prep time: 40 minutes Basic Ingredients: 6 cups water 1 large onion, quartered 2” sliced ginger, crushed Main Chicken pieces or any Meat 2 lbs pork (with bones), beef ribs Vegetable choices: Green papaya, chayote, upo (cut bite size) any green leaf – pepper leaves or spinach pepper to taste salt or 2 tsp patis, to … [Read more...]

Easy to make and faster to cook are stir fries using any ingredients available in your garden, fridge or freezer. General Directions To cook Stir-fries, all you need are: 3 pieces of garlic cloves, medium onion sliced (some dishes you add chopped tomato) and cooking oil (olive oil is excellent and healthy choice). Slice any vegetable, mix any sliced meat (chicken, … [Read more...]

SINIGANG Serves:  4-6 Prep time:  50 minutes for meat, 30 minutes for seafood Basic Ingredients: 6 cups water 1 large onion, quartered 2 medium tomatoes, quartered Main Meat 2 lbs/Seafood choices: pork (with bone part), beef ribs, oxtail, chicken milkfish (or any fish), shrimp, squid (cleaned & cut) Souring flavor choices: tamarind, guava, … [Read more...]

Welcome I have often gone to a gathering where Filipino dishes were served and people who like them would ask for the recipe. Even our children who have never cooked at home, after they start to be independent and live outside our homes to attend school, work, or got married, gradually wanted to learn how to cook dishes mom used to make. Here, I will give you some tips on … [Read more...]

Foreign traders and colonizers from the past played a role in the way Filipinos cook. The Spaniards influenced us in the way we cook with olive oil, sautéing with garlic and onion, rich cream/cheese and tomato sauce dishes, same with Lechon and Relleno, our favorites. Adding soy sauce, sugar and spices are Chinese cooking as well as Malaysian and Indonesian influences. A lot … [Read more...]