If you are looking for a buko pandan recipe , try this cooler! a refreshing cool drink for this summer. Boiled pandan leaves with buko juice and combined with buko and melon strips. You can also make it richer by adding coconut milk. Try it! Read the rest…
Soy Sauce is said to be having medicinal value. In the past, Soy sauce manufacturers were competing which each other which have resorted to making claims that their product can prevent cancer. For example, when a manufacturer came out with ads making such a claim, a senator was endorsing it and the manufacturer claimed to have it confirmed by nutrition experts at the University of the
One of our all time favorite was the puto. A white steamed muffin made from rice flour. But it was replaced by wheat flour in many commercial puto makers. This kakanin is originally made from rice flour and I got a recipe for it. Here it goes: Read the rest…
Sweetened banana is one of the favorite desserts for us filipinos. The banana variety is saba which is boiled in water with brown sugar until the syrup thickens. Simply eaten as is or sometimes with crushed ice and evaporated milk. There are some who sprinkle it with pinipig. The recipe I got is quite unique because it was boiled with ginger and lemon grass and served with a topping of vanilla ice cream. Sounds tasty. So here is thee recipe: Read the rest…
Filipinos are familiar with malunggay leaves since these are commonly combined in many native dishes all over the Philippines. But very few know that the young pods of the malunggay tree are also good to eat. It’s interesting to note that these are widely used as vegetables in Malaya and India.
I have another recipe update which should be here a long time ago. Egg pies although common, the recipe is seldom found. Anyway I found one for you and it’s a rich egg pie recipe. Perfect for dessert lovers. Read the rest…
Simply delicious as many people who have tried this halo halo since there are only 4 main ingredients that compose this dessert: matamis na saba, leche flan, macapuno and lots of fresh milk. Looks delicious even if you have not tasted it because of the generous leche flan on top of the crushed ice and fresh milk of course. Unlike the traditional halo-halo with the combination of sweetened garbanzos, red monggo, kaong, nata de coco, ube halaya, saging na saba, kamote and ice cream.
It’s kind a late because graduation day happened weeks ago. Nevertheless it’s better late than never. This picture below was held in binangonan gym. A proud daddy with her daughter getting her medal(ako yun, he he ). She was second place studying in Tres Ninos School.
I kind a hate the term “dirty ice cream” since those poor small scale ice cream makers are working very hard just to earn a living. I think it has been featured many times already on TV programs like in Jessica Soho. Maybe the small time manufacturers doesn’t have the means to acquire state of the art machines to manufacture ice cream so may the term “dirty ice cream” is because all the manufacturing process are done manually. Mixing all the ingredients by hands and just using crushed ice and salt to freeze the ice cream in carts.
Wondering how salted eggs or itlog na maalat is made? those delicious salty eggs that we serve or eat on the table with sliced tomatoes? If you are kind a fed up with pork or veggies this is a good subtitute or a side dish. We see salted eggs sold in the market which is red in color and most of the time it is duck or itik eggs. They are cheaper compared to chicken eggs.
