Sopas or Filipino Chicken Noodle Soup is made even easier with store bought chicken stuffed ravioli and bone broth. It goes from fridge to table in 20 minutes flat. What Is Sopas? Sopas which translates to soup in English comes from the American Occupation of the Philippines. It's our version of Chicken Noodle Soup. In...
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Kalabasa Bread - Bahay Kubo Cooking Series
This Kalabasa Bread or Squash Bread is almost brioche like, but colored and flavored with kalabasa. Served with Salted Malunggay Butter, it makes for a nice hearty snack. What is Kalabasa? The next veggie in the Bahay Kubo Cooking Series is Kalabasa! Kalabasa is a winter squash, in English it's translated as pumpkin. However it's...
Itlog na Maalat Gratin (Salted Egg Gratin) Recipe
Itlog na Maalat Gratin uses a Filipino salted duck egg to add a new dimension of flavor to a traditional gratin. It's a little salty and a littly funky, but full of flavor. Itlog na Maalat Gratin or Salted Egg Gratin Well, well it's that time of year where we are thinking about food. I...
Filipino Neapolitan Sugar Cookies Filled with Yema
These Neapolitan Sugar Cookies are flavored with 3 different Filipino flavors. Ube, Langka and Pandan. It's also filled with yema, which gives the cookies a nice gooey surprise. Neapolitan Sugar Cookies Filled with Yema Ever since Constellation Inspiration posted her Neapolitan sugar cookies, I just had to do a Filipino version. For my flavors I...
Filipino Flavored Polish Kolaczki Cookies
These Polish Kolaczki Cookies are filled with dried mango mince and a ube cheese combo. The Filipino fillings add a different flavor to these cream cheese cookies. Polish Kolaczki Cookies Oh hey, hey. We are in the -ber months, so that means it's time for all the cookies. When I lived in Australia one of...
Tortang Ginisang Upo at Giniling - Bahay Kubo Cooking Series
This Tortang Ginisang Upo at Giniling or in English Stir-fried Bottle Gourd with Vegan Grounds Frittata is a super quick meal to make during the weekday. With just a quick stir-fry of Upo and some vegan grounds with ginger and shallots, you can have a meal on the table in less than 30 minutes. What...
Fried Bangus Flakes with Calamansi Caper Pasta
In partnership with Sarangani Bay Bangus celebrating our Delicious Heritage, I’ve created this Angel Hair Pasta made with Smoked Bangus Flakes and dressed with a garlicky calamansi caper sauce. What is Bangus? First of all what is Bangus? It is also known as Milkfish and is eaten in a variety of ways in the Philippines....
Patani (Lima Beans) On Toast - Bahay Kubo Cooking Series
Patani or Lima Bean is simmered in garlic, ginger, pepper corns and bayleaf. Then mixed with fresh tomatoes and olive oil. It's all spooned over some crusty toasted bread. Heaven. What Is Patani? I am back with the Bahay Kubo Cooking Series. Yes, yes I am skipping a vegetable (Bataw) as it's hard for me...
How to Make Cold Brew Coffee Granita
This refreshing Cold Brew Coffee Granita is made with coconut water and flavored with pandan leaves. It's a nice cool treat for the last hot days of summer. Cold Brew Coffee Granita The best way to beat the heat is to eat ice, but make it fancy! This one is based on my Cold Brew...
How To Make Low Sugar Espasol with Kinako Powder
This low sugar Espasol is made with coconut sugar and finished with a dusting of Kinako Powder. What is Espasol? Espasol is a kakanin (rice based Filipino snack/dessert). What makes it unique is that the glutenous rice flour is first toasted then mixed with the coconut sugar and milk to make the snack. Traditionally it...
How To Make Matamis Na Bao (Coconut Jam) Cake
Matamis Na Bao (Coconut Jam) Cake is made with a box mix (yes really!) and simply frosted with coconut jam. It's a quick and nice treat to have during the week. What Is Matamis Na Bao (Coconut Jam)? Well it's just coconut cream and sugar that has been stirred over super low heat for approximately...
Ginataang Sitaw and Kalabasa Quiche - Bahay Kubo Cooking Series
The Classic Ginataang Sitaw and Kalabasa is made into a Quiche. The savory coconut custard is laced with ginger, garlic and fish sauce. One look will make you think brunch, but one bite will make you think of home. The Bahay Kubo Cooking Series Oh hey! It's back by popular demand. Food shopping got a...
How to Make Black Sesame Lamingtons
Black Sesame Lamingtons is a nice flavor twist on the traditional Lamington. Instead of dipping the cake in chocolate it's replaced with a black sesame laced white chocolate and covered with black sesame seeds and coconut. Happy National Lamington Day! Yeah, I know food holidays are wack. But whatever! I have made lamingtons here before,...
Super Easy Oven Baked Ube Pancake
Super Easy Oven Baked Ube Pancake is made with just 4 ingredients. You just pour it in a skillet and bake for 20 minutes. Serve with some Ube ice cream and you have a quick dessert on the table in a flash. Oven Baked Ube Pancake You know that Tick Tok trend of making tiny...
Seafood Kare Kare with Udon Noodles Recipe
Seafood Kare Kare soup is reduced to a garlicky funky peanut sauce and mixed with Japanese Udon noodles. It's a match made in foodie heaven. Seafood Kare Kare with Udon Inspiration I like re-imagining Filipino recipes into different format. See Tinola Potato Soup and Palabok Potato Salad for reference. Each of these recipes still have...
Mangorind Dark and Stormy Mocktail
This Dark and Stormy Mocktail is inspired by a Filipino candy made with dried sweet mangoes and tamarind. The drink is topped off with Ginger Beer, which makes it outright refreshing. Mangorind Dark and Stormy Mocktail I have a super quick and refreshing cocktail for you. It's inspired my a candy called Mangorind. Mangorind is...
Fudgy Brownies Made with Cassava Flour
These Fudgy Brownies Made with Cassava Flour which make them grain free! And made with 3 different varieties Filipino chocolate. Happy World Chocolate Day with Brownies Made with Cassava Flour! It's been awhile since we celebrated a food holiday here and today is one of my favorites. World Chocolate Day! I am a chocolate fiend. ...
Filipino Style Sloppy Joe Made with Ube English Muffins
This Filipino Style Sloppy Joe is made with Ube English Muffins, Longganisa Crumbles and a mango tomato salad with Bagoong. It's the best breakfast or any sandwich in all of the world! Food Dreams Have you ever had food dreams? For me it was this sandwich. Originally it was supposed to be a sausage patty,...
5 Ingredient Paleo Jam Bars with Mangosteen Jam
These Paleo Jam Bars are made with almond flour, coconut sugar and almond butter. Oh and they are also vegan and made with Mangosteen Jam from the Philippines. Paleo Jam Bars and New Store Alert! It's taking me awhile to get back into the groove of making and thinking of new recipes. But fear not...
Ginataang Zucchini with Chicken Recipe
Ginataang Zucchini with Chicken is the perfect comfort food. Ginataang is a coconut sauce that can be both sweet and savory. In this recipe it's savory with hints of ginger and garlic coating slices of summer zucchini and chicken. It's Time For Comfort Food I'm not going to lie. It's been a hard few weeks...
Iced Salabat (Iced Ginger Tea) Recipe
Super easy Iced Salabat (Iced Ginger Tea) recipe using fresh Ginger and lots of ice. It's the perfect refreshing drink on a hot summers day. What is Iced Salabat (sa-la-bat) or Iced Ginger Tea? Salabat in it's simplicity is fresh ginger boiled in water. You really have to boil the ginger and leave it to...
Mini Mango Royale Popsicle's made with Just 3 Ingredients!
Mini Mango Royale Popsicle's are made with only coco whip, fresh mangoes and graham crackers. It's a super easy to make cool dessert for summer. What are Mini Mango Royale Popsicle's? For those not in the know Mango Royale is a Filipino ice box cake made with cream, gram crackers and super sweet and juicy...
No Bake Calamansi Tart with Skyflake Crust
This No Bake Calamansi Tart is made with a Filipino cracker known as Skyflakes. All the ingredients are put in the freezer to set, which makes for a nice cool and tart dessert perfect for the summer. Calamansi Tart I've made a Calamansi Tart before, but this is different. Like stupid easy and even more...
Next Level Palabok Potato Salad Recipe
A Filipino party favorite has been remade into a new summer staple. Palabok Potato Salad is made with mayo spiked with patis (fish sauce) and topped with some smokey flaked fish, diced boiled egg, crushed chicharon, crispy garlic chips and green onions. Palabok Potato Salad I have waxed poetic before of my love of Palabok. ...
Lilikoi Posset - 3 Ingredient Passion Fruit Pudding
This Lilikoi Posset is made with just 3 ingredients. Heavy cream, sugar and passion fruit juice. It's super light and refreshing and the perfect made from scratch pudding recipe for beginner cooks. What is a Posset A what now? That is what my husband and I said when we first saw it on a dessert...
Filipino Style Escabeche with Baked Fish
Updated Filipino Style Escabeche with baked fish has a sweet and sour style sauce and is made with date syrup and apple cider vinegar. It's the perfect quick and healthy weeknight meal. Filipino Style Escabeche My mom used to make this for us, but she didn't call it Filipino Style Escabeche. Just sweet and sour...
How To Put Together a Filipino Inspired Taco Bar
This Filipino Inspired Taco Bar is filled with handmade Ube Tortillas, Longanisa crumbles, quick pickled shallots and super fresh tomatoes, cilantro and green onions. Filipino Inspired Taco Bar We all know Cinco De Mayo is coming up in a few days. For a little something different let's make a Filipino Inspired Taco Bar! This is...
Super Easy 3 Ingredient Ube Tortillas
These super easy 3 Ingredient Ube Tortillas are made with just mashed Ube, cassava flour and salt. That's all you need to put some Filipino favor into taco night! How Did Ube Tortillas Come About? Long story short, my friend Kim posted on IG stories of her making tortillas with just some mashed sweet potato...
Mango Collins Cocktail Recipe
A Filipino take on the classic Collins recipe using Mango Juice and a Mango flavored sparkling water. Topped with lots of ice this Mango Collins Cocktail is perfect to sip in the hot summer months. How to make a Mango Collins Cocktail I loved layered drinks where all you do is pour in ingredients, add...
Small Batch Gin Laced Butter Cookies
These Small Batch Gin Laced Butter Cookies are perfect to make during these times of recipe substitutions. Instead of flavoring the cookies with citrus zest, use Gin instead. The alcohol burns out during baking and you are left with the botanical flavors of the Gin. Small Batch Gin Laced Butter Cookies Many recipes are born...
One Bowl Ube Butter Mochi (And Gluten Free)
This one bowl Ube Butter Mochi is made with just pure Ube and lots of coconut milk and butter. Oh, there is also no added sugar. Just a small can of coconut condensed milk. Ube Butter Mochi My most popular recipe by far is my Black Sesame Butter Mochi recipe and it's also the healthiest...
Pinoy Heritage Lutong Bahay Meal Kit Review
A review of a different kind of meal kit from Pinoy Heritage. It's a perfectly portioned healthy Filipino 6 course meal that you can cook at home in under an hour. Pinoy Heritage Lutong Bahay Veterinarian Meal Kit I don't normally do reviews here, but my experience with this meal kit just had to be...
Adobong Mani (Roasted Peanuts) Recipe -Bahay Kubo Cooking Series
This Adobong Mani (Roasted Peanuts) recipe is made with coconut aminos, a touch of vinegar and lots and lots of garlic. It's the perfect snack to tide you over till lunch or dinner. Bahay Kubo Series - Mani (Peanuts) I know I am so behind on my Bahay Kubo Series. So far we have covered...
Salty Green Mango Chocolate Chip Cookies
A little Filipino twist on Chocolate Chip Cookies, add some dried green mango and salt! It's an umami bomb dream. Sweet, sour, salty, bitter, chewy and crunchy all in one bite. My Obsession with Chocolate Chip Cookies It's not a secret that I love, love, love chocolate chip cookies. For the past few years I...
Quick and Easy Puto Recipe (Also Vegan)
All you need for this quick and easy Puto recipe is rice flour, milk, a bit of sugar and a pinch of salt. In 25 minutes you will have a nice bouncy snack cake. Puto Recipe This is literally just a quick and easy Puto recipe. Puto is a steamed snack cake made from rice...
Pantry Pasta with Bagoong, Crispy Chicken Mince and Roasted Veggies
Pantry Pasta with Bagoong, which is a fermented shrimp paste from the Philippines. Along with some crispy chicken mince and roasted veggies, it's the perfect pantry pasta meal. Pantry Pasta The only good thing about 2020 is that we all come out if it better cooks using what we have amirte?? I give you my...
Lychee Rosé Spritzer - The Perfect Mom Drink to Rival Whiteclaw
Lychee Rosé Spritzer - The Perfect Mom Drink to Rival Whiteclaw. Made with all natural lychee sparkling water and single serving Rosé. It's a not guilt drink you can sip all to yourself. Okay, can I say dang. I feel like we are in the part of the book in one of those dystopian trilogy...
Ube Hot Cross Buns with Cheese Recipe
These Ube Hot Cross Buns are super cheesy and buttery that leans more toward the savory side with a touch of sweetness from lightly sprinkled sugar on the top and bottom of the buns. Super Cheesy Ube Hot Cross Buns All I have to say is expect the unexpected from me. Hehe. I give you...
Vegan Langka and Saba - Jackfruit and Banana Galette Recipe
Traditional Filipino flavors of Langka (Jackfruit) and Saba (Banana) melt together in a vegan flaky crust re-imagined as a Jackfruit and Banana Galette. Jackfruit (Langka) and (Saba) Banana Galette This is one of those recipes that I have always had in my mind to do, but didn't have both key ingredients at the same time...
How to Make Afritada - Shepard's Pie Style
Afritada is a Filipino style stew cooked in a lush tomato broth. In this recipe we turned it into a Shepard's Pie by using minced chicken stewed with green bell peppers, chickpeas and fresh tomatoes. What is Afritada? Afritada came to the Philippines during the Spanish Colonization. The name is derived from the Spanish word...
Ensaladang Talong Dip (Eggplant Salad Dip) Recipe
The second recipe in our Bahay Kubo Series is a Ensaladang Talong Dip. Made with the second vegetable in the song Talong (Eggpant). It's charred, roasted and seasoned with lots of garlic, vinegar and coconut aminos. Ensaladang Talong Dip Oh oh, second recipe in the Bahay Kubo Cooking Series! Thinking about it long and hard,...
Chicken Adobo with Coconut Milk
This Chicken Adobo with Coconut Milk is from Sam Sifton's cookbook - See You On Sunday. It was originally published in the New York Times in 2011. I remember when this recipe was originally published by Sam Sifton in the New York Times in 2011. It created the great Adobo debate. The Chicken Adobo with...