Our Simple Christmas Dinner

*Recipes coming soon!*

I love the holidays, when everything is just about food. And this time, I just sat and relaxed while my older sister cooks our Christmas meals while I get to taste and eat while she's cooking. I managed to eat a buffet already by the time she forced me to help in preparing the food. So the recipes I will have to verify with both my memory and my sister's memory as well.

Read more »

Five-Spice Meatballs in Sweet and Sour Sauce

Meatballs are really fun to eat most especially if they're accompanied with different kinds of sauces or dips, or perked up with herbs and spices that deliberately distinguishes your meatballs from the ordinary ones that we always find on top of our tables.

For this recipe, I used five-spice powder. It is a blend of five spices, namely star anise, cinnamon, ground pepper, ground cloves, and

Read more »

Gourmet Picks Appetizer

If you have unexpected guests, and you barely have the time to prepare something to eat, then entertain them with these dainty appetizers that make ordinary fridge staples into gourmet appetizers in no time. My sister's been eating a lot of Oishi Gourmet Picks lately, or junk food as I see it. She seems to be addicted to the sea salt flavor, and I proved it when she excitedly told me over

Read more »

Hot and Spicy Pork Steak

Alex and I recently bought chili garlic sauce for the buffalo wings he has been asking me to make. In trying to find more ways to cook with it I thought of using pork this time, with crossed fingers and high hopes that it would turn out well. It did, actually, and Alex consumed probably almost three cups of rice with this dish. It was spicy and tasty at the same time, and the chili garlic sauce

Read more »

Three-Herb Delicious Lechon Kawali Recipe

Okay, I have to admit that I'm not entirely a lechon fan. In fact, I hated the extremely heart-attack inducing pork for years, with the motto that they are almost tasteless, greasy cuts of pork that are slathered richly with the lechon sauce for it to have some taste. And I don't like food that don't have their own flavor and needs a sauce or dip for salvation. But when we went to Gonzaga,

Read more »

The Famous Lucban Longganisa Recipe

What's so special about the Pahiyas Festival is the showcase of houses adorned with thousands of kiping, fruits, and vegetables all arranged so beautifully that you want to stop and take a picture at every house you pass by. It is also a great opportunity to buy lots of the famous Lucban Longganisa and kesong puti (white cheese). The streets are so busy with vendors calling out for you to buy

Read more »

Lumpiang Sili Recipe with Sweet Dip

I have been a lover of spicy things ever since I was a child. I love mixing hot sauce with my barbecue marinades. I include chili-garlic sauce in my stir fried vegetables, and I absolutely enjoy crushing red bird's eye chili (siling labuyo) in my white vinegar in which I used to dip grilled meat and vegetables. I also have Thai peppers in my herb garden, and I am currently attempting to grow my

Read more »

No Yeast Thin Crust Pizza

Out of my crazy obsession of finally making a thin crust pizza without having to wait for the dough to rise, I looked up information on yeast substitute and found out that baking powder works very well. I know the information is not new, but for a cooking and baking novice like me, it's very valuable information.I actually made two thin crust pizzas, one for my dad and brothers (above pics), and

Read more »

Baon Idea: Beef Steak (bistek)

When I'm cramming for baon ideas on a school day, I rummage the fridge for any ideas on what to cook. Since it's almost weekend when I cooked this bistek for my baon, the fridge is all out except for a few packs of beef and chicken. The vegetable crisper is empty, and the dry rack contains only garlic, potatoes, and a lot of white onions.What's different with this recipe is that I marinated the

Read more »