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.

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Prawns in Tamarind Soup (Sinigang na Sugpo)

On cold and rainy nights when the warmth of the kitchen fire is so welcoming, a hot and steamy bowl of soup makes everything just right. Tamarind soup is used as a base for sinigang, a dish so popular in the Philippines that it is present in every little canteen that you come into. It has a lot of varieties, but my favorite one is large prawns (sugpo) and vegetables cooked in tamarind soup.

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Spicy Tuna Sisig

A lot of times I really miss eating an authentic pork sisig. The sisig most restaurants serve nowadays, be it chicken, pork, or tuna, are nowhere near authentic. They taste like a lot of MSG went into them. Anyway, this is an update to my old recipe of making tuna sisig using canned tuna. Right now, that old recipe made me realize that it is salty, not for the tastebuds, but for the kidneys. For

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Trevally Steaks in Sweet Chili Sauce (Talakitok)

My brothers have been going on and on about their week-long homework regarding Nutrition Week. They have to bring packed lunches featuring healthy, balanced meals every day to school. Alex, on the other hand, is complaining of not getting to eat healthier foods, which he refers to as vegetables. I can't cook vegetables for our lunch mainly for the reason that my dad is the one doing the grocery

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Traditional Homemade Mango-Kani Sushi

I was talking to Alex regarding my proposed meal plan for our packed lunch this incoming semester, and as I expected, he was so thrilled about eating those Asian-inspired dishes to be served at our 3-layer bento lunch box, together with the nice sakura chopsticks I bought from Daiso. We then visited the Japanese grocery stores at Cartimar in Pasay City to buy some ingredients that would make

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Daing na Bangus Recipe (Butterfly Milkfish)

When I was a kid, commercially prepared daing na bangus was expensive and people only get to enjoy them home-cooked. Luckily for me, my mom supplies premium daing na bangus to Rustan's and Toyota Coop Supermarkets. Every week I get to watch my mom and cousins make lots of daing na bangus by carefully washing the fish, deboning them using equipment that look like forceps, then soaking them in a

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Shaggy Fish and Chips Recipe from the British Take-Out

After a leisure stroll in Mall of Asia while waiting for the rain stop, we decided to grab a bite at some food shop where we have not yet eaten before. Then the Great British Take-Out caught our eye when we were just nearing Timezone at the west face of the mall. I was actually reluctant since the place was cramped already even without visitors. No wonder I don't see much people eating there

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Fresh Lumpia, Chinatown Style!

I have always wanted to explore Binondo, also known as Chinatown, but so far I have only walked the length of Ongpin Street from Plaza Sta. Cruz. I didn't actually get any chance of eating their famous food, since the main objective of going there was to find and buy fenugreek seeds by the kilo. Unfortunately for me, we didn't find any seller of the said seeds in Ongpin, an idea given to me by a

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Tuna Sisig, the Easy Way!

On mornings when my duty shift is scheduled in the morning, I always cram for what to cook so that I won't run late for my duty which starts at 6 in the morning. This time, my eyes fell on two flat and round cans of Century Tuna flakes in oil. If I open the cans and just transfer them to my lunchbox together with some freshly cooked rice, then my meal would be plain and very boring. I always like

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My sister's baked green mussels

We had baked green mussels (also known as Baked Tahong here in the Philippines) for our meatless lunch for Good Friday. It is a well known tradition here in our country that every Lenten season we either fast or go meatless during Good Friday and Black Saturday. This is to commemorate the death of our beloved Jesus until Easter Sunday comes.Tahong or green mussels are abundant here in our country

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