Pork sinigang is my ultimate Filipino comfort food! When it is freezing cold outside I want a piping hot bowl of pork sinigang with rice. It can be hot as hell outside, but I’m just having a bad week; all I want is a bowl…

We eat pancit all the time. If there’s a party, let’s whip up some pancit. Hey, your auntie and uncle are visiting, let’s make some pancit. Oh you have a friend coming over, let’s eat pancit. In other words it is a dish for all…

Mochiko cake is my mom’s go to cake to make for special occasions or parties. It’s so renown in her circle of friends and with family, that it’s just a given that she will come with this cake. Don’t even ask who makes the best…

I have a love-hate relationship with chicken menudo. It’s such a lovely stew of different vegetables, potatoes, and chicken in a savory tomato sauce. It reminds me of tomato soup, but with hearty stuff inside. The only problem is you’ll come across liver! I’m sure…

Sorry I’ve been MIA lately. I actually have two new recipes to put on this blog, but life got in the way by means of purchasing our first home!!! After being dirt poor for almost 3 years in San Francisco and then saving like crazy…

It’s finally feeling more like spring here, which means we busted out the grill! This time around I had my parents teach me how to make Filipino pork BBQ–my weakness. If there’s one food that makes me salivate on command it is Filipino pork BBQ.…

I have a confession everyone. I honestly am not a fan of lechon, which is probably sacrilegious as a Filipino. Often times I skip the lechon at parties. But I don’t mind nibbling on lechon kawali. Weird right? I think it may be a texture…

If you don’t know what atchara is exactly, it is pickled papya, carrots, ginger, onions, garlic, and bell peppers. It is usually served along with something meaty and fatty, like longganisa or bbqs. I tell friends it’s like the Korean version of pickled daikon that…

St. Patrick’s Day is on Saturday, so today’s recipe is a Filipino corned beef dish called carne norte. Filipinos are in no way Irish at all, but the country is the largest Catholic country in Asia. My mom actually went to Catholic school whose teachers…

I made skinless pork longganisa from scratch! Ordinarily my parents would just buy it from our local Filipino grocery store if we wanted to have some for breakfast. But I wanted to make it from scratch so that I could control the salt content and…