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…

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…

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…

You know Filipino food is on the rise when local Filipino restaurant, Bad Saint, creates a recipe for Bon Appetite magazine. That recipe is shrimp ukoy. Here’s Bad Saint, who are literally making fine dining Filipino dishes with street food. Funny right? It’s a strange…

Happy New Year everyone! We are starting our New Year with frigid temperatures. I don’t think we’ve been above freezing for a few days, and now it looks like we may or may not get snow tonight. While my kids are excited at the prospect…