Food, Culture & Everything in Between

..yeah they’re just ordinary leaves, bits and pieces found in my fridge; canned corn kernels, lettuce, cucumbers, carrot strips, turnip strips; Then I bought this bottled ceasars salad dressing, no rules, no procedures whatsover, toss them all together in a bowl and viola! Enough RDA for the day.. Posted for

… With malunggay and kalabasa. I think ‘tinunuan’ (cooking with coco milk), the bisayan term for this, is one of the most deeply engrained methods in Philippine cooking culture. This is attributed to the abundance of coconut being Philippines geographically located along the tropics and coconut trees thrive in every place around the country. While [...]

I’ve been swirling like a top today; thank God classes are over for my elementary kiddos. My boy ended their first semester with an itik-itik dance, also a culmination of their Makabayan Week; my girl ended it with a modeling stint in their classroom which she drove me away, because she said… moms are not [...]

… er.. Drinking spree! Nah! Not what think, my HRM students had their class culmination with a banquet. They transformed the whole school gymnasium into a ‘make-believe’ restaurant genres, there’s were Chinese concept, wild, wild west ones and I stayed longer in this Japanese concept one because they have quiet a lot of Bacardi’s and [...]

My down mood the other day has made me devoured all what’s inside this Heaven. I just realized I should not be stocking yummies of this kind when I’m dispirited. But despite tearful eyes scooping spoon and spoon and spoon of this into my mouth, I did not forget to take a photo it, lol. [...]

My mom brought us some squid and ‘talakitok’ (Cavalla) the other day, it was fresh from the market so we thought of grilling it since I had no class in the evening (Thank God, lol) I always love grilled food, though we don’t often do this because of time constraint and experts say, the black [...]

We call this locally ‘halo-halo’ meaning mixed-up. ‘Halo-halo’ has already been part of Filipinos all-time favorite cold delights. Being in the tropics people need to cool down and often eating just plain shaved ice is not fun at all, whoever invented to put a lot of sweet yummies, like sweetened beans, jackfruit, jellies, bananas, leche [...]

This is yet another all-time favorite of mine – batchoy. Not the special with egg, I don’t like the aroma of the egg that passes through my nose while sipping. I love it plain or the restos call it ‘regular batchoy’. Some crushes the ‘chicharon’ topping but I love it whole, that’s why my favorite [...]

My chicken adobo recipe is my moms adobo recipe, when I was younger my mom used to cook this for us not with broiler chicken but with native ones. We used to complain about the chicken’s gangly feet, I forgot they’re native ones, lol. But I swear adobo prepared with native chicken is naturally sweeter. [...]

I really been juggling around town these past days doing lots of errands, just yesterday I dropped by gmall here to buy materials for my son’s science project. Just when I scaled down the grocery I muzzled on some coffee scent but when I get to the donut cafe I changed my mind and ordered [...]