Food, Culture & Everything in Between

I got curious seeing this new product of Mega Sardines in the market, so I picked one and tried. Whoever formulated the formula, I swear it’s good. But what awed me more was when I opened the box this silver pouch reminded me of a scene of my past. The last time I saw this [...]

This is my latest shelf pick, I used to buy some other brand but it was out stock so I picked this instead. I normally use olive oil exclusively for sautéing and dressing. I buy a separate common vegetable oil brand for frying. But when my hubby is charge in the kitchen, he actually doesn’t [...]

I wonder where did I get my passion for munching ‘ampao’, When I dropped by this little charming Korean store called ‘Arirang’ at the Victoria Plaza cark park here in Davao, I was supposed to buy just a pepper paste but I ended up hauling three packs of these rice crackers, it really taste good, [...]

For quite sometime I did not hear ‘manong’ shouting …taaaaaahooooo, taaaaahooooo every morning, he would often stay at our gate front and do his sales outcry, then my kids would come running with their glasses, they would sit on the swing near our garage and do the ‘all the way down’ thing. I missed manong [...]

I took this photo from our Nutrition board, do I have to say more?

Almost all of us read mags or check out tv, and you’ve possibly over heard of the excellent benefits of drinking green tea because of this. So can there be any truth in this? Weight-loss with this tea is achievable, nevertheless not necessarily for the reasons many marketers represent. This tea itself doesn’t include magical [...]

or famously known as Lemon Grass is one of the things that I can never forget with our ancestral home back in Siquijor. We had lemon grass as perimeter fence and it has been part of every household in that island to grow tanglad in their front or backyard. When we moved in my MIL’s [...]

This is one of my family’s comfort foods. My kids so love this muncher, especially when grilled. I love the Japanese corn variety since its soft and just perfect for children’s bite. HERE’S SOME NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION YOU CAN GET OUT OF A REGULAR SINGLE CORN IN A COB Nutritional Value of Corn Given below is [...]