What do you know? I smell Christmas in the air.

Starting November, watch out for more Holiday Cooking recipes that you can plan for your family and friends. Don’t expect fancy recipes but there will be a few so keep tuned. I will also list a few restaurants that provide noche buena dishes in case you are lazy to cook.

You can start off with a few of my recipes that I’ve cooked for the past years.

Noche Buena Recipes

Pochero
Chinese Ham
Paella
Chicken Relleno
Max Fried Style Chicken Recipe
Pork Barbecue

Embutido
Bam-i, Cebuano Pansit

Western Cuisine

Cheese Fondue
Chicken Cannelloni

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Posted: October 26th, 2008 under Noche Buena.
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If you’re inviting over a large number of family members and friends for Christmas dinner and have no time to prepare all that food for them, consider ordering an entire lechon paella. Lechon paella is a succulent, roasted, boneless young pig stuffed with hot, seafood paella, make the whole fare a meal in itself. The whole lechon can feed a group of about twenty people with healthy appetites and you might even have some left over for paksiw.

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Posted: December 27th, 2007 under Christmas, Noche Buena.
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You suddenly find that your holiday dishes are not enough for your guests. What do you do? Cooking can be stressful especially if one is faced with a lot of visitors. The thing to do is to order your Holiday dishes from reliable restaurants. Here are a few ideas of traditional Noche Buena dishes from Mario’s Restaurant:

• Embutido at 975 pesos
• Chicken Relleno at 1,100 pesos
• Chicken Galantina at 1,275 pesos
• Pastel de Lengua at 1,800 pesos
• Cochinillo at 1,250 pesos a kilo
• Paella Valenciana at 1,500 pesos

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Posted: December 20th, 2007 under Christmas, Filipino Restaurants, Noche Buena.
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Puto Bumbong from Via Mare

This is the almost perfect puto bumbong you can ever eat in an urban center. And you can order two pieces at 67 pesos at any Via Mare Restaurant. After a stressful shopping spree at Landmark Makati, I chose to rest at the Via Mare on the second floor right beside the ladies bag section. I was thrilled that they offered Puto Bumbong. I forgot how puto bumbong tasted like after my horrifying experience with the Puto bumbong vendor at the church grounds. Before I talk about Puto bumbong of Via Mare, allow me to share how some commercial puto bumbong vendors “cheat” us out of the real puto bumbong experience. Here is the puto bumbong which I bought for 20 pesos from the vendor after the misa de gallo.

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Posted: December 19th, 2007 under Christmas, Noche Buena, Restaurant and Eating Places, kakanin, suman, native rice cakes.
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That’s me and my family in last year’s Christmas Eve Noche Buena. I am sure a lot of you are planning your noche buena dishes for Christmas and New Year. That’s why you are here. I have my black book of recipes that serve as my recipe resources. I like to do a lot of preparation just before the actual cooking so I don’t get stressed out. Here are a few recipes that I have cooked in the past. Some don’t have photos yet because years ago, I didn’t think I’d put them in a food blog. This page will be updated often so bookmark this page for the rest of December.

There are Holiday Cooking Ideas and recipes and also places to buy if you don’t want to bother cooking or baking:

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Posted: December 9th, 2007 under Noche Buena.
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When roasted chestnuts (Castañas, castanas) appear along the sidewalks in Divisoria, Manila, that means Christmas season is in the air. Only that Jack Frost is NOT nipping at my nose. Eating roasted chestnuts bring back the memories of my childhood when dad used to buy a kilo of it every December. Munching on the starchy, crumbly texture and distinct sweet smell and buttery sweet taste is such a comfort. No wonder I look for it every Christmas season especially dad is not around to buy for me anymore.

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Posted: December 8th, 2007 under Noche Buena.
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I started craving for Majestic Ham when I read Manolo’s twitter which said “Happiness is a Majestic Ham”. After reading his twitter, I have been badgering my husband all day to buy Majestic Ham for me. That evening, he brought slices of Majestic Ham to my utter delight.

I used the ham slices as filling for my pan de sal.

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Posted: December 6th, 2007 under Filipino Food, Noche Buena.
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Christmas Eve is known as “Noche buena” (the Good Night). It is a time for family members to gather together to rejoice and feast around the Nativity scenes that are present in nearly every home. Our noche buena usually consists of light meals. This year Marielle prepared Cheese Fondue (see recipe below) while Lauren prepared the Paella.
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Posted: December 26th, 2006 under Noche Buena, Recipes.
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