Let’s all take a break. Allow me to share something I do whenever I take a break from the kitchen. I drink iced tea.
I drink iced green tea because it is refreshing on the mind and body. It is that perfect perk-upper that helps take away the stress and keep me right on track. I don’t settle for just any green tea drink. Real Leaf Green Tea is stocked in my pantry every weekend because I know it is made from natural green tea leaves that is deliciously blended with the natural sweetness of honey. The Honey Apple, Honey Lemon and Honey Lychee flavors add variety to my choices for the week. Read more »
How was your holiday celebration! I hope you all had fun with your family and friends.
I know that it’s a little late for holiday giveaways, but I’m giving away an amazing prize to one lucky Pinoy Food blog reader or subscriber based in the Philippines. All you have to do is share a photo with your Real Leaf Green Tea Story! It’s really simple.
I will be attending the Singapore Food Festival 2009from July 17 till July 20 thanks to the hospitality of the Singapore Tourism Board. Watch out for recipes and maybe demos on how to prepare some Peranakan cuisine. If you want updates of the Festival, just visit my other food blog at Pinoy Food Photo Blog
Food memories at my dorm in UP consisted of adobo that mom cooked for us. See in the dorm, we were not allowed to cook our meals. Mom’s adobo did not contain any soy sauce and I often wondered how she cooked it. I never got to ask my mom because she died while I was a teenager who was not yet eager to cook. I saw a recipe once in a newspaper column and the writer called it the white adobo or Adobong Puti because it does not contain soy sauce. This type of adobo is light brown due to the browning during the cooking process. It is a bit sour too. I forgot to clip out the newspaper article where the recipe contained. Fortunately, Sam read a comment I left in MarketMan’s blog. Here, she shares her Adobong Puti recipe which I have innovated and cooked but forgot to take pics.
Try it and let me know…
2 kilos pork (with some fatty parts, like butt, or belly)
8- 10 cloves garlic
1 tsp coarsely cracked pepper
2 pcs bay leaves
1 1/2 cups sukang puti (coco when available)
1/2 cup water
1 1/2 tablespoon sea salt
To my valuable readers and subscribers of Pinoy Food Blog (now reaching over 3,300 subscribers), I am honored to talk about you on Qtube. This blog is not just a recipes blog. How many of you have emailed me asking for that recipe that brought memories of home. You asked a lumpia shangai recipe to show off to your American boyfriend so he could appreciate Filipino food. To that father who just got reunited with his kids, you wanted to cook humba for them. To that special person who made money out of my lasgana recipe, I am proud that you found ways to augment your income.
Pinoyfoodblog.com is not just a haven for recipes. Cooking may just mean as the act of preparing food in a raw phase and use heat in order for humans to digest it easily. It is more than that. Many people now are cooking for pleasure. They consider this act as a hobby. At the end of a tiring day, you find relaxation in cooking. You feel relieved when cooking because it serves as your form of expression and stress release. You love to cook for others like family and friends. It is about feeling good about yourself that you can cook even simple dishes, that you can make a living from selling dishes. Cooking raises your self-esteem. It is about living a dream too. Simple dreams like easy cooking, owning a small business or feeding your loved ones with pride.
I trained my cook who worked with me for over 10 years to cook special dishes for my family. Today, she owns a restaurant business, a hole in the wall type and makes around 80,000 pesos a month. Not bad huh? She has built two homes in her hometown.
Pancit Molo is one of the favorite soup of my children. I think it’s the garlicky chicken flavored soup that makes it very enticing for children. The recipe is actually quite simple if you don’t make your own wanton wrapper. You can easily buy wanton wrapper at your favorite supermarket.
Follow this recipe
Filling
25 pieces 3″ x 3″ wanton wrapper
1/4 kilo ground pork (lean)
1/4 cup chicken, cooked and chopped (keep the chicken brot)
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/3 cup water chestnuts or singkamas, chopped finely
3 Tablespoons, spring onions, chopped
Another out of the box party is coming your way in Red Box!
Not only can you sing your hearts out, now, you can play til’ you drop! Completing the Red Box party mix is the Nintendo Wii!
And because Wii want you to experience a different level of karaoke and gaming high in Red Box, simply answer the question below and you can get a chance to party in Red Box with your friends for free.
It’s impossible for you to have never heard of Delifrance, and if you’re one of the few who have never even set foot in that place, let me tell you why you should! Delifrance is perhaps the only French-style cafe in the country that offers not just coffee; they carry a wide array of Western and continental delights, from spiked coffee to gourmet pasta. If you’re not in the mood for an entire meal, Delifrance also offers a whole range of French breads, European pastries, and large clubhouse sandwiches.
Just recently, Delifrance added a new item to their menu – a dish that takes off after the French food samplers that are all the range in Europe now. French gourmet samplers are basically appetizer sets featuring small portions of all sorts of food. Lately, people have been getting French gourmet samplers instead of full main-course meals. Delifrance brought the French gourmet sampler to the Philippines and completely reimagined it through the new Delifrance Tray Couture.
Here is a playlist of Filipino Christmas Carols I collated for you to add more joy to your Christmas celebration. The first song in the track is Pasko na Sinta ko sung by my two girls and three other members of the Manila Children’s Choir in 1999. The second track is “Kasadya ni Takna-a” composed by Vicente Rubi, the original Cebuano version which is not as popular as the Tagalog version “Ang Pasko ay Sumapit”.
And English Christmas songs sang by Filipino artists. The first two songs are sang by the 1999 Manila Childrens’ Choir where my two daughters were members back then.
Homegrown Go Nuts Donuts in The Fort, Global City is always full of schoolchildren out on a field trip. The reason for the fieldtrip is because the kids can see for themselves on how a doughnut is made. Go Nuts have glass panels where customers can easily view the doughnut making process. My daughter was mortified to know that doughnuts deep fried. Oh yes, so much fat. Whenever we buy doughnuts, we make sure it’s only done once a month. So much empty calories! True, the process of making doughnuts is truly fascinating. It’s a way to promote their products.
