I was supposed to give my son a cheese sandwich for his breakfast one morning last week. To my surprise, the unopened wheat bread we just bought from the grocery a few days earlier suddenly has grown molds already. It’s just weird because it ain’t supposed to be expired yet as noted on [...]
The big red chili suggests that this dish is really spicy. Laing (taro leaves) is a Filipino dish native to Bicol. It is a spicy and creamy dish of taro leaves, pork, and chili peppers cooked in coconut milk. So if spicy foods are your thing, this is worth a try.
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This is the rice porridge with mashed squash (thus, it’s color yellow) that my son had for lunch a few days ago. He liked it so much that it vanished in an instant. Here in the Philippines, our rice porridge is called “lugaw” (the Filipino name for congee). Very similar to Cantonese style [...]
In the early 2000s, the South Beach Diet was quickly popularized to be an effective means of losing weight. Do you know that initially, the purpose of the diet was to prevent heart disease as conducted by cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston and dietician Marie Almon as an alternative to low-fat approaches such as the [...]
Ever since we tasted this heavenly cake dessert, we make it a point that this is the number one in the list of pasalubongs to take home from Baguio. This refrigerator cake called Chona’s Delight is named after the brilliant Aling Chona, the owner of Tea House Restaurant and Bakeshop located along Session Road. [...]
