I have cooked chicken wings adobo the way I would cook pork adobo. Same method, just different meat, with minor changes in cooking time. This turns the chicken wings so tender that most of the meat falls completely off of the bones. Well one time, I wanted to actually have ... Read More

A classic chicken fried steak dish usually calls for a cream gravy. I changed it up a bit by topping the steaks with slightly caramelized onions cooked in a balsamic vinegar and Worcestershire sauce. I like it. The reduction of balsamic vinegar and Worcestershire sauce gave the chicken fried ... Read More

  If I can have food as bestfriends, hot sauce would probably be one of them. First would be chocolate. But of course. You know that joke about people putting a small bottle of hot sauce in their handbags? Well, I could be one of those people, hehehe. ... Read More

Let it be known that Pork is my favorite meat. I could eat chicken, beef, venison, turkey, veal, and lamb but nothing beats Pork in my book. Which is why I’m always looking for good pork recipes and experimenting in my own kitchen to keep it exciting. ... Read More

I like pork rinds, you like pork rinds, who doesn’t like pork rinds? The best pork rinds are the ones in hugs bags. Or the ones from the butcher place. Don’t get the small bags with shiny packaging from grocery stores. I used to get them but ... Read More

A step away from the usual sour, salty and spicy pork dish is this sweet dish using hocks cooked for hours in a crock-pot. It’s not something I make all the time because I much prefer salty, sour, and spicy tastes but it’s also good once in ... Read More

Here is a goat dish that I made with lemon, ginger, vinegar, and cilantro. The Filipino term of this is called “KILAWEN“, pronounced as “kee-lah-when“. My version is more of the minimized version because the authentic dish actually involves goat skin, brain, liver, and some grilling. This ... Read More

  The picture of this Pancit with crab flakes and shitake mushrooms dish looks like there’s not much noodles but trust me it’s underneath all that delicious mushrooms, napa cabbage and crab flakes. If you’re not eating meat this week and weekend coz of the Holy Week, this ... Read More

Besides Tiramisu, and Chocolate Volcano Cake, my other ultimate favorite dessert is Flan. Yes, I’m just piling on the sugar and calories in my thighs and you know where else hah. I don’t make any of them that often. Only when I’m really craving each of them. ... Read More

  If you ask any non-Filipino person who has been to a  Filipino party or simple get-together quite a few times  here in America what they’ve eaten at that particular party they’ll tell you the most quintessential Filipino party appetizer. And that’s LUMPIA which is what ... Read More

    I’m sure you’ve seen the adobo seasonings in stores but if you want to learn how to make pork adobo without retorting to that, let me show you a step by step process on how to cook pork adobo which happens to be my favorite Filipino ... Read More

  In some regions of the Philippines, coconut milk is one of the ingredients in the dish called ADOBO which happens to be one of my favorite Filipino Dishes. It’s either in pork or chicken. Pork is my pick any day. Anyhoooo, in my cooking years, ... Read More

Whenever I visit the Filipino/Asian store nearby, I always grab a few packs of different mixes. Mostly I grab caldereta, menudo and sinigang mixes. I don’t live in the Philippines so the mixes are the closest to I have in tasting caldereta, menudo and sinigang dishes. There ... Read More