Baked Biko Sapin Sapin Style

Baked Biko Sapin Sapin Style. Traditionally the Pinoy Christmas, native rice delicacies are the food center piece in the old days, especially in the countryside or in the provinces. Most households would cook their especial cooking method of rice with coconut like the Biko, Suman, Puto, Rice Cake, Bibingka and the lists goes on. Today being a very especial day I would like to share

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Fried Pork Lumpia Roll with Bacon

Fried Pork Lumpia Roll with Bacon. Lumpiang Shanghai is always a hit to most Aussie that have learn to love Pinoy food. Every Pinoy party that I attended while in Australia, the Top 3 Pinoy dish that Aussie friends and guests looks or put on their plates for are Lumpia, Pansit and Fried Rice, and Fried Lumpia Roll is top on the list The Lumpiang Shanghai is also one of the favorite

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Inihaw na Bangus, Pinaputok na Bangus

Inihaw na Bangus, Pinaputok na Bangus. Grilled bangus stuffed with tomatoes and onion is one of the usual inihaw na isda dish prepared on most Pinoy special occasion and celebrations for one reason that bangus of any size are always available year round in the Philippines. Now I have to include my Inihaw na Bangus, Pinaputok na Bangus as one of my recommended celebration dish for the

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Cheesy Pork and Chicken Afritada

Cheesy Pork and Chicken Afritada is our Christmas version of our Afritada.  I have not only added cheese to our already yummy Pork and Chicken Afritada, I have also added some vegetables to make it complete dish and also make it more appealing in contrast to the usual faritada with our greens. Cooking is of course similarly the same with our already deliciously proven Afritada dishes

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Kalderetang Baka with Peanut Butter and Oyster Sauce

Kalderetang Baka with Peanut Butter and Oyster Sauce. When I was starting to cook I never add any peanut butter or oyster sauce in my kaldereta dishes. It was just recently that I started to add peanut butter and/or oyster sauce in some of my kaldereta dishes. I have learned to use peanut butter and oyster sauce from my colleague. Their kaldereta with peanut butter and oyster sauce, that I

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Marikina Everlasting Special, Christmas Everlasting,

Christmas Everlasting, Marikina Everlasting Special. The Everlasting of Marikina is similar to the Hardinera of Lucban. A lot of the ingredients are almost similar, cooking methods are also similar. They are also both served at specials occasions and celebrations. For us who are not from Marikina or from Lucban would not really know the difference. I will not talk about the origins of our dish

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Baked Macaroni and Cheese Pinoy Style

Baked Macaroni and Cheese Pinoy Style. I want to share an easier way of making Baked Macaroni and Cheese using Pinoy ingredients, these ingredients are very common grocery items that for sure it is available in most supermarkets in Manila and other parts of the country. To make my point that the ingredients are very common I have listed the brand names of the ingredients, now if the listed

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Pinoy Grilled Prawns with Garlic and Cheese

Pinoy Grilled Prawns with Garlic and Cheese is our grilled version of our Baked Prawns with Garlic and Cheese. Instead of baking, the prawns were grilled in open fire or charcoals. Grilling prawns tricky, the shells tend to burn immediately leaving the prawn meats uncooked.  To grill our Pinoy Grilled Prawns with Garlic and Cheese properly, the heat or flames shall be maintained at

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Pansit Lucban with Lechon Kawali

Pansit Lucban with Lechon Kawali. Pansit Lucban or Pansit Habhab is a special pansit from Lucban, Quezon. Similar to any Pansit dish Pansit Lucban is serve on special celebrations like the Pahiyas Festival or in the household during special occasions. Pansit Lucban is also the most popular street food in Lucban, served in banana leaf and with vinegar instead of kalamasi or lemon, eaten

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Lechon Manok , Inasal Style

Lechon Manok , Inasal Style. Chicken inasal may be best cooked or grilled in charcoal fire, but there is no stop of trying to roast a whole chicken using chicken inasal marinade, let me share how I cooked my  Lechon Manok , Inasal Style. Before I go ahead I want to get everyone informed that my Lechon Manok , Inasal Style is our first post for our 2015 Celebration Recipe. To those who do

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Tinolang Manok sa Malungay

Tinolang Manok sa Malungay. Malungay is one of the most common vegetable ingredients of chicken tinola. Our Tinolang Manok sa Malungay recipe for today uses both the malungay fruit and the malungay leaves. Cooking is basically the same with my other chicken tinola recipe, click the link list below to check them out. Tinolang Manok with Malungay and Sotanghon Tinolang Manok sa Upo

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Igado with Pineapple and Mushroom

Igado with Pineapple and Mushroom. I made a level-up version on one of my favorite Ilokano food, the Igado. In addition to the usual ingredients, I added some canned mushroom and canned pineapple to the recipe.  I could not think of what to call or any special name of my tweaked Igado, I simply just called it Igado with Pineapple and Mushroom. The pineapple and mushroom added extra

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Black Adobong Pusit

Black Adobong Pusit. Personally I want my Adobong Pusit as black as possible Ilocano Style Adobong Pusit, the squids are cooked longer until it is chewable to get rid of the fishy characteristic of the squid. Most adobo recipes now on the net requires cooking the squid half cooked to maintain its softness but because it is half cooked we have to get rid of the squid fishiness to do that we

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Cheesy Maruya, Fried Banana with Cheese

Cheesy Maruya, Fried Banana with Cheese. The Pinoy plantain banana is popularly cooked as merienda or snack to almost every Pinoy. Traditionally it is either cooked as Banana-Que, Turon or Maruya. All mentioned cooking method are also very common street food in the Philippines. Today I want to share a level-up version of the lowly Maruya. First of all let me mention that Maruya is sliced half

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Ukoy na Alamang

Ukoy na Alamang. I found some fresh alamang at Filinvest South Supermarket the other day, what else you can make out of fresh alamang? Straight away I wanted to cook it as ukoy. There are a lot of ways to make ukoy, in fact I do not think that there are any exact ingredients and measurements of quantities on every recipe. Ingredients and quantities defend on what are available at the time of

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Pork Tail Sinigang sa Sampalok

Pork Tail Sinigang sa Sampalok. This is my second post of Pork Tail Sinigang, the first post was way back when OPC was starting. That Sinigang na Baboy (Buntot) was one of the first post the we shared. Today our Pork Tail Sinigang sa Sampalok as the name suggest is cooked soured with real sampalok fruits. At this time, I would try not write a long write up about our Pork Tail Sinigang sa

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Kinilaw na Tanguige, KiIlawin Tanguige

Kinilaw na Tanguige, KiIlawin Tanguige. I do have several versions of Kinilaw na Tanguige dish or kinilaw na isda in general that we posted over time. For our Kinilaw na Tanguige, KiIlawin Tanguige today, I tried to replicate the restaurant version of Kinilaw na Tanguige. Every restaurant have their particular method of preparing Kinilaw na Tanguige, but I have observed that most restaurant

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Sinaing na Tulingan

Sinaing na Tulingan. The authentic Batangas sinaing na tulingan is cooked where the fish are individually wrapped with banana leaf and in a clay pot. The banana leaf besides adding the unique banana leaf aroma to the fish, the banana leaf wrap also protect the fish from disintegration, the fish has to be simmered in low heat  for a long time until the fish bones area so soft that it can be

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Ensaladang Gulay, Ilocano Style

Ensaladang Gulay, Ilocano Style is one of the authentic Ilocano boiled vegetable that I grew up. It is a medley of Ilocano vegetables blanch or boiled then serve with KBL or Kamatis, Bagoong at Lasona (Sibuyas Iloco). The vegetables includes assorted vegetables that are in season, or whatever vegetables that is at the kitchen at the time of cooking. Below are some of the similar vegetables

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Ginataang Langka with Sugpo

Ginataang Langka with Sugpo. This Ginataang Langka is similar to my old post called Ginataang Langka, Jackfruit in Coconut Milk. However the cooking procedure was adapted to the ginisa cooking method, instead of the simple ginataang cooking method of combining all the ingredients, which I usually do with a lot of my Ginataang Vegetable dish. Another tweak was, Instead of using the

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