Christmas Tree Rice Krispie Treats

These little treats are easy and fun to make and are great for a children’s Christmas party or to make at home with your kids. They don’t involve any baking, and just one pan which children can do under supervision. The idea came from FoodFanatic.com but I adapted it a little. Melt 100g butter in a large pan over a low heat along with 200g marshmallows, stirring until smooth. Add a few drops of green food colouring and stir. Remove from...

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Make your own motivational quote cards

I'm not sure what these cards are actually called - 'motivational quote cards' sounds a bit worthy and the sort of thing you might find at a company team-building day. What I mean is a postcard with a message that is in some way inspiring, uplifting or encouraging - something that we could all use every now and then! During lockdown I was sending a birthday present to a friend, who I hadn't been able to see for a long time because of Covid. I didn't...

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Pizza Express Leadenhall Market - A little bit of post-lockdown familiarity

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Special Sinsal Wrapped Embutido Recipe

Special Sinsal Wrapped Embutido RecipeThis Embutido also is special, because I did not use any extender, it is pure ground pork, no breadcrumbs or any type of flour, the flour used for the recipe is used as a binder. Sinsal is the fats that wrapped around the kidneys of the pig.Traditionally sinsal was used to wrap embutido in the early days. Until lately aluminum foils are being used, n...

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Easy Veggie Nuggets

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Davina’s cheesy apple savoury scones

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Porktail Kaldereta with Sweet potato, Kalderetang Buntot ng Baboy with Kamote

Porktail Kaldereta  with Sweet potato, Kalderetang Buntot ng Baboy with KamoteKalderetang Buntot ng Baboy with Kamote instead with the usual regular potato.The sweet potato balances the “nakaka-umay” overly cheesy taste of the cheese loaded of most kaldereta today.This recipe is inspired by a kaldereta I once have in one of the “karinderia”  in Batangas while on remote work assignment.I also ma...

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Chicken and Pork Curry with Green Vegetables and Sweet Potato serve with Homemade Flat Bread

Chicken and Pork Curry with Green Vegetables and Sweet Potato serve with Homemade Flat BreadThis Chicken and Pork Curry with Green Vegetables and Sweet Potato as the name suggest is overloaded with green vegetables. Included on this video is Homemade Flat Bread  that will go great with curry.For those who have tried naan bread or roti bread dip in curry sauce, try this Pinoy style.This ...

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Eataly London review - Lunch and a tourist attraction

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Kinilaw na Bangus, How to Prepare Bangus for Kinilaw

Kinilaw na Bangus, How to Prepare Bangus for KinilawThis KINILAW NA BANGUS was first posted on Overseas Pinoy Cooking several years back.Kinilaw na BangusFirst have the fish vendor debone the fish.Of course you will need a fresh fish for kinilaw na bangus or any other kinilaw.I never trust the cleanliness of the palengke. I just ask the fish vendor to just debone the fish only, I will wash t...

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Kamias Pineapple Homemade Jam

Kamias Pineapple Homemade JamThis KAMIAS PINEAPPLE HOMEMADE JAM recipe is another original from Overseas Pinoy Cooking.This is in inspired from an old post from our Overseas Pinoy Cooking  website.Kamias Jam, Ginger Lily JamTo make this level up version.I have added regular canned pineapple slices in addition to the kamias fruit. I have thought that kamias and pinya will make a delicious jam...

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Baked Layered Biko Special, Sapin-Sapin

Baked Layered Biko Special, Sapin-SapinThis Baked Layered Biko Special, Sapin-Sapin is made-up of 3 layers of different types of biko.White Biko, Yellow Kalabasa Biko and Purple Pirurutong Biko.This recipe was originaly posted at Overseas Pinoy Cooking  few years back.Baked Biko Sapin Sapin StyleTo make this Special Biko, the biko  is made up of tree typed of biko rice.White  glutinous bik...

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Banana Blossom, Banana Hearth Burger, Burger with Mushroom Sauce

Banana Blossom, Banana Hearth Burger, Burger with Mushroom SauceHow to prepare and clean banana hearth or banana blossom this is in addition to our food recipe video today, Similar to my other recipes, I have not added any MSG or any food enhancer, on my banana hearth burger patty. I wanted to see or taste what is the outcome of the recipe.All that I have added is Quaker instant oatmeal a...

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Baked Lukban Hardinera Special

Baked Lukban Hardinera Special This is a non-traditional hardinera, baked hardinera instead the usual steaming.This baked hardinera recipe was first posted in Overseas Pinoy Cooking website more than 10 years ago.There are also other unconventional ingredients that I added both kind of ingredients and preparation.Dice pork, before boiling - diced the pork before boiling to keep the pork remai...

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Malunggay Pesto with Grilled Chicken Thighs and Toasted Pandesal

Malunggay Pesto with Grilled Chicken Thighs and Toasted PandesalThis is 99.9 percent malunggay pesto.Overseas Pinoy Cooking’s innovative and budget meal pesto.Used fresh malungay leaves grown at home instead of the costly fresh basil that is not even available in our location or not even at the popular supermarket near our place.Used canola oil infused with garlic, instead of the very expensi...

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Dinakdakan at Inihaw na Talong

Dinakdakan at Inihaw na TalongDinakdakan is a grilled pig's head parts and some liver and blended with fresh pig's brain for creaminess and savory umami flavor. Alternatively we are using mayonnaise instead of pig brain.Our recipe is simple and straight forward.There is no hard rule on ingredient quantity it all depends on who is cooking and one’s preference.Please check our Dinakdak...

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Vigan Royal Bibingka Original Recipe by Overseas Pinoy Cooking

Vigan Royal Bibingka Original Recipe by Overseas Pinoy CookingIt is now more than 10 years since this recipe was first shared by us.Originally it was posted on Overseas Pinoy CookingVigan Royal Bibingka Recipe -   posted on December 2008Special Vigan Royal Bibingka - again posted on December 2010And on Apr 28, 2011 a slide presentation was posted on YouTube by UT-Man.The recipe has attracted...

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Non-alcoholic spirits: Strykk Not G*n review

Sunny days are invariably linked in my mind with cocktails - probably as they remind me of beach holidays from two decades ago when my main requirement for a holiday was sun, a hotel pool and a drink with a little umbrella!Back then, the cocktails were usually strong - in Greece I remember them being heavy on the spirit, light on the mixer - and I would usually go for something like sex on the beach or pina colada. I still prefer my cocktails sweet...

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Bopis with Liver Spread and Pineapple

Bopis with Liver Spread and PineappleBopis is one of the popular karinderia “ulam”.Bopis is made up of pig lungs, hearth, and spleen including the attachment arteries and air pipes or trachea.and are sold in as sets.It takes some cooking skills to cook bopis. For me a good bopis should have first of all, that pig lung after odor and after taste “lansa” is very minimal after all it is one of t...

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Porkchop with Mushroom and Oyster Sauce YouTube Video

Porkchop with Mushroom and Oyster Sauce VideoPorkchop Dinner with Rice, Fries and Mix Vegetables and Sweet Corns.If you make a Google search for Porkchop with Mushroom and Oyster Sauce and obviously you are in the Philippines or within the region, our Overseas Pinoy Cooking post and photos will most likely land on the first page.Below is the direct link of that post.Porkchop with Mushroom a...

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Vigan Miki with Red Soup YouTube Video

Vigan Miki with Red Soup YouTube VideoThe red broth or soup is added when served, served garnished with Vigan chicharon crackling, chopped garlic leaves and fried garlic and oil. Vigan Miki is a noodle soup served for merienda or breakfast. It is also served on special occasions and celebrations. Vigan miki is available at stalls under the Vigan Cathedral Belltower in the mornings.The tradition...

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Labong, Saluyot at Sitaw, Lutong Ilocano

Labong, Saluyot at Sitaw, Lutong IlocanoI bought a whole bamboo shoot from the market the other day.I intentionally bought the whole bamboo shoot to show how to prepare, cut, slice and boil a bamboo shoot, Overseas Pinoy Cooking method.Our recipe video for today is and Ilocano classic, Labong, Saluyot at Sitaw, with generous quantity of beef slices and flavored with sampalok.To most Iloca...

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Kare Kare sa Bigas, Thickened with Ground Toasted Rice

Kare Kare sa Bigas, Thickened with Ground Toasted Rice, Vegetable OverloadToday I am sharing a video of my version of Kare-Kare sa Bigas.Instead of using the now convenient Kare-Kare Mix, this Kare-Kare uses the traditional ground toasted rice for the basic Kare-Kare sauce ingredients.Our Kare-Kare for today is made up of;Beef Tripe, Tail, Skin, Banana blossom, Young Corns, String Bean...

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The Ivy Brasserie Cobham - Review

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Ilocos Sur’s Inabraw, Dinakdakan, Gising Gising and Lechon

Ilocos Sur’s Inabraw, Dinakdakan, Gising Gising and LechonIf you are from Ilocos Sur and have been missing these Ilocano food watch these video from,Sandy Daza enjoys Ilocos Sur’s Inabraw, Dinakdakan, Gising Gising and Lechon | FoodPrintsHow Ilocano favorites balicucha and cascaron are made.Tito Bert’s Garden restaurant farm to table dining.Ikan Grill seafood feast.Ilocos Sur sty...

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In The Pink Birthday Card

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Canned Meatloaf Burger with Mushroom Sauce, Budget Meal

 Canned Meatloaf Burger with Mushroom Sauce, Budget MealCanned Meatloaf Burger PattyI was curious of the idea that canned meatloaf can be made into burger patty.I have seen several video using canned Argentina Meatloaf to make burger but the resultant fatties looks more of a maruya than a burger.Initially I was planning to use the Maling Canned Meatloaf, but I thought this burger should be...

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Pork Feet with Mushroom and black Bean Sauce, Lutong Pinoy

Pork Feet with Mushroom and black Bean Sauce, Lutong PinoyThe cooking may look intimidating but do not worry there are no hard rules.The cooking procedure is straight forward braising method.The only setback is the cooking time, it is about 2 hours plus.The pork feet has to be soft like jell, to enjoy a tender melt in your mouth pork feet fats and tendons.Enjoy.Pork Feet with Mushroom and bla...

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5th Anniversary Wooden Log Celebration Cake

The theme for a fifth wedding anniversary is wood so when my husband and I were celebrating that particular milestone recently I decided to make a cake based on the theme. There are a lot of ways you could interpret ‘wood’ - after all a lot of different things are made of wood - but to me the obvious choice was a woodland theme and a wooden tree stump! This cake has vertical layers running through it which makes it a bit different - because it’s...

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Chicken Feet Curry, Lutong Pinoy

Chicken Feet Curry, Lutong PinoyMost Pinoy will most likely shun away from the very aromatic and spicy standard curry dish.The Pinoy have however develop a version of chicken curry is far milder and very minimal aromatic ingredients.At times the curry ingredients are so minimal that a curry lover foreigner will not even categorize the Pinoy curry as a real curry dish.Never the less the Pin...

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Easy chicken and lemon all-in-one tray bake

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Sweet and Sour Maling, Pinoy Lunch

Sweet and Sour Maling, Pinoy LunchSweet and sour is a special dish to most Pinoy.Maling, is the most popular budget canned meat loaf to most Pinoy.Overseas Pinoy Cooking share this innovative Maling meat loaf dish that is affordable, and easy to prepare with simple ingredients that are readily available at your neighborhood Sari-Sari Store or Pinoy and Asian store if you are overseas.Try al...

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Dirty Bones meal kit at home - Plateaway review

We’ve eaten quite a lot of takeaways during the pandemic, but not because we couldn’t get out to our favourite restaurants – since becoming parents over three years ago we have barely been out to eat more than a handful of times! Instead, ordering in food was either something we did at the end of a particularly tiring day of working and entertaining a toddler, or because we felt like we needed a treat of some kind. I was getting a bit fed up of...

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Vigan Poqui-Poqui and Garlic Fried Rice Breakfast

Vigan Poqui-Poqui and Garlic Fried Rice Breakfast Poqui-Poqui, that what we call this Ilocano stir-fried grilled eggplant with egg. I am certain that dish originated in Vigan. Some Ilocano lads out there for sure will object, trust me I am from Vigan. Whatever the origins of  Poqui-Poqui it is one of the regular  breakfast dish of the Ilocanos, from Vigan or otherwise.Se original recip...

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Handmade Eid Mubarak card

Eid Mubarak! Today is Eid-al-Fitr, a religious holiday celebrated by Muslims that marks the end of the Ramadan month of fasting. During Ramadan, most Muslims (aside from those who are exempt for reasons including illness and old age) fast from dawn until sunset, then break their fast each night with a meal known as 'iftar'. Sharing iftar with others is an important practice for many Muslim families, and it must have been particularly difficult...

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How to make an Amazon parcel cake

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How to make your own bunting

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Strawberry and white chocolate crispy cakes with pink Coco Pops

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Spaghetti Tree Sutton - Restaurant/ Takeaway review

In some ways, this Valentine's Day was much like any other - my husband and I have tended to avoid going out to restaurants on Valentine's Day (in fact, I'm not sure we ever have) - partly in expectation that venues will be turning tables as quickly as possible, partly because prices seem to go up that day, and partly- actually, mainly - because most restaurants offer set menus on February 14 and there's hardly ever anything my husband likes. Dining...

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Some simple Valentine's crafts for children and toddlers

My two year old and I have had fun making some Valentine's day decorations! Some of the ideas are based on things I saw online and some are my own design. All we used were some cardboard heart shapes, two heart-shape hole punches, some wool, a toilet roll tube, paint and some heart stickers, and some ribbon to hang what we made. You can find out how to make all of these and more on my parenting blog Mini Moo Life! ...

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How to create pancake art - fun ideas for Pancake Day

 Have you come across pancake art before? It's a great way to have fun on Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday) or indeed any time! Pancake art is simply creating a picture in pancake form, by using a squeezy bottle to draw with the batter in your pan. As the batter cooks, add more details, then finally fill in the gaps, to get different shades on your 'picture'.  Hop on over to my other blog, Mini Moo Life, to see the unicorn pancake I made for...

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