Veggie French Bread Pizza is easy, quick and versatile topped with pizza sauce, cheese and vegetables. For a quick meal, this pizza is delicious, light, flavorful, crispy and full of cheesy goodness. It is flavored with chunky tomato, garlic and onion sauce. When craving strikes, try this homemade vegetable pizza that bakes in 20 to […]
Siopao Asado
Siopao Asado is a Filipino steamed pork bun made with soft, fluffy white dough filled with braised tender pork in sweet and savory sauce and a slice of hard boiled egg. Siopao can be consumed on its own or served with siopao sauce. This Pork Siopao Asado recipe was adapted from the Chinese hot bun […]
Easy Sugar Cookie Recipe
I'm featuring two Easy Sugar Cookie Recipe both using similar main ingredients of flour, sugar, eggs, vanilla. The difference between the two, one is using butter, baking powder and milk while the other uses vegetable oil, baking soda and cream of tartar. These Sugar Cookie recipes are both easy, delicious and uses ingredients that are […]
Sapin-Sapin Recipe
Sapin-sapin recipe is a popular Filipino dessert made with glutinous rice flour, coconut milk, condensed milk and sugar in 3 vibrant colored layers and topped with latik and toasted desiccated coconut. Sapin-sapin is topped with latik (toasted coconut curds) that gives it the ultimate richness in flavor. It is easy to make, so don't skip […]
Puff Pastry Apple Turnovers
Puff Pastry Apple Turnovers are delicious easy desserts made with flaky puff pastry dough filled with cinnamon flavored diced apples. This quick to make Puff Pastry Apple Turnovers can be done in an hour using a store bought puff pastry and fresh apples. If you love apple pie then there’s no doubt you’ll be all […]
Butter Brown Sugar Candied Walnuts
Butter Brown Sugar Candied Walnuts are crunchy walnut halves coated in butter, brown sugar, white sugar and salt. Give it an added flavor like rum, cayenne pepper, cinnamon or any spice you prefer. Candied Walnuts are perfect for snacking, salads, topping for ice cream, yogurt and a great holiday give away. Butter Brown Sugar Candied […]
Easy Special Bibingka Recipe
Easy Special Bibingka Recipe is Today’s Delight, a Filipino baked rice cake made special with all the toppings. Bibingka is made by combining rice flour, egg, sugar and milk until smooth, then baked and topped with salted egg, cheese, butter and grated coconut. With only a few basic ingredients, you can make this easy bibingka […]
Puto Calasiao Recipe
Puto Calasiao are bite size, sticky, white rice cakes that originated from the province of Calasiao, Pangasinan. This town is famous for puto calasiao, different flavored rice cakes (kakanin), kutsinta and sweets. Because of its popularity, it is not only sold in Calasiao but as far as Manila. Many street vendors selling puto calasiao lined […]
Super Easy Pumpkin Spice Pancakes
Easy Pumpkin Spice Pancakes is Today’s Delight. If you are looking for a quick and easy Pumpkin Spice Pancake recipe, use the Krusteaz Pancake Mix. Ever since I discovered this brand, I quit making pumpkin pancakes from scratch. This pancake mix is light, fluffy and delicious. Add 2 more ingredients to the mix and you […]
Pumpkin Spice Baked Sweet Potato Chips
October is pumpkin spice season and this Pumpkin Spice Baked Sweet Potato Chips are so simple to make. When I go to the grocery store the first thing I see are pumpkins and the lingering smell of pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks. I stopped by the Asian store the other day to get one item […]
Pumpkin Spice Banana Chips
Baked Pumpkin Spice Banana Chips are super easy and delicious with no added sugar. October is Pumpkin Spice month and everywhere I go I smell it lingering in the air. So I decided to make these leftover plantain banana, purple yam and sweet potato with pumpkin spice. Instead of seasoning with traditional salt or sugar, […]
Maruya - Filipino Banana Fritters
Maruya or banana fritters are made of thinly sliced saba bananas dipped in batter, fried until golden brown and sprinkled lightly with white sugar. Maruya is a Filipino snack usually sold as a street food that you can easily make at home. Saba and plantain are abundant in the Philippines. That is the reason why […]
How to Fry Dried Squid
How to fry dried squid is a question some people ask. I mentioned in my other post that I was at the Asian store and was asked by a non-Asian how I cook dried products. In fact, they are easy to cook but there is also a technique in frying dried squid or fish so […]
Biko Kalabasa Kakanin (Kabocha Squash Biko)
Biko Kalabasa is a Filipino rice cake made with glutinous rice, coconut milk, sugar and kalabasa (squash) topped with latik (cooked coconut milk) serve as a snack. Street vendors or hawkers carry biko kalabasa in a woven tray called bilao, lined with banana leaves. I like it the most when it's thick and sticky. My […]
Easy Mango Cake Recipe
Mango Cake recipe – so yummy! Mango season is here and the best time to bake this simple Mango Cake recipe. It is luscious and bursting with fruity mango flavor. When making any dish or dessert made of fruits I try to do it while the fruits are in season. When I made this mango cake […]
Creamy Avocado with Milk and Sugar
Avocado with milk and sugar is one of my favorite comfort food. It is a delicious and creamy Filipino dessert that is best when served cold. When we were growing up, my Mom made this dessert all the time as a snack. She made us take an afternoon nap and woke up to this yummy […]
Kutsinta Recipe (Kutchinta)
Kutsinta or kutchinta is a round, sticky brown rice cake, a popular Filipino snack made with a few ingredients and topped with grated coconut. Kutsinta are sweets (kakanin in Tagalog) usually sold by street vendors. There are a few versions of Kutsinta recipe but the common ingredient is lye water to give it a chewy […]
Taro and Coconut Milk Drink with Toasted Green Pinipig
Taro and Coconut Milk Drink with Toasted Green Pinipig is one decadent drink my mom prepares when buying a huge taro (gabi). Chilled taro and coconut milk drink is so good topped with toasted green pinipig (rice flakes). You can use the light colored beige pinipig but we like to use green pinipig to give […]