Category Archives for Cooking
Christmas cookies, brownies for the coworkers
Don’t you wish you worked with me?
Filipino eats: Torta and munggo
Post-partum eating is supposed to be high in protein, to help with losing the baby weight and also to keep you going because you’re losing 500 calories a day while nursing. So both these recipes are handy for those purposes. … Continue reading
Champorado flashback
It’s been a long time since I did a Filipino food post. You may think this concoction looks strange, but when I saw a post on Burnt Lumpia about champorado is something I remember so fondly from my childhood. And … Continue reading
Fried rice with shrimp and BACON!
Has it been a while since my last Filipino food experiment? I suppose its because I really wanted my next attempt to be kare-kare, but I’m not quite ready yet. So Trinity made the choice — we had shrimp in … Continue reading
Mmmmm, caldereta
A few weeks ago, I attempted the Mount Everest of Filipino cuisine and tried my hand at making caldereta from scratch. It was not easy, let me tell you — I believe it took me an hour of chopping, slicing … Continue reading