Last November, Royce and I had a chance to visit Bohol. And it truly was a great experience seeing wonderful places like Chocolate Hills and the white sand of Panglao Beach. My most exciting part is dining on a floating restaurant at Loboc River. I loved the river tour, the Filipino songs...

GINISANG UPO is a Filipino dish that is very quick and easy to cook but requires a lot of time in its preparation. Peeling and slicing the UPO or WHITE SQUASH or BOTTLE GOURD is the tedious part. It is exciting though, specially if you are cooking for the people that you love. GINISANG UPO is...

PIZZA is one of the most loved American food by Pinoys. No wonder pizza stores are growing like mushrooms here in the Philippines. Here in our small and humble city, we have well-known pizza stores like Shakeys, Pizza Hut, Angels Pizza and Yellow Cab. I am always hesistant of doing my own...

TACO is a traditional Mexican dish made up of corn or wheat tortilla folded or rolled around a filling. Taco has a variety of fillings like beef, chicken, seafood, vegetables and cheese. Taco is also a perfect snack garnished with salsa, avocado or guacamole, tomatoes, onions and lettuce....

INIHAW NA LIEMPO is a Pinoy term for grilled pork belly. It is a great picnic and party dish paired with vinegar or atsara. INIHAW NA LIEMPO is very easy to grill and so flavorful. Just allow the fat to melt away, meat to be cooked enough to be tender and delicious smoke flavor to penetrate...

Truly the best OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIES. I want to give credit to joyofbaking.com for this recipe. I just made a little adjusments, but honestly, I just ran out of white sugar. So what I did was, I used brown sugar instead. But it turned out great. I could not give the difference for I...

PORK AFRITADA WITH PINEAPPLES – Cubed pork, potatoes, tomato sauce and pineapple chunks come together in this wonderful dish to make an easy weekend family meal. Everything is cooked slowly to perfection, pork is tender, the sauce is thick, the vegetables are right and crisp, creating a...

I love chili peppers, specially the long green finger chilies. They bring more Filipino spirit in my dishes like Pinakbet, Tinola, Dinakdakan, Sinigang and many more. And I get to make another experiment of this what we locally call, Siling Haba. I already tried making them as LUMPIANG SILI,...

Happy New Year everyone! It had been a wonderful and memorable holidays. We get to spend the festive season with our friends and families that finally I get the chance to show them off some of my cooking skills. I am not an expert yet. I had been through a lot of kitchen disasters before I...

Only few hours left for a wonderful year of 2011 and hungrynez is getting to start a new beginning of the year 2012. We will surely welcome the year with loud booms and bangs of firecrackers, lighten the midnight sky with beautiful firework displays, feast with delightful dishes and our...

GINISANG ALAMANG is always in the fridge of almost every Filipino homes. It is a perfect pair for KARE-KARE DISHES like BEEF KARE-KARE. Ginisang Alamang is also a great dip for sliced green mangoes, boiled Okra and Ampalaya. And if you ran out of budget, you can eat Ginisang Alamang with...

Today is Sunday. Everybody is at home and it is a lazy day, a day to relax at home and enjoy a leisurely Sunday lunch. Everybody here at home craved for a traditional Pinoy dish: BEEF KARE-KARE WITH GINISANG ALAMANG. Good thing Aunt is at home to help me with this tough and challenging...

I love my CHICKEN and POTATO with FRESH TOMATOES. It is one of my solutions for a quick cooking chicken meal. It is somewhat similar to CHICKEN AFRITADA minus the tomato sauce and some ingredients like bay leaves or laurel leaves, carrots and red bell pepper. The combination of tons of...

Yesterday afternoon, while doing some errands I received a text from an unregistered contact which reads: Good Afternoon. This is Goya from Virtusio PR. We would like to invite HungryNez to a Thanksgiving Dinner. May we have your email add so we can send you the invitation....