As a working mom, life is truly a non-stop and jam-packed of activities. I sometimes jump from one place to another, from house to Colby’s school, then grocery during lunch breaks, back to office till 5, market or church meetings or social gatherings like birthdays or an emergency and...

Black or White? Green or Red? This time it would be BLACK BEANS since I already have featured white beans and green or mung beans or commonly known as monggo. Red beans is next on the line then. BLACK BEANS AND PORK STEW is a cheap yet great main dish for most Filipinos. A small pack of black...

I got to experiment with a Homemade Hot and Spicy Marinade and blended to chicken cut-ups I have in my fridge. I wanted to try out a Mexican flavor with a dish so I added some chili powder, a Mexican seasoning, to give a different taste to a usual fried chicken Pinoys used to cook and serve....

BREADED PORKLOIN WITH MUSHROOM GRAVY is the faster, easier and even more flavorful food recipe for a wonderful family dinner. The best part of this meal is that the pork chops are boneless. They are simply the loin sliced into cuts. The center-cut cops are sometimes also called as center-cut...

GOTO or RICE SOUP WITH BEEF TRIPE, as I have mentioned in my last recipe post, is the best pair of TOKWA’T BABOY. LUGAW is a local term for glutinous rice soup while GOTO is a Tagalog term for Beef Tripe or the edible internal organ from the stomach of a cow. To some, eating beef...

TOFU or BEANCURD or locally known as TOKWA is a soft soybean cake with 80% water. Tofu is a soft fermented soybean white block usually sold in squares. It is often an used to a meal as a meat substitute. One trick I learned from the market vendor – after soaking and washing the tofu...