A handaan is never perfect without kare kare on the dining table. That’s a way of saying how popular this dish is during celebrations. Kare kare is a Filipino stew with a rich, thick, and flavorful peanut sauce that is served with bagoong guisado (sauteed shrimp paste). The traditional kare kare recipe uses oxtail or tripe. However, you can also use pork (pork hocks, calves feet, or pig feet), beef stew meat, and seafood (prawns, squid, and mussels). You can also find some recipes with merely vegetables in it. The vegetable ingredients in the kare kare include eggplant, Chinese cabbage or other greens like bokchoy or pechay, string beans, okra,…
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Kanto Freestyle Breakfast, Marikina
Kanto Freestyle Breakfast has been serving well-loved and familiar Pinoy fare in gourmet style. Since its humble beginning in Mandaluyong back in 2011, it continues to excite Manileños with its offerings hence, the increasing patronage. Good thing they now have several branches within the metro that makes easier for people to visit them at their nearest location.
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Crescent Moon Cafe and Studio Pottery, Antipolo
With most of us pending more time indoors due to the pandemic, we thirst going outside and be somewhere else. The quarantine can challenge even the toughest minds. This prolong self isolation can weaken the spirit. We long to be with people especially those we considered our closest or those that belong to our tribe. We are social being after all.
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Marks & Spencer’s Online Shopping and Food Delivery
It’s starting to feel like Christmas. Though 2020 has been tough for all of us because of the COVID-19, our personal struggles because of the pandemic, and the recent typhoons’ surprising attacks to several parts of our country; Christmas is still going to happen. If you think of food gifts and sweet treats for the holiday season, you may want to shop online from Marks & Spencer. You can purchase your favorite food products through MetroMart and FoodPanda apps. If not, you can just visit their website. Currently, Marks & Spencer food products are only available for delivery within Metro Manila. I ordered some treats recently, which I happily devoured…
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Finding the Best Ready-to-Cook Sisig
Pampanga's well-loved sisig dish is becoming a familiar fare in every Filipino family's table. You don't have to travel to Pampanga nor do you have to dine in expensive restaurants to eat delicious sisig. Now, you can purchase it from the supermarket.
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Salted Egg Fish Skin Snacks
Salted egg is surprisingly and insanely addictive flavor. It instantly become a craze like overnight that all of the sudden you find salted egg flavors of the chips you know in the snack aisle in the grocery. Not only did it influence the snack industry, but we witnessed the birth of salted egg recipes like the salted egg chicken recipes.
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Hawker Chan Philippines: The World’s First Hawker Michelin-Starred Resto
Singapore’s famous Michelin-starred Hawker Chan made its way to the Philippines way back in 2018, which was warmly welcomed by Filipinos. They established its presence in strategic areas in the metro to cater more people and satisfy the hungry Filipino crowd for delicious Chinese food. Evidence of our love with Chinese cuisine, is our appetite for noodles, char siew and dumplings, which Hawker Chan happily provides at affordable prices.
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GoKeto: Low Carb No Sugar Beverages
I once thought that going on a low carb diet translates to bland and boring meals and drinks. Later did I realize that there’s a lot of healthier alternatives out there, which are readily available and easier to purchase. When I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes, I know I had to change my diet. My initial thought was giving up all the sugary treats. My world crashed when my doctor told me that I shouldn’t only give up the sweets but I should cut down my rice and go 16-hour intermittent fasting. It was very hard at first. I tend to binge on sweet treats especially when I am…
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Frankie’s New York Buffalo Wings
Though chicken wings can be cooked several different ways, I think buffalo wings is the best. What do you say? We have to thank the Americans for introducing us buffalo wings. I can’t imagine a more suitable pair to pizza and pasta. Buffalo wings is cooked unbreaded. It is deep fried and then coated with a sauce. Buffalo wings is said to have started in New York in 1964. It eventually gained popularity and become menu items for a lot of restaurants. Thankfully, it reached to the Philippine soil. Today, there are several ways people prepare their buffalo wings. Numerous flavors came out including the latest salted egg craze. Garlic…
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Keto Baked Sushi By Keto Diet PH
Baked Sushi is one of the latest food craze. There was a point in my Facebook feed that it got inundated with baked sushi photos from friends and sellers, and sponsored ads. Gladly, there are keto versions. So, I was a very willing victim to this trend. I gave in to this temptation and never felt remorseful. I purchased my keto baked sushi from Keto Diet PH. And oh man, it really taste so delicious. They say it is good for 2 to 3 people. But oh my, my voracious appetite kicked in, and I finished the entire thing in one sitting. But because it is keto, I feel less…
