Filipino Style Chicken Macaroni Salad Recipe

Chicken Macaroni Salad is a simple salad made with macaroni pasta (usually elbow macaroni), hard-cooked eggs, chopped fruits and vegetables, boiled chicken meat and a seasoned mayonnaise dressing. This salad is commonly served during holiday especially Christmas and new year, special occasions and family outing.

Seafood Pinakbet Recipe

Pinakbet is popular throughout the Philippines, with  different regional variations depending on ingredient availability and local taste adaptations, but this vegetable dish was originated as Ilocano dishes. It is basically a mix of string beans, okra, eggplant, pumpkin, and bitter gourd (ampalaya) cooked in broth and spices until the liquid is reduced, which is where it gets its name from, “pinakebbet”, which means, “made smaller”. This is usually flavored with bagoong, or shrimp paste.

Tinolang Palakang Bukid (Stewed Frog with Ginger and White Pumpkin)

Frog tastes like a chicken. You heard that before? Yes! it is true, frog is really tastes like a chicken. I remember from my childhood when my cousin caught "palakang bukid" (a variety of edible frog) from rice field during the planting season. I requested to my mom  that I will take a lunch  or dinner to kuya Onad (my cousin)  house when I heard that he caught a frogs, co'z for sure they served any palakang bukid dishes in their table.

Bulanglang Recipe

Bulanglang is a vegetable stew, a healthy dish consisting of different types of vegetables. It's different from pinakbet in being soupier and including dark leafy vegetables. This recipe includes fish as an ingredient. Making Bulanglang is quick and easy; all you need to do is boil water or rice wash and put-in the vegetables according to their cooking time. You can vary the vegetables according to your taste.