Chicken Binakol ( Chicken in Coconut Soup)

Chicken Binakol is a chicken soup similar to Tinola but instead of using ordinary water, this chicken soup based is cooked on sweet young coconut water (buko). Binakol have two variations of this dish: first  is the Batangas version; wherein they usually use a very flavourful and lean chicken meat from native chicken and cooked slowly for long period in a bamboo tube. The another one is the Visayan version specially in Aklan province; wherein it is cooked with lemongrass and simmered in a coconut shell.

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.