Pork Hamonado Recipe

Pork Hamonado Here's another special Filipino dish that usually served during Christmas season specially "Noche Buena" and other special occasions in the Philippines the Pork Hamonado. This dish is simply sweetened pork stuffing of carrot, pineapple, pickles, sausages or hot dog in pineapple sauce.

Beef Morcon Recipe

Morcon is a beef roll stuffed with various things that could include, depending on the cook, sausages or hot dogs, eggs, pickles, pimiento and pork fat. This is Filipino popular dish served during special occasions like Christmas, new year, or feast day, and other celebrations. Try this Morcon recipe...

Pinoy Style Homemade Sardines in Tomato Sauce

According to the historian the word Sardines are named after Sardinia, the Italian island where large schools of these fish were once found. In the Philippines has a  local name for this kind of fish, they called it "tamban". While sardines are delightful enjoyed fresh, they are most commonly found canned, since they are so perishable.

Pako Salad or Ensaladang Pako (Fern Salad) Recipe

Pako or Fern is widely distributed in the Philippines, it is common on gravel bars and banks of streams and rivers. The young fronds of fern or commonly spoken as "fiddle heads" are eaten as a leafy vegetable, raw or cooked and it is also used as an ingredient in salads or stews. I remember from my young age, my mom always prepared pako salad  or ensaladang pako (which is one of my favorite salad) and sometimes saute pako with sotanghon or vermicelli especially when pako is available in the market.

Adobong Tahong (Green Mussels Adobo) Recipe

Adobo is a very well known delicious recipe in the Philippines even in Filipino community all over the world. Normally, the main ingredient using in this dish is chicken or pork or combination of the two (chicken and pork), cut into bite pieces. It is first sauted in garlic and onion and when tender enough, you add pepper, soy sauce and vinegar (depending to your taste and the quantity of meat), and then put to boil, then simmer till you have a pastry sauce.

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.