musings of a traveller and food lover

Filipino Cuisine

What is your adobo story?

If you were to ask my London born nephew what his favourite Filipino food is, with out missing a beat, “Chicken Adobo” is his answer. Wasn’t it just last week that I cooked squid ...

Alugbati…Malabar Spinach

… or the vine spinach The cook and I continuously had our little disagreements. While I was craving for locally sourced food, she wanted to fry meat which I have a dislike of. Frying ...

Food Philippines

Halo halo… literally means “to mix”…. glass is filled with sweetcorn, boiled beans, nata de coco, tapioca , topped with shaved ice and evaporated milk, served with ...

Wistful Reminiscences

An old student of my mother has left me a message… heard you were home but how come I did not see you? It was hard to explain why I did not tell everyone I was coming home. I grew up ...

comforts of home…cassava macapuno cake

Home is where my kitchen is, where I can create what ever I want to try. The kitchen where I would spend hours pouring into cookbooks, or sitting with close friends having a pot of tea and ...

saging pinaypay, a childhood favourite

“Your eating habit is not Filipino anymore!!”… Thats what my Filipina (rather Cebuana) crew mate had said after over a month of working and living together. Marica and I ...

Dinuguan: Pork Blood Stew LP#9

Pabumum our host for the Lasang Pinoy 9th edition had chosen the theme Lamang-loob: Odd Cuts and Guts. In Tagalog, laman [la’man] translates to “contents,” and loob [lo’ob] means inside–I ...

Dirty Ice Cream

Mamang Sorbetero I took these series of shots on the day the Greeks celebrated the beginning of the Lent. Remember your childhood days rushing to the streets upon hearing the ice cream bell ...

Lasang Pinoy 8 Kusinang Bulilit part 2

I have learnt many about cooking. A friend of my mum named Shalimar has taught me cooking, baking etc. The first time that I try to bake was chocolate fudge, it wasn’t really difficult for ...

Menudo ~ Lasang Pinoy # 8

When I was young, cooking was an obligation. There were times when I just hated it. I was told off a few many times for either over cooking or undercooking the rice. Those were the times ...

…tender juicy tasty

Ok Filipino readers of this page…can you still remember the tune of the advert of Purefoods hotdogs? Well, when I picked up those mangoes on my previous post, the lady was unpacking ...