Holiday Eats: Kare-Kare
Kare-kare is another favorite dish in most Filipino households. It is considered an everyday dish but it is so well-loved that it also merited a place on the esteemed Christmas table. Kare-kare is an oxtail peanut stew often eaten with shrimp paste as a condiment. There are many ways to cook this dish but for […]
Holiday Eats: Crispy Pata
Lechon is perhaps the most festive of all Filipino dishes! But for people who don’t have access to lechon or find it beyond their budget, crispy pata is a great alternative. Just like the equally tasty lechon kawali, crispy pata has the same crunchy pork skin and flavorful meat, only the former is made from […]
Holiday Eats: Lumpiang Shanghai
Christmas dinner and Noche Buena is not quite complete without lumpiang shanghai. Certainly not the case for our family. That is to say, the crunch of that first bite into the juicy goodness of lumpia makes it difficult to resist reaching out for one more roll. Lumpia is probably not originally Filipino. I daresay it’s […]
