Skinless Beef Longanisa (Beef Sausage)

I suddenly craved longanisa this morning so I checked the freezer if there is some meat there that I can use.  Here in Australia, sausages are quite famous and will always be included for barby (short for barbecue party).  They have a different taste from those longanisas that I am used to have in the Philippines.  Although, there was one time that my hubby was able to get me smoked bbq pork sausages which somehow has a similar taste...

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Sweet Potato Okoy (fritters)

Okoy is a favorite snack, entree or main meal on our dinner table back when we were still in the Philippines.  Whenever we went to the Hagonoy town center, we would always buy this yummy dish from one of the vendors near the tricycle parking area. They usually made okoy from pumpkin, sweet potatoes, potatoes, or green papaya and bean sprouts with flour, eggs, salt and pepper and prawns.  Deep frying is the best way to...

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Cheesy Vegetable Omelet

My hubby loves egg and onions omelet.  I was supposed to cook one at lunchtime yesterday but then I decided to experiment again with some of the stuff I have in the fridge.  I ended up making a cheesy vegetable omelet which I hope my hubby would also love.  So I got all the herbs I needed and started concocting another experiment of which my hubby is the guinea pig hahahah.  Surprisingly, the cheesy vegetable omelet turned...

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Cinnamon Bread Pudding w/ Sultanas

I was trying to bake hot cross buns but I have used the wrong type of bread flour that they turned out like rocks --- too tough actually even for adults to chew.  I really did not want to waste anything so I decided to recycle them into a nice bread pudding.  The result was delicious!  I think this is the easies pudding I have made so far because I did not need to mix much. Ingredients 10 hot cross buns (or any stale raisin bread) 1...

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Sweet and Spicy Potato Wedges

Last Friday Steve and I took my mum in law and niece to a nearby cafe for an early dinner.  We had yummy burgers (rib fillet and aussie burgers) and sandwiches, vanilla.  Everything was so yummy and the wedges were a stand out.  I was telling Steve that I would try making those wedges probably experiment with the taste based from what we had at the cafe.  So today, I've checked the pantry if I...

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My Morrocan Beer Battered Hoki Fish

We had sweet and spicy potato wedges and a very apt partner to it ---beer battered hoki fish.  I decided that since we were having a fish dish with herbs on it, we would also have the fish fillet in the freezer.  One way of making them blend together as a complete dish is to use the same herbs I used for the wedges.  Thus, the moroccan style beer battered fish was born.  This was just an experiment and it turned out really...

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Troman Felizmenio

 coutesy of cnn.com As I was reading an internet article about Troman Felizmenio, a Filipino Pastry Chef in Moscow, I can't help but wonder in awe how this great chef put his heart and soul in making the 2 meter high edible replica of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.  A gingerbread cathedral that I think should just be frozen in time and put in an art museum.  I don't think I would eat such a good replica of St. Basil Cathedral. ...

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Sinful Double Chocolate Fudge Brownies

Who doesn't love chocolates? Chocolates are considered to be aphrodisiac...and the more you eat it the more you want to have more of it.  In our family, it is my mother who's a chocoholic.  She would always ask us to buy her a bar of cadbury chocolates each time we would go to the town center or I go to work in Quezon City years ago.  And I am very very sure that she would love this double chocolate...

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Pinoy Empanada

An all time Filipino favorite --empanada!  It is a stuffed pastry with minced meat, carrots, potatoes or anything that your heart and tummy desire.  The word empanda comes from the word "empanar" which means to wrap or coat in bread.  It has been in existence since the 1500s probably originating in Galicia, Spain and Portugal.  (wikipedia) It became popular too in Italy particularly in Sardinia. It was brought to the Philippines...

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Leche Flan (our family recipe)

Leche flan is a version of Spanish flan de leche (milk flan).  It is safe to say that this celebratory desert is an influence of the Spanish Conquistadores during its 333 years rule of the Philippines.  The leche flan that we all love is much heavier than that of the Spanish's flan de leche because of the condensed milk and more egg yolks that we add to it.  The heavier version is tocino del cielo which has more egg yolks and sugar...

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