If you want a tasty yet guilt free meal, give my Healthy Chicken and Grains recipe a try. The ingredients are a mixture of healthy grains and some curry chicken to complement the grains. It is a simple recipe to make and can be an instant favourite of the family!

Sisig is becoming to be one of the more popular Filipino dishes lately. It has been well featured in many cooking shows and blogs as a mouth watering appetizer dish, perfect as a beer match and also a dish to just enjoy for the young and old alike.

This mouth-watering recipe takes its roots from more than 53 years ago when my dearest husband requested for a beef dish for Christmas Eve.

Taking inspiration from the highly-saleable pork siomai dumplings being served in a school canteen concession, this fish siomai recipe started its popularity as a Good Friday post-procession snack.

It’s never too late to pursue your dreams.

Living in Singapore has given me the opportunity to taste and experience the melting-pot of cultures and cuisines from across Asia. In 2018 I took my first big step in enrolling at Baker and Cook’s - an artisan bakery which specialized in gourmet patisseries opened by world renowned Dean Brettschneider. Studying in a patisserie ignited my curiosity in discovering what the culinary world has to offer and enabled me to overcome my challenges in baking. 

Fish Spring Rolls became an instant family favorite after my first try cooking it. With its crispy and crunchy taste, home cooks will hear lots of kudos from family and friends once they try this.

A celebratory dish to honor a hero and a fish

On the 500th Year of the Philippine Part of the Age of Discovery

The Christmas season is all about sharing precious time and bonding with our close family and friends over a special feast, the traditional Noche Buena.

Ube or purple yam had become a trademark Filipino dessert and flavour for as long as I can remember.

Cooking for other people has always been a source of fulfillment. From a childhood dream to becoming a professional chef, my journey was truly a roller coaster ride. After I graduated from culinary school, I was set to take off and join the thrilling commercial kitchen brigade.

“Pulutok” or Bopis recipe from Pampanga’s Kusina ni Aling Bevang.

Craving for our roasted pork belly “lechon” while living in another country or while under quarantine? I created my roasted stuffed pork belly roulade recipe out of similar longing for our “lechon” while living in the UK since 2002. In celebrations or a time of good meal for the family, this is a fine meal we can share with the people who mean most to us.

My mom was my biggest influence for all things creative, she inspired my love for baking, cooking, and the arts. At the tender age of eight years old, I learned my first two recipes from her - banana cake and coconut macaroons.

Who can ever resist the lure of tocino with garlic fried rice and fried egg for breakfast… or any meal of the day for that matter? Tocino is a Spanish word for bacon and it is likely one of the lasting influences of Spain’s 400+ years of colonization in the Philippines.

Talk about comfort food, and a flurry of images seize the mind. At times, the craving for comfort food becomes so intense especially if the comfort food being craved for is not readily available elsewhere.