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Chicken Afritada
Chicken afritada is a popular Filipino Sunday dinner dish eaten with rice and more rice. Perhaps it has been around for centuries now but it remains popular in Filipino dinner tables. It is Spanish in origin but we Pinoys have transformed it into som...
Trip Down Memory Lane: Fried Milk Fish w/ Tomato Salsa
Back in Manila, daing na bangus or butterflied milk fish marinated in soy sauce and/or vinegar, garlic, kalamansi, salt, a pinch of sugar and pepper then fried crisp and eaten with fried rice, sunny side up eggs and a simple tomato salsa used to be a...
Adobong Manok Sa Gata
The best Filipino dishes are the ones that do not have written recipes. It's the type that is drawn from the memory of all those wonderful meals shared together by the family or from watching your mom or your grandmother make that particular dish. My...
Bistek a la Pobre
This is a popular weekday dinner back in the Philippines. The beauty of this recipe is that, like adobo, it is very flexible and you can make it any way you want. Aunt Lynn would sometimes make this with finely chopped carrots. The normal garnish is ...
