Plum pudding – 1 year old
This is from the same Christmas pudding recipe that I posted 4 years ago. On why it’s called plum pudding when there’s no plum–I don’t know. Last year we made […]
Mincemeat
Last year we finished our last jar of mincemeat. These last few weeks were then spent hunting for organic oranges to make the candied peel. When all the ingredients were […]
Elevating my apple tart
One of our lovely parishioners and her husband gave me some bramley apples from their tree last Harvest Week–19 apples to be exact, most of them the size of 3 […]
Adobo sa puti
The thing with adobo is that it really is not sour–this surprises my guests whenever I tell them the dish is mainly cooked in vinegar. But maybe because we use […]
Fish with tofu
Saute garlic and onion in olive oil, throw in some julienned capsicum to fry, and then sliced tomatoes (plenty!), and a bit of salt to make the juice run (I […]
Mango float
We used to call this [just any] refrigerator cake. The first time I came across the term ‘mango float’ was when I ordered it in a small eatery in Davao–I […]
Beef afritada
This is the same as chicken afritada, except of course, I used beef this time. I also added some lemon juice while the beef was cooking–just because my mood called […]
Pasta with courgette sauce
Adapted from Susan Conte’s “Pizza and Pasta”. She only required olive oil, onion, courgette, pasta and parmesan cheese. I decided to burn fry the onion first (yum), then set it […]
Beef ramen
I hope my Japanese readers will forgive me because of course, this is not authentic. But this is definitely better than any instant “beef ramen” we get that comes in […]
Sinangag (classic garlic rice)
Garlic rice is a Filipino classic. When we say “fried rice” or sinangag in the PH, we actually mean garlic rice and not the fried rice we see in the […]
Cooking Filipino in the UK 
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