18:00 6 hours before Christmas:
So we have just finished unpacking… well not really

And it is 6 hours before Christmas here in Australia. The wife is just packing gifts for the family.

And the tree is still in the box.

And I’ll start cooking right after I go to Nick and start up his car because he got stranded somewhere.
I will fill up this post as we go along on our marathon to Noche Buena. This Christmas is kinda weird.
18:53 5 hours and 3 minutes more:
Just picked up Nick and look what he …

The native Filipino alphabet has no letter “Z” in it. That’s why longaniza (a pork sausage variant from countries that speak in either Spanish or Portuguese) is spelled Longanisa in the Philippines. The following recipe is a “how to make your OWN longanisa” and cannot compete with longanisas that are prepared by hands that do pork sausages from time of birth. But after you follow the recipe, after you have done all the mixing, rolling, tying, licking, stamping and frying of your own longanisa you will say that this longanisa …

Congratulations. Now you know how to fry a whole fish. You can now have a crunchy-on-the-outside-moist-in-the-inside-fishy-fishy anytime you want to. But I tell you, you will get tired of it like reruns of Seinfeld or Friends or Sex and the City (which commercial TV has an endless fetish with, they can’t stop airing it) so on we jump to the next pedestal of enlightenment in our journey to exploiting fried fish.
27th Sun of the 4th Moon, 1521 Anno Domini:
Ferdinand Magellan was the name of the conquistador espesyal that decided to lord …

And so you go to your mom’s house furiously hungry  for a lot of reasons, either you don’t want to spend your own money to eat, you  are too lazy to do anything, or you just want to let your mom see that it’s her fault you are famished. You kick the door open because it is still your house. Nobody is home. You rustle towards the kitchen and rip everything in sight. You try overturning the kitchen table but suddenly your eyes light up like halogen when you see …

For people who are new in the kitchen, in this spare ribs recipe, you will learn how to love the food that you make because this beauty will be the start of you as the envy of your friends, the secret weapon of your family and the most attractive first date anyone can have…thus is the power of the hand that rocks the wok.
Let’s start our love affair with a trip to the market. Tell yourself to do your market this weekend. You want to do it this weekend because …