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 …

This is the Tapa (which everyone call tapas) as the world knows it:

This is what the Filipino Tapa looks like:

Of course that is not yet cooked. I’ll give you a full-on Tapsilog picture later on but if you happen to be not normal (a reason why you are following this website) you can actually scroll-down your life away and take a sneak peek  but bear with me as we all get along with drooling enthusiasm.
Whether you like it or not, the best tasting tapa are the ones that are made commercially. …

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 that 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 …

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 …