Hello hello major major! I hope you guys are looking forward to a fantastic week ahead. I know I am having one because I have a series coming up for you starting Tuesday about Filipino Street Food. Monday is for our resident chef, Chef Mike Santiago and he will give us a sneek peak into what we will talk about in the coming weeks ahead in this month of May. Before I go on, 2 things:
Congratulations to our hero, Manny Pacquiao for “bringing home the tocino” again and added another name …

 
 
That is a very good question that needs an answer. I have discussed again and again of my frustration with our ancestors - why did they not document this? Why did no one took the liberty of writing accounts of early Filipino food during their time? Why was no one moved to sit down and record stuff for the next generation? Why??? Now I understand why our teacher in high school would hammer history inside our cranial husks. It is essental to know where things came from. Although I don’t know what’s the psychological benefit (or liability) for …

Deconstructed Banana Turon with Vanilla Ice Cream and Muscovado
This is Banana Turon, Deconstructed then added with Vanilla Ice Cream and raw sugar to enhance its earthy flavour
 
Ingredients
3 pcs. Dumpling wrappers
2 pcs. Sliced Banana Lakatan
30 grams Cream Cheese
30 mL Cream
Muscovado
15 grams White sugar
1 tsp.Vanilla extract
Butter
Vanilla Ice Cream

Procedure
Fry the dumpling wrappers in butter until crisp. Set aside.
Combine cream cheese, sugar, cream and vanilla extract and mix well. Set aside
To assemble, start with a dollop of cream cheese mixture on the plate. Add a piece of dumpling wrapper and again …

 
 
There are some pure unadulterated food in this short life that you should eat before you die. One of them is fresh meat with only, i’ll let you read that again, only – salt and pepper on burning coal.
My aunt has a hog business. When they announce that they are slaughtering, it is a family affair. And no, they don’t surrender it to some butcher, they slaughter the hog with their bare hands. I mean, they do it themselves. And if you are thinking that a hog business always ends up in the slaughterhouse, …

And on to the headlines that glow like embers. That really didn’t go well. I was trying to translate the Filipino news cliche, the line that everyone uses – “At sa ulo ng mga nagbabagang balita”. Epic fail!
Click this first. That is a link to my review of last year’s “headlines that glow like embers”. Can somebody help me translate please? So I was talking about Filipino food trucks and how it has become our Mercury, our Hermes in letting the world know about Filipino food. Yes my brothers, we are taking it to …