My take on some of my favorite Filipino dishes - some took years to perfect as i try to incorporate some non Filipino ingredients + hacks to cut down cooking time yielding delicious and healthier results!

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Queen of Flan

Decades to perfect this holiday dessert that always brings back fun childhood memories! Often replicated but never duplicated, yes it’s that delicious!

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Kale Laing

Kale greens in coconut curry also known as faux laing. When you don’t have taro leaves, use kale!

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Easy Peasy Pancit

Filipino pancit in 20 minutes! Finally, an efficient way of cooking this dish that usually requires a lot of chopping, prepping, etc.

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Beef & Onion/Bistek

Not a family heirloom recipe but more of a “pass it on” between siblings and tweaked to my own simplified version. My older brother learned how to make bistek (as they call it) from his friend who supposedly has cooked this dish back in his US Navy days. At least this is what i had been told =) …

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Baked Skinless Longganisa

Not your typical longganisa (Filipino chorizo), it’s more of a fusion of Thai Issan sausage + Ilocano longganisa , it’s garlicky and vinegar-y in taste

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Pinakbet

Probably not the most familiar looking dish to a lot of people but this is my take on pinakbet (think of it as Filipino ratatouille!)

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Chicken Adobo

A little bit traditional, little bit modernized and simplified and …oh my adobo version has veggies (i know!)

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