Category: filipino food

• bibingka

  

  “Just eat it, otherwise they’ll feel bad.” That’s what a nun told me when I was offered some bibingka. I was about 8 years old. And that phrase stuck with me all these years whenever I see or think of bibingka. Even though I no longer have an aversion to it. I was an altar…

  Dave G

  December 5, 2021

  baked goods, baking, buns, christmas, coconut, dessert, filipino food, food blogging, gluten-free, island food, quick bread, snack, sweets

  bibingka, bibingka espesyal, bibingkang, bibingkang galapong, coconut rice cakes, filipino rice cake, sweet and salty

• cookies and cream polvorones

  

  Happy New Year! These cookies, like a lot of the things I’ve not tried to make before, took three different attempts, but I finally think they are the best they will ever be. The one lesson that seems counterintuitive is to make sure you do NOT add the cream centers of each Oreo cookie to…

  Dave G

  January 2, 2021

  baked goods, baking, cookies, dessert, filipino food, food blogging, snack

  cookies and cream, filipino cookies, filipino shortbread, milk powder cookies, oreo cookies, polvoron, polvorones, pulboron

• chicken adobo

  

  Chicken Adobo. It’s arguably the National Dish of the Philippines. While there is agreement of what the main ingredients are–chicken, vinegar, soy sauce, black pepper, garlic, bay leaves–there are a ton of different recipes and variations to choose from. How do you make your chicken adobo? I decided to make mine by initially browning it…

  Dave G

  November 19, 2019

  baking, bay leaves, chicken, dinner, filipino food, food blogging, Uncategorized

  chicken adobo, filipino adobo dish, filipino national dish

• ensaïmada

  

  It’s Friday!! Happy Friday! And it’s my birth month, so I decided to share with you my new favorite thing! If you are Filipinx or Filipinx American, you may be more familiar with ensaymada (sometimes spelled ensaimada), which is a sweet bread roll that looks very similar to the ones I made above, but instead…

  Dave G

  March 1, 2019

  baked goods, baking, bread, bread flour, buns, dessert, filipino food, food blogging, Latin American, mediterranean, pastry, snack, sweets, yeast breads

  ensaïmadas de mallorca, ensaimadas, mallorcan, spanish, sweet bread roll, sweet roll

• pandan lime snack cake

  

  First, I wanted to address the name. I really wrestled with what to call this, probably more than a normal food blogger should, but I’ve been seeing the term “snack cake” used to describe cakes that look like this. Wiki describes “snack cake” as a baked dessert confectionery made with cake and icing, but I’m wondering if…

  Dave G

  August 26, 2017

  baked goods, baking, cakes, dessert, filipino food, food blogging, island food, snack cakes, teacake

  filipino, pandan cake, pandan extract, pandan leaves, pandan lime snack cake, snack cakes

• malunggay pandesal

  

  Good Morning! If there was one constant on my recent trip to the Philippines, it was daily pandesal. Usually in the morning at breakfast. And I’d just have one, usually with margarine, along with other breakfast items. But you can also have it for an afternoon snack, or merienda, and stuff it with other things,…

  Dave G

  August 19, 2017

  baked goods, baking, bread, buns, dinner rolls, filipino food, food blogging, healthy, savory, snack, yeast breads

  filipino bread rolls, filipino food, malunggay, moringa, pandesal, yeast bread rolls

• I’m in the Philippines!

  

  Just thought I'd share some random pics from my phone of our trip so far! Normally I'd be baking something or arranging some baked item on a fake marble top or wood background for you, but can't do that right now! Just wanted to try out the WordPress app also!

  Dave G

  August 13, 2017

  filipino food, food blogging, hiatus, island food

  Philippines, vacation

• chicken siopao

  

  Dave Bakes. Dave Steams. Ha! Siopao. (Pronounced She-UH-pow). The sound of that word conjures up distinct memories growing up eating Filipino food. Even though this is really of Chinese origin. Steamed yeast buns stuffed with a saucy meat filling, usually chicken, but also available in pork. Sometimes with a slice of hard boiled egg. Unforgettable.…

  Dave G

  September 25, 2016

  buns, filipino food, food blogging, pork buns, snack, yeast breads

  humbao, humbow, siopao

• cassava cake with macapuno

  

  I know what you are thinking. “Um…this is not a cake.”  I kinda agree. These are more like bars to me. But not anytime while I was growing up did I hear anyone call them bars. It’s always been called cassava cake. I was tempted to call them “cassava bars” here. But I feel I need to…

  Dave G

  March 26, 2016

  baked goods, baking, bars, cakes, christmas, dessert, filipino food, food blogging, gluten-free, Guam, Hawaiian, island food, snack, vegan

  bars, cassava, cassava cake, coconut, filipino, gelatinous, gluten-free, macapuno, mutant coconut, tapioca root, vegan, yucca