Category: Guam

• boñelos aga

  

  These are banana donuts. Or doughnuts, whichever you prefer. The recipe is from Guam, but I added a few ingredients that are usually not in the original recipe, like vanilla extract and cinnamon. There is another traditional donut recipe that utilizes a specific yam instead of bananas, but that kind of yam is difficult to […]

  Dave G

  March 14, 2021

  baked goods, baking, bananas, chamorro, chamorro food, food blogging, Guam, island food, sweets

  air fryer donuts, banana donuts, bonelos aga, chamorro donuts, Chamorro food, chamoru, doughnuts, Guam donuts

• guguria

  

  After six years since the first (and last) time I made these, I finally figured out how to make these properly. In the back of my mind, it’s been bugging me. There are probably a handful of recipes from this blog that I’m just a little dissatisfied with; recipes that I’d like to retry or […]

  Dave G

  June 22, 2020

  baked goods, baking, cookies, food blogging, Guam, island food

  chamorro cookies, Chamorro food, coconut milk, coconut milk cookies, guam cookies, guguria, guyuria, indian, kalkals, kulkuls, sweet curls, vegan, vegetarian

• 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

• coconut mango latiya

  

  Hello! What a long week it has been! How is everyone? I don’t know how it feels for other food bloggers, but sometimes for me it feels rather odd to blog about something like pastry cream when there are a number of serious current events in one’s country and around the world. Does that make […]

  Dave G

  May 2, 2015

  almond flour, almond meal, almonds, baked goods, baking, cakes, chamorro, chamorro food, custard, dairy-free, dessert, gluten-free, Guam, island food

  chamorro, chamorro dessert, Chamorro food, cinnamon, coconut, coconut milk, custard, dairy-free, dessert, gluten-free, lantiya, lantiyas, latin american, latiya, natilla

• achiote brownies

  

  I grew up in the island of Guam, which is a territory of the United States. My parents are Filipino, but decided to become US citizens and raise their children on Guam; that way we could still be close enough to the Philippines to visit our extended family once in a while (It’s a 3-hour […]

  Dave G

  March 7, 2015

  brownies, chocolate, espresso powder, Guam, snack

  achiote, achiote seeds, annatto, brownies, chamorro, Chamorro food, chamorro month, Guam, macadamia nuts

• okinawan sweet potato cake with macapuno

  

  Hi there! I feel like I’ve been away for such a long time, but it has only been about a week. I feel like there have been many times this week that I was all ready to start experimenting in the kitchen, and something would come up. Or I wouldn’t have all the ingredients for […]

  Dave G

  August 17, 2014

  baked goods, baking, cakes, dessert, filipino food, Guam, Hawaiian, island food, quick bread, snack cakes

  cake, macapuno, okinawan sweet potato, okinawan sweet potato cake with macapuno, purple sweet potato, ube, young coconut

• coconut panna cotta with macadamia caramel sauce

  

  I so wanted to “put the lime in the coconut” for this recipe, and I actually did put some lime earlier in the caramel sauce on a recipe test run, but it turned out to overpower the subtle delicate flavor of the coconut. I still may tinker with this recipe, maybe even remake it into […]

  Dave G

  May 29, 2014

  baked goods, baking, dessert, filipino food, Guam, Hawaiian, island food, panna cotta

  caramel sauce, coco lopez, coconut cream, coconut milk, coconut panna cotta, dariole, gelatin, macadamia nuts, panna cotta, toasted flaked coconut

• spam musubi bites

  

  After making and eating spam musubi last week, I began to think of ways to make them more of a bite size appetizer. But how? Then I saw this! And I realized that a cheaper alternative was right within reach–in my freezer! I realized that I didn’t need to buy a fancy rice cube maker, because I […]

  Dave G

  May 21, 2014

  appetizer, cheap, Guam, Hawaiian, island food, savory

  appetizer, Guam, Hawaii, hawaiian, island food, spam, spam musubi, spam musubi bites

• spam musubi

  

  I made these over the weekend. I apologize for not taking more pictures, especially for not having pictures that show the process of making them, but it’s sometimes hard to always have a camera ready, especially when your kitchen has no counter space, and your hands are sticky from all the food and ingredients and […]

  Dave G

  May 13, 2014

  appetizer, filipino food, Guam, Hawaiian, island food, savory, side dish

  island food, musubi, spam, spam musubi