ILOILO FOOD TRIP

With a great percentage of Filipinos becoming more health conscious, Pinoy dishes are echoing the trend whether in restaurants or at home. Even the most sinful of the Filipino specialties are having angelic versions of their by using healthier alternatives to their mostly meat counterpart. Enter SISIG. This cholesterol laden sizzling dish from Pampanga made with pork meat and liver plus many others in between has found itself having healthier versions with the use of fish, veggie-meats, vegetables or tofu. So here's a simple recipe for a delicious BANGUS SISIG. INGREDIENTS 2 whole bangus (milkfish), scaled, gutted, and halved butterfly cut 1 large onion, peeled and chopped 5 cloves garlic, peeled and minced Salt and pepper to taste oil 2 finger chili peppers (siling haba), sliced thinly Juice from 10 calamansi fruits, adjust ¼ cup seasoning sauce like Knorr, adjust HOW TO COOK BANGUS SISIG Wash and pat dry the slices of bangus Season with salt and ...

" In business, it is not all about gain. Sometimes, you lose. But then, one also learns a lesson, and such wisdom can be applied to one's next business venture." Anna Marie Wharton, an entrepreneur from Iloilo City notes that the height of the pandemic saw food businesses flourish while those who failed to adapt to the new reality eventually closed shop. Wharton, the owner of the cake house Mrs. Wharton London Bakes and English Teas and Taiwanese street food Lazy Susan, said that when we stick to the old system, we fail to see other ways that would make a business profitable. She stressed that an entrepreneur has to learn to accept the situation and plan the next step. Reinvent! A proactive individual, shw believes that innovation is the key to surviving any crisis. "Our business shifted to online selling. Then, we added a new brand - Lazy Susan Taiwanese Street Food," said Wharton. "An online business has no disruptions, has less ris...

Care for a simple but deliciously healthy bangus recipe? Why not try this basic Ilonggo Bangus recipe called s inabawan . Rooting from the word " sabaw " meaning broth, sinabawan is considered a more basic Ilonggo sinigang where only tomatoes and onions (plus the fish) make the dish. It's a hearty fish soup that is often found on most household for a simple yet delicious meal. Here's the recipe for a Sinabawan na Bangus Ingredients 1 large Bangus (milkfish), cleaned and sliced into serving pieces 2 large tomatoes, quartered 1 medium onion, sliced Fish sauce or salt 2 pcs chili Leeks or onion leaves 5 cups water, adjust Procedure In a pot place water, tomatoes, and onion then bring to a boil. Add the bangus and then bring to another boil. Season with fish sauce or salt and make some flavor adjustments then simmer for 10 minutes or until the bangus is cooked. Add chili and leeks theb simmer for  another 3 minutes Remove from heat and let...

You can find Pork Barbecue in almost every corner and in every house hold around the cointry. Just the smell of it being cooked sends our stomachs grumbling. There is no basic recipe as it varies from place to place and even from household to household. But in the end, pork barbecue alwats makes us say "extra rice, please!"

There are as many pancit recipes in the Philippines as the numbers of its islands. And in most Filipino occasions, aside from lechon baboy, there would always be a noodle dish  -be it bihon, sotanghon, canton or combinations like bam-i (sotanghon and canton).  And like many Filipino dishes, the pancit recipe varies from household to household much more in different restaurants and food place. Here's one of the 7,107 noodle recipes - Pancit Canton! 

No matter what it is called in your place, we can all agree that string beans are delicious when made into an adobo dish.  While it is mostly mixed with other vegetables when cooked like in pinakbet, kare-kate, sinigang or ginata-an, sitaw can be on its very own when cooked adobo. But I'be also tried a combination of sitaw and puso ng saging adobo which is exceptionally very good! And making string beans adobo is quite easy too! It can be as simple as plain beans or  with some ground pork but it can be a gourmet as having lechon kawali as toppings. So are you ready for some Sitaw Adobo? Check out this simple recipe

It's still an "unexplained tradition" for me why native delicacies are the staples when Pista Minatay comes. Some say it's "Filipinizing Halloween" that instead of candies and other sweets, we have these native delicacies to share as treats and not as tricks. And it started in the rural areas where the abundance of rice and coconuts, among others has made these traditional eats as the "undying" staple this annual celebration of remembering the departed. So, let's start our native delicacies gastronomic journey with IBOS or more commonly known as "SUMAN" in other areas. Click for IBOS Recipe This is probably what comes to mind when one says "kakanin" as this is made with sticky rice and often partnered with ripe mango, native chocolate or just plain sugar, whether refined, brown or muscovado. There's the SUMAN which others refer to as BIKO. A delicious treat of glutinous rice oiled in coconut milk and muscovado sugar with...