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MAJA BLANCA CAKE

Maja Blanca Cake Tart Good morning everyone( or evening depending under what palm tree you are reading this post) and Happy Birthday! Who's birthday? Depends on specific cases ( Happy Bday Ate A and Gabrielle (counting that you'll be a Feb. baby, people born this month are the best!), but mostly generic we should celebrate the best day of all, Women's Day, on March 1st! Why the best? Because it's well known they always bring the best ( or worst ) in us ( but for this specific occasion we shall assume it's the best! ), and as such I have researched deep inside my endless bucket of inspiration for an appropriate gift. Not having found one and considering that flowers are overrated, I shall give you the best gift of all: the gift of knowledge, as I shall bake the best cake ever, using an old filipino recipe and my best unique ideas for an astonishing end result that I shall eat all alone while you cheer Sarap, Sarap ! Yes, as you already figured it out from t
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HOT FRIED SILOG

HOT FRIED SILOG Good morning everyone and welcome back to the unsuccessful filipino cooking blog. As you may have not noticed, I took a break last weekend because of R's visit and because her sinigang and adobo are too good to be real. As such there was no need for my infamous food, but since now I'm alone again and I need to conserve the precious ( my preciooooouuuus ) leftovers for as long as possible, I shall get back to the pot, where I belong, and try inaugurating a new chapter in the history of my kitchen: cooking healthier. Yes, you heard right, I am willing to try to eat better following R's advice, because we all know that you are what you eat and I'm eating a lot of potatoes lately. Also the point was very well argued, ending with the traditional encouragement "or I'll punch your face". So let's begin first by cleaning the fridge of all remaining vegetables and deploying them into a new traditional recipe that I slightly improved and calle
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ARROZ A LA CUBANA

ARROZ SILOG Earth. Home of 1000 different types of banana s, undercover aliens (see U.S. president), and best most diverse variety of silog breakfast from Philippines. What is silog ? are the two other imaginary non filipino readers of my blog asking. Well, it's basically what we are going to cook today ( just so that we avoid Kare Kare once again and test L's patience), because Arroz a la Cubana is mostly a fancy named silog variety. So we're going to cook Arroz Silog, which I'll basically translate as Riced Rice with egg. You can find out all about silog here in case you are curious, which we all know you aren't.  Also, I'll get right to it because your time is precious and I just fill it with non relevant information.  Right, so grab that pan and get banging. Not literally. 1- we make a nice rice from start this time (unlike last weekend) and set it aside gently. 2- chop onion and garlic ( my favorite activity) , chew gum, and cry about th
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MENUDO - AFRITADA

MENUDO - AFTRITADA Good morning everyone and Oh Canada! to you also. Yes it's that week with 2 long weekends again ( don't worry, I did my shopping yesterday from an actual grocery store) because it's summer and that's when all Canadians do and celebrate stuff. Not that winter is not good enough but we just try to take advantage of the one month per year when your beer doesn't freeze your manly mustache. Aaaaaaanyway, since it's Canada day ( Ooooh Canadaaaa! ) we are going to prepare a traditional Filipino dish ( we'll add some Canadian touch to it also ). In fact let me rephrase that: we are going to prepare 2 in 1 dishes. Because we can ( and also to make L wait for the kare kare longer!) So the menu of the day is the all famous Chicken Afritada which we'll combine with another V.I.D ( very important dish),  Menudo  ( what can go wrong?) ! The two are in fact twin dishes which I, as a very good parent, can't really tell apart. So I'll call
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