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...
Tuna Sisig Dear diary. What is love? No, not the song, the feeling. According to an old magician scroll from Essex recently auctioned, If you want to make a woman fall in love with you, make her a nice broth made with pig bones. “Write her name on parchment and throw into the fire on which you cook a broth of herbs mixed with pig bones and share with the lady”. Apparently saying the words ‘ala aymala’ also help in case you want her to strip dance for you in the process. Anyway, as it seems, everyone defines love according to their specific needs and interests at the moment but somehow it always goes back to the food, or as we know " love goes through the stomach". That being said, I thought today of trying something easy and quick to prepare, just for the lonely late hours working people that need some love in their life: Sisig. Normally, sisig is a filipino dish prepared using pig face as ingredient ( yuuuuuk!!) but since that sounds (not) extremely romantic and you would...