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...
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...