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...
Chop Suey ( Filipino style ) Hello friends and foes, it's another weekend so another great occasion for my cooking talent to show off and get punched in the face during the ending credits of this awesome sarap recipe I have prepared for the week. After the resounding success we had last time with the aluminum filled Embutido ( I ate it alone and it lasted for 5 days!), this time R advised to go through a metal cleansing diet of vegetables. That's why she thought an easy to prepare classic Chop Suey would be perfect since it will allow me to get to know better my vegetables and make friends with vitamins (as she thinks i need to socialize more) . Well, little did she know that frozen vegetables are on sale this week so that makes my life way easier since no chopping is involved! But for the sake of the recipe we will still chop some stuff ( we wouldn't Suey would be unhappy ). Now, I don't know who Suey is but I guess she/he was important enough to have a dish...