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...
LUMPIA ROLLS Good morning everyone and halo to you! As we all know this week was all about the Football World Cup ( no, there's no such thing as soccer) therefore cooking was limited by the fact I got stuck inside watching games all day. But that won't stop us because guess what: I'll resurface one of the archive great cookings never seen before (literally, it's almost impossible to get to my cooking results, not sure if i should be proud ..). Don't worry L, your kare kare challenge still stands for next week( yes, you're featured in the blog, you're famous now, yohoooo :) ! ) So let's get going. If you are a Filipino just thinking lumpia should get your mouth watery, it's those tasty yumi deep fried crunchy spicy meat rolls that your mom used to spend 5 hours doing and you ate them in 5 minutes . Well, not this time! In our best tradition we'll heavily modify the original recipe because change is good and not necessarily tasty, for a r...