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...
MAMI CHICKEN TINOLA Edit: I was told that tinola is by definition made with ginger. For those faint of heart, warning: I forgot to buy any. So this is Mami Chicken full stop.Anyway, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In my case, tinola is in your eyes. What gimger means to others, means nothing to me.Enjoy! Halo everyone, and Happy Winter as we say in Canada when August ends. Well, tomorrow is a special day, the Labour Day, which we don't celebrate 1st of May as the rest of the world because as you know Canada is on a different time zone so here it arrives a bit late. Probably on a boat. But since it conveniently interfered with my plans to go to work and do overtime ( because the paradox makes that you don't work on Labour day), I've decided to get back to an older cooking challenge, which is the first recipe that gloriously failed, the Chicken Tinola . But now, with experience under the hood and some new power torque in shape of wooden cooking spoons, courtesy of R...