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...
MENUDO - AFTRITADA Good morning everyone and Oh Canada! to you also. Yes it's that week with 2 long weekends again ( don't worry, I did my shopping yesterday from an actual grocery store) because it's summer and that's when all Canadians do and celebrate stuff. Not that winter is not good enough but we just try to take advantage of the one month per year when your beer doesn't freeze your manly mustache. Aaaaaaanyway, since it's Canada day ( Ooooh Canadaaaa! ) we are going to prepare a traditional Filipino dish ( we'll add some Canadian touch to it also ). In fact let me rephrase that: we are going to prepare 2 in 1 dishes. Because we can ( and also to make L wait for the kare kare longer!) So the menu of the day is the all famous Chicken Afritada which we'll combine with another V.I.D ( very important dish), Menudo ( what can go wrong?) ! The two are in fact twin dishes which I, as a very good parent, can't really tell apart. So I'll call...