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Yema Cake

Yema cake is a popular dessert that originated in the southern part of Luzon. This cake is easy to make and absolutely delicious. One bite and you are hook for life. This cake is made from chiffon or sponge then covered with creamy and sweet custard past and top with grated cheese. The cheese definitely helps balance the cake sweetness. If you are looking for yema cake recipe that is

Yema Cupcake

Yema cupcake is a popular dessert. This sweet and delicious custard dessert is very popular in the Philippines. A baker from Luzon started the Yema craze. I have never tried the infamous Rondillas Yema cake from Tayabas, Quezon so I can’t compare if my version is similar or not. Anyway, whether it is on the same level of the famous Rondillas Yema cake, I really don’t care.  The most important

Nutella Cake

I love Nutella! This is one of my favorite spread for breads, biscuits and frosting for chocolate cake. Nutella is a famous brand and well loved by many people across the world. It tastes just like my favorite chocolate Ferrero. This Nutella cake recipe is one of the easiest and quick chocolate cakes to make. It is also the most delicious and addicting chocolate cake I ever tasted.   I

Eggplant Tempura

I am a big fan of Japanese cuisine. My favorite is tempura, the most popular Japanese dishes. It is the first thing I ordered every time I dine at Saisaki and Tokyo Tokyo. In fact, even when dining in buffet restaurant I always grab a piece. I want to satisfy my cravings for tempura but I don’t have any shrimp in the fridge. So, I decided to turn the eggplant

Steamed Banana Cake

Steamed Banana Cake is a type of baked item made with ripe bananas. This type of sweet cake usually served with chocolate icing, cream cheese icing or plain unfrosted. In my opinion, banana cake is best served unfrosted because it is good to eat even without icing or frosting. If you are looking for quick and easy steamed banana bread or banana cake recipe, you can try this recipe. Banana

Homemade Pancake

They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day so I make it a point to prepare hearty and heavy breakfast for my family. Rice is a staple food in the Philippines, probably why breakfast usually consists of fried rice, egg, tapa or longanisa. For the kids, I would often serve pandesal or pancakes with maple syrup and butter on top. Large box of readymade pancakes is around

No Bake Chocolate Cake

I love chocolate cake, one of my comfort food. I know not many people can resist a delicious, rich chocolate cake. So, I am sharing my no bake chocolate cake recipe. You read it right! There is no need to bake the chocolate cake because you will steam the cake using a rice cooker or regular steamer. In the Philippines, not every household have an oven so people have to

Potato Omelette

Potato omelette is a quick and easy dish made with eggs, potatoes and cheese. This egg dish can be served for breakfast, lunch or dinner. I love omelette, so every morning I tried to come up with new filling. There’s nothing fancy about this potato omelette recipe, just lots of goodness from pan fried potatoes and cheese. If you are looking for a new omelet style dish to serve every

Homemade Donut - Nutty Chocolate

Are you looking for quick and easy donut recipe? Well, I got one donut recipe that you should try because it is easy to follow. My homemade donut recipe is just like any donut recipe except for the fact that I made my instructions very clear. If you love baking or eating donut like me then better check out my recipe.   I love freshly cooked donut especially one topped

How To Make Kerala Rasam

Kerala Rasam is a very important recipe in kerala sadya. Kerala style rasam recipe is so easy to make at home. Its a very popular dish of we people the south Indians. Rasam  is prepared mainly with tamarind, tomatoes. We can even drink rasam as a soup or can have with rice. Some people use lentils to make rasam little bit thick. So  lets see how I am going to

How To Make Appam

Vellayappam or kallappam is a traditional breakfast of keralites. In ancient times people were making appam with palm toddy(panankallu) instead of yeast. Because of unavailability of that , we are using yeast or sweet coconut water. Even toddy from coconut tree also good. In different areas vellayappam is different. Some are using palappam batter for this,some add urid dhal. But this is special kottayam style vellayappam. This will go great

mushroom-pepper-fry

Mushroom pepper fry also called as pepper mushroom, is a tasty side dish which can be served along with roti, chapati or paratha.  Not only for roti, it can also be served along with rice and any gravy.  It can be served along with rice dishes such as pulao.  This dish has got a peppery flavor.  I have made this using button mushrooms, but you can use any variety of mushrooms

chana-sundal

Sundal is a South Indian dish which is usually made during Navarathri or vinayaka chathurti celebrations as an offering for god.  It is made with dry legumes.  You can make sundal with all kinds of legumes including, black or white chana, peanuts, green peas, rajma and many others.  It is very easy to prepare, tasty and healthy.  Since we are making use of dry chana, it is very important to

Beans Carrot Thoran

  Hi friends, today i am presenting a very common and simple kerala recipe. And it is a thoran, a combination of beans and carrot . As it looks colorful. it is healthy too.   Beans Carrot Thoran Recipe Ingredients :- Oil – 1 tbsp Mustard seeds- 1/2 tbsp Small Onion – 3 nos Beans – 250 gm carrot – 250 gm Turmeric powder – 1 tsp Curry Leaves salt

Wonton Soup

Last week, I went to Cubao with my son. We didn’t have breakfast before we left for office. So, we decided to eat in Chowking, a popular Chinese fast food chain. I ordered chicken that comes with wonton soup. It is the first time I tried wonton soup and I find the soup delicious. Ever since I tasted Chowking’s wonton soup, I never stop craving for its taste. I wanted

matar-mushroom-masala

Matar mushroom masala is a tasty side dish for chapati or rice.  Matar mushroom masala is a very popular recipe and is served in almost all the restaurants in India.  But this recipe which I am sharing here is a regular home version of the famous curry. This curry makes use of two main ingredients: matar / green peas and mushrooms.  I have used button  mushrooms for making this curry

How to Cook Red Beans Pork Hocks

Are you looking for red beans recipe? This recipe is very tasty so there is no doubt that your family will enjoy eating red beans. I have been eating red beans since I was a kid because my mom always cooked this dish. It is one of my dad’s favorite soup dishes. Unfortunately, I can’t cook red beans with pork hocks all the time because it takes a lot of

Kerala Beef Curry

  Beef curry recipes are avaliable in all sites and blog. But this is a recipe which i tried and got a good result with nice thick gravy and real traditional(nadan) taste. I tried so many beef gravy recipes, But this is the one which impress my hubby who loves beef varities. The colour of this gravy is the colour of kashmiri chilly powder which i used and it is

Ground Pork Omelette

Omelette is a dish made from beaten eggs with veggies, ham or ground meat quickly cooked in oil or butter. Omelette is super delicious and perfect for breakfast, lunch or dinner. My omelette foldover recipe is quick and easy to prepare that you don’t have to be a chef to create it. In the Philippines, omelette is called “torta” or “tortang itlog” and you can also add several ingredients with

Beef Caldereta

Caldereta or kaldereta is a very popular filipino dish. This dish is a favorite of many Filipinos because of the richness of its sauce. I love beef caldereta than other caldereta’s. I think beef is the best meat for this dish. But if you find beef expensive or just want to use a different meat, you can also use goat meat, pork or chicken meat. By the way, caldereta is