Kuya's Kitchen

Tonight, I took some milk of the milk I picked up in Ormoc over to a friend's house here. He's an older German gentleman who says ...

This weekend while I was making BBQ sauce, I noticed that one of the bags of tomato paste (tomato past and sauce comes in foil-like pouches ...

Well, my hand is finally healing up.  It's still painful, but I'll be alright in the long run. Thank you very much to those who sent...

A while back I made some Nor Mai Gai for a friend. He commented that his family found it a bit salty for their taste (my mom had said some...

Last week we went to the beach for Leyte Landing Day (October 20th).  The Leyteños celebrate General MacArthur's liberation of the Phili...

With my oven's thermometer on strike, we've had repairmen in the kitchen a few times in the past couple of days. So, cooking has be...

As my legions of devoted fans know, cow's milk ( gatas ng baka ) is not common here. I've been looking for a good source for months...

Last weekend, I made a bunch of cookies for my friends for the golf tournament. Three kinds, one of them being oatmeal raisin. I was pres...

We just got back from Cebu. We stayed there for a few days as a mini vacation. Our main source of amusement while there was to visit the t...

I'm not sure what to call the concept, perhaps someone with a better culinary vocabulary can help me out. This is something I've be...

OK, more like overripe banana trick. That didn't sound as cool for a title. This I learned from my mom: if you have bananas that are pa...

Last weekend, I'd planned to make some Shepherd's Pie. Very yummy stuff. We'd prepared and boiled the potatoes and then needed...

My mom was craving a good salad dressing. I don't like to disappoint my mom, so I made an Asian vinaigrette for her. I looked at the r...

As promised, I made some barbecue sauce to test out the Stubb's liquid smoke products and compare them to Wright's liquid smoke . ...

For years, I've made red sauces, spaghetti sauces, pizza sauces, chili sauces, etc., etc., etc. And, for years, I've generally used...

Yes, this is coming right on the heels of my last post. After reading the ingredient list on the bottle of "liquid smoke" and see...

Yes, I'm obsessed about ingredients, aren't I? I didn't used to be. Didn't used to care much. Now, since a lot aren't...

In my previous post, I used the phrase "industrial food". I've used this phrase for years to describe highly-processed foods ...

I believe I may have left the wrong impression about ingredients here ... that the differences are all bad. They're not. Not by a long...

Why? Why another food blog? Why not? I find myself in a position that seems a bit foreign. Well, more than a bit. I'm living in a for...