Eating healthy seems to be the answer to anything these days – whether to boost your immunity against viruses, to lose the quarantine weight gain, to uplift your lockdown mood, and sometimes, even to improve your skin from breakouts! But what does eating healthy actually mean? Dapat ba puro vegetables ang kainin? Here’s where the Food and Nutrition Research Institute’s (FNRI) Pinggang Pinoy® comes helpful.

Here in the Philippines, we take birthday celebrations seriously. It’s an opportunity for the family (or even the whole barangay!) to get together, reunite, and make merry the marking of another fruitful year. And with every birthday celebration comes a list of Pinoy birthday handaan staples to fill the table.

When you’re cooking for the family, there are two things that you should always consider. First is the budget. Are the meals affordable to make? Does it fit your family ulam budget for the month? Affordability will always be an…

The Holy Week is fast-approaching! As a country with a predominantly Catholic population, having to abstain from meat for one whole week is not an easy feat, especially when meat happens to be the center of almost all our Filipino dishes.

When cooking “imbento meals,” it is important to consider the choice of ingredients and how they will blend well together. To make sure that the finished product will be a hit among your family members…

It is part of the Filipino culture to indulge in snacks or merienda in between the three (3) main meals of the day. The AM snacks are usually taken at 9-10am while PM snacks are…

Work and classes resumed after the holidays and due to the ‘new normal’ situation, most students are still at home attending online classes…

Here’s a tip: fry and fry, until you succeed in making the most delicious Filipino dishes! This cooking method takes a lot of practice, but once you get the hang of it, it gets easier from there! Basta ingat lang sa talsik…

Fried chicken is a Filipino ulam staple and crowd favorite. You can’t go wrong with any crowd when you serve extra crispy, extra flavorful, juicy-to-the-bone Filipino fried chicken! Kids and adults alike love…