If you had noticed during the past days this week we were posting only either vegetables or seafood dishes that is because it is Holy Week. You might be wondering why? Well it is a practice in most of the Christian faith specially the Catholics that during these days everyone should abstain from eating meat … Continue reading »
One of my closest friend is a Canadian and every time we talk about food I always ask him if there are any Canadian specialty that I can make, it’s quite hard for him to choose might be because Canada is like New Zealand where we don’t have intricate traditional dishes like what if found … Continue reading »
Every Christmas it is a tradition in our household to serve cheesecake during the Noche Buena. It started many years ago when I had my first Christmas with my wife, what I usually serve during those days was the blueberry cheesecake which is my specialty. It was a solid recipe and it never let me … Continue reading »
Another cake, yes it is! Because its another birthday and today is my birthday. So if you’ve been following the last few posts yes it was my wife and my daughters birthday several days ago and our birthdays are just one day apart from each other, isn’t that amazing. Imagine the surprised faces we got … Continue reading »
I had posted a photo of this one on Facebook several months ago and promised for the recipe, well here it is now and my apologies for the long wait as I am timing this post to my lovely wife’s birthday! Ok, let’s start by describing how I came across this cheesecake. Well every year … Continue reading »
Today and the next coming Mondays and Fridays in the next two months we will be featuring some of my favourite food bloggers for the first time here at Ang Sarap. These bloggers are exceptional and served as a big influence of what is Ang Sarap now. So please do visit and follow every one … Continue reading »
Tiramisu is an Italian dessert made out of Savoiardi (ladyfingers) dipped in coffee, layered with a custard like mixture, mascarpone and chocolates or cocoa. A dessert that is very popular the flavours have been adapted in to many types of sweet dishes such as puddings, cakes, breads and other desserts. The origins of this dessert … Continue reading »
Churros or the Spanish doughnut is a deep fried dough pastry served with hot chocolate or café con leche. A popular snack or breakfast item in Spain, France, Portugal, United States, Philippines and Latin America, it is usually sold by street vendors (churrerías) where it is sold freshly made and hot but due to its … Continue reading »
Cake week, Day 2: Chocolate Souffle. Soufflé basically is a lightly baked cake made with egg yolks and egg whites combined with other ingredients such as fruits, chocolate and cheese; it can be served as a savoury dish or a sweet dessert. Soufflé came from the French word “souffler” which means “to blow up” and … Continue reading »
Sometimes when you are successful with a recipe you try to reuse it as much as possible, this post is no different as we love this cinnamon roll recipe we had for ages and were trying all sorts of different flavour variations with it. So far we had created the classic cinnamon rolls, apple caramel … Continue reading »
When I was in the Philippines there is no need to bake at home as everything was cheaply available in a nearby specialty shop from Cakes at Goldilocks and Red Ribbon, Donuts at Dunkin Donut and Mister Donut, Filipino Pastries (mamon, ensaymada, Spanish bread), Cinnamon Rolls at Cinnabon’s, Pretzels at Auntie Anne’s , Cookies at Mrs. … Continue reading »
Banana cake or banana bread is a type of moist and sweet baked item made with mashed bananas either served with cream cheese icing, chocolate icing or just plain unfrosted. Banana cake according to history have been invented during the Depression era of the 1930′s by housewives finding other means of making some extra money … Continue reading »
Mousse is a type of dish that incorporates air bubbles to yield a light and airy texture, there are two types of mousse one is the popular dessert mousse where it is traditionally made from eggs and either pureed fruit or chocolate and another type is the savoury mouse where it is made out of … Continue reading »
Crepe is a type of a very thin pancake filled with a variety of fillings from sweet fruits, ice creams to savoury ham, eggs and cheese. A French creation which originated in Brittany, it came from the Latin word “crispa” which means “curled”. The history of crepe started from pancake which initially appeared as flat … Continue reading »
Doughnut or Donut is type of pastry that is deep-fried and shaped in form of a circle or rings; it may contain various types of fillings and/or toppings and glaze. There are 3 popular types of doughnut and those are the ring shaped, circular ones with fillings and the spherical shaped ones made out of … Continue reading »
