1. Because our breakfasts look like this:
We all know that a perfect plate of meat, rice, and a fried egg is the true breakfast of champions.
Recipe here: Tapsilog
2. Or like this:
Sweet, doughy mountains of bread topped with butter and cheese are approximately a thousand times tastier than cereal.
Recipe here: Homemade ensaymadas
3. Because we won't judge when you inhale a dozen lumpia in one sitting:
Since that is, in fact, the proper serving size.
Recipes here: Lumpia with shrimp | Lumpia with ground chicken
4. Because we know there's no problem that a little garlic and vinegar can't solve:
Recipe here: Chicken adobo
6. Because we like our fish extra crispy:
Recipe here: Fried milkfish in vinegar
7. The same goes for pork belly:
Whether it's in bite-sized pieces or part of a scene-stealing whole roasted lechon.
Recipe here: Crispy pork belly bites
8. Because we've mastered the art of sweet rice:
Recipe here: Biko
9. And savory rice, for that matter:
Recipe here: Arroz caldo
10. Because we know that there's nothing like a hot bowl of stew or soup on a cold day:
Recipes here: Beef Mechado | Sinigang
12. Because when life gives us calamansi, we make lemonade (or whiskey cocktails):
Lemons are so 2012 anyway.
Recipes here: Calamansi juice | Calamansi whiskey sour
13. Because we take snacking seriously:
Shrimp fritters rule everything around me.
Recipe here: Ukoy
14. And we take ~stacking~ seriously:
As in: 💰 Stacks on stacks of steamed buns. 💰
Recipe here: Siopao
15. Because we're not afraid of color:
Recipe here: Arroz valenciana
16. Or of texture:
Sticky rice rounds in coconut milk? I'll take three bowls, thanks.
Recipe here: Ginataang bilo-bilo
17. Or of using every part of the animal:
Pig's head? Pig's liver? BRING IT ON.
Recipe here: Sizzling sisig
18. Because rice is the ultimate culinary canvas:
Repeat after me: There's no such thing as too much rice.
Recipe here: Bicol express
19. Because we always save room for dessert:
20. Because we know that nothing compares to halo halo:
More on halo halo here.
21. And that when your meals are filled with Filipino food? Life is pretty sweet.
Ube for president.
Recipes here: Ube macapuno empanadas | Ube macapuno cupakes
