The asparagus in the Philippines are much skinny compared to the ones in another country. Chicken with Asparagus Recipe Ingredients: 1 - Whole chicken (slice per parts) or 1 pack of choice of chicken parts 1 - Chicken broth cubes  2 - Tbsp Patis (fish sauce) 1 – Bunch of Asparagus (sliced 1 inch) 2 - Cloves Garlic (chopped) 1/2 - Onion (chopped) Black Pepper to taste 4 - Cup Water Small amount cooking oil Medium Pot Step 1: Add small amount cooking oil in hot pot add onions, garlic and patis mix together Add sliced chicken Add water and chicken broth cube Add asparagus Season with black pepper Cook for 25 minutes NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

Repolyo in English means cabbage cooked in shrimp and sometimes I eat this with instant noodles to add flavor in your soup to add fresh vegetables otherwise you can eat it as it is made with fried fish, chicken or any source of meat you want to combine the dish together. Repolyo with Shrimp Recipe Ingredients: 1/2 - Repolyo - cabbage (chopped) 1/2 - Cup Shrimp (peel, remove shell and head) 1 - Riped Tomato (chopped) 1 - Onion (chopped) 2 - Cloves Garlic (minced) Patis - (fish sauce) to taste 1/2 Cup - Water Cooking Instructions: In a pan pour small amount of cooking oil when hot add garlic, onion and tomato saute it then add shrimp, cabbage to season with patis. Simmer to cook until cabbage is cooked. Ready to serve on a serving plate Optional There are days you feel like eating instant soup you can add the left over to your soup to add vegetables and sunny side up egg. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for ...

The fun only begins when you travel with family who are game to be silly when you take a picture together even if you are in a foreign country and you don't care if strangers are looking at you any way they don't know your name and where you live so you cannot be trace for your identity. We love to be silly at times when we take pictures and being the best of life is to express how we feel by pictures making a goofy look. If you don't see me taking a blooper video, being a photo bomber or making faces that is a person you can recognize who I am really is. I am a fun, sweet, caring, thoughtful and full of jokes to give a smile on your faces even if you are having a tough time stress is not healthy but laughter is so why not take life the next level of finding your own happiness and be child like once in a while not unless you want to grow old with wrinkles on your face. The best in people when they don't hide what they feel when you are under a camera because the truth w...

When you lived in the Philippines for a long time you start missing the bagels back home my sister use to bring us bagels when she had visited us. Now I had discovered places that do sell bagels but the texture is not the same back home. There is nowhere to compare the difference since the taste is almost the same. Flavors available are Cinnamon Raisin or Plain from  French Baker you can purchase them online. They also carry other bread in which we had missed for example sour dough  In case you are a raisin bread lover they also have it at French Baker The one I love eating the most is the soup of the day that comes with bread bowl and it look like this It is best to ask and call to see what soup they are serving the day you plan to visit or when you have it delivered to your location. Loaf of bread sold in their store choose from the following: Whole Wheat Half Loaf Whole Grain Bread  Flat Ciabatta Ciabatta Rolls We will not run out of bread every time we feel like maki...

Why not eat your dried fish cooked with some upo than eating it plain?  Manang V likes to explore with her cooking by adding other than shrimp or pork to her upo dish by adding dried daing in recipe where you don't need to add any seasoning because the fish is already salty. If you have no seasoning in your home no problem because this dish is not needed you can just cook it as it is. Dried Daing with Upo Recipe Ingredients: 3 - Pieces Dried daing 2 - Pieces Upo (peel, remove seeds and slice cubes) 2 - Ripe Tomato (chopped) 1 - Onion (chopped) 4 - Cloves Garlic (chopped) 1 - Cup Water Note: The upo makes it own water when being cooked on its own. Cooking Instructions: In a medium pot pour small amount of cooking oil when hot add garlic, onion, and tomato saute than add upo, dried daing and water cook until upo is tender. Ready to serve in a serving plate. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your suppo...

Why not try a different for a change this time in our menu it is sap sap for our fish and normally other people cook this dish is Pompano. Pinangat na Sap Sap Recipe Ingredients: 4 - Pieces - Sap sap (clean) 2 - Ripe Tomato (quartered) 2 - Cloves Garlic (chopped) 1 - Onion (sliced thinly) 8 - Pieces Calamansi 1 - Tbsp Patis (fish sauce) 2 - Cups Water Note: Less liquid the better for this dish Cooking Instructions: In a pan pour small amount of cooking oil when hot add garlic, onion, tomato sauté it than add patis, sap sap with water and calamansi juice without the seeds cook for 15 minutes.  It is ready to serve on a plate. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

The raisin bread from Cinnabon is my favorite bread it is not as sweet as the cinnamon roll that they  serve in their store. Their bread is soft and warm when you purchase it in their store and can be store and sliced up before you place it in a Tupperware to put in your refrigerator to eat the following day. Of course when you are already there we also purchase their cinnamon roll that come pre packed with either four pieces on the large size or nine pieces the small sizes. There are for the sweet tooth who are into chocolate that is on the cinnamon roll all prices are all different from each product you may refer to it   Cinnabon Philippines .

Dragon fruit comes in a purple or white color but the purple one is the healthy one to eat it is sweet when it is in season. It is rather an expensive fruit to eat.   Dragon Fruit grows in a cactus plant and it doesn't like growing in a winter place it needs to be avoided by getting the soil wet.  Dragon fruit looks like this when it has harvest from the tree. When you slice the dragon fruit all the juice will come out and it will look like this in the inside make sure you slice it on a plate or cutting board to make sure when it is the purple dragon fruit it doesn't go on your clothes. Dragon fruit looks like a kiwi but on the sweet side and it is easy to remove it's skin off from the fruit it comes out easily by peeling it with your hands once sliced in the middle.  It taste best when cold and cut up to put inside a Tupperware to put in the refrigerator.  The next day when you go to the bathroom don't worry if you see seeds come out from your system it is nor...

This sounds like a  cigarette  that you puff in your mouth but actually it is a name of a vegetable that Filipino eat in the Philippines. There is also other ways to spell sigarilyas which Manang V calls it by Sigillas. Sigarilyas is called a winged bean in English. Filipino Sigarilyas Recipe Ingredients: 1 - Cup Sigarilyas (sliced thinly) 1/2 Cup - Small Shrimp (peel shell and remove head) 1 - Onion (chopped) 2 - Cloves Garlic (minced) Patis to taste 1/2 Cup - Water Cooking Instructions: Step 1: In a pan pour small amount of cooking oil when hot add garlic and onion to sauté it than add the shrimp and patis. Add sigarilyas and water Once sigarilyas is tender it is ready to serve There is another way we eat this dish by adding gata to this dish to add more flavor by adding 1 cup of Gata (coconut milk) and other people combined kalabasa (squash) which can be used 1 cup peel, seed out with a spoon and cut into 1-inch cubes. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Ch...

There is nothing  simpler  than having a spinach salad that you can combined it with tomato, onion and salted egg to you dish when eating fried fish to your meal. We always want to add something to eat with our fried fish to make our meal complete other than just eating it alone. It is possible to use kangkong in exchange to spinach if it is not available in your area. Filipino Spinach Salad Recipe Ingredients: 1 - Bundle Spinach or Kangkong (clean and remove leaves)  3 - Ripe Tomato (sliced) 1 - Onion (chopped) 1 - Salted Egg (chopped) - Optional Salad Dressing Ingredients: 1/2 Cup - Vinegar Black Pepper to taste Salt to taste 1 Tsp - Calamanis juice or Lemon Cooking Instructions: In a pot boil water and add the spinach or kangkong cook for a few minutes and drain the water place on a serving plate Add tomato, onions and salted egg In a serving bowl combine all ingredients of the dressing together mix well  Ready to eat Note: There are some people who prefer to eat ...

Green mango can be a dessert or an appetizer where you can eat it alone or with different choices from what you feel like dipping your sour or sweet mango to your dish. Some people eat it with bagoong that comes in a bottle that is already premade to eat bought from the grocery store. Or you can eat it with salt if you are allergic to bagoong like me because it is made of fermented fish or shrimp paste which is called alamang cooked in salt and patis (fish sauce). Green Mango with Bagoong Recipe Ingredients: Green mango (sliced thinly) Salt or Bagoong Enjoy! There are some people who eat it while they are drinking beer with this kind of dish in the Philippines it all depends on you how or when you would like to eat it.

What is alien for you? Alien for me is food I don’t eat because I am allergic to it or because it has a scary face to me. Every day I ask Manang V what food she has cooked for the day some days she would inform me has cooked alien and I already know what food it is either hito (cat fish) we understand one another at this point. Sinigang Hito na May Puso Saging Ingredients: 1- Hito - cat fish (clean and sliced 2 inches) 1 - Fresh banana blossom (sliced 1 inch) 1 - Sinigang Mix 1 - Onion (quarters) 1 - Riped Tomato (quarters) 2 - Cup Kangkong leaves 3 pieces - Long green chili peppers 8 Cups - Water 3 tablespoon fish sauce (patis) Cleaning hito before cooking: Place the hito in a bowl rub salt on the skin of the fish to remove the slimy feel on the skin than rinse it with water until the hito has no more smell. In case the hito still has a smell you can try rubbing vinegar and salt combined together to rinse with water. Cooking Instructions Step 1: In a pot pour small amount of coo...

Bopis is made of lungs of the pig and some also add the heart of the pig. This recipe that Manang V cooks at our home only has the pig's lungs and I will give you a technique she does to clean the lungs before cooking the bopis.   I don't eat this kind of dish but there are some people in the house who do like I said. I am a picky eater and only eat certain food but no matter what we are all different. No matter if I don't eat the food I will be sharing you all the recipes being cooked by Mananag V. Bopis Recipe Ingredients: 2 Kilos - Pig's lungs 1 - Radish (peel and chopped small pieces) 2 - Whole Garlic (peeled and chopped) 2 - Onion Medium size (chopped) 1 -  Cup Vinegar 3 - Cups Water Patis to taste How to Clean the Pig's Lungs before Cooking: In a pot boil water add salt place the pig's lungs inside cook for one hour after it has been cooked strain the water and place it under cold water begin chopping the lungs the size of a ground meat small enough. Set a...

During the time when my mom and I we're not living in the Philippines we went to a birthday party of her best friend in their  province  at that time they had served authentic Filipino dishes.  I remember my mom always told me as a kid not to eat everything at a party especially when you're traveling because you don't know what kind of meat they use other than beef, pork and chicken. When I was younger, I was very picky so there we're a limit of selected food I would eat at a Filipino party and to me I feel I am safe to eat whatever they had offered to me. My mom and I we're seated at the table as her best friend kept offering food to my mom to eaten, they had offered her kaldereta which was one of her dishes is normally eat.  As my mom was eating, she had notice there was a smell on the meat and asked her best friend what was it made of and she said it was kambing (goat). My mom told her friend she doesn't eat goat. Kalderetang Kambing Recipe Ingredients: 1 - K...

Sinampalukang manok is a combination of chicken tinola and sinigang combined together. This is often cooked for native chicken or kambing (goat) in the Philippines. It can also be cooked with any chicken as well. Sinampalukang Manok Recipe Ingredients: 1 - Whole chicken (slice per parts) or 1 pack of choice of chicken parts 1 - Small piece fresh ginger (peel and slice matchbox size) 1 - Chicken broth cubes or 1- can chicken stock 4 - Cloves - Garlic (chopped) 1- Onion (chopped) 2 - Tomato (quartered) 1 - Pack Sinigang Tamarind  2 - Tbsp Patis (fish sauce) 6 - Cup Water 1 - Bunch Mustard leaves (separate mustard leaves from stem) 3 - Pieces Long Green Chili 10 - Pieces Okra (cut top of okra) 1 - Radish (peel and slice 1 inch) 2 - Eggplant (sliced in the center and sliced 2 inch) Small amount cooking oil Medium Pot Cooking Instructions: Step 1: Add small amount cooking oil in hot pot add onions, garlic, ginger, tomato and patis mix together ...

From a source of my friend who had just arrived from Europe and had arrived back from their homeland had to go under quarantine in the Philippines this is the  procedure  they had to undergo. First Step: Arrival to NAIA Airport Philippines Choose your hotel on your own expenses  Or you have a choice of government facilities that are free of charge Second Step: For Hotel  Choose with meals or meals price may vary depending on the hotel accommodation. Third Step: You will be taken a swab test waiting is between three to four days to find the results if you are negative or positive on covid-19. You are not allowed to go outside once you are under quarantine. Fourth Steps: Results will come out and once you are negative you will be released there are no pay for the swab test. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

A face mask is not just something we can just wear on a casual dress where you can also wear a face mask in a dressy occasion and if you are into freshwater pearls, semi precious stones made with copper wire.  Y ou can have a face mask that represents who you are by being different than anyone else. Choose your color and style that is available from  Ann O'l Shoppe Pearl  you may contact her via Facebook or Contact # +639478846745. Please inform Hanifa Ote you we're referred by Carmina Lifestyle thank you for your support.

Banana Con Yelo is saba that is a banana in the Philippines that is cooked in sugar and often in halo halo dessert that has shaved ice with other ingredients. Some people also eat the banana con yelo with shaved ice and milk this way can also be eaten with sago added to the banana con yelo. Banana Con Yelo Recipe: Ingredients: 1 - Kilo Saba (banana) slice 2 inches 2 - Cups Brown Sugar 10 - Pieces Tanglad leaves (lemon grass) cut in half 4 - Cups Water Cooking Instructions: In a pot add water and pandan leaves let it boil add brown sugar and banana cook for 20 minutes until banana is cooked. Ready to be served. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.