Homemade Fudgesicles

When I was in grade school, my favorite snack during recess was a twin popsicle. It came in two variants: orange and chocolate. The orange variant, I'm more than willing to share, but when I'm sucking on my chocolate popsicle do not expect to to share it. Hands off please! With my fondness for chocolate per se or in this case with chocolate popsicles, seeing this awesome popsicle mold in my local specialty kitchen store, I just knew I have to have it. 

PB & J for Grown Ups

PB & J sandwich is a very popular lunch box or snacks for the little ones that most likely most American kids has eaten this in one point in their life. It’s a sandwich layered with peanut butter and either a jam or a jelly. In Canada, UK and Australia it’s more popularly known as peanut butter and jam sandwich. In Manila being a former American colony, it’s peanut butter and jelly or PB &J, though these are not as widely popular snack item here. Here the most popular breakfast or snack items are hotdogs, every kid loves their hotdogs. Like a typical Filipino-Chinese kid, I grew up eating lots of hotdogs not PB&J. However, now as I grew wiser, I discovered my love affair with PB&J, it might because I love how the peanut butter greatly compliments the sweet jelly. My favorite combination is the uber traditional PB & grape jelly, it just has this perfect sweetness.

Preserved Green Mangoes

One of the things I love living in the Philippines is the abundance of tropical fruits like bananas, coconuts, pineapples and mangoes. If I could eat only one fruit in my life, I would choose to eat mangoes! Philippine Mangoes are the best! Specially then they are cheap and in season. My godmother who now lives in NYC always say that nothing beats the sweetness and juiciness of our local mangoes. When they aren't in season though I love eating Preserved Mangoes or more locally known as Burong Mangga. They are regularly available in supermarkets, but you know me, I love making things from scratch. How hard could it be? I spoke too soon.