I am giving you now the recipe for my pumpkin-kalabasa pie, Feyma’s style. It’s really a simple recipe. You also just need another local ingredients here in the Philippines. The main ingredients would be the kalabasa (a local squash). You can buy the Kalabasa in any malls here. Of course a good and cheap kalabasa […]
Will Every Christmas Be Hospital Time? I Sure Hope Not
This is the best of times here at our little home in the Philippines. The bad storms are gone, it hardly rains at all, the days are hot .. but not candle-melting hot and the nights actually border on cool at times. And when I go out with Otto the Wonder Dog at around midnight, […]
My homemade yams!
Another recipe that we made here in the house during Thanksgiving, using local ingredients is Yams. In the States they use sweet potatoes for the yams. Here in the Philippines we use the camote (similar looks to the sweet potato in the USA). Growing up here in the Philippines, we cooked the camote in lots […]
The Lonesome Guy
The Christmas Season, a time of joy and sharing with family and friends, visiting and being visited, parties and get-togethers mirth and merriment and least we not forget our Patron Saint “San Miguel.” Which is always there to be our social lubricant, for it is Beer that maketh glad the hearts of men, and eases […]
Christmas is giving to the less fortunate here!
Well Thanksgiving is over. Time for us to think now of the Christmas shopping. We are so lucky that we can buy even just a few presents for our kids and give some to our friends and family. Living here now for 13+ years, I’ve seen people – too many people here struggling to buy […]
Happy Thanksgiving Day USA!
It’s that time of the year again for a Thanksgiving holiday celebration in America. Today, I am writing about the way we celebrate our Thanksgiving day in our house here in the Philippines, and the food that we prepare. Thanksgiving is celebrated every fourth Thursday of the month of November. Here at our house we […]