Coconut Macaroons

 Macaroons are a cookie or confection, or a cross between the two, depending on where they are made. Macaroon cookies (or “macaroon biscuits”) often use egg, chocolate or dates as the binder of a food fabric, such as ground or powdered nuts, coconut, cocoa, potato starch, peanut butter, toasted sesame seed paste, etc. The coconut [...]

Fish in Sweet and Spicy Sauce

I started cooking this recipe since I was in high school when my father bought a large fish and he requested my mother to cook it “like escabechi but very sweet not sour” LOL, that was how he described it. My mother asked me to cook it, I thought she was afraid she might not [...]

Fish Stew

Fish stew is a classic Muslim Filipino Dish and is very common recipe in every household. Usually the fish being used are lapu-lapu, mayamaya, tuna, salmon, milkfish,etc. There are many variations in cooking this dish, the Maranaos add more tumeric powder and chilis, hence the soup will turn very yellowish. The Maguindanaons will add tumeric [...]

Vegetable Samosa

Samosa or sambosa in arabic is a common snack in South Asia and as usual very common here Kuwait. It generally consists of a fried triangular-/pyramid-shaped pastry shell with a savory potato, onion and pea stuffing, but other stuffings like minced meat and fish are often used. There are many variations nowadays to the stuffings [...]