One of the popular snack foods in the Philippines that you can also find being sold in the street during the afternoon is Camote cue, deep fried sweet potatoes with caramelized sugar which is either white or brown sugar.

During the afternoon, there is someone selling snacks around the neighbourhood but there are days that she failed to show up so we decided to prepare our own afternoon snack. We bought sweet potatoes in the public market when it was market day; it is a day where most farmers are selling their fresh crops and vegetables in cheap prices.

Sweet potatoes are sold per heap or pile, each pile cost P20.00. So much cheaper than being sold in Korea eh, when we are living in Korea we always buy sweet potatoes when we shopped because it is part of my husband’s diet food and it normally cost around P200-300 pesos per small bag.

Ingredients:

Sweet potatoes, brown or white sugar and oil

Cooking camote is very simple like how simple the ingredients are, you just need to peel the sweet potatoes and cut them into small round pieces and deep fried them and when they are little brown add some sugar and mixed them carefully and cooked them until the sugar is caramelized. It was best to serve with cold soft drinks to drink.

Tip: Banana Cue is cooked the same way!

One of my favorite viand growing up is “Taghilaw” but we seldom have it in our dinner table because of scarcity. I only tasted it during birthdays, wedding, thanks giving celebration and when I  have no packed lunch and have to eat student meal. The other my sister cooked “taghilaw” I can’t help it but to eat a lot until my stomach ache of fullness. Haha

Ingredients:

Pig intestine, vinegar, salt, black pepper, garlic, onion, calamansi, oil

Cooking taghilaw is very easy,  you just have to mix all the ingredients and sautéed it and add more seasoning according to your taste.

One of the sources of income of my family is selling ice and ice candies at home. During summer it is a hit but when it rains and the temperature drop people felt cold to buy but thanks to unseasoned resellers who are able to sell few bags of ice candies every day.

The other day, there’s a left over ingredients for ice candies and my mother thought of preparing fruit salad from it. We just add more milk, young coconut and cream and voila we got fruit salad. Fruit salad is my favorite dessert, that’s why every time I went to a birthday or wedding party I will surely look first at the dessert table.