Instant Pot Kare-Kare

Filipino kare-kare has so much more meaning than the peanut butter oxtail dish it is. At age 16, it was the meal I regularly cooked for my family when my parents were at work. It is my firstborn’s favorite Filipino dish and that’s asking a lot from a picky eater. …

Food is Love: Banana Bread

More often than not, when my monkeys aren’t eating me out of my house, bananas go bad in our kitchen. But fear not! This is just an excuse to make banana bread and the boys love it as the bananas turn from yellow to brown. My nursing school bestie Liz …

Instant Pot Chicken Tinola

If you’ve been following me on Instagram, you know my little known marriage secret: learn to cook the comfort foods that your significant other grew up on and you’ll always be/have a Happy Wife, Happy Life. Over the years, I made it a point to learn the recipes of my …