Overseas Pinoy Cooking

Marikina Everlasting Special,  Christmas Everlasting . The Everlasting of Marikina is similar to the Hardinera of Lucban . A lot of the ingredients are almost similar, cooking methods are also similar. They are also both served at specials occasions and celebrations. For us who are not from Marikina or from Lucban would not really know the difference. I will not talk about the origins of our dish for today the Christmas Everlasting, Marikina Everlasting Special as I am not really in the position, for the obvious reason that I am not from Marikina .  Baked Lukban Hardinera Special  There are a lot of things said about the Everlasting of Marikina should you want to learn about it. I hope some of our readers from Marikina would share some information about the dish or be generous enough to share their family’s Everlasting recipe . Today I have made a special version of the Marikina’s Everlasting , for our 2015 Holidays Celebration’s Recipes , s...

Lucban Hardinera Special is what I call my colorfull version of the hardinera a kind of meat loaf of Southern Tagalog, Lucban Quezon in particular. It is as popular with Lucban's Pansit Habhab . Hardinera is made up of diced meat, luncheon meat and other ingredients that are usually found in embutido. In addition other garnishing are also added to enhance the flavour and visual presentation like hard-boiled eggs, bell pepper strips, carrots and pineapple. These garnishing are placed at the bottom of the llanera an aluminium oval pan commonly used as mold for leche plan and other Pinoy sweets and native delicacies . When the cooked hardinera is served it is inverted onto a serving platter and these garnishing form a colorful topping. Beaten egg is used as a binder to hold together the ingredients, it is poured into the llanera to hold the garnishing in place it is also mixed with the meatloaf ingredients to hold them together. Hardinera is usually served only during fiestas a...

Meatloaf,  Christmas Meatloaf . Meatloaf is one of the more popular dish of the Americans, it is made up of ground meat or in combination of beef, pork baked in a loaf pan. It is usually serve with ketchup. In the Philippines meatloaf is a holiday dish and traditionally served during Christmas. Meatloaf might be a regular Christmas fare to the Pinoy well-off but the embutido, the Pinoy adaptation of the meatloaf is equally enjoyed by most Pinoy during the holidays. See other Meatloaf recipe:  Marikina Everlasting Special   Lucban Hardinera Special   Chicken Meatloaf, Chicken Relleno Style   For my readers who are looking something especial for their Noche Buena I would like to share my version of Christmas meatloaf. I used the combination of ground beef and pork. The ingredients used are classic Pinoy somewhat similar to the Pinoy embutido . The quantities of the ingredient are enough to fill a regular loaf pan. Here is the recipe and I hope you try it....