Filipino Food

Morcon

Morcon (Murkon in Tagalog orthography) is a holiday dish during the Christmas season in the Philippines. It is a meat roll stuffed with sausage or hotdogs, carrots, pickles, cheese, and egg.

Goldilocks Polvoron

Goldilocks is a Philippine bakeshop chain that makes different flavors of polvoron.

Pitson

The word pitson is from the Spanish pichón. Below is an old

Aceitunas Aliniadas

This recipe for Aceitunas Aliniadas (aceitunas aliñadas) treats was used by the nuns of Santa Clara for making the jarred olives that were Christmas gifts to the Spanish friars.

Olives are imported because they do not grow natively in the tropics.

Curacha

In the Chavacano language of Zamboanga in the southern Philippines, curacha refers to the spanner crab or red frog crab whose scientific name is Ranina ranina.