Homemade Filipino Lunch
What did you have a for lunch? I thought I’d let emeraldbites readers have a taste and a look of lunch away from restaurants and into my home away from Seattle! I live in Roy which is a small city south of Tacoma and right next to Ft. Lewis. My cousin was getting married at the Lakewood Municipal Court yesterday afternoon and my aunt decided to have lunch at her house before the wedding. I wish I had lunch like this more often! I am definitely going to ask my mom and dad to teach me how to cook some of these Filipino dishes. I apologize that I wasn’t able to take a picture of each dish individually but I wanted to share it with you guys anyway!
Filipino desserts and dishes!
Some of the dishes are:
Menudo which has a sort of Mexican flavor to it consists of potato, raisins, red pepper, pork, liver, and chick peas.
Pansit: Famous Filipino noodle dish. The ingredients can vary but the one we had has green beans, carrots, and chicken. It tastes amazing when you add lemon juice for more flavor!
Lumpia: Famous Filipino eggroll. My aunt’s lumpia has a distinct taste to it unlike any others that I’ve tried. Her lumpia has mushroom, pork, carrots, and another ingredient that my taste buds can’t figure out. I’ll have to ask her!
Desserts:
Bilog-bilog: This dessert translates to “circle circle.” It’s bascially rice flour rolled into little balls with other little jello cubes, bananas, and coconut to accommodate it.
Bibingka: A Filipino version of a casava cake.
Luckily a big lunch means lunch is also provided for the next day too so I had pansit again! (I listed the ingredients above and I know you can see bits of scrambled eggs in this picture but that was because I ate some before I dug into the pansit)
Leftovers: A Bowl of Pansit
Remember to feed us back and you can send us pics of your lunches too! We all love taking pictures of food! emeraldbites@gmail.com
Eat it up!
Melissa
