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Start your day right with Purefoods Native Silog Favorites: A taste of home in every bite

“SILOOOOG!” Imagine that as your morning wake-up call. That’s the sound of breakfast excitement, signaling a meal that’s filling, flavorful, and easy to prepare. For many Filipino families, nothing says “good morning” better than a delicious silog meal—whether it’s tapsilog, tocilog, or longsilog. These meals combine garlic rice (sinangag), eggs (itlog), and a flavorful meat dish, all on one plate. And with Purefoods Native Silog Favorites, enjoying this classic breakfast has never been easier.

The Perfect Silog Lineup

Purefoods Native Silog Favorites is your answer to a quick and tasty Filipino breakfast. It brings together a wide range of ready-to-cook Filipino favorites, each one ideal for the busy mornings or when you want to prepare a hearty meal for the family. From the rich and flavorful Purefoods Beef Tapa to Cebu-Style Chorizo, Hamonado Longganisa, Chicken Longganisa, Classic Tocino, and Adobo Flakes, there’s something for everyone.

These products are more than just breakfast items—they’re the perfect solution for quick lunches or even dinners. And the best part? They’re so easy to cook that you can serve your family a delicious meal in minutes, whether it’s before heading to work or for your kids’ school baon.

Purefoods Beef Tapa: Meaty, Tender Goodness

Among all the options in the Purefoods Native Silog Favorites line, Purefoods Beef Tapa is a standout. It’s made from tender, marinated cuts of beef that are aged for extra softness and flavor. When you cook it, you get that delicious meaty, juicy goodness that pairs perfectly with garlic rice and eggs.

Beef tapsilog is a classic Filipino breakfast, but with Purefoods Beef Tapa, you don’t need to marinate or prepare anything ahead of time. Simply take it out of the package, cook it in a little oil until it turns golden brown, and you’re ready to serve. Whether you’re rushing to get out the door or having a slow, relaxed morning, it’s the perfect meal to start your day.

My Morning Routine with Purefoods Beef Tapa

I’m the kind of person who likes to ease into the day, but I also know that a good breakfast is essential. That’s why I love Purefoods Native Silog Favorites, especially Purefoods Beef Tapa. It allows me to make a complete meal that my family loves, without spending too much time in the kitchen.

That morning, I followed the cooking instructions, and in just a few minutes, I had crispy, golden Purefoods Beef Tapa ready to go. I paired it with sinangag (made with red rice for a healthier option) and fried eggs. Together with my morning coffee, it made for the perfect breakfast. My husband and child loved waking up to the smell of it cooking. There’s something comforting about a hot plate of tapsilog that sets the right mood for the day.

And it’s not just for breakfast! This Beef Tapa is also a great choice for packing as baon for school or work. It’s simple but full of flavor, making it a hit every time.

Why Purefoods Native Silog Favorites?

Purefoods Native Silog Favorites make it easy to enjoy delicious, traditional Filipino meals without all the hassle. These ready-to-cook products are not only convenient but also of high quality. Purefoods-Hormel, under San Miguel Corporation, has a long history of providing safe and great-tasting food to Filipino households.

Whether you’re cooking Beef Tapa, Cebu-Style Chorizo, or Classic Tocino, you know you’re getting flavorful meat that’s easy to prepare and perfect for any occasion. These products are affordable, and you get value for your money because you don’t need to spend hours in the kitchen to get a meal everyone will love. Plus, with a variety of products in the line, there’s always something new to try!

Bring Home the Homefoodie Experience

If you haven’t tried Purefoods Native Silog Favorites yet, now’s the time to bring these products into your kitchen. They’re perfect for every day, whether it’s breakfast, lunch, or even dinner. With just a few minutes of cooking, you can enjoy the rich, meaty flavors of Filipino favorites like Beef Tapa, Hamonado Longganisa, or Adobo Flakes.

And if you’re looking for recipe ideas or ways to make your meals even more exciting, visit www.homefoodie.com for more silog recipes and tips on making the most of Purefoods products.

A Family of Delicious Choices

End your meal planning worries with the complete Purefoods Native Silog Favorites lineup: Beef Tapa, Cebu-Style Chorizo, Hamonado Longganisa, Chicken Longganisa, Classic Tocino, and Adobo Flakes. They’re ready to cook and perfect for creating those comforting meals that remind you of home.

Start your day right, and make every meal a homefoodie moment with Purefoods Native Silog Favorites!

World-class dining at Wildflour Cafe, Uptown BGC

I realized that I’ve been working quite hard for the past year.

Despite the convenience of working from home, I’ve been attending lots of meetings, preparing reports, overseeing projects and so on.

With all the job-related stresses I go through each day, it’s only right to treat myself to something posh and delicious, right?

Well, treat myself, I did, at two different occasions at Wildflour Cafe in Uptown, BGC.

Wildflour has been a popular brunch and bistro cafe since 2012, known for its creative menu that incorporates influences from the world’s best cuisines and makes use of ingredients sourced the best organic and local markets.

Its branches also have their own in-house bakery that supplies them with a wide assortment of freshly baked and premium-quality breads, pastries and cakes.

Saturday lunch with my daughter

On a Saturday after a particularly busy workweek for me (and during my daughter #ExhibitA’s lunchbreak from her work which, as luck would have it, sometimes requires her to work on weekends, we decided to have our midday repast at the Wildflour Cafe branch in Uptown, BGC.

During our lunch break escapade, #ExhibitA and I indulged ourselves with Wildflour’s continental dishes such as:

Beef Bourguignon (Php995).

Tender, chunk of beef slowly stewed in red wine sauce with mushrooms and served on a bed of pureed pumpkin.

Goat Cheese Ravioli (Php565).

Ravioli filled with buttery and tart goat cheese tossed in a tomato-sauce infused with basil harvested from Wildflour’s own garden.

Tres Leches (Php320).

Chiffon cake doused in dulce de leche and vanilla kappa and topped with fresh berries.

Partner these culinary creations with Wildflour’s relaxing and rustic old-world ambiance as well as its gracious and hospitable service, then you have a truly world-class dining experience.

Sunday brunch with former co-workers

A few weeks later, I met up with my former officemates to catch up and reminisce over brunch at the al fresco area of this same cafe.

Here, we broke our fast with breakfast bowls such as:

Beef Tapa (Php595).

Tender strips of pan-fried marinated beef on top of garlic fried rice and served with fried eggs and atchara.

Adobo Fried Rice (Php630).

Pork belly braised in garlic, vinegar and soy sauce served with fried egg and pickled chilis on Dalisay rice.

Bacon Fried Rice (Php625).

Thick slabs of bacon steak served with fried egg on top of fried rice.

Now, not all of us enjoy rice for our first meal of the day so some went to sandwiches and pastries from Wildflour’s bakery, which include:

Salmon Avocado Toast (Php595).

Slivers of smoked salmon and mashed avocado topped with cucumber slices, tomato, olives and dill on butter toasted bread.

Corned Beef Hand Pie (Php135).

A flaky turnover pastry filled with savory corned beef.

Hazelnut Cronut (Php170).

The variant of Wildflour’s flaky croissant-donut hybrid topped with dark chocolate swirl and chopped hazelnuts.

And what would brunch be without drinks?

Caffeine freaks went for handmade hot coffee variants while I cooled down with an Avocado milkshake.

Whether indoors or al fresco, Wildflour Cafe does fit the bill for up-leveled dining. And what better way to reward myself than to splurge on world-class eats, right?

This Wildflour Cafe branch is located at the Ground Floor, Uptown Ritz Residences, 9th Ave Corner, 36th Street, Taguig City. For inquiries and reservations, call +63 2 83653872 or +63 917 6367957.

Other branches are located at:

Ground Floor, Six/Neo, 4th Avenue corner 26th Street, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. (Tel: +63 2 88567600 | +63 917 8520950 | +63 917 6249006)
Ground Floor, V Corporate Center, Salcedo Village, Ground Floor, 125 L.P. Leviste Street, Makati (Tel: +63 2 88087072 | +63 917 3285915)
Ground Floor, O-Square Wilson St corner, Ortigas Ave, Greenhills Shopping Center, San Juan (+63 2 87753543 | +63 917 6279679)
Ground Floor, 8 Rockwell Center, Plaza Drive, Poblacion, Makati City (Tel: +63 2 88505503 | +63 917 7053329)
Ground Floor, The Podium, 18 ADB Ave, Ortigas Center, Mandaluyong (Tel: +63 2 85718588 | +63 917 6289572)
Ground Floor, Frabelle Business Center 111, Rada, Legazpi Village, Makati (+63 2 88339799 | +63 917 5645748)
Greenbelt 3, Ayala Center, Esperanza St, Makati (Tel: +63 27 2132363 | +63 917 6303265)

To order for delivery, visit wildflourtogo.com.

Stay updated on Wildflour Cafes promos and offers by following it on Facebook and Instagram.

Homemade goodness from Baba’s Kitchen

Want to jazz up your mealtimes without slaving all day in the kitchen? Or have tasty munchables ready whenever you get hungry for a midnight snack or get in the mood for a Tv binge?

Well, you won’t have to do hard kitchen labor because you can get your hunger pangs and cravings catered to by Baba’s Kitchen!

Yep, my cooler bag from Baba’s Kitchen is chock-full of tasty homemade goodies that opens up a world of wonderful gustatory possibilities.

I’ll tell you more about these but first, let’s check out the bag’s contents.

These include ready-to-cook viands such as Breakfast Patties, Spanish Chorizo and Wagyu Tapa, snackable dips such as the sweet and spicy Mango Jalapeno, the tasty Garlic & Herb and Chicken Rum Pate, the highly snackable Beachcoast Crisps: Cranberry Edition, as well condiments such Baba’s BBQ Sauce and Baba’s Spicy Bitchin’ Sauce.

With so little time for food prep after a hectic workday, I had to get a bit more creative when coming up with a dinner that the kids will get excited for.

So, I whipped up a batch of Cheesy Peppery Burgers using Baba’s Kitchen’s Burger Patties!

We paired our meal with some crackers, Baba’s Kitchen’s Beachcoast Crisps and Baba’s Kitchen’s dips!

With much of the prep work of the meal already done by Baba’s Kitchen, I had more time to enjoy dinner time with the kids!

This meal-in-minutes sure seems like a resounding success, wouldn’t you say?

UPDATE:

I also whipped up a quick lunch for the family: Tapsilog using Baba’s Kitchen’s Wagyu Tapa!

So, now, what can I whip up with the other items from Baba’s Kitchen? Use the Spanish Chorizos for some Deviled Eggs? Use the BBQ Sauce as a Chicken Teriyaki Marinade? Let me know if you have more ideas.

If you want to have more fun mealtimes with the fam while feasting on great food (with little effort!), check out Baba’s Kitchen!

Order now from Baba’s Kitchen’s website. To stay updated on Baba’s Kitchen’s products and offers, follow it on Facebook and Instagram.

Disclosure: Product samples were provided to facilitate this feature.

Pinoy comfort food at Goodah, Timog Avenue

Whenever I feel stressed or harassed, I always get a strong craving for comfort food. These are dishes that I usually associate with delicious home cooking, the kind that my mom would serve me whenever I was sick or sad.

For over thirty years, Goodah has been the has been the go-to place for people seeking fuss-free comfort food that appeals to down-home Pinoy palate. These include the traditional hot and quickly-served Filipino snacks like goto and lugaw, as well as the hugely popular silogs. Being so popular among all sorts of people, it soon adopted the monicker “ang pagkaing for every all!”

During the height of the lockdown due to the pandemic, I was able to enjoy Goodah’s comforting dishes with my fam while stuck at home through its Salo-Salo Set Meals (thanks to Rowena of TravelEatPinas for thoughtfully sending me this meal set!)

However, as the lockdowns gradually eased (but my work and life stresses did not) I wanted to experience Goodah’s down-home Pinoy dishes in a dine-in setting.

So off I went with my fellow unnies to the Goodah branch along Timog Avenue.

Here, we were able to sit down and take a break from our daily grind as we gossiped about our Hollywood idols and K-pop stans while we feast on Pinoy comfort food.

These include:

Batangas Lomi with Tokwa’t Baboy (Php134). A noodle dish made with thick yellow noodles in a thick and starchy soup topped with bits of pork meat, pork offal, pork rind and kikiam. It’s best enjoyed with a side dish made with tofu and pork bits in vinegar sauce.

Arroz Caldo Special (Php179). A porridge made with glutinous rice and accompanied by chicken pieces, hard-boiled egg and topped with crunchy fried garlic and chopped scallions.

Pork Bingoongan (Php319). A classic Pinoy dish wherein pork belly is stewed in shrimp paste (bagoong).

Kare Kare (Php345). A Filipino stew wherein ox and pork meat and offal are served in a thick and rich peanut sauce along with vegetables.

Supermeal A (Php150). A budget-friendly rice meal that includes tocino, lumpiang shanghai, pancit canton, kropek (prawn cracker) and leche flan.

Supermeal B (Php160). Another rice meal that’s light on the budget which includes tapa flakes, lumpiang shanghai, pancit canton, kropek (prawn cracker) and leche flan.

Ribsilog (Php195). Crispy fried pork ribs served with garlic fried rice, fried egg and atchara.

Leche Flan (Php39). The Pinoy version of creme caramel which is made of egg-and-milk custard with a soft caramel layer on top.

With such comforting dishes to be enjoyed, should there still be room in my psyche for stress and negativity? I guess not!

Dispel your own blues with Pinoy comfort food by dropping by a Goodah branch near you today!

This Goodah outlet is located at 57 Timog Avenue, Bgy. South Triangle, Quezon City, open daily for dine-in and takeout from 8am to 8pm, and for delivery from 7am to 9pm via Pick*A*Roo, and 25-hours via GrabFood and FoodPanda.

Other Gooodah outlets are located in Alabang, Valenzuela, Pasig, Granada and Fairview in Quezon City, as well as in Sucat and Bicutan in Paranaque.

Know more about this much-loved Filipino food brand through its website. Stay updated on Goodah’s latest offers and promos by following it on Facebook and Instagram.