A Typical Filipino Breakfast

Filipinos love to eat. An average Filipino eats around six times a day. We eat breakfast usually around 6-7 am, we have some snacks usually around 10am, lunch, more snacks at 3pm and finally dinner.

A typical Filipino breakfast is usually eggs, sunny side up; fried rice and any or all of the favorite Filipino breakfast staples: tocino or sweetened pork strips; tapa, a kind of beef jerky or tuyo, dried salted fish.

These dishes are fairly easy to cook. They require only minimal cooking skills. Fried rice is usually recycled rice from the night before. It is just rice that has cooled, then fried in a little oil with lots of garlic. Tocino and tapa, require a little boiling, when they are soft, the water is usually drained and a little cooking oil is added to fry the meat. Once it has started to caramelize, it is removed from the heat and served hot. Tuyo is usually washed to remove the excess salt and then fried in hot oil.

Filipinos are talkative in nature and even early in the morning the mood in the breakfast table is usually festive. Breakfast is usually a time for mom to remind her family to be good in school, to come home on time and for dad to take it easy at work. Although most Filipino mothers work, they still find time to cook these simple fares for breakfast with the family.

Breakfast is a good time for the children to touch base with their parents too. Since both parents usually work and come home late when the children are about to go to bed, kids usually remind their parents of upcoming projects for school or ball games and parent teacher conferences during breakfast.

Other favorite Filipino breakfast dishes are: hotdogs, pork and beans, sardines usually in tomato sauce and corned beef. Since children's classes start early in the Philippines, usually around 7-7:30 in the morning, breakfast food is usually easy to prepare. And rice is usually eaten with whatever viand there is.

Though it is not uncommon to find Filipinos eating cereals, oatmeal, toast or pancakes for breakfast, the tuyo, tapa and tocino will always be all time Filipino breakfast favorites. In some tables, a combination of a cooked and cold breakfast is even common. Mom may prefer oatmeal and fruit to her kids milk and cereal, and dad might opt for the cooked breakfast. It is also a frequent practice in most Filipino homes to eat pan de sal or bread while waiting for a cooked breakfast.

Filipinos definitely believe to eat like kings during breakfast because this gives us more time to chat with each other and enjoy each other's company. It is a time to relax before starting a long day.

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The typical Christmas desserts: panettone and pandoro

With the approaching of Christmas, among friends and relatives several discussions arouse between those who prefer the pandoro and who the panettone, two typical desserts of Italian feasts but not only.
Which is better or tastier is hard to say, it depends on taste, but certainly they are the best sellers. Surely this supposed rivalry also allows pastry shop to increase sales, because in every family there are both the supporters of one and of the other. And this is not happening at Easter, where the typical dessert is the Colomba.
The origin of pandoro has not yet been established with certainty, the versions are still contrasting. Some scholars think that the pandoro was born in the Venetian Republic in the '500, when they were served on the rich tables of nobles some sweet of conical shape, covered with gold leaf, called "Pan de Oro”. For others, however, the origin comes from an old star-shaped dessert that the Veronese consumed at Christmas: the "Nadalin". The most accepted theory, however, links the birth of pandoro to the Royal House of Habsburg, where since '700-'800 processing techniques of the "Vienna bread" were well known and remained the basis for the preparation of pandoro. The processing of the "Bread of Vienna" planned to finish the dough by adding a greater amount of butter with the system of puff pastry, where several layers of pasta are alternating with layers of butter, with the result that during the baking process the cake volume increases.
The production of the pandoro has perfected in Verona at the end of '800. The pandoro has been the most typical expression of confectionery production of Verona and is now famous throughout Italy as one of the traditional desserts of the holiday season. As the ancient "Nadalin", the pandoro is still star-shaped. It has the structure of a truncated cone, with large spines arranged in the typical design of an eight-pointed star.
Even the legends on the panettone invention are numerous, we know for sure that is a cake created in Milan. While the Lombardy panettone is known to be high, there is also a variant of Piedmont, low and wide. One of the most famous legends is that of Ughetto and Adalgisa. The family of Ughetto falconer of the Duke, contrasted the love-story of the beautiful young man with Adalgisa, the daughter of a baker. When the girl's father began to have financial trouble due to the loss of customers and the illness of his boy, Adalgisa was forced to do menial jobs to provide some money to the family. The situation was painful for the young Ughetto and that was when he hit upon the idea of working as an apprentice in the baker shop. During the period of work Ughetto made some changes to the bread, adding butter first and then sugar to the original recipe. One night there Ughetto also added bits of candied citron and eggs. That was a very special bread and pleased everyone. For Christmas the young boy decided to add some raisins. It was a triumph, everyone wanted the new bread invented by Ughetto.
By Martina Meneghetti with support from farcire il pandoro for any information, please visit panettone farcito or for more info visit colomba di pasqua

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