Favorite Filipino Christmas Food Round Up

It's that time of the year again when everyone's busy cooking! I've been receiving emails from PiTCC's Filipino readers asking if I have recipes of this and that, so I decided to make this Favorite Filipino Christmas Food round up to make it easier for them to find the recipes they want to include in their Christmas Menu. 

Hope you'll find what you're looking for! Happy cooking everyone! Have a very merry Christmas!

• Beef
  Beef Morcon    Beef Caldereta

• Chicken
  Chicken Afritada      Chicken Estofado     Chicken Pastel
  Chicken Sotanghon Soup     Pininyahang Manok

• Pork
  Embutido     Lumpiang Shanghai     Pork Afritada     Pork Menudo

• Seafood
  Easy Paella     Baked Rellenong Pusit
  

• Pancit
  Pancit Bihon     Pancit Canton     Pancit Palabok     Pancit Puti
  

• Pasta
  Baked Macaroni     Baked Spaghetti     Filipino Style Spaghetti 
  Macaroni Sopas      Filipino Style Chicken Macaroni Salad
  

• Desserts
  Brazo de Mercedes    Buko Pandan     Cathedral Window   
  Chocolate Crinkles    Custard Cake     Egg Pie 
  Food for the Gods     Halayang Ube     Filipino Style Fruit Salad
  Pastillas de Leche     Peach Ref Cake   Leche Flan    Mocha Cake 
  Mango Cake    Polvoron     Sansrival     Ube Macapuno Cake
  

• Kakanin
  Bibingkang Malagkit    Biko    Ginataang Halo-Halo     Kalamay   
  Kutsinta    Sapin-Sapin

Ryan's Roast Turkey

Just 4 days before Christmas and my birthday! As always, my family and I are excited preparing for this special day. It's the time of the year when we have a back-to-back get together with our close friends to celebrate not only Jesus' birthday but my birthday too! We have two consecutive parties on the 24th and the 25th...we host a Noche Buena feast for our close friends at home on Christmas Eve, and then on Christmas Day, we have another party at a friend's house where we bring some food as part of my birthday celebration.

Last Friday, I shared with you our Noche Buena Menu which is a combination of Filipino and American favorites. The said menu includes Roast Turkey which is something Ryan (the hubs) loves making for special occasions. This morning, I got a comment from a reader asking me to share the herbs and spices and the procedure for roasting turkey. I know that many of you also want to have roast turkey as part of your Christmas feast, so today, I want to share with you Ryan's way of roasting turkey. He has been doing this for the past 7 years, and I must say that his roast turkey has already achieved perfection. It's not only flavorful, it's also tender, so moist and juicy --- something that a Holiday Roast Turkey should be! 

Ryan's Roast Turkey has always been a big hit on our Thanksgiving and Christmas table...and today, I'm proud to share with you his recipe. Hope you will find this helpful...