Filipinos who are missing a taste of familiar Filipino food, as well as non-Filipinos who have never had a taste of it, are now presented with an opportunity to kitchen test and taste famous Filipino food or pagkaing Pinoy recipes by gaining access to them online. Wherever they are in the world, these Filipinos and non-Filipinos can surf the internet and log on to the lutong bahay website to learn how to cook these traditional dishes.
The lutong bahay website should be differentiated from lutong pinoy.com. It is in the Lutong Bahay website that contains a large library of Filipino lutong bahay foods, where the free recipes are showcased with pictures from the Philippines. The wide range of Pilipino cuisine is categorized into Pinoy breakfast recipes, viands or lutong ulam recipes and snacks or merienda recipes.
In as much as the Filipino people are great lovers of the finest food, it is but natural that Filipino or Pinoy cooking has come up with so many Filipino dishes through the years. Every generation of every Filipino family has done its share to refine and improve on the Philippine or Pilipino foods recipes that have been handed down to them from their ancestors. New recipes are also being developed using Philippine ingredients and according to the Filipino taste.
Filipino cooking in the Philippine tongue is said as mga lutong Pinoy or lutong Pilipino and home cooked food is said as mga lutong bahay or lutuing bahay. If anyone goes through any collection of lutong bahay free recipes or lutong Pinoy free recipes from the Philippines, it will not be difficult to find the best healthy and easy Filipino foods recipes.
By making new combinations of Ilocano, Pampanga, Tagalog and Visayan foods, dishes and recipes plus other regional specialties, one can create a lutong Pinoy menu that is never boring and is always pleasing to the palate. Among the dishes that can be featured are the bulalo recipe from Batangas; the pancit chami recipe from Lucena, Quezon; the pigar pigar recipe from Dagupan, Pangasinan; and the saluyot recipe from Ilocos.
Filipino food recipes from seaside towns highlighting fish and seafood could include, among others, the ginataang tilapia recipe, the seafood kare kare recipe, the sweet and sour lapu - lapu recipe, the rellenong pusit recipe, the Spanish sardines recipe and the crab Maritess recipe. There are also vegetable recipes loved by almost all regions, such as sinigang sa bayabas, sinigang sa miso and ginisang togue.
Today, the traditional recipes are still being prepared, though often in a different manner. The ginataang tilapia recipe, for example, which was originally cooked in a palayok or earthen pot is now cooked in modern vessels. The Mama Sita recipes, on the other hand, use ready mixes in cooking traditional Filipino recipes.
The lutong bahay website likewise offers free recipes for commercial favorites like the Jollibee style spaghetti recipe, the siopao sauce recipe, the hopia recipe, the sylvanas recipe and the best ube chiffon cake recipe.
The Filipino recipes at the site are accompanied by articles on food. Readers can also read up on food festivals like the Lanzones Festival 2010.
