Blissful Food Traditions

Burong Isda is available at Rhoda's Store, Tuntungin-Putho.

Health is wealth. Magbalik loob sa gulay at isda. Goodbye muna sa matatamis at matataba.

Masarap na pang terno ang aming buro sa isda at gulay mong ulam.

🐟Buro Isda 350ml 120 pesos
NEW: budget pack 200ml 80 pesos

Now available at:
Tuntungin: Rhoda's Store

Health is wealth. Magbalik loob sa gulay at isda. Goodbye muna sa matatamis at matataba.

Masarap na pang terno ang aming buro sa isda at gulay mong ulam.

🐟Buro Isda 350ml 120 pesos
NEW: budget pack 200ml 80 pesos

Now available at:
Tuntungin: Rhoda's Store

Health is wealth. Matapos ang Pasko at Bagong Taon, kailangang bumawi at magpakalusog. Magbalik loob sa gulay at isda. Goodbye muna sa matatamis at matataba.

Masarap na pang terno ang aming buro sa isda at gulay mong ulam.

🐟Buro Isda 350ml 120 pesos
🍤 Buro Hipon 350ml 130 pesos

Now available at:
Grove: Mitcel Fruitstand
Tuntungin: Rhoda's Store

The food checklist of the Pinoy represents our hopes for the New Year

🍍Fruits - for abundant harvests
🐠Fish - for prosperity and good fortune
🌿Green vegetables - for growth
🍛Pancit- for long and good life
🫓Round foods - for a smooth, trouble free year
🍚 Sticky rice desserts - for love and togetherness in families and friendships

Whether or not you believe in good luck, the list itself signifies a common prayer for all Filipinos in the coming year: Hope for a good life and Love in all our families and friendships.
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Masarap na pang terno ang aming buro sa isda at gulay mong handa ngayong gabi!

🐟Buro Isda 350ml 120 pesos
🍤 Buro Hipon 350ml 130 pesos

Available at:
Grove: Mitcel Fruitstand
Tuntungin: Rhoda's Store

Maligaya at Masaganang taon sa inyo!

May nagbabalik sa hapag kainan.. now 350ml in goodness..

🐟Buro Isda 120 pesos
🍤 Buro Hipon 130 pesos

Available po today!

Sa mga Tuntungin - mabibili din ito sa Rhoda's Store, Purok 1.

Carmona's best Smoked Ribs is here! New stocks available for delivery starting Monday, October 19 (morning). Tuntungin residents only. Limited stocks. Message your orders.

Our other products tamales and fish buro are available by Monday, too. (I'm taking the weekend off). We still have 2 packs of fish buro left from this week's batch. Next batch of buro will hatch on Saturday, October 24.

What's in the tamales?

For me, personally, the tamales is power-packed-food-on-the-go, made in such a way that a palm-sized banana leaf wrapped pack would have the nourishment you need on a busy day. Its like a full breakfast meal in 6 delectable bites.

The tamales is an assembly in three parts: the white dough, the flavored orange dough, and the topping mix.

The white dough is made from rice flour flavored with coconut milk, sauteed onions, salt and pepper. The white dough is like the base of our meal.

The orange dough has part of the white dough, peanut sauce, more coconut milk, shredded chicken meat sauteed in onions and garlic, salt and pepper to taste. The coloring comes from annatto seed water.

The toppings include egg, ground peanuts and an assortment of meats you could choose from - chicken meat, ham slices, chorizo, longanisa or even tapa and adobo. Over the past month we have enjoyed experimenting on these variations so you can have the taste of breakfast just the way you would have it.

Introducing: TAMALES YOUR WAY. This is our way of saying: we love that you buy over and over again, that we're giving you more choices for variety.

From our kitchen to your table, delivering this power packed meal to you has been a pleasure. Thank you for making quarantine feel like an fun adventure!

Drop by our page, read our stories, like and follow to know what we offer every week. And don't forget to message us for your orders. Cut off on Fridays, 5PM.

🙋‍♀️UPDATE On our Menu🙋‍♀️
PM us for orders. PS, because our buro is fermented for one week, please try to reserve a week early para maka sigurado ng slot..

🥩NEW DISH
Morcon kapampangan style - savory ground meat roll around a core of chorizo, egg and cheese, with tomato (sarsiado) gravy.
Price: P125 per piece.

🌷FAVORITES🌷
BURO ASAN (fermented rice with fish)
BALÒ BALÒ (fermented rice with shrimp)
Price: P50 per 10 oz tub

🥙TAMALES🥙
Original kapampangan chicken tamales (savory rice cake with peanut sauce, meat and egg) - P50 for 1 pair.

Rekado style tamales (with additional toppings of ham and chorizo) - P60 for 1 pair.

💥NEW OPTIONS💥 HAVE TAMALES YOUR WAY (Starting September 1)
Yes, we hear you: Extra toppings available:
💟 Pork Tapa (add P20 to paired order = P70)
💟 Pork Tocino (add P20 to paired order = P70)
💟 Skinless Longanisa (Add P20 to paired order = P70)
💟 Hot and spicy with chili garlic(Free!)

Availability:
✅Satisfy your craving. Pick up at our house, PM one day ahead. We try to make our products available any day for you.
✅Batch delivery within Tuntungin on Saturdays.
✅Outside our barangay, transport charges (at cost) apply.
✅Special order/Paluto for party packs (PM for minimum quantity and delivery arrangements)

Visit and like our page for updates and to know more about our food.

Batchoy my style.

Broth: Boil a whole chicken, chorizo slices, liver with one whole red onion and salt. Note: in my experience boiling a whole chicken whole without cutting it into small pieces produces a tasty, balanced (not too oily, not too bland) broth and the tenderest chicken meat. In the same light, put in the whole onion whole, just peel off the outermost layer, but leave the next layers of dry onion. Chicken liver can be boiled with the other meats, but when using pork liver, put this in last. When meats are done, remove the meats and strain the soup. Add seasoning (ground black pepoer and one chicken bullion). Reduce as necessary. Normally, if you boil the meats long enough, reducing the broth is not necessary.

Add shredded chicken, chorizo and liver pieces, miki noodles, squash slices, set to boil until cooked. Add pepper, salt, sugar to taste. Sometimes I add a few slivers of ginger depending on my mood. Thicken soup with corn starch. Add in pechay leaves when soup boils, just before turning off the heat.

Assembly/ plating: In a bowl, whether in a serving bowl or individual bowls, put in julienne cut onion leeks first before pouring in the hot soup. After that, pour in the noodles, meat pieces and veggies. Garnish with crispy chicharon, crushed peanuts and one egg.

Thank you, customers for your continued patronage and helping me sustain my lockdown project.

For those who haven't, perhaps you'd like to try these special kapampangan delicacies:

Our products:
Buro - fermented rice sauce usually paired with boiled bahay kubo vegetables (okra, eggplant, long beans), raw mustasa, inihaw na delay or tilapia.
🐟Fish Buro ..........P50 per 10oz tub
🦐 Shrimp Buro ..........P50 per 10oz tub

Kapampangan Tamales (Bobotu)
- a savory palabok rice cake, all in one binalot meal with meats, eggs and a savory topping made from coconut cream and peanut paste.
🐔Original Chicken ............... P50 per order of 2
🐷Rekado ham and chorizo..P60 per order of 2

🌻SATISFY YOUR CRAVING ANY DAY OF THE WEEK🌻

Order one day ahead (cut-off 5PM) and receive your orders the next day (subject to availability of stocks).

✳Do not worry, even with MECQ , tuloy pa din ang free delivery within the following areas para hindi na po kayo lumabas: Purok 2, Hillside Village, Pleasant Village, Collegeville, LA Village.

✳For those areas outside our Purok, and elsewhere in Los Banjos, you can:
- pick up your orders at our place in 1988 Maligaya Drive, Tuntungin Putho Los Banos.
- delivery charge shall be according to the minimum fare to and from the delivery point.

PM us anytime. Like our page for product updates.

🔔SATISFY YOUR CRAVING!🔔

Tamales is great for breakfast! From Monday to Friday our products will be available for PICK UP/TAKE OUT. No minimum # of orders. PM the night before and we'll have it ready for you from 6:30AM onwards.

How:
✅PM us your order the day before (cut-off at 6PM)
✅Provide details: Item/variant/quantity/date and time of pick up
✅Pick up your order at our house:
1988 Maligaya Drive, Tuntungin Putho, Los Baños (first house on the left side going in)

If you can't pick up, don't worry, we will still make delivery rounds in our Barangay every Saturday and Sunday.

Our products:

🐟Fish / Shrimp Buro ..........P50 per 10oz tub

Kapampangan Tamales (Bobotu)
🐔Original Chicken ............... P50 per order of 2
🐷Rekado w/ ham and chorizo.P60 per order of 2

Home cooking is different when you make a business out of it. No matter how you try to be faithful to traditions, adjustments need to be made to balance taste preferences and maintain food quality.

I've been wondering why the kapampangan morcon is rarely sold outside restaurants. Until now. Fresh tomatoes don't mix well with meat. But that is what distinguishes the morcon from the regular embotido. At home you can eat it straight from the first cooking.

Extra steps we had to take to make sure our morcon is safe:
✅ freeze meat
✅ clean meat in brine
✅ cure meat overnight
✅ work meat in temperatures below 10 degrees C. Which means working over a bowl of ice, letting the meat stand in the chiller, and constantly dipping my hands in ice water.
✅ phosphate binder (less than 0.25%) to keep the meat from reacting with the tomato's acids.
✅ pre cook (saute) the tomato salsa
✅ freeze the cooked embotido, while waiting delivery.
✅ if customer wants a heated dish, then reheat just before delivery in tomato salsa.

These steps take 3 days to complete.
Day 1: Freeze
Day 2: Cure
Day 3: Assemble and cook
And reheating in sauce is an additional step to the above.

All these ensure we don't get into bad accidents.

The morcon will be available again next week in limited quantities.

Available on Friday, July 10 and Sunday July 12. Nag 2 days na po ng delivery para hindi po hirap sa kitchen.

🌷Your favorite tamales🌷
And by special request our tamales comes now with crunchy peanut bits, at no extra charge.

Choose from our variants
❤ Original chicken P50 per order of 2pcs
❤ Rekado with ham and chorizo P60 per order of 2pcs

Available in Tuntungin-Putho, free delivery

For special orders - minimum dozen pack of tamales
✅pick up at our house
✅delivery charge P50 in areas outside Tuntungin-Putho

😻For our buro loyalists:
Fish buro available on Sunday (limited stocks available, first to order basis)

🙋‍♀️UPDATE On our Menu🙋‍♀️

🥩NEW DISH
Morcon kapampangan style - savory ground meat roll around a core of chorizo, egg and cheese, with tomato (sarsiado) gravy.
Price: P125 per piece.

🌷FAVORITES🌷
BURO ASAN (fermented rice with fish)
BALÒ BALÒ (fermented rice with shrimp)
Price: P50 per 10 oz tub

🥙TAMALES🥙
Original kapampangan chicken tamales (savory rice cake with peanut sauce, meat and egg) - P50 per order of 2 pieces.

Rekado style tamales (with additional toppings of ham and chorizo) - P60 per order of 2 pieces.

💥NEW OPTIONS💥 TAMALES YOUR WAY
Yes, we hear you: Extra toppings
💟 Pork Tapa (add P20 to paired order = P70)
💟 Pork Tocino (add P20 to paired order = P70)
💟 Skinless Longanisa (Add P20 to paired order = P70)
💟 Hot and spicy with chili powder (Free!)

Availability:
✅Pick up at our house, PM one day ahead. products are always available
✅Batch delivery within Tuntungin on Saturdays
✅Special order (PM for minimum quantity and delivery arrangements)

PM for special orders or if you want to reserve for next week. PS, our buro is fermented for one week. You can also reserve the buro one week earlier para maka sigurado ng slot..

Visit our page to know more about our food.

💥NEW💥
MORCON 💥kapampangan version💥

Unlike the usual meat roll, this version has seasoned ground meat rolled around a core of chorizo, egg and cheese. It is not called embotido because it's more savory than sweet, rather, it is packed with a mix of flavors and textures that's in the typical Spanish morcon. Our dish comes with a tomato sarsiado gravy flavored from its own drippings. And is available chilled and packed in foil or warm and ready to eat in a plastic tub.

Price: P125.

Availability:
✅Pick-up
✅Batch deliveries (free) on Saturdays at Bgy Tuntungin
✅Special order minimum of 5 pieces = P600 plus P50 delivery charge if outside our Barangay. Order at least 2 days ahead.

Visit our page to know more about our food.

Today in the kitchen...

Travel may be limited. Our planned vacations out of town may have been stalled. But that doesn't mean the adventure should stop there.

💥Join us on a food adventure.💥

Let our food take you to a place that's made Filipino food so popular. Pampanga.

Like our page and help us curate unique rich tasting food that can only be uniquely Kapampangan.

My Father's Day Treat

My father was orphaned when he was young. And so his aunts took turns taking care of him. One of his favorite recollections was those early mornings when he wakes up before dawn. He would be told "Bliss, go wait for the fresh milk dealer outside, and buy a bottle". Those were magic words that would send him rushing out, because he knows he'll get his sweet treat, the "tibok tibok". Much like the Maja Blanca, but not quite. Because this jello like delicacy has the rich, creamy taste of fresh carabao's milk and a heavier texture that's somewhere in between Maja Blanca and bibinka.

Available on Father's Day.

♡♡♡♡♡

I used to prepare this for Tatay as his special treat during dialysis, because that was the only time he could have some when his kidneys started to fail. (Dairy products were prohibited for him.) That was the season he became picky with his food, wanting more of the food of his childhood. And how I came to know how to make them. He would critique my cooking, telling me it should look, taste, smell and feel a certain way. That was also the time I realized my father could cook, and cook very well.

This sums up the story around Blissful Days. The foods he craved for. And those days of waiting and hoping for an answer. Days of clinging on to God in prayer. Days of choosing gratitude and love. Yet bliss covered those days, for we knew that whatever the outcome, we were present, and God was present in our midst.



Thank you to all neighbors who were so fast to reserve this on our trial run. Although it was a bit expensive because of the cost of fresh carabao's milk in Los Baños. And we could only make so much kaya ubos agad. We will be looking at variants to lower the cost, make it affordable to more. Stay tuned for updates on our kitchen innovations.

Morcon or embotido? The debate continues. Its ground meat (usually a combination of beef and pork) rolled in "ampelya" a thin film lining the pig's intestine. The giveaway in the debate is the rekado of egg, cheese and chorizo in the center which is wrapped with ground meat. That's why it's called morcon. And the savory sauce made from the morcon's own drippings.

Coming soon in our menu.

Deliveries made yesterday! Thanks for continued patronage. Really, really, for a newbie in food like me, this community is awesome.

You may have noticed a change in the Tamales and Buro. We realized people were buying our products for consumption later, which was not my original intent. I grew up with as aunties who buy them fresh in the market at dawn then I would devour on it immediately for breakfast.

For the tamales, it's a lot more tasty and soft. This is because we made some changes to improve shelf life and keeping quality.
✅ We added vinegar to break down the starch. ✅ We are also now using pasteurized coconut milk.
✅ We upped the salt, sugar and pepper to offset the sour taste of the vinegar.
✅ We doubled the cooking time to 1hr 30 minutes (previous was 40 minutes). And continuous steaming until just before delivery. (Which was why we could not deliver as early as promised).

For the Buro, we are attempting for longer storage life:
✅We used more salt
✅Added glutenous starch midway of fermentation.

This week in our test kitchen, we'll be trying out morcon kapampangan. Please watch out for that next.

We will not be getting orders for Saturday, as there will be more experimentation in the kitchen. But our outputs for this next week and Saturday (for the buro) will be FREE for willing taste testers. This is for those who have bought from us in the past (for honest comments and comparison). Yung mga taga malapit lang po..(pleasant, collegeville) so I don't have to spend on transportation. Or you can pick up samples at the house. Limited stocks lang po kme this week (1 dozen buro, 1 dozen tamales). PM me if interested to taste test.

Last, we take your feedback seriously. These are valuable inputs that will help us move forward into greater things. You are much welcome to PM me comments.

STORING THE TAMALES

The key ingredients of our tamales dough are rice flour, coconut milk and ground peanuts. The dough is precooked, assembled with other ingredients then steamed between 120-140°C for 40 minutes.

We deliver them to our customers warm and within the hour of cooking. Since some customers have been storing tamales for consumption later in the week, we advise the following:

Depending on room temperatures and relative humidity, the tamales keeps well in room temp within 4-6 hours after cooking. However, for food safety, please reference shelf life to cooked rice with the following prescriptions:

✅At room temperature: max 2 hours at 28-30°C
✅Refrigerator shelf: 4-6 days at max 10°C (refrigerate immediately within 2 hours of delivery).
✅Freezer: constantly at -4-0°C in an air tight container and it will keep for months. To serve, thaw the tamales then reheat in a steamer until soft.

Reference: https://www.stilltasty.com/fooditems/index/18723

Are you feeling like you want to go on a food adventure - wanting to try something you haven't eaten before? Don't let quarantine deprive you of your gustatory explorations. Let our food bring you to Pampanga. Our food is never dull. Each bite is a sensation in itself, sour, tangy, savoury, sweet, salty, spicy, tart. It's a sensation for the tongue.

Buro (fermented) is fermented rice, mixed with either shrimp or fish. There are two variants of this: Burong Asan (Fish) and Balò balò (shrimp).

Tamales or Boboto (in kapampangan) is a savory rice cake flavored with coconut milk and peanut sauce and topped with meat and boiled eggs.

We deliver them warm, freshly cooked from our kitchen.

Some photos here were taken by our lasang-ulit customers. Dacal a salamat que cau!

Nanu pang pantunan u? Order na pu cau!

Tamales is originally a Mexican dish made of rice flour base, can be topped with meat and salted egg. A complete meal, it can be served for breakfast and dinner. The Tamales to Kapampangans is a dish we learned from Mexicans. It is sometimes called Boboto which means to vote. According to some kapampangan trivias, this dish was inspired by women who were left at home while the men went out and voted. They would gather and make this kakanin.

The Kapampangan Tamales is made of steamed rice flour seasoned with peanuts and palabok, sauce topped with egg and shredded chicken.

💥NEW VARIANT💥
Rekado style with additional ham and chorizo.

Price:
Original chicken tamales - P50 per order of 2 pcs
Rekado style tamales - P60 per order of 2 pcs.

Availability:
✅Pick-up Tuntungin, LBL (PM ahead if may stocks)
✅Batch deliveries (free) on Saturdays around Bgy Tuntungin
✅Special order 1 dozen (24 pieces) = P600 for original recipe, P720 for rekado style. Order 2 days ahead.
✅P50 delivery charge if outside our Barangay.

Burong Hipon (a.k.a. Balò Balò) is a popular Pampango sauce made of with fermented rice and shrimps. Its sharp and acidic taste gives a delightfully salty and sour sensation in the tongue, much like green mangoes, guaranteed to leave you craving for more. This goes well with grilled fish, boiled eggplant, okra and ampalaya.

Our buro was patiently fermented for a week, then afterwards sauteed in ginger, tomatoes garlic and onions.

Also available is Burong Asan which is fermented rice with fish.

Price: 50 pesos in a 10oz round container.

Availability:
✅pickup at home Bgy. Tuntungin-Putho, Los Baños (PM ahead if may stocks available)
✅batch deliveries around Bgy. Tuntungin Putho on Saturdays
✅Delivery charge of P50 within LB if outside our barangay.