Empanada

Ingredients:
Ground meat (pork or beef)
Onions
Carrots
Salt and pepper
All purpose flour
Eggs

Procedure:

1. Chop carrots and onions into bits, season with salt and pepper.
2. Mix meat with the chopped carrots and onions.
3. Beat egg and mix with flour, add a little water to make the dough.
4. Once dough is elastic, flatten dough into 5 or 6 inches diameter circle.
5. Wrap mixture to dough forming empanada or dumpling.
6. Deep fry.

Tuna Melody

Ingredients:
1 can cream of celery soup
1 c. frozen mixed sugars
1 can Century Tunain water
3/4 to 1 can milk
1 or 2 tsp. old bay
3 or 4 c. cooked rice
1 tsp. butter or margarine, optional

Procedure:
1. Cook vegetables per instructions. Drain and set aside.
2. Drain tuna and add to vegetables.
3. Mix milk, soup, old bay and butter.
4. Add to tuna and vegetables.
5. Heat until mixture starts to boil.
6. Pour over individual servings of rice or toast.

Source: Free Filipino Recipes

Halo Halo

1 ripe large banana
2 ripe mangoes or 1 cup canned ripe mango
1 cup firm gelatin set into gel and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
1 cup canned ripe jackfruit
1/2 cup sweet corn or chick peas (garbanzos)
1 cup young shredded coconut, fresh or canned
1 cup cooked sweet yams or (ube halaya) glutinous purple yam, cut into 1-inch cubes
2 cup shaved ice
2 cup milk
4 scoops of favorite ice cream
1/2 cup chopped peanuts or rice krispies

Procedure:
1. Peel mangoes and slice the meat into 1/2-inch cubes. Discard the seeds.
2. Prepare 4 tall glasses. Divide each ingredient into 4 equal parts.
3. In each glass place 1/4 of each ingredient, adding layer by layer starting with corn or chick peas, cooked sweet yams, jackfruit, bananas, coconut, and gelatin.
4. Top with 1/2 cup shaved ice.
5. Pour 1/4 cup milk over shaved ice and top with a scoop of ice cream.
6. Sprinkle nuts or rice krispies over it.