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Scrambled Eggs with Malunggay
The 7-minute weeknight base — malunggay fills the calcium gap left by going casein-free.
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The diet changed.
Dinner didn't have to.
Adobo. Sinigang. Champorado. Baon. The food that feels like home — rebuilt for our family's gluten-free, casein-free and soy-free kitchen.
Not a wellness brand. Not a perfect meal plan. Just the dishes we actually cook for Kenzo, the swaps that made them workable, and the lessons we wish someone had handed us on day one.
50 dishesFilipino-firstGFCFSF family kitchenPhilippine grocery friendly
Tonight's question“What can Kenzo eat that the whole family will actually enjoy?”
50family recipes
39Filipino dishes & snacks
3ingredients we work around
1rule: food should still feel like home
Start with the problem you have tonight
A kitchen built for real parent questions.
You don't need to read 50 recipes in order. Start with dinner, the pantry, or baon — then explore from there.
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I need dinner without a project.
Look for simple bases, soups and weeknight dishes that use familiar ingredients and minimal substitutions.
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I don't know what replaces what.
The hardest part is usually the pantry. See the small set of substitutions that unlocks most Filipino dishes.
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I need baon Kenzo will actually eat.
Browse bars, cookies, pancakes and snacks designed to survive school bags, selective appetites and busy mornings.
The philosophy
Restriction shouldn't erase culture.
When a child's diet changes, parents already have enough to learn. We didn't want food to become another place where Kenzo felt separate — or where our family stopped eating like ourselves. So we kept the dishes and changed only what we needed to.
Keep the dishStart from adobo, sinigang, tinola and the foods your family already knows.
Change the minimumOne or two smart substitutions are better than turning dinner into laboratory work.
Feed the familyThe goal is not “special food.” The goal is dinner everyone can sit down and eat together.
The small pantry that changed everything
You don't need fifty specialty ingredients.
Most of our cooking became manageable once we stopped thinking in terms of “forbidden food” and started thinking in terms of a handful of dependable substitutions.
Instead of soy sauce
Coconut aminos
Our go-to for adobo, bistek, pancit, marinades and quick pan sauces. Always label-check individual brands.
Instead of dairy
Coconut milk & coconut cream
Useful in desserts, champorado, mashed potato and dishes where richness matters more than dairy flavor.
Instead of wheat
Rice, cassava & corn
Rice noodles, rice flour, cassava flour and corn tortillas cover a surprising amount of everyday cooking.
Instead of mystery seasoning
Homemade stock cubes
Batch broth, freeze it in portions, and you control exactly what goes into soups, sauces and noodle dishes.
The collection
What's for dinner?
Search all 50 dishes by name, ingredient, cuisine or category. Full step-by-step recipes are being added; every card below is part of the cookbook roadmap.
50 recipes
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Tortang Talong
Eggplant omelet — charred over flame or in the air fryer. Batch the eggplants on Sunday.
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Pan-Fried Bangus with Garlic Kangkong
Crisp-skin bangus, garlic kangkong finished with coconut aminos instead of toyo.
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Monggo Guisado with Malunggay
The batch dish. Cook Sunday, freeze in 1-cup portions, reheat in 3 minutes all week.
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Chicken Tinola
No changes needed — tinola is already GFCFSF as traditionally made.
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Sinigang na Baboy
Fresh tamarind, not the packaged mix. Full vegetable load — gabi, okra, eggplant, kangkong.
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Nilagang Baka
Clear beef broth, saba banana, corn, cabbage. Naturally GFCFSF, zero changes.
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Bulalo
Beef shank and bone marrow — scoop the marrow onto rice. Naturally protocol-safe.
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Arroz Caldo
Ginger-turmeric chicken rice porridge — naturally GFCFSF, good for off days.
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Kansi
Bacolod's answer to sinigang — beef shank soup soured with batwan or tamarind.
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Kimchi Pork Sinigang
Tamarind's sour note plus kimchi fermented depth. Label-check the kimchi for soy.
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Pork Adobo with Potato
Adobo without the toyo — coconut aminos, cane vinegar, fried potato. Tastes better next day.
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Pork Menudo
No liver, no hotdog, no Knorr. Tomato, potato, carrot, patis — the honest version.
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Pork Liempo (Lechon Kawali)
Boiled then deep-fried in coconut oil. Skin blisters. Protocol-safe dipping sauce.
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Ground Beef Adobo
Same adobo method, ground beef, diced potato. The fastest weeknight version.
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Picadillo / Giniling
Ground beef or pork with potato, carrot, peas. Coconut aminos stands in for the toyo splash.
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Caldereta
Beef chuck braised in tomato sauce. No cheese, no liver spread — just the real braise.
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Mechado
Calamansi-marinated beef with tomato sauce, potato, and carrot. Coconut aminos for the soy.
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Kare-Kare (Shortcut)
Peanut butter sauce without the bagoong. Beef shank, annatto, rice flour thickener.
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Burger Steak with Mushroom Gravy
Mashed rice for breadcrumbs. Cornstarch gravy, coconut aminos — no wheat, no dairy.
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Bistek Tagalog
Calamansi and coconut aminos marinade, caramelized onion rings. The soy-free version of a classic.
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Beef Salpicao
Crispy garlic, hot beef cubes, coconut aminos. Butter swapped, Worcestershire skipped.
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Chicken Inasal
Bacolod-style. The marinade is vinegar and citrus anyway — already protocol-safe.
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Pan-Seared Steak
Salt, pepper, coconut oil, hot pan. A simple pan sauce with coconut aminos finishes it.
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Bicol Express
Pork simmered in coconut milk and cream. No bagoong — patis carries the salt.
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Gising-Gising
String beans in coconut milk with ground pork. Fastest vegetable serving in the collection.
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Pancit Palabok
Sauce built from scratch — no packaged mix, no Knorr cubes. Rice noodles already GF.
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Pancit Bihon
Coconut aminos for the toyo, skip the oyster sauce. Bihon is rice-based and already safe.
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Champorado
Malagkit rice and cocoa — "glutinous" is the texture, not gluten. Coconut milk on top.
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Beef Pepper Rice
Paper-thin beef, hot rice, coconut aminos sauce. Sizzle at the table. Two swaps total.
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GFCFSF Mashed Potato
Coconut oil and warm coconut milk. Indistinguishable from the classic — potato takes whatever fat you give it.
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Homemade Bouillon (Frozen Stock Cubes)
Every commercial cube has hidden wheat or soy. Batch-made stock, frozen in ice cube trays.
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No-Bake Cocoa Date Bites
Zero cooking. Dates, desiccated coconut, cocoa. The most baon-stable snack — doesn't melt in a hot bag.
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Cocoa-Banana Bars
Cassava flour, banana, coconut oil. Baked in the Breville. Wrap individually and freeze for school.
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Cocoa Rice-Crisp Bars
GF puffed rice bound with coconut oil and syrup. Check the label for malt flavoring.
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Cocoa-Banana Nice Cream
Frozen banana blended with cocoa and coconut milk. Zero dairy, zero added sugar.
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Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cassava flour, Auro Chocolate (Davao, soy-lecithin free). Holds up all day as baon.
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Flourless Cocoa Peanut Butter Cookies
No flour at all — peanut butter, coconut sugar, egg, cocoa. Fastest cookie in the collection.
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Coconut-Cocoa Macaroons
Dense, chewy, no crumb. Travels exceptionally well as baon.
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Bak Kut Teh
Pork rib soup with white pepper and garlic. Naturally GFCFSF — zero changes needed.
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Tom Yum Soup
Lemongrass, galangal, lime, patis. Fish sauce is already in your pantry — this one's easy.
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Pad Krapao (Thai Basil Chicken)
Ground chicken, garlic, holy basil (dahon ng balanoy), coconut aminos. On the table in 12 minutes.
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Pad Thai
Rice noodles already GF. Your existing GFCFSF pad thai sauce does the work.
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Oyakodon (Chicken & Egg Rice Bowl)
Chicken simmered in broth and coconut aminos, half-set egg poured over rice. A completely different egg experience.
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Dakgalbi (Korean Spicy Chicken)
Gochujang, sweet potato, cabbage, chicken. Check the label — pure gochujang is naturally GF.
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Ground Beef Tacos
Corn tortillas are already GF. Skip the cheese and sour cream, add guacamole — almost nothing to change.
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Simple Roast Chicken
Salt, pepper, garlic, coconut oil. Zero protocol changes. One Sunday cook, three weekday meals.
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Simplified Pho
Star anise, cinnamon, charred ginger and onion. All aromatics from any palengke. Rice noodles already safe.
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Aglio e Olio (Garlic Pasta)
GF pasta, garlic, olive oil, patis in place of parmesan. Four ingredients, 15 minutes.
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2-Ingredient Banana Pancakes
Banana and egg. No flour, no dairy, no soy. Naturally GFCFSF — nothing to change.
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Food is care — but it should still feel like family.
Kenzo's Kitchen is the practical companion to Kenzo's Journey: what we cook, what we swap, what works in our home, and what we're still learning. Our experience is one family's experience, not a prescription for another child.