kitchen.kenzosjourney.com

Real Filipino food,
made for Kenzo.

50 dishes — adobo, sinigang, champorado, cookies, pad thai — rebuilt so they're gluten-free, casein-free, and soy-free. Every ingredient from a Filipino grocery store.

☀️ Kenzo 💗 Mama 💙 Daddy
50 recipes
2 cuisines (Filipino + International)
3 things removed (gluten, casein, soy)
0 specialty imports needed
Why this cookbook exists

We weren't going to let the protocol take his favorite food from him.

When Kenzo was diagnosed with Cerebral Folate Deficiency and we started the GFCFSF protocol under his care team at CreateHealth Manila, the first real question wasn't about supplements. It was about sinigang. About adobo. About champorado on a rainy afternoon.

Most of these dishes just needed a swap or two — coconut aminos for toyo, cane vinegar already in the pantry, coconut milk instead of evaporated milk. This collection is what we built over months of cooking, testing, and failing deliciously.

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The collection

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Full ingredients and instructions coming soon. Tell us if you're interested.

Filipino

Classic dishes rebuilt for the GFCFSF protocol. Same flavors, same ingredients from any palengke.

Quick Everyday Bases

Scrambled Eggs with Malunggay

The 7-minute weeknight base — malunggay fills the calcium gap left by going casein-free.

Tortang Talong

Eggplant omelet — charred over flame or in the air fryer. Batch the eggplants on Sunday.

Pan-Fried Bangus with Garlic Kangkong

Crisp-skin bangus, garlic kangkong finished with coconut aminos instead of toyo.

Monggo Guisado with Malunggay

The batch dish. Cook Sunday, freeze in 1-cup portions, reheat in 3 minutes all week.

Soups

Chicken Tinola

No changes needed — tinola is already GFCFSF as traditionally made.

Sinigang na Baboy

Fresh tamarind, not the packaged mix. Full vegetable load — gabi, okra, eggplant, kangkong.

Nilagang Baka

Clear beef broth, saba banana, corn, cabbage. Naturally GFCFSF, zero changes.

Bulalo

Beef shank and bone marrow — scoop the marrow onto rice. Naturally protocol-safe.

Arroz Caldo

Ginger-turmeric chicken rice porridge — naturally GFCFSF, good for off days.

Kansi

Bacolod's answer to sinigang — beef shank soup soured with batwan or tamarind.

Kimchi Pork Sinigang

Tamarind's sour note plus kimchi fermented depth. Label-check the kimchi for soy.

Pork & Beef Braises

Pork Adobo with Potato

Adobo without the toyo — coconut aminos, cane vinegar, fried potato. Tastes better next day.

Pork Menudo

No liver, no hotdog, no Knorr. Tomato, potato, carrot, patis — the honest version.

Pork Liempo (Lechon Kawali)

Boiled then deep-fried in coconut oil. Skin blisters. Protocol-safe dipping sauce.

Ground Beef Adobo

Same adobo method, ground beef, diced potato. The fastest weeknight version.

Picadillo / Giniling

Ground beef or pork with potato, carrot, peas. Coconut aminos stands in for the toyo splash.

Caldereta

Beef chuck braised in tomato sauce. No cheese, no liver spread — just the real braise.

Mechado

Calamansi-marinated beef with tomato sauce, potato, and carrot. Coconut aminos for the soy.

Kare-Kare (Shortcut)

Peanut butter sauce without the bagoong. Beef shank, annatto, rice flour thickener.

Burger Steak with Mushroom Gravy

Mashed rice for breadcrumbs. Cornstarch gravy, coconut aminos — no wheat, no dairy.

Pan-Seared & Grilled

Bistek Tagalog

Calamansi and coconut aminos marinade, caramelized onion rings. The soy-free version of a classic.

Beef Salpicao

Crispy garlic, hot beef cubes, coconut aminos. Butter swapped, Worcestershire skipped.

Chicken Inasal

Bacolod-style. The marinade is vinegar and citrus anyway — already protocol-safe.

Pan-Seared Steak

Salt, pepper, coconut oil, hot pan. A simple pan sauce with coconut aminos finishes it.

Coconut Milk Dishes

Bicol Express

Pork simmered in coconut milk and cream. No bagoong — patis carries the salt.

Gising-Gising

String beans in coconut milk with ground pork. Fastest vegetable serving in the collection.

Noodles

Pancit Palabok

Sauce built from scratch — no packaged mix, no Knorr cubes. Rice noodles already GF.

Pancit Bihon

Coconut aminos for the toyo, skip the oyster sauce. Bihon is rice-based and already safe.

Rice Dishes

Champorado

Malagkit rice and cocoa — "glutinous" is the texture, not gluten. Coconut milk on top.

Beef Pepper Rice

Paper-thin beef, hot rice, coconut aminos sauce. Sizzle at the table. Two swaps total.

Sides & Extras

GFCFSF Mashed Potato

Coconut oil and warm coconut milk. Indistinguishable from the classic — potato takes whatever fat you give it.

Homemade Bouillon (Frozen Stock Cubes)

Every commercial cube has hidden wheat or soy. Batch-made stock, frozen in ice cube trays.

Desserts & Baon Snacks

No-Bake Cocoa Date Bites

Zero cooking. Dates, desiccated coconut, cocoa. The most baon-stable snack — doesn't melt in a hot bag.

Cocoa-Banana Bars

Cassava flour, banana, coconut oil. Baked in the Breville. Wrap individually and freeze for school.

Cocoa Rice-Crisp Bars

GF puffed rice bound with coconut oil and syrup. Check the label for malt flavoring.

Cocoa-Banana Nice Cream

Frozen banana blended with cocoa and coconut milk. Zero dairy, zero added sugar.

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

Cassava flour, Auro Chocolate (Davao, soy-lecithin free). Holds up all day as baon.

Flourless Cocoa Peanut Butter Cookies

No flour at all — peanut butter, coconut sugar, egg, cocoa. Fastest cookie in the collection.

Coconut-Cocoa Macaroons

Dense, chewy, no crumb. Travels exceptionally well as baon.

International

Dishes from 7 cuisines, adapted for the GFCFSF protocol. Ingredients sourceable in Davao City and QC.

Chinese

Bak Kut Teh

Pork rib soup with white pepper and garlic. Naturally GFCFSF — zero changes needed.

Thai

Tom Yum Soup

Lemongrass, galangal, lime, patis. Fish sauce is already in your pantry — this one's easy.

Pad Krapao (Thai Basil Chicken)

Ground chicken, garlic, holy basil (dahon ng balanoy), coconut aminos. On the table in 12 minutes.

Pad Thai

Rice noodles already GF. Your existing GFCFSF pad thai sauce does the work.

Japanese

Oyakodon (Chicken & Egg Rice Bowl)

Chicken simmered in broth and coconut aminos, half-set egg poured over rice. A completely different egg experience.

Korean

Dakgalbi (Korean Spicy Chicken)

Gochujang, sweet potato, cabbage, chicken. Check the label — pure gochujang is naturally GF.

Mexican

Ground Beef Tacos

Corn tortillas are already GF. Skip the cheese and sour cream, add guacamole — almost nothing to change.

Western

Simple Roast Chicken

Salt, pepper, garlic, coconut oil. Zero protocol changes. One Sunday cook, three weekday meals.

Vietnamese

Simplified Pho

Star anise, cinnamon, charred ginger and onion. All aromatics from any palengke. Rice noodles already safe.

Italian

Aglio e Olio (Garlic Pasta)

GF pasta, garlic, olive oil, patis in place of parmesan. Four ingredients, 15 minutes.

International Desserts

2-Ingredient Banana Pancakes

Banana and egg. No flour, no dairy, no soy. Naturally GFCFSF — nothing to change.

Full recipes coming
for families like yours.

Ingredients, step-by-step instructions, GFCFSF swap notes, storage tips, and Kenzo's honest verdict on each one. We're building this for every Filipino family who's been handed a dietary protocol and doesn't know where to start.

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Not medical advice. Always consult your care team before changing a child's diet.