This KC Chiefs wife is building her own fan club by cooking Filipino food at home
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- Maureen Remigio shares Filipino recipes via Instagram, attracting 82,000 fans.
- Her videos blend cultural dishes with NFL life, boosting husband Nikko’s profile.
- Popular meals like pochero and sisig showcase tradition, warmth and personal flair.
While the Kansas City Chiefs work on beefing up their fan base at home and abroad, one player’s wife is busy on Instagram building her own fan club — in her kitchen.
With thousands of people watching and liking her cooking videos, we wouldn’t be surprised if the Food Network calls up Maureen Remigio at some point.
The wife of Chiefs wide receiver Nikko Remigio has been creating and sharing cooking videos since training camp. Over the summer she whipped up lunches, packed them up and took them to her hubby in St. Joseph, where the young couple shared homemade kimchi fried rice, snuggles and hugs like rom-com stars.
“Best believe I’m spoiling my husband always,” she wrote on a video of one of those trips to camp.
Many of the pre-and-post game meals and weekend dinners she prepares are Filipino dishes. She is from the Philippines, where she is a track star. Nikko’s father is Filipino.
In her latest video posted last week, she invited her nearly 82,000 Instagram followers to “come make some pochero with me!”
Pochero is a hearty, “sweet and savory” Filipino stew inspired by a Spanish dish, she explained. “We swapped some of their ingredients to our own ingredients, which is saba, which is a banana, and some sweet potato,” she said. “It’s like a balance of chicken savory stew with a little bit of sweetness.”
She said she couldn’t remember the last time she had the dish. When she started craving it a few weeks ago, she found out Nikko had never had it. “So it was the perfect time to make him try a new Filipino dish,” she said, though judging by his face when he eats her food she’s not forcing him to try anything.
The next few minutes show her searing chicken that’s been marinated in paprika, salt and pepper, and sauteeing onions and tomatoes.
“i was getting super giddy when I was making this dish because I almost remembered my childhood and how my aunties would make this and bring it to our house and it always just nice to have,” she said.
After an hour of boiling the chicken, vegetables and chicken broth, along with bananas and carrots, she served the stew over steamy white rice.
“You guys this was so good. You need to try this,” she encouraged viewers before the recipe flashed on the screen.
They didn’t really need coaxing.
“Omg this!!! My favorite.. I gotta go try to make it now! You make it seem so easy,” one follower commented.
“I love pochero. Gonna make it this weekend!” another wrote.
One woman wanted to visit Remigio’s kitchen while another enjoyed seeing Remigio represent her part of the world, writing, “another Filipino woman in the NFL life. I stan.”
In another video she cooks her husband’s dinner request for sisig, known as the Philippines’ comfort food. This is where we learn that she likes spicy food, as she adds serrano chili peppers to the pork belly dish.
The couple met more than two years ago through their shared speed coach. She moved from the Philippines to Kansas City when he signed with the team as a free agent.
Remigio lets her followers see her life as an NFL WAG beyond the kitchen, sharing posts about her workouts on the track — “nothing more peaceful than going to practice and running my heart out” — her make-up prep, game-day fits, beach vacations, dining around KC and spotlighting their beloved rescued pets.
Good food. Cute couple with big hearts. (They gave away tickets to the home season opener last weekend.) A house full of rescued cats and dogs.
On second thought, this sounds like a Hallmark movie.
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