Pancit Tsalap!

Saute onions and garlic, add kikiam and squid balls (sliced into half),simmer for 5 minutes. Then add pork in strips. Add a cube of chicken. Pour 2 cups of water. Add soy sauce. Simmer for 10 minutes. Add the veggies: cabbage, carrots and baguio beans. Simmer for 5 minutes. Add vetsin for the umami taste. Then mix with pancit noodles.

Chicken Sitti

This is originally Sitti's recipe, yes the Bossa Nova singer. After watching her guesting stint at Spoon (net-25 cooking show hosted by Janice) i got interested with her recipe. The difference with my version is that I added more herbs and made Star Anis my obedient ingredient.

Deep fry whole chicken. Once chicken is golden brown, drain excess oil then put in a big plate. In a wok, saute 6 tomatoes and 4 onions. Sprinkle with black pepper, salt and vetsin.Then add 3 tbs of vinegar, 5 tbs of soy sauce, 10 star anis, 3 laurel leaf, 1 tbs of sugar. Add a cup of water then simmer for 5 minutes. After that pour the mixture to the chicken. enjoy!

Ira's Tacos

Ira was craving for some tacos since last week. It was only yesterday that i granted her wish. So off to supermarket on black saturday, bought ingredients for my daughter's meryenda.

Ira's Tacos .. Saute half kilo of ground pork with white onions (thinly sliced). Add beef cube and black pepper. Simmer for 10 minutes. Add 250ml of tomatoe sauce. Add salt. Let it simmer again for 5 minutes. Done. In a separate dish, chop/slice some tomatoes and cabbage.Grate cheese and put in a separate dish. Prepare your tacos by putting all the ingredients. Enjoy!

Crispy Porkchops

Marinate porkchop with the ff ingredients: salt, pepper, sugar, lemon, oyster sauce, soy sauce and rosemary. To fry: coat with flour, soak in beaten egg, coat with bread crumbs then fry.

Homemade Sardinas

Spending Holyweek is not easy for some of us specially to those who religiously follow fasting and abstinence. I would like to share with you my mommy's recipe of sardines. Instead of serving fish and vegetables this holyweek , why don't u surprise your family and loved ones with your own sardinas!

Prepare 1kilo galunggong (make sure it is clean, remove bituks, heads and tails cut off), 500ml tomato sauce,1 cup of water, 3/4cup of oil (vegetable oil will do pero mas ok pag olive oil), 3tsp of salt, 2 tbs vinegar, 5pcs of pickles (sliced), 5 siling labuyo crushed (remove seeds), 2 carrots (sliced), 3 laurel leaves, 1 tsp of black pepper, 1 tsp of vetsin for the umami taste. Place all the ingredients in a pressure cooker.Make sure that you arrange the fish in rows. Cook for an hour in a moderate heat.Happy eating!

Ginataang Alimango with Sitaw

After a long silence, Im back. Done with checking exams, preparing notes and editing papers i finally have time updating my blog. "Gata" is famous among bicolano dishes. Aside from its spicy and hot flavor, the presence of "gata" distinguishes bicol dishes from other pinoy foodie. Here's my first "gata" menu - Ginataang alimango wid Sitaw..

Saute garlic, ginger and onions. Add the alimango.Season with shrimp paste (locally termed as "balaw" or "dinilan") and pepper. Add a cup of water then simmer for 10 minutes or until crab changes to orange color. Then add sitaw. When it is tender, add a mug of "kakang gata". Simmer for 5 minutes or until its creamy. Add some sili.

Straight from the Pan - Sweet and Spicy Adobo & Chopsuey

CHOPSUEY
Saute sliced pork with garlic and onions. Add chicken cube. Season with salt and pepper. Add 2cupsof water and let it simmer for 10 minutes. Add sayote and baguio beans.When it boils add cabbage,carrots and cauliflower. Mix all the ingredients and let it simmer for 5minutes. Make sure not to overcook the veggies.Add kinchay and bell pepper. Dissolve a tsp of flour in a water and pour it to our chopsuey.This will make our sabaw malapot. Add a little fish sauce and vetsin.Done.Top it with quail eggs.

SWEET AND SPICY ADOBO
Put 1/2k sliced liempo in a pan.Add 3 cups of water.Combine with toyo (tebarts pwede na half bottle lang, same size kang gin) , black pepper, onions,garlic, sugar and 5tbs of vinegar. Let it boil. Then lower the fire then simmer for 30minutes. Once pork is tender,adjust heat from low to moderate until adobo dries up a little. Top it with sliced siling labuyo. In a separate pan,prepare french fries. Put this as sidings when adobo is served.