Pritong Talong

Fried eggplant is very easy to prepare, all we need to do is wash and slice the eggplant to your desired size then heat the oil and fry it until golden brown, remove from the oil, make your dipping sauce and serve it. Simple yet satisfying.

Kinilaw na hipon

Today my sister bought shrimps that are so fresh ( still alive) that's why we decided to have some kinilaw, we enjoyed eating it, yummy! If this is alive then it is a jumping salad but its not.

Inihaw na Bangus

Milkfish (bangus) is the national fish of the Philippines. It is a good source of omega-3 fatty acids, which are associated with decreased blood triglyceride levels, reduced blood pressure, enhanced immune function and an improvement in arthritis symptoms. I grilled this because it's been a long time that I  have not eaten "inihaw na Bangus". What is your favorite dipping sauce for this?.

Inantala

If you will continue cooking inantala it will become chicharon

Inantala is an Ilokano dish, popular as pasalubong from Nueva Ecija. It is called "inantala" because you delayed the process of chicharon. Inantala can be kept in a refrigerator for few months and you can fry it anytime to make into chicharon. Fresh Chicharon all the time :-).

Ingredients:
1/2 Kilo Pork Skin ( slice to your desired size)
2 litres oil
salt to taste

Procedure:
1. Sprinkle the pork skin with salt then heat the oil, when it's hot put the pork skin and stir then remove quickly.
2. Wait until the oil is hot again then put the pork skin and stir, when it floats, lower the heat ( the lowest that you can) then wait until the pork skin will settle at the bottom of the pan or pot.

3. When the pork skin already settled, increase the heat to medium then stir and wait until the pork skin floats again, once floated, lower the heat and wait until it settles at the bottom, do this process around 4 times.

4. After few times of repeating you will notice that the texture changed into something like "chicharon" when we reached that stage that's it! Remove from oil and let cool, you can keep it and fry  it anytime you want to eat chicharon this is really delicious.

Inantala

Inantala with fats and meat

Tinolang Tahong

I cooked this today because I craved for it, since there is no red tide alert, I grabbed the opportunity and enjoyed this delicious mussel soup.

Ingredients for 4 servings
1/2 kilo mussels ( tahong)
thumb size ginger ( cut into strips)
1 small onion
3 cloves garlic
3 cups water
spring onion
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic, ginger and onion then add the mussels and stir well.
2. Add the boiling water, then simmer for a minute, add salt and pepper then simmer for 5 minutes or until done, put the spring onion and turn off the heat.
3. Serve hot with rice.

Misua with Patola

Misua is a thin noodles made from flour that is delicious to make into soup, there are different ways to make misua soup but one of the common one is with sponge gourd or ptola.

Bangus Belly Steak

The best for the whole family. This milkfish dish is so yummy, so make sure that you have enough rice for everybody.

Mussels with Oyster Sauce

Mussels that's so flavorful with oyster sauce.

Ingredients for 4 servings:
1/2 kilo mussels (tahong)
1 medium size tomato
1 small size onion
3 cloves garlic
3 tablespoons oyster sauce
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic, then the tomato and onion, add the mussels and stir.
2. Simmer while stirring every now and then until cooked. ( Around 5 minutes)
3. Add the oyster sauce then mix well,  dash with salt and pepper to taste, simmer for a minute then turn off the heat.
4. Serve it hot.

Bopis

Today we cooked lechon ( whole roasted pig) and I asked the butcher to give me the innards that I can use for "bopis".  One of the ingredients for bopis is lungs but since most of my siblings will not eat it, I decided not to include it. Here is my simple way of cooking bopis.

Ingredients:
1 piece pork's heart ( boiled and chopped)
1/2 kilo pork's intestine ( fully cleaned, boiled and chopped)
1/4 kilo pork's liver ( chopped)
1 big tomato (diced)
1 small carrot ( minced)
1/2 cup minced radish
3 cloves garlic (minced)
thumb size ginger (minced)
1 onion (minced)
3 tablespoons vinegar
3 tablespoons soy sauce
2 laurel/bay leaves
chopped chili according to your taste
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure
1. Sauté garlic, ginger, tomato and onion then add the pork's heart, liver and intestines, increase the heat, then give it a good stir.
2. Add all the ingredients then simmer until fully cooked stirring every now and then.
3. Serve hot and do not forget to smile :-)

Tapioca Fruit Cocktail Salad

A refreshing salad that I made for a family friend that I visited recently. It's their first time to taste a tapioca pearl salad and they were all amazed how yummy it is.

Blanched Camote Tops

I always like camote tops salad specially when it is raw, but some of my friends do not like it raw so I blanched it. The best when paired with fried or grilled meat or fish.

Tinolang Bangus

Simple and easy to cook but the soup is very delicious, I learned this from my mother. I love the taste of this light soup dish specially when the milkfish is so fresh, the flavor of the soup is too good to resist.

Gingered Crab

A simple crab dish that is pungent and aromatic because of the ginger that will surely make your taste buds excited :-).

Tulingan Paksiw with Pork

Somebody emailed me requesting this recipe, "Tulingan Paksiw with Pork" this is yummier than the ordinary paksiw, the vinegar and spices blended well with the pork making it tastes excellent! Try it.

Ingredients:
2 pieces Tulingan = skipjack Tuna ( sliced to your desired size)
1/4 kilo pork belly
3/4 cup vinegar
4 cloves garlic ( crushed)
1 onion ( diced)
1/2 teaspoon peppercorn (pamintang buo)
thumb size ginger( strips)
some chili
salt to taste

Procedure:
1. In a pan put all the ingredients and let it boil, then simmer over low fire  until cooked.

2. If the taste of the vinegar is so strong, you can add a little water.
3. Simmer for few  minutes or until done.
4. Serve it with rice.

No Bake Durian Pie

Sniff, sniff, do you smell something? It's the Durian at the back of our house, it's already ripe because you can smell it anywhere. My family made it into a very delicious pie for my blog :-). I love you all.

Crust Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup powdered Graham Crackers
1/2 cup melted butter

Crust Procedure:
1. Mix the powdered Graham crackers and melted butter then put in a springform baking pan and refrigerate for an hour or until hardened.


Filling Ingredients:
4  seeds with flesh of Durian
1/2 cup white  sugar
4 tablespoons  cornstarch
2 cups Evaporated Milk
2 egg yolks
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon vanilla
dash of salt

Durian Fruit

seeds with flesh

Filling Procedure:
1. Remove the seeds of the durian then mash well. In a pan put all the ingredients then cook for 10 minutes or until thickens, stirring occasionally. Then let cool.

To assemble:
Get the refrigerated powdered Graham cracker then pour the filling and refrigerate for few hours.

2. Remove from refrigerator, un-mold then slice and serve with a smile.

Breakfast Today ( June 15, 2014)

I prepared a Filipino breakfast for my friends today and they all loved it.

Ginisang Ampalaya, Kalabasa at Talong

Mga Pinoy gulay na gustong gusto ko kapag walang pangpakbet at kahit ito lang ang sangkap, simot sarap talaga sa sobrang sarap.

Mga sangkap:
1 kilo kalabasa
1/2 kilo talong
1/4 kilo ampalaya
1/4 kilo karne ng baboy
4 cloves bawang
1 sibuyas
2 tasa ng tubig
2 kutsara bagoong alamang
salt if needed

Paraan ng pagluluto:
1. Igisa ang bawang at sibuyas pagkatapos ay ilagay ang sahog, haluing maigi at ituloy ang pagigisa hanggang sa maging medyo luto na ang karne.
2. Ilagay ang bagoong at igisa sa loob ng isang minuto saka ilagay ang tubig at lakasan ang apoy hanggang sa kumulo.
3. Idagdag ang kalabasa at talong, haluing maigi at lutuin hanggang maging half cooked.
4. Idagdag ang ampalaya at haluing maigi, at hayaang maluto ng tuluyan, dagdagan ng asin kung kailangan.
5. Ihain habang mainit pa.

Tortang Alamang

Shrimp fry or hipon alamang is so flavorful specially when cooked into torta. Torta is a kind of omelette that is popular across the Philippines, it is simple and easy to cook, here is a simple recipe of shrimp fry torta.

How to cook Chicharong Bulaklak

Chicharong bulaklak is made from a part of pork's intestine that looked like a flower that's why it is called bulaklak a Filipino term for flower. It's just a small portion of the intestines that is why chicharong bulaklak is  valued high at the market. This dish goes well to dip in vinegar with lots of garlic and hot chili.

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo pork's chitterlings or intestines (bitukang bulaklak)
2 cups water
1 cup oil
1/4 teaspoon ground pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt

Procedure:
1. In a pot put all the ingredients except the oil and allow to boil until the water evaporates.
2. Pour in the oil and fry the intestines until golden brown.
3. Slice and serve with your favorite dipping sauce.

Tambakol Paksiw

Tambakol or yellow fin tuna is a versatile fish because you can make various dishes with it, from ceviche, grilled, fried, baked and many more, it's always the best even stewed it in vinegar (paksiw) you will really like it. So here is a recipe for paksiw.

Ginisang repolyo at kalabasa

We all love this vegetable combination, really yummy.

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo squash
1/2 kilo cabbage
1/4 kilo pork
1 small size onion
3 tablespoons soy sauce
1 cup water
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Saute the onion then add the pork and saute for until brownish then add the squash and soy sauce simmer for one minute
2. Add the water and put the salt and pepper, stir every now and then until almost cook.
3. Increase the heat then add the cabbage, mixing it occasionally until it is done.
4. Serve it hot.

Sauteed Lettuce with Pork

Most of the people called lettuce as "rabbit food" because it is eaten raw, but recently it is very abundant from our own garden and we are always making it into salads, but today, for a change I've decided to saute it.  Lettuce is a great source of Vitamins K, A, C and other valuable nutrients to maintain good health. Low in calories, therefore it is a good vegetable to eat when you are on a diet.
Still the best to eat this raw.

Sisig

Sisig is a popular dish in the Philippines that originated in Angeles City, Pampanga, making the city as the "Sisig capital of the Philippines". Filipinos across the country love this dish and cook it using their own style or version. I didn't put any innards ( lamang loob) because my friend do not like it.
Learn more about sisig by clicking the link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisig

Ingredients for 4 servings:
1/2 kilo of pork's ear and cheeks ( pork mascara)
3 cloves garlic
1 onion ( diced)
5 tablespoons soy sauce
4 tablespoons calamansi or lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon ground pepper or according to your taste
1/2 teaspoon minced ginger
salt to taste

Procedure:
1. Boil the pork's ear and cheek until tender, then grilled or broiled and chopped.

2. Saute the ginger and garlic then the onion and continue to saute until soften, then add the the chopped pork's ear and cheek, soy sauce, lemon juice, and ground pepper then mix well and simmer for few minutes, add salt if necessary.

3. Continue to Simmer until done, you can chopped some chili pepper and put it before serving or crack an egg at the middle then serve. Enjoy!

Hot and Spicy Adobong Adidas

My friends requested this dish because they are craving for hot and spicy chicken feet. I served them a regular chicken feet adobo few weeks ago but they want it hot and spicy, so here it is.

Binagoongang Talong

Few months ago I posted Binagoongang baboy ( pork with shrimp paste) and binagoongang sitaw (string beans with shrimp paste) then somebody message me if it is possible to make binagoongang talong ( eggplant with shrimp paste) well, here it is! A delicious eggplant dish that you will surely love.

Fish Pie

This fish pie is an excellent center table piece during special gatherings or just a special treat for your loved ones, it's always good anytime of the day.

Ingredients for Fish Filling
1 shallot
4 stems dill
4 stems taragon
olive oil
200 grams halibut (or any white fish)
dash of nutmeg
dash of mustard powder
salt
freshly ground pepper
200 g cream
1 egg white
salmon fillet about 350 g
1 egg

Dough
500 g flour
200 ml milk
7 g instant dry yeast
60 g butter
1 egg
dash of nutmeg
salt

Dill Sauce
salt
1 egg yolk
1 t mustard
1 t vinegar
freshly ground pepper
500 ml oil (sunflower or any veg oil)
small bundle of dill
lemon

Other necessary things:
1 pattern for fish
brush
cutter
extra flour

Precedure:

for fish filling:
Peel the shallot. Finely chop the dille and taragon. Heat oil in a pan and saute the shallot. Slice the halibot and coat with spices, onion and herbs and season with salt and pepper. Marinate the fish for about 30 min in the refrigerator. Beat the cream until frothy. Grind the halibot and the egg white in the machine and mix with the beaten cream. Save in the refrigerator until ready for use.

for Dough
Put the flour on the table and make a well at the center. Heat the milk until lukewarm and pour into the well. Put the yeast, butter, egg, nutmeg and salt.  Mix little by little until all the flour has be incorporated. Knead until silky. Keep the dough in the refrigerator for about 15 min. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees C. Roll the dough as thin as possible so it can make 2 fish. Cut the mold. Beat the egg. Put one fish on a lined baking sheet and brush the top with egg. Spread half of the cream halibot over the dough but leave the edge free. Place the salmon in the middle. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and divide the rest of cream over the salmon. Put the second fish on top and press the edges firmly. Brush the top of the fish with egg. Press with a round plug near eye from the head of the fish to make an outlet for the steam and make the remaining dough into fins.  Use scissors to cut the fish scales. Set the temperature to 200C and bake the fish in about 20 more minutes until golden brown.

Dill Sauce
Mix salt, egg yolk, mustard, vinegar and pepper then whisk together the oil drop by drop through. Chop the dill and stir in together with the lemon.

Serve the fish pie with dill sauce and lemon slices. Good for 8 persons

Ginisang Pechay

I love this vegetable a lot, yummy and nutritious.

Ingredients for 4 servings:
1/2 kilo pechay
1 can sardines
2 cloves garlic
1/2 piece onion
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic and onion then add the sardines and continue to saute for a minute.
2. Increase the heat and add the pechay then give a good stir to mix evenly.

3. Add salt and pepper then stir until done and serve it hot.

Dinakdakan

Dinakdakan is a popular Ilocano  dish made from pork's ears and face (mascara) that's boiled and grilled then chopped and added with pork's brain and spices for an excellent taste. My Ilocano friends helped me in making this.

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo pork mascara ( combination of pork's ear and face)
2 tablespoons pig's brain ( I've got the brain from lechon) if using a raw brain boil it first until cooked.
1 onion ( minced)
2 tablespoons calamansi or lime juice
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons mayonaise ( Optional)
3 pieces wild chili ( labuyo) chopped
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Boiled the pork mascara until tender then grilled and slice into small pieces.
2. Combine all the ingredients until fully mixed.
3. Serve and enjoy.

Adosilog

I have leftover adobo that's why I made  adosilog for breakfast which we all enjoyed with coffee and a good chat.
Adosilog is a combination of adobo, frid rice and fried egg.
Adobo--->Ado
(Frid Rice) Sinangag--->si
(Fried egg) Itlog--->log =Adosilog
Just assemble all the items in a serving plate then serve.