Classic Pork Chop

My favorite lunch box item during my grade school days :-)

Ingredients:

4 pieces pork chop
2 teaspoon soy sauce
1 lime or 4 calamansi
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:

1. Mix all the ingredients  and marinate for 30 minutes
2. Heat the oil and deep fry it until it is done.
3. Serve it hot.

Nilagang Pata ng Baboy

Nilagang Pata

I am craving for a soup today, that's why I cooked this Filipino dish called "nilaga". Simple dish cooked in water.

Ingredients:
1 kilo pork leg (pata)
1 small onion
1/2 kilo cabbage
1 teaspoon crushed ginger
1/2 teaspoon whole black pepper
water
salt to taste

Procedure:
1. In a pot put the meat, water, black pepper, ginger and onion, bring to a boil then simmer until the meat is tender.
2. Add the cabbage and salt to taste then simmer until done.
3. Serve it hot with rice.

Spicy Pork Ribs

If you love a chili hot taste, you must try this easy pork ribs recipe. 


Ingredients:
3 kilos pork ribs ( slice to your desired size)
1/4 cup chili flakes or according to your taste
1 cup soy sauce
2 pieces laurel
3 cloves garlic (minced)
1 cup tomato paste or tomato sauce
1 litre water
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Marinate the pork with chili flakes, laurel,soy sauce, salt and pepper for at least 30 minutes to allow the meat to absorb the flavors. 

2. Saute the garlic, then add the marinated meat ( keep the marinating sauce for later use)then braise until a little brownish  then add the marinating sauce and simmer for 3 minutes.
3. Add the tomato paste, let simmer for few minutes then stir well to coat the meat with the tomato paste evenly, continue to simmer for 3 minutes.
4. Add the water and simmer for 30 minutes or until the meat is tender, 

5. Serve and enjoy. I added hard boiled eggs when I served this to my friends :-).

If you want to use fresh chili, just chop it then use the amount according to your taste.

How to Cook Pata Tim Easily

Try this recipe and you will not regret :-). Simple and easy but you can add some star aniseed and bok choy (pechay). I caramelized the sugar for its aroma and thickness of the sauce, but if you don't want to do it this way it's alright.Enjoy your cooking.

How To Cook Pork Steak Easily

This recipe is enough for a big family :-) like mine. If Kikkoman soy sauce is not available just replace it with the common soy sauce in the kitchen but reduce it to 50ml. Start cooking now and let me know if your loved ones gave you thumbs up.

Pork Sinigang sa Santol

My family loves this so much when I let them taste it. 

Adobo sa Gata

I cooked this because a friend is requesting it so badly :-). According to the people who've tasted this "so yummy"! 

Ingredients:
1 kilo pork (sliced to your desired size)
 3 cloves garlic
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup vinegar
1 cup pure coconut milk

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic then add the pork and simmer for a minute then add the vinegar and soy sauce then simmer  over low fire until the meat is tender.
2. When meat is tender, add the coconut milk, salt and pepper to taste, then simmer until done.
3. Serve with love and do not forget to smile :-)


Tips: for extra yumminess marinate the pork with calamansi and soy sauce then brown the pork in a little oil and set aside and just follow the procedure.

If you want more gravy just add more coconut milk.

Pork Chop A La Kilawin

I made this from my leftover fried pork chop yesterday, it was so good. The method in preparing this is the same with the kilawin that I knew. Mmmmmmm all my friends enjoyed it with hot rice but I chose to eat it with my bahaw ( leftover rice). 

Creamy Pork with Mushrooms

A delicious pork dish that your entire family will surely adore. 

Ingredients:
1 kilo pork
1/4 kilo mushrooms (sliced) you can use canned mushrooms
2 cloves garlic
1 onion
2 cups water
1/2 cup All purpose cream ( Nestle, Alaska or any brand)
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic and onion then add the pork and simmer until pinkish color is gone.
2. Add the water and simmer until the meat is tender, then add the mushrooms, salt and pepper and simmer for 5 minutes over medium heat.
3. Add the all purpose cream simmer for a minute or until done.
4. Serve and enjoy. :-)



Note: If you want it to have more gravy just add the water and the all purpose cream.

Peppered Pork Chop

Truly yummy but eat in moderation :)

Ingredients for 4 servings:
4 serving slices of pork chop
ground pepper according to your taste
2 tablespoons calamansi Juice
salt to taste

Procedure:
1. Sprinkle the pork chop with calamansi juice then put pepper and salt according to your taste.

2. Fry until  cooked.

3. Serve it with rice and do not forget to smile :-).

Pork Ribs Nilaga

Nilaga is a simple way of cooking meat with water and spices added with some veggies. Simple yet delicious.

Creamy Adobo

It's been raining for few days now and the only meat we have in the freezer is pork leg. We've already had adobo yesterday so I decided to make a little twist by adding some mushroom cream, oh so delicious. Try it,

Ingredients:
1 kilo pork leg ( you can use any pork part that you like)
4 cups water
3 cloves garlic
1 onion
2 pieces laurel/bayleaf
1/2 teaspoon crushed black pepper
1/4 cup mushroom cream dissolved in 1/2 cup water
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup vinegar


Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic and onion then add the pork leg and continue to saute until the pinkish color is gone.
2. Add the soy sauce, vinegar, laurel and black pepper then simmer for 3 minutes. Add the water and simmer until the meat is tender.
3. Add the dissolved mushroom cream then simmer until thickens and turn off the heat.
4. Serve and enjoy.

Sinugbang Baboy

Lami kaayo ang sinugba nga baboy maong pinakapaborito gyud ni nako ug sa akong mga igsoon, labi  na kung ang sawsawan lami pud kaayo unya halang halang.
Simple lang ang sinugba sa among lugar huluman lang ug limonsito, toyo, asin ug paminta ang karne sa baboy, dayon sugbahon hangtod maluto. Inig kaluto na, hiwaon ug ihaon dayon uban ang lami nga sawsawan. Kaon na ta!
Sa mga Bisaya nga nakasabot, itaas lang ang kamot :-). Malipayong pagpangaon mga kabayan.

To those who do not understand Visayan dialect, I am sorry.I need to write in Visayan because this is a challenge from some of my friends who are eager to learn my dialect, and they want me to write about this grilled pork or Sinugbang baboy in my dialect.

For the recipe:

Ingredients:
pork
lime or calamansi juice
soy  sauce
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Mix all the ingredients and marinate it for an hour. Grill until cooked.
2. Chop it and serve with your favorite dipping sauce.

Pork Liver Afritada

Liver provides macronutrients you need for energy and tissue maintenance, including protein and fat. It also comes loaded with vitamins and minerals, with a single serving providing your entire recommended daily intake of some nutrients. While it can boost your health and fight nutrient deficiencies, consuming large servings of pork liver might increase your risk of an accidental nutrient overdose, so you should consume it in moderation.

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo pork liver
3 medium size potatoes ( sliced to your desired size)
2 carrots (sliced to your desired size)
3 cloves garlic
1 onion
1 tablespoons tomato paste
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 cup water
1 teaspoon cornstarch
salt and pepper to taste


Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic and onion then add the liver and continue to saute for a minute.
2. Add the carrots, potatoes, tomato paste and  soy sauce, give a good stir and simmer for 5 minutes while stirring once in  a while.

3. Add water, salt and pepper to taste then simmer until fully cooked, then thicken with cornstarch.
4. Serve it hot.

Pork Medley

Simple and economical way of cooking your pork, tomato sauce and creams are not needed but still, this recipe will surely capture your taste buds. "Lami!" :-) Yummy!

Nilat-ang Baboy

Nilat-an is a cooking process in Mindanao and Visayas regions of Philippines, I think this is related to Luzon's "nilaga". My mother loves to cook nilat-an specially if the meat is tough, using this process, it makes the meat tender by simmering the meat over low heat, that brings out the delicious flavor of the meat. Try this recipe.

Ingredients:
1 kilo pork buto-buto
1 piece banana heart ( slice into wedges)
thumb size ginger
1 onion
4 chili fingers ( siling haba)
6 cups water ( add if needed)
salt and pepper to taste


Procedure:
1. In a pot put the water, onion, ginger and pork buto-buto, bring to a boil, when boiling reduce the heat then simmer until the meat is tender.
2. Add the banana heart and simmer until tender then add chili fingers, salt and pepper to taste then simmer until done.
3. Garnish with spring onion then serve it hot and do not forget to smile.

Pochero

Pork dish that I always want to cook if I have few quests, loaded with yumminess!

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo pork belly
1 piece chorizo ( sliced to your desired thickness)
2 banana ( saba) ( cut and fried)
2 cloves garlic
2 small Carrots
1 onion
2 potatoes
1 cup tomato sauce
1/4 kilo green beans
1/2 kilo Pechay Baguio/Chinese Cabbage
salt and pepper to taste
2 cups water


Procedure
1. Saute the garlic and onion, add the pork and saute until the pinkish color is gone.
2. Add the tomato sauce, salt and pepper then simmer for few minutes.
3.Add the water  and bring to a boil, simmer and stir occasionally.
5. Once the pork is tender add the potatoes and carrots and simmer until tender, then add the fried banana, chorizo and green beans, simmer for a minute then add with salt and pepper to taste.
6. Add the Chinese cabbage then simmer for a minute and turn off the heat then serve.

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

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 :-)

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.