Camote cue ( Sweet Potato with Sugar)

One of my favorite snacks is camote cue

Ingredients

2 medium size sweet potatoes ( sliced to your desired size)
oil for frying
sugar

Procedure:

1. Heat the oil
2. Put some slices of the sweet potatoes then cook until half cooked
3. Make a space in the middle by moving the sweet potatoes at the side the put sugar and melt it, then mix the fried potato and stir well until fully coated, then continue to stir until cooked.
4. Serve it as it is, or you can put it on the bamboo skewers.

Sweet Popcorn

I always want to treat my nephews and nieces with something new and delicious. So I decided to try a pop corn with a caramelized sugar. They loved it so much  more than the usual pop corn with salt. Since then , if pop corn is available they always want me to cook for them caramel popcorn.
Here is the recipe for it.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup popcorn
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup oil

Procedure:
1. Heat the oil, put the pop corn and wait until all popped (set aside)
2. Melt the sugar in a pan ( do not put water or oil)
3. When the sugar is totally melted or caramelized put the popcorn and mix it well. Presto! you have a caramel popcorn, sweet and yummy!

Lechon Kawali

It is late night now and my friend, Loida wanted to eat something heavy and special. I said why you are craving so much it is already late in the evening, she said because "I am so hungry", so please cook now the lechon kawali, because we both bought the pork belly yesterday, that is why she knew. So I made her wish came true. I cook the lechon Kawali as quick as I can and here is the way I did it.

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo Pork Belly
1 small lemon or 2 calamansi
4 tablespoons soy sauce
1/4 teaspoon ground pepper
salt to taste

Procedure:
1. Mix all the ingredients. Since there is no time to marinate the meat just prick it with fork so that the taste of the marinating sauce will penetrate the meat.
2. Deep fry the pork belly until it is cooked.
3. Cut into bite size and serve with your favorite sauce. :-)

IF you have time it is better also to boil the meat first, then after boiling put the marinating sauce then deep fry until golden brown.

Fish Sarciado

I love cooking fish this way, because the blending of the tastes of   tomatoes and eggs goes well together.

Ingredients:

1/2 kilo fish
3 med. size tomatoes (sliced)
1 med. size onion ( chopped)
3 cloves garlic ( minced)
salt and pepper to taste
1 egg.( beaten)

Procedure:

1. Fried the fish. Set aside.
2. Saute the garlic, onion and tomatoes.
3. Add 2 glasses of water let it boil.
4. Add salt and pepper
5. Add the fried fish simmer for few minutes.
6. Add the beaten egg, stirring constantly so that the soup will thicken like in the photo. Let it simmer for 2 minutes, Serve it hot and with a smile:)

How To Cook Bicol Express

I cooked this for lunch on August 26,2011. Just craving for some chili hot flavor that time, and I've decided Bicol Express since it's been a long time that I have not eaten it. I missed the taste of it from my brother's cooking.

Bicol express is one of the popular dishes in the Philippines. It was named after one region in the Philippines which this dish originated (Bicol).
 They called it Bicol Express because they said when you eat it you will look for
 a drinking water as quick as you can  because it is so hot!!!:D Have a chili hot experience in your kitchen by cooking Bicol Express for one of your meals. Here is the recipe for it.

Ingredients:
1 kilo pork or beef
1 tablespoon shrimp paste ( bagoong)
1 onion
5 cloves of garlic
1 1/2 cup coconut milk
200 grams jalapeno or cayenne pepper(siling haba)chopped
salt and pepper to taste

Chili

Procedure:
1. Saute garlic and onion then add the chili and continue to saute for a minute over medium heat.
2. Add the meat, simmer for few minutes then add the shrimp paste and stir. Simmer until the meat is tender.

3. Add salt and pepper to taste then simmer for 3 minutes.

4.Add the coconut milk, simmer until rich and creamy over high heat.
5. Serve with a smile :-).

Banana Fritter

When I was young I thought banana fritter is so difficult to make, but when I tried it, it is as easy as counting 1-2-3 :) It is a good dessert that your family will love, so treat them now. Just follow this simple steps.

Ingredients:
Ripe bananas ( it depends how many pieces you want to cook)
1/2 glass milk
1 egg
1 glass bread crumbs or flour

Procedure:
1. Mix the egg and milk
2. Put the banana one by one and roll over the bread crumbs or flour.
3. Deep fry it until golden brown.... that's it! Yummy banana fritters


You can top it with all purpose cream for a creamy taste. It is also better to use breadcrumbs for this fritter than flour, because the crispiness of bread crumbs stays longer than flour.

Fish Adobo

Adobo is a very popular dish in the Philippines. There is a joke among Filipinos, that you are not a real Filipino if you do not know how to cook adobo :D.  Pork or chicken is the typical meat use in cooking it. But we can also use fish in cooking adobo and here is how to do it.

Ingredients:

1/2 kilo fish
1/4 cup vinegar
1/2 cup Soy sauce
3 cloves garlic
thumb size ginger
1small onion
black pepper
salt to taste
chili pepper (jalapeno or cayenne) optional

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic, ginger and onion then put the vinegar and soy sauce then allow to boil, once boiling add the fish, black pepper and chili pepper then simmer until fully cooked.
2.Serve it with rice.