Classic Fried Chicken

The classic fried chicken,  when I was younger, my mom always put this in my lunchbox once a week, since Grade 1 until Grade 6, whew for 6 years :D but for me that's always the best lunchbox item during that time. Its just simple unbreaded fried chicken, here is how to cook it.

Ingredients for 8-10 servings:
1 kilo chicken
1 lemon or 6 calamansi
1/2 cup soy sauce
1 teaspoon ground pepper
salt to taste

Procedure:
1. Mix all the ingredients and marinate overnight.
2. Deep fry until golden brown. ( Increase the heat  before removing it from the oil to make it really crispy)
3. Serve it hot.

shanghai rolls

This is an all time favorite dish of my family, every time we have parties or just a weekend family gathering Shanghai rolls is always present:). Crispy, delicious, and budget fiendly. Try this recipe.

Ingredients:

1/2 kilo ground pork
40 spring roll wrappers
1 onion ( minced)
4 cloves garlic ( minced)
2 medium size carrots ( minced)
2 medium size poatoes ( minced)
1 beaten egg
1 cup flour
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:

1. Mix all the ingredients except for the wrapper.
2. In a wrapper put the meat mixture and roll it to wrap.
3. After we wrap all the meat mixture, in a pan heat an oil.
4. Fry the Shanghai rolls until golden brown. ( fry in a moderate heat so that the meat inside will be cooked gradually and to avoid burning the wrapper).
5. Serve it with your favorite sauce.

Monggo with Ampalaya

This dish was randomly cooked when my friends and I are talking at the kitchen then its almost lunch and somebody said "what's for lunch?"  we looked around and saw a pack of mongo and we all said "mongo!" My friend said there is only shrimps and bitter melon in the refrigerator, we said its fine, we can have a delicious mongo with just ampalaya. Here is the recipe for it, it is nice and yummy.


Ingredients:
2 cups monggo
1/4 kilo shrimps
1 piece bitter melon (ampalaya) [sliced]
1 onion
2 cloves garlic
salt

Procedure:
1. In a pot boil the monggo until it is soft, then set aside (You can use pressure cooker for faster cooking)
2. In a pan saute the garlic, then add the shrimps and salt simmer for few minutes.
3. Add the cooked monggo, simmer for  few minutes
4.Then add the ampalaya, simmer for 2 minutes then serve.

Simple Appetizer

Just a simple platter of salad to start your meal.

Ingredients:

some watermelon (sliced)
some lettuce (sliced)
some cheese (sliced)
olive oil
1 teaspoon lemon juice or 1/2 teaspoon calamansi juice

Procedure:

1. Arrange in a platter, sprinkle with olive and lemon juice then serve :-)

Sweet potato Tops Salad

Most people, when they make talbos ng kamote salad they boil or blanch the leaves, have you eaten this raw? It is better to eat fruits and vegetables salad raw because raw vegetbles and fruits are alkaline which is good for our body. Just like sweet potato leaves good to be eaten raw.

Ingredients:

3 cups sweet potato tops ( talbos ng Kamote)
1 lemon or 5 calamansi
2 tomatoes
1 onion
2 tablespoons olive oil
salt

Procedure:

1. Wash the sweet potato leaves properly, cut into strips.
2. In a big bowl mix all the ingredients.
3. Serve it with love and a smile :-)

Stuffed Egg Roll

This is the very first special recipe that I learned from my Dad when I was 12 years old. That was long time ago :D but as time goes by I learned to stuffed it with different stuffs, like shredded chicken, seafood, vegatables, mushrooms, etc. Today there are lots of ground beef so this is the stuff that I made, here is how to do it.

Ingredients for 6 servings:

4 eggs
1/2 cup ground beef or pork
1 small onion
1 potato ( thin strips)
1/2 of  a carrot ( thin strips)
salat and pepper to taste


Procedure:
 For the filling or stuff:
1. Saute  the onion then add the ground beef, simmer for few minutes.
2. Add the potato, carrots, salt and pepper to taste. Simmer until it is cooked and set aside

3. In making the egg roll heat an oil in a pan then put the beaten eggs, and after a minute when it is starting to cook put the filling that is enough for the egg when we roll it. ( Too much filling is not good because it will make the roll puffed)

4. Flip over the other side with a frying ladle and start rolling it towards the other and until it will form into a roll.

 5. Serve it with your favorite salad.

 Enjoy it!

Ube Jam or Halayang Ube

Ube jam or halayang ube is one of the popular Philippine dainties, mmmmmmm sweet and delicious, who can resist it? :D here is the very easy way to make it.

Ingredients:
2 cups mashed ube ( purple yam)
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup condensed milk
1/2 cup evaporated milk
 
Procedure:
1. In a pan put all the ingredients and mix well over medium heat.

2. Stir constantly until the mixture goes from mushy to dry.

3.  Until you reach the consistency in texture of the mixture that is perfect for a jam.

Stir Fried Sprouted Beans

A delightful dish that will satisfy your hunger :-). Stir fried sprouted beans is pefect specially if you want to eat less rice. Easy and quick to prepare, doesn't it sound good? I love sprouted beans since I was young :-) Stir Fry means cooking in an intense heat making the ingredients to be cooked quickly making it crispy and juicy. This a good method of cooking vegetables to retain the natural color and freshness. Try this recipe.

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo sprouted beans (togue)
1/4 kilo shrimps
1/4 kilo cabbage
3 cloves garlic
1 carrot
salt and pepper to taste
spring onion for garnishing

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic, add the shrimps and simmer for 30 seconds then add salt and pepper.
2.  Increase the heat for stir frying then add the carrots and sprouted beans, stir fry for a minute
3. Add the cabbage and continue stir frying for around 2 minutes.
4. Garnish with spring onion and serve it hot.

Cucumber and Zucchini salad

A simple salad combination of zucchini and cucumber, good for digestive system. It is my first tim eto have zucchini in a salad because

Ingredients:

1 cucumber
1 zucchini
1 medium size tomato
1/4 cup sliced spring onion
2 tablespoons vinegar
1 tablespoon olive oil
salt

Zucchini and Cucumber

Procedure:

1. Slice the zucchini and cucumber according to your desired size.
2. Mix all the ingredients.
3. Serve with your main dish.

Pork Sinigang

Sinigang is one of the best Filipino dishes. The taste is distinctively delicious and the vegetables in it goes perfectly with the soup’s flavor, etiheir meat sinigang or seafoods it is always delicious. Actually this dish is one of my favorites. I let my foreign friends taste it and they absolutely like it ….. a lot. :-)

Ingredients:
1 kilo pork
3 pieces eggplant
1 radish )sliced)
1 bunch String Beans
1 onion ( sliced)
2 tomatoes ( sliced)
1 bunch swamp cabbage ( kangkong)
2 litres  of water
some finger chili ( siling haba)
salt to taste
sinigang mix

Procedure:
1. In a pot  put 2 litres of water then add the tomatoes and onion and bring to a boil.
2. When it is already boiling add the meat and simmer until the meat is tender.
3. Increase the heat then add the eggplant, radish and string beans, simmer until almost cook.
4. Add the kangkong and chili then simmer until all the vegetables are cooked.
5. Add the sinigang mix and salt to taste. ( If tamarind fruit is available its better to use it, natural!)
6. Serve it hot.

Okra can be added for this recipe