Cabbage and Tomato Salad

A delicious salad for the whole family. Easy to prepare and goes well with meats or seafoods. Try it.

Ingredients:

1/4 kilo cabbage ( shredded)
1 onion (sliced thinly)
3 tomatoes ( diced)
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 lemon
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:

1.Mix all the ingredients
2. Serve it with love :-)

Fried Fish

Simple to cook but still some do not know how to fry fish so I just wanna share this simple dish. Have fun!

Ingredients:

1 kilo fish (cleaned and cut)
2 lemon or 8 calamansi
salt

Procedure:

1.  Squeeze the lemon or calamnsi into a fish then sprinkle with salt.
2. Heat the oil in a pan then deep fry the fish until golden brown.
3. Serve it with your favorite side dish or sauce.

Beef Adobo

Here in South America, beef is so abundant, and most of the time I prepare beef steak when it comes to beef dishes. For a change I thought of making beef adobo and the result is fantastic! Here is how to cook it.

Ingredients:

1 kilo beef
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup vinegar
6 cloves garlic
1 onion
2 tablespoon tomato sauce
1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
1/2 glass water

Procedure:

1. In a pressure cooker put all the ingredients
2. Cook over medium heat , once it's starting to boil time it for just 15 minutes then, check if its already tender. if yes, then transfer it to another pan.
3. Continue cooking and increase the heat so that some of the soup will evaporate making our adobo just saucy.
4. After this process turn off the heat and serve it with rice. :-)

Gelatine And Fruit Cocktail Salad

If you remember I posted the gelatine salad few weeks ago, it was a success because when I let my friends taste it, they liked it a lot,  now I make one with fruit cocktail. It is still easy and simple to do. Here is how to do it.

Ingredients:
2 sachets unflavored gelatine
2 sachets orange flavored gelatin
2 sachets grape flavored gelatine
1 can condensed milk
1 can all purpose cream or nestle cream
3 cups fruit cocktail

Procedure:
1. prepare the gelatine according to its packaging procedure, refrigerate then diced it all.
2. Pour in the milk and all purpose cream.
3. Add the fruit cocktail, mix well.
3. Refrigerate before serving.

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.