Ham and Cheese Bread

It is my first time to baked this bread and it was a success! I am happy with the result and the taste according to my friends is yummy. It is really easy to bake this bread and here is the recipe for it. Have fun baking.

Ingredients:

5 cups flour
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup fresh milk or whole milk (warm)
3 teapoons yeast
3 eggs 
3/4 cup melted butter
some ham
some cheese

Procedure:

1. Dissolve the yeast in the warm milk for 10 minutes ( put the yeast and leave it for 10 minutes then mix)
2. Mix all the dry ingredients, make a well in the middle, then crack the eggs and beat it there.

3. Add the butter and the milk with dissolved yeast.
4. Mix well, then knead until  the dough is formed.

5. Put the dough in a big bowl and cover it with damp cloth to allow it to rise for 2 hours.

 

6. After 2 hours knead the dough again then cut into portions ( around 75 grams each) to make an individual bread.

7. Flatten each piece then put the ham and cheese, then roll it  and let rise again for 40 minutes then bake at 180C for 15 minutes or until done.

8. Serve it with a smile:-)

Tips: If you want the bread to have a shiny look after baking brush it with beaten egg before baking.

        If you want it to look crispy brush with melted butter before baking.

Toge with Chorizo

Try this one. :-)

Ingredients:

1/2 kilo Sprouted Beans (toge)
1/4 kilo green beans
1 cup sliced chorizo
3 cloves garlic
salt and pepper to taste
3 tablespoons soy sauce

Procedure:

1. Saute the garlic, add the chorizo and soy sauce simmer for a minute.
2. Add sprouted beans and green beans then salt and pepper to taste.
3. Serve it hot  and do not forget to smile :-)

Bamboo Shoots with Coconut Milk

Mmmmmmm I am lucky that I found bamboo shoots from a Japanese store, because it's been a long time that I am longing for this dish, although there is no jute (saluyot) here, but i replace it with another green leaves.
I always let my mom cook this for me when I was young with lots of "saluyot" . Here is my own version for this recipe, one grated coconut is enough for this dish, here is how to do it.

Ingredients:

1/4 kilo bamboo shoots
1/4 kilo shrimps
1 cup pure coconut milk ( kakang gata)
2 cups thin coconut milk ( hindi kakang gata)
1 small onion
1/4 kilo pechay( can be replaced with "saluyot")
salt to taste

Procedure:

1. Boil the bamboo shoots until tender, if its already tender remove the water, then replace it with light coconut milk, bring to boil then put the shrimps, salt and onion simmer until its almost done.
2. Put the pechay and simmer for 2 minutes then put the pure coconut milk, simmer for a minute then turn off the heat.
3. Serve it hot.

Beef with Mushrooms

A tender beef recipe with a delicious sauce that thickens with oyster sauce. Thumbs up for this dish and I recommend this, specially for special occasions, I am sure that your guests and love ones will love it.

Ingredients:

1 cup sliced mushrooms
1/2 kilo beef ( boiled and tendered)
1 onion
3 cloves garlic
2 tablespoons oyster sauce
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:

1. Saute garlic and onion.
2. Add the tendered beef then simmer for few minutes with salt and pepper.
3. Add the oyster sauce and mushrooms, simmer until done.
4. Serve it hot.

Banana Float

When I saw the banana and it is already very ripe I am thinking of preserving it, so I came up with this idea, although the idea was triggered by the mango float that I made in my previous posts.Just try this easy to follow recipe for banana float. Have fun:-)

Ingredients:

butter and chocolate biscuits( powdered) ( Can be replaced with graham biscuits)
4 ripe bananas ( mashed)
1 big can condensed milk
1 big can Nestle cream

There is no Graham biscuits in my place so I used this one.

Procedure:

1. Combine the condensed milk and Nestle  cream thoroughly.

2. In a dish that you are going to use, alternately arrange  the cream and milk mixture, mashed banana and powdered biscuits until all the ingredients are evenly distributed. Refrigerate before serving.

For a smoother result you can sift the powdered biscuits to remove the lumps.

  

Bistek

A special Filipino beef dish that captured my heart since I was young because of its unique delicious taste. I love this dish so much.
Ingredients
1 kilo beef sirloin, thinly sliced
1/2 cup soy sauce
3  calamansi or 1 lemon
1 tsp ground black pepper
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1 large onion, sliced into rings
oil


Procedure
 1.Marinade beef in soy sauce, calamansi or lemon, and ground black pepper for an  hour then fry until golden brown, set aside and save the marinating sauce because we will use it later.
2. Saute the garlic and onion, remove some onions for toppings later, then put the fried beef and marinating sauce, then simmer over low heat until meat is tender.
3. When it is done turn off the heat , top with the onion rings and serve with rice.


To add more sauce just combine  some soy sauce, calamansi and a little sugar then add to the bistek and allow to simmer.

Simple Pork Gisantes

I cooked this pork gisantes because somebody requested it, I did it in a very simple and easy way. Since it is not in the plan so while cooking our food for lunch which is pork adobo I decided to cook pork gisantes,I will be improving this some other time because I am not satisfied with the color but what I like about it is the taste and I used fresh tomato instead of  packed tomato sauce. But all in all the result is good and it is still delicious ( at least Marjorie Macabulos can get an idea on how to cook this dish).:-)  Here are the ingredients.

Ingredients:

1 can green peas
400 grams pork
2 tomatoes ( chopped)
1 onion
3 cloves garlic
3 tablesppons fish sauce ( Patis) if patis is not available just use salt
pepper to taste

Procedure:

1. Saute the garlic and onion, then add the tomatoes, saute until the tomato will be so tender then crashed it with the ladle to make it like a paste.

2. Then add the pork and simmer it for few minutes, then add the fish sauce and pepper, simmer until the meat is tender.

3. Add the peas then simmer for few minutes then serve with a smile :-)