Green Apple Juice

I like the sweet taste of this juice, its refreshing and a good reliever for sweet tooth cravings. This is also very nutritious according to what I've read from Livestrong "Apples are a rich source of nutrients and contain high levels of antioxidants. Apples have a number of documented health benefits. Including apples and pure apple juice as part of your well balanced diet will help protect against diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Drinking 100 percent pure apple juice is one way to gain the benefits offered by apples. You can purchase either green apple juice or red apple juice. Green apple juice has a slight pucker as compared to the sweet taste of red apple juice."

For more information about the nutritional value of  this juice click the link
 http://www.livestrong.com/article/434020-green-apple-juice-nutrition/


For a 250 ml of green apple juice we need the following

3 green apples ( chill it before juicing for a great refreshing taste)
juicer

Procedure:
1.Wash the apples  very well and slice to a size that will fit the rim of the juicer.
2.Extract the juice then serve.

Pastillas de Leche

Learn the non-cooking way of making "Pastillas de leche". Easy to make milk candy that you will definitely like. If you can notice this recipe has no sugar in the ingredients, that's the good thing about it, because I replaced the sugar with powdered milk. Here is how to do it.

Ingredients:
200 grams powdered milk
1 cup condensed milk
extra powdered milk for dusting


If you will use cup for measurement follow this ingredients:
 1 1/4 cup  full cream milk powder
1/2 cup condensed milk

Procedure:
1. In a mixing bowl pour in the condensed milk then gradually add the powdered milk until you form a firm dough-like mixture.

2. Spoon a portion of the mixture and by using your hands, roll it and form into cylindrical shape. When it starts to stick on your hands, just dust your palms with powdered milk to avoid sticking.
3. Roll over the powdered milk then use the strainer to shake off the extra powdered milk and wrap with water cellophane and serve.

Note: If after mixing the ingrdients the mixture is too wet, just add more powdered milk, until you can handle it and wont stick on your palms.

Sauted Squash

One of my favorite vegetables is squash, because it is not only delicious it is also nutritious. I cooked this for my foreign visitors and they liked it. Try this recipe.

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo squash
1/4 kilo ground beef
4 garlic
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 cup water
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure
1.Saute the garlic thn add the ground beef and simmer until the pinkish color of the meat is gone.

 

2.Add the squash and soy sauce then simmer for 2 minutes.

3. Add the water, salt and pepper to taste, let boil, then stir occasionally until cooked.

4. Serve it hot.

Egg Fried Rice

Fried rice is a part of a typical breakfast of Filipinos, specially the combo fried rice ( longsilog, tapsilog, tocilog, etc). I decided to make egg fried rice for breakfast because I saw some leftover rice in the pot. How about you what are you going to prepare for breakfast today?  Good day everyone.

Ingredients for 3 servings:
3 cups leftover rice (bahaw)
2 beaten eggs
3 cloves garlic
2 tablespoons oil
salt or patis to taste

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic then add the beaten eggs, by using a fork continue stirring it until cooked so that it will be scrambled well.
2. Add the rice and mix well, stir well every now and then, then sprinkle with salt.
3. Continue stirring until done. You can scrambled more eggs then chop it and put as toppings before serving.

Nilagang Pata A la Pochero

I am longing for my father's recipe of pochero (Visayan version) but unluckily all the ingredients were not available at my place so I decided to cook it this way, it's like bulalo but made of pork's hocks. What do you think of this dish? Well I am not biased but it is yummy! Here is my recipe for it.

Ingredients:
700 grams pork hocks ( pata)
2 banana (saba)
1 onion
thumb size ginger ( crushed)
 1 bundle pechay or bok choy
1 corn
siling haba
water ( enough to make the meat tender)
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. In a pot put the onion, ginger, chilli, and pork hocks, cover and cook over medium heat until the meat will produce its own juice, allow to simmer for few minutes until the pinkish color of the meat is gone.
2. Add salt and pepper then simmer for 5 minutes, add the water and simmer until the meat is tender.
3. Add the corn then simmer for 5 minutes, then add the banana and simmer until cooked.
4. Add the pechay and simmer until cooked.Finalize the taste then turn off the heat.
5. Serve it hot.

Hot and Spicy Pork

A unique flavored pork that will boost your appetite. The taste is perfect for hot and spicy food lovers.

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo pork (sliced into bite size)
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup lemon or calamansi juice
2 tablespoons chili sauce
4 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon ginger extract
2 pinches of cumin (optional)
1/4 teaspoon ground pepper

Procedure

1. Saute the garlic until golden brown then put the pork and braise for 5 minutes or until the pinkish color is gone.
2.  Then add the rest of the ingredients, and simmer over medium heat until meat is tender, stirring occasionally.
3. Continue simmering until done.
4. Serve it hot with rice.

Fried Tilapia Fillet

Tender and juicy fried Tilapia fillet, that goes well with different vegetables. It will surely boost your appetite in eating :).

Ingredients:
2 tilapia
2 calamansi
salt and pepper to taste
4 tablespoons flour
1 egg beaten

Procedure:
1. Clean the fish and wash well. Remove the bones and cut into fillets.
2. Squeeze with calamansi and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
3. Dip in the beaten egg, then roll over the flour.
4. Deep fry until cooked, then serve it.

Adobong Manok

The trademark of Filipino cuisine "adobo". An original Filipino recipe but according to the history its original name is not adobo but when the Spaniards conquered the Philippines they encountered this cooking process of stewing the ingredients/meat with vinegar which has similarity to their adobo, so since then they called the dish adobo.

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo chicken
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup vinegar
5 cloves garlic
1/2 teaspoon crushed peppercorn  (pamintang durog)
1 tablespoon of peppercorn
1 teaspoon hot chili pepper powder

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic
2. Add the chicken and soy sauce cover it and simmer, until the chicken meat darkens with the soy sauce color. Mix it well
3. Put the rest of the ingredients, cover well, and simmer for few minutes
4. Stirring occasionally until it is done.
5.  Serve with rice.

you can add laurel

Minatamis na Saging with Cinnamon

One of my favorite desserts, since banana is abundant in our farm, we always have this as a snack when I was young. My mom is good at making this. Now I cooked it with cinnamon out of my curiosity, I loved the roma of the cinnamon while eating this. Try it and see for yourself.

Ingredients:
4 ripe banana ( peeled)
3/4 cup sugar ( add if necessary)
2 cups water
1 cinnamon stick or 2 pinches of cinnamon powder

Procedure:

1.In a pot put all the ingredients and cook over medium heat, once it starts boiling, switch to low heat, continue to simmer until cooked.
2. Once cooked increase the heat to high, allowing the brine to almost caramelized. Turn off the heat then serve. One way of serving this is make it as banana con yelo.

Tokwa't Baboy with Black Beans

One of the best Filipino dishes!
Ingredients:
1/2 kilo pork belly
1/4 kilo tokwa
2 tablespoons black beans  or tausi
ground pepper
3 cloves garlic
1 onion
1 cup water( you can add if necessary)
1/2 cup flour

Procedure:
1. Boil the pork belly until tender, remove from the water, then cut into bite size, then fry it, sprinkle with flour so that the oil will not burst while we fry it, do the same with tokwa then set aside.

2. Saute the garlic and onion then add the black beans, simmer for few minutes.
3. Add the water and continue simmering, then pour in the fried pork and tokwa, stir well and simmer for few minutes until done.
4. Serve with rice.