Binangkal

Binangkal is a part of my childhood breakfasts, a neighbor is selling this at breakfast time and I always let my mom buy it for me, today I am missing it so I decided to make some. Here is the recipe for it.

Ingredients:
2 1/2 cup flour
1/4 tsp salt
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
2 tbsp oil
1 whole egg
Sesame seeds

Preparations:
1. Sift all the dry ingredients. ( Salain)
2. Mix water, egg, oil and sugar, until blended well, then combine with the sifted dry ingredients. ( Just add the water and sugar mixture gradually.) Knead until the mixture is firm.

3. Spoon a portion of the mixture then roll into balls and roll over in sesame seeds.

4. Heat the oil then deep fry until golden brown

5. Serve with your favorite drinks.

Pinya Maja

I love to cook maja blanca with different flavors, pineapple tastes good, here is the recipe for it.
Ingredients:
2 cups cornstarch
4 cups coconut milk
1 cup Nestle cream or light cream
2 cups white sugar
2 cups evaporated milk
1 cup pineapple tidbits
Toasted dessicated coconut ( optional)

Toasted dessicated coconut

Procedure:
1. Combine all the ingredients and mix well until the cornstarch is dissolved.

2. Bring to boil over medium heat stirring constantly until thickens. When it is already thick and firm it means it is cooked.
3.Pour in a molding tray then refrigerate before serving . ( you can sprinkle it with toasted dessicated coconut)

Four Seasons Fruit Salad

Perfect for the whole family, the flavors of the fruits are well blended with the cream and milk. Aside from it is very easy to make it is also economical and ingredients are just around the corner, so why don't you make some now?

Ingredients:
1 avocado
1/2 piece cantaloupe
3 bananas ( plantain)
1 papaya
1/2 cup nestle cream or light cream
1/2 cup condensed milk

Procedure:
1. Slice the fruits according to your desired size.

2. In a bog mixing bowl, combine all the ingredients.

3. Mix well and refrigerate before serving.

Avocado puree ( Nilamaw nga avocado)

I love this so much, a part of my childhood memories, my older sis always make this for us, because there is always ripe avocado, since we have a tree in our backyard. Creamy and delicious. We call this "nilamaw nga avocado" in my dialect.

Ingredients:
1 avocado
condensed milk to taste
ice

Procedure:
1.Divide the avocado and scrape it with a spoon and mash until pureed.

2. Mix with condensed milk, refrigerate then serve, or you can put some ice then serve.

Fruit Cocktail Salad

I always love this fruit cocktail salad, every time my sister serve this when we have family gatherings, expect that I will be the frst one who will grab a bowl of it, so creamy and yummy, how can I resist? I just want to share the simple way of making it. You can add more ingredients if you want, but this is my way of doing it.

Ingredients:
450 grams fruit cocktail (1 can) drained and set aside
2 bottles nata de coco ( different colors of your choice)
1 apple ( diced)
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1 can Nestle cream (300 grams)
1 cup condensed milk or to taste

Procedure:
1.In a big mixing bowl, put all the ingredients and mix well until fully blended.
2. Refrigerate before serving.

Ginataang Bilo-bilo

Ginataang bilo-bilo or ginataang halo halo is one of the most common Filipino snacks specially during rainy days. Halo-halo means mixed, that is why this dish is a halo-halo (mixed) of many ingredients, and what's amazing in it, is they blended well.You can make this dish as colorful as you want it to be, so it's up to you what color of ingredients you want to choose, for example sweet potatoes can be in white, orange, purple and yellow, the color of you ingredients will affect the color of the soup, but whatever the color is, one thing is for sure, this is delicious! Here is my simple recipe for this.

Ingredients:
1 cup glutinous rice flour ( mix with water and formed into small balls or bilo-bilo)
1 cup cooked sago
2 bananas (saba)
1 big sweet potato cut into cubes (kamote)
1/4 kilo ube cut into cubes
sugar to taste
3 cups thin coconut milk ( hindi kakang gata)
1 cup thick coconut milk ( kakang gata)

Saba

Procedure:
1. In a pot put the thin coconut milk and let boil then add the ube and sweet potato then simmer over medium heat until half cooked.
2. Add the sugar, banana and rice balls (bilo-bilo), stir and continue cooking over medium heat.
3. Once everything is cooked, add the sago and thick coconut milk, simmer until done.
4. Serve with a smile :-)

If you will use coconut milk in a can, boil 3 cups of water and follow the same procedure by cooking everything in it , once it is cooked add the coconut milk.

You can also add some cassava (kamoteng kahoy), jackfruit, etc for this recipe.

Chicken Adobo Rice Topping

Starting today I will be sharing single serving recipes as suggested by my best friend for life Malley, he is a good cook and he has this single serving recipe idea but he is lazy to do it hahahahahaha, he told me to do it because there might be people somewhere, somehow needs this kind of recipe specially if they are living alone, I am not telling like him :D.

Single serving Chicken adobo
1 drumstick ( cleaned and cut )
2 tablespoon soy sauce
2 tablespoons vinegar
 ground pepper ( according to your taste)
2 cloves garlic
1/2 cup water

1 cup cooked rice

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic then add the chicken and braised for a while until the pinkish color is gone.
2. Add the soy sauce and allow the chicken meat to absorbed the color by simmering for 2 minutes over medium heat.
3. Add vinegar and  dash of  ground pepper then simmer for another 2 minutes.
4. Add the water and continue simmering until the chicken is cooked. Once cooked increased the heat to allow the sauce to evaporate, making the adobo saucy and delicious.
5. Prepare the cup of rice and top your chicken adobo and enjoy eating.

Honey Glazed Chicken

Chicken dish with perfect blending of taste from honey and other condiments and spices, Perfect for your loved ones, try this recipe.

Ingredients
1 kilo chicken ( cut to your desired size)
1 lime or 3 calamansi
2 tablespoons honey
1/4 teaspoon ground pepper
1 onion
5 cloves garlic
4 tablespoon soy sauce
spring onion for garnishing

Procedure:
1. Marinate the chicken with lime juice, soy sauce & ground pepper for an hour.
2. Saute the garlic and onion.
3. Remove the chicken from the marinating sauce ( set aside the marinating sauce) add the chicken to the sauteed spices and simmer until half cooked, then add the marinating sauce and simmer until cooked.
4. Pour in the honey and stir well to coat the chicken evenly, simmer until done.
5. Turn off the heat and garnish with spring onion then serve.

Simple Macaroni Salad

Macaroni salad is one of my favorites, even as simple as this one, just craving for it, that's why I made this even if the ingredients are not enough to make it special, but still it is yummy and satisfied my cravings.

Ingredients:
1 kilo macaroni
2 cans nestle cream
2 1/2 cups condensed milk
1 can fruit cocktail ( 450 grams)
1 cup mayonaise
1 small can evaporated milk
1 can Pineapple tidbits (234 grams)
1 bottle nata de coco/kaong ( any color 340grams)

Procedure:
1. Cook the macaroni according to its packaging procedure, then drain and set aside.

2. Drain the pineapple tidbits, nata and fruit cocktail.
3. Combine all the ingredients and mix well.

4. Refrigerate before serving.

Gelatine Salad

Perfect for the weekend with your loved ones, this is very economical and easy to prepare. Very yummy and the texture is firm and smooth making it very enjoyable to chew specially for your kids.

Ingredients:
2 sachets different colored unflavored  gelatine (35g each)
1 can nestle cream or light cream
1 cup condense milk

Cooked gelatine

Procedure:
1.Prepare the gelatine individually according to its packaging procedure, refrigerate then diced it all.  You can add sugar while cooking the gelatine to add flavor.

 2. Pour in the milk and all purpose cream

3. Refrigerate before serving.