Macaroni and Corn Salad

I am craving for some macaroni salad, but my ingredients are not complete for proper macaroni salad, that is why I made this and it is still yummy :) Simple but satisfying.

Ingredients:
300 grams macaroni ( cooked according to packaging direction)
1 red apple ( diced)
1 cup raisins
2 cups corn kernel
1 cup condensed milk
2 cups nestle cream or light cream

Procedure:
1.  Mix all the ingredients then refrigerate before serving.

 

2. Once chilled serve with a smile -:)

Stir Fried Spinach with Shrimps

I love spinach because it is full of nutrients and delicious. I need vitamin K also which is found in this vegetable and from my research I found out that nutritional value of cooked spinach is 3 times higher than raw, because there are nutrients from spinach that can not be absorbed by our body if it is raw. Make spinach a part of your diet, try this recipe.

  Ingredients:
2 bunches of Spinach.
1/4 kilo shrimps
1 onion
3 cloves garlic
1/4 cup soy sauce
salt and pepper to taste

Spinach

Procedure:
1.Saute the garlic and onion, add the shrimps then simmer for a minute then add the soy sauce.
2. Increase the heat for stir frying, add the spinach  and stir fry until done, add salt and pepper to taste then turn off the heat.
3.  Serve it with a smile.

Salmon Sinigang sa Camatis

 To avoid a slimy  smell of the soup here is my technique of cooking my fish sinigang sa camatis. I hope you will like it.

 Ingredients:
1/2 kilo fish
1/2 kilo tomatoes ( sliced)
1 onion ( sliced)
1 bunch of spinach
4 cups water
1/4 cup fish saue (patis)
some jalapeno or cayenne pepper ( siling haba)
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1.  In a pot put the tomatoes, onion, fish, cayenne pepper and fish sauce, cover over medium heat then wait until it boils, then allow to simmer for few minutes.
2. Add the water and bring to boil, simmer for few minutes until the fish is cooked.
3. Add the  spinach and simmer for a minute then turn off the heat.
4.Serve it hot.

Pork Adobo with Sprite

Adobo is an all time favorite dish in our family, and we loved to try our adobo with different variants, here is one of the variants that we loved so much.

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo pork
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup vinegar
1 cup sprite
6 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon peppercorn ( pamintang buo)

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic then add the pork, soy sauce, vinegar, and peppercorn, then let simmer over medium heat for few minutes.
2. Add the sprite and cover until the meat is tender stirring occasionally, when its tender increase the heat to make the sauce thickens then turn off the heat.
3. Serve it with rice.

Stir Fried talbos ng Sayote

 A delicious vegetable dish that you will surely love.

Ingredients:
1/4 kilo pork (sliced into bite size)
1/4 kilo shrimps
1/2 kilo talbos ng sayote ( cleaned and cut to serving size)
3 tablespoons soy sauce
3 cloves garlic
1 onion
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic and onion the add the pork and simmer for 3 minutes, then add the shrimps and simmer for a minute.
2. Add the soy sauce then increase the heat before adding the sayote leaves to maintain the natural color, mix well.
3. Add salt and pepper to taste then simmer until done.
4. Serve it hot.

Chocolate Pastillas

  A delicious dessert for everybody , pastillas de leche is very yummy that is why I tried this with chocolate and it tastes good.

Ingredients:
3/4 cup powdered milk
1/2 up unsweetened chocolate powder
1/2 up condensed milk

Procedure:
1. Mix all the ingredients until you form a dough-like mixture. Then get a portion from it and form  into cylindrical shape. Repeat the process until all the mixture will be finished. Just mix 1 teaspoon of choco powder and 1 tablespoon of powdered milk.

dough-like mixture of milk and choco

2. Roll each on the dusting mixture then wrap with wax paper or keep in a jar.

Bulalo ng Batangas

Bulalo is an original recipe of Batangas  but popular across the Philippines archipelago, from simple eatery to first class restaurants, they are serving this dish due to each popularity and customer's demands. Filipinos always loved the delicious soup of bulalo. Here is my version of Bulalo Batangas that I've learned from a Batangueῆa friend.


Ingredients:
1/2 kilo beef shank
1 corn ( divided into 4)
1 tomato
1 medium size onion
1 teaspoon whole black pepper
1/2 kilo bok choy or petsay
1/4 cup fish sauce ( patis)
6 cups water ( add if necessary)
Spring onion as needed


Procedure:
1. In a pot layer the onion, tomato, black pepper and beef shanks, then add in the patis then turn on the stove to medium heat, cover very well and wait until it starts to simmer. Let simmer until the pinkish color of the meat is gone then mix well and simmer again for another 5 minutes.
2. after this process increase the heat then add the water and simmer until the beef is tender about and hour but if you have pressure cooker 25 minutes is enough to make it tender.
3. When the meat is tender add the corn and boil until it is done then add the petsay and spring onion and turn off the heat.
4. Serve hot.

Pork Chop Bistek Style

Most of the time that I cooked I always do it with what's the available ingredients, like this one, there are pork chops and lots of onions so I cooked this.

Ingredients:
4 pork chops
1/2 cup soy sauce
2 onions sliced into rings
1 lemon or 5 calamansi
ground pepper according to your taste
sugar to taste

Procedure:
1. Marinate the pork chop with lemon, soy sauce and ground pepper for an hour. After an hour remove from marinating sauce then pan fry until brownish then set aside. Do not throw the sauce because we will use it later.
2. Saute the onion then add the pork chops, simmer for 2 minutes to allow the flavors of the onion and pork to blend well, then add the sauce, ground pepper and sugar to taste and simmer until done.

3. Serve it hot with rice and do not forget to smile :-).

Fried Chicken A La KFC

An experiment that I am happy with the result :-) I will try Jollibee and Mcdonalds soon.

Ingredients:
1 kilo chicken
250 grams McCormick fried chicken breading
1 tablespoon chicken powder
1/2 cup flour
ground pepper to taste


Procedure:
1. In a mixing bowl, put the chicken, chicken powder and ground pepper then  mix well and refrigerate for an hour.
2. Combine the Mccormick and flour then mix well.
3. Roll each chicken piece in the flour mixture and make sure to coat it well and deep fry over medium heat until done. Just maintain medium heat to attain a good result. ( Make sure that the oil is really hot before frying )

4. Serve it hot.

Palitaw na may Linga

My Nana loves this so much and so do I. Palitaw is one of the most popular dainties (kakanin) in the Philippines. I love this with sesame seeds because the aroma of sesame seeds in every bite made it more delicious.

 Ingredients:
3 cups glutinous rice powder
1 1/2 cup water
1 cup grated coconut
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup toasted sesame seeds

Procedure:
1. Mix the water and glutinous rice slowly,  until you form a dough.
2. Spoon a portion from the dough and form it into an oval shape.

3. In a pot boil a water where we can cook the palitaw.
4. Put by batches the oval formed glutinous rice in the boiling water and wait until it floats, then remove from the water and drain.

5. Mix the sugar, toasted sesame seeds and grated coconut then roll over the palitaw and serve it.