Sauteed Asparagus

A nutritious vegetable dish that will aid your digestive tract due to its high fiber content. Rich in vitamins K, C, E and many more that can help our body to stay fit. Start eating asparagus now :-).

Ingredients:
1/4 kilo shrimps
1/2 kilo asparagus ( cleaned and cut)
3 cloves garlic
2 chili ( siling haba)
1 onion
salt and pepper to taste

asparagus

Procedure:
1.Saute the garlic and onion then  add the shrimps and simmer for a minute.
2. Increase the heat, add the asparagus  and some chili then saute until cooked, add salt and pepper to taste.
3.Turn off the heat and serve hot.

Here is the chart for the nutritional value of cooked asparagus.
Source: http://www.whfoods.com

Braised Squid

Braised squids is very easy to prepare in less than 10 minutes you will enjoy this dish. One of the secrets to make your squid tender s to cook it quickly. Try this recipe.

Ingredients for 4 servings:
1/2 kilo squid ( cleaned and sliced)
1 tablespoon lemon or calamansi juice
2 cloves garlic
1/2 onion
1 teaspoon ginger strips
spring onion and red bell pepper for garnishing
salt and pepper to taste

Fresh squid

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic and ginger until brownish then add the  onion and continue to saute until soften then increase the heat and add the squid and braise for 4 minutes.
2. Add the lemon juice, bell pepper, salt and pepper to taste then simmer for 1 mnute and turn off the heat.
3. Sprinkle with spring onion then serve.

Minatamis na Monggo

Rainy days obliged me to prepare this dish because when it's not raining and my friends want me to cook this, I told them that I only cook "minatams na Monggo" when t is raining (laughing). It's nice eating this warm on a rainy day while having a good chat on the table.

Ingredients for 4 servings:
1 1/4 cup mung beans ( monggo)
3 cups water
1 cup pure coconut milk
sugar to taste

Monggo

Procedure:
1. Put the water and mung bean in a pot then bring to a boil, simmer until the beans are tender.
2. Add the sugar and coconut milk then simmer until done.
3. Serve it hot. You can add some milk for extra taste.

Pickled Eggs

"Fed up with your usual and normal routine of preparing eggs for family & guests?
Want something new to go in between:
sunny side up (or some call it red-up),
plain salted-scrambled, omelletes, over easy or poached?
Worry no more.
Get down and do this original simple innovation of mine...pickled eggs.
Kids will love its sweet bite-full aspect.
Once done ref them for months in its own pickling solution and withdraw as needed". Take this from the ingredients' specialist.


INGREDIENTS:
1 dozen hard boiled eggs de-shelled. Set aside.
500 ml. tap water (NEVER USE PREPARED STOCK. Don't let flavor of stock mess up with your eggs)
200 ml. cane vinegar
80 ml. ginger juice
150 grams refined white sugar
80 grams refined salt
8 grams garlic powder
8 grams onion powder
3 grams ground black pepper

OPTIONAL:
4 grams ground Spanish paprika (this gives extra exotic taste & light red color to end products)
10 ml. anisado wine (readily available at your nearest oriental store)

PROCEDURES:
1. in a suited glass jar, combine all ingredients and mix-tumble well until no lumps are visible. Adjust taste to your preference.
Add in sugar or vinegar or salt. Salty-sweet-sour taste must be evident.
2. add in eggs. Stir a bit.
3. shelve unto ref (DO NOT FREEZE)
4. ready to be enjoyed after 3 days. The longer eggs are pickled in ref the tastier they become.

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Contributed by: Mr. Jose Dante S. Morados

Sweet Fish Paksiw

 I love the natural taste of paksiw (not sweet) but my nephews love it sweet that's why there are times that I cook sweet paksiw and they love t so much, here is my recipe for it.

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo fish (any kind  of your choice)
3/4 cup vinegar
4 cloves garlic ( crushed)
1/4 teaspoon peppercorn ( pamintang buo)
1 onion
2 tablespoons sugar
thumb size ginger( strips)
some chili
salt  to taste

Procedure:
1. In a pot put all the ingredients and let it boil then simmer until cooked.
2. If the taste of the vinegar is so strong, you can add a little water.
3. Simmer for few  minutes until done.
4. Serve it with rice.

Peppered Shrimps

This is very easy and quick to do, excellent to prepare if you are chasing the time :-).

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo shrimps (de-shelled)
1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
2 cloves garlic (minced)
salt to taste or patis

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic then add the shrimps and pepper then give a good stir over medium heat.
2. Simmer for 2 minutes and add the salt or patis then simmer for a minute and turn off the heat.
3. Serve it hot and do not forget to smile :-).

Stir Fried Ground Beef and Green Beans

Today we harvested the green beans from my friend's garden, and we decided to stir fry it. So yummy!

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo green beans ( sliced)
1/4 kilo ground beef
3 cloves garlic
3 tablespoons soy sauce
salt and pepper to taste

Sliced beans

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic then add the ground beef and continue to saute until the pinkish color is gone.
2. Add  the green beans and stir over high heat then add the soy sauce and continue to stir until almost done.
3. Add salt and pepper to taste then stir until done and turn off the heat then serve.

Corn Pancake

Simple yet satisfying and yummy.

Ingredients:
2 cups all purpose flour
2cups milk
6 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg ( beaten)
1 cup corn kernel
2 tablespoons butter or margarine ( melted)

Procedure:
1. In a big bowl sift (sala-in) together the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder
2. Then make a well or space at the center and put the beaten egg, milk, vanilla and melted butter. Mix it thoroughly until  smooth or firm then stir in the corn and mix well.
3. In a pan heat a little oil and spoon a portion of the pancake mixture and cook until both sides are brown.

4. Serve hot with pancake syrup or butter on top.

How To Make Pork Barbecue

The number of pieces ( if how many sticks) depends on how long or big you want your barbecue, I'm just sharing the result of what  I did, to give an idea to those who are planning to start a small business, this one is a good one to start with. This is just a basic barbecue recipe that I love. It's yummy!

Ingredients for 80-100 sticks:
5 kilos pork belly ( cut to your desired size)
1 litre Sprite
3 cups ketchup
1 cup pineapple juice
1 tablespoon ground pepper
1 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup lemon or calamnsi juice or vinegar
1 head garlic ( minced)
salt to taste

Procedure:
1.Combine all the ingredients and marinate for at least 2 hours, after 2 hours remove from the marinating sauce and put in the bamboo skewers. Do not throw the marinade because we will use is for basting while grilling the barbecue. If marinating sauce is not enough to brush the barbecue just add more or you can make your own sauce.

2. When you start grilling bast the barbecue every now and then until cooked.

3. Serve and enjoy:-).


Note: You can improve the taste of this barbecue, use your own taste buds :-).
If you have a delicious barbecue recipe you can share it with me, thanks and happy cooking.

Sweet Chili Sauce

"We all love the Sweet-Chili Sauce to dip in our fried stuff. We yearn to savour that sugary-sweet-piquant concoction a lot. Most popular & tastier brands are from Thailand while the lower price ones from China are not that so remembered". Try this recipe by an ingredients' specialist, Mr. Jose Dante S. Morados.

Ingredients:
450 ml Water
80 ml cane or palm vinegar
8 grams Kosher salt
375 grams refined sugar
70 grams combination of red & green bell peppers
2 grams red cayenne pepper
15 grams corn starch


Preparation
1. For multi-color presentation, head & stem cut-off, without removing seeds of red & green bell and red cayenne peppers, lay a portion or a piece of each (should they be smaller) into chopping board. Chop very finely. Include the seeds, set aside.
2. Adding little of our water, also without removing seeds, head & stem taken-off, cut into 4 pieces & blenderize remaining bell and red cayenne until semi smooth emulsion is reached.
3. Leaving about 50ml water for corn starch slurrying, pour remaining water into the blender. STIR manually with long teaspoon so emulsion will be scraped off and mix well with water.
4. Pour into cooking kettle. Add vinegar, salt & sugar. Stir consistently and bring to a boil.
5. While waiting, in a container, mix well 50ml water and corn starch until no lumps are visible.
6. On first boil, simmer down to lowest cooking temp. Add in corn starch slurry and the finely chopped peppers.
7. Stir until a bit viscous consistency is attained.
8. Done.

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Contributed by: Mr. Jose Dante S. Morados