Misua with Patola

Misua is a thin noodles made from flour that is delicious to make into soup, there are different ways to make misua soup but one of the common one is with sponge gourd or ptola.

Ingredients:
12 packs misua
1 small patola ( cleaned and sliced)
2 small tomatoes
2 cloves garlic
1 small onion
1 can sardines
5 cups water
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Saute garlic, onion and tomatoes then add the sardines and simmer for a minute.
2. Add the water and bring to a boil then add the misua and patola , simmer for  minutes, season with salt and pepper then simmer for a minute and turn off the heat.
3. Serve it hot.

Bangus Belly Steak

The best for the whole family. This milkfish dish is so yummy, so make sure that you have enough rice for everybody.

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo bangs belly
1 cup onion rings
3 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons calamansi or lemon juice
1/2 cup water
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Fried the fish and set aside.
2. Saute the onion  then add the fried fish, soy sauce and calamansi juice then simmer for 2 minutes.

3. Add the water and bring to a boil, then simmer for few minutes to soften the fish for a very nice texture and flavor.
4. Season with salt and pepper then simmer until done and serve with  a smile :-).

Mussels with Oyster Sauce

Mussels that's so flavorful with oyster sauce.

Ingredients for 4 servings:
1/2 kilo mussels (tahong)
1 medium size tomato
1 small size onion
3 cloves garlic
3 tablespoons oyster sauce
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic, then the tomato and onion, add the mussels and stir.
2. Simmer while stirring every now and then until cooked. ( Around 5 minutes)
3. Add the oyster sauce then mix well,  dash with salt and pepper to taste, simmer for a minute then turn off the heat.
4. Serve it hot.

Bopis

Today we cooked lechon ( whole roasted pig) and I asked the butcher to give me the innards that I can use for "bopis".  One of the ingredients for bopis is lungs but since most of my siblings will not eat it, I decided not to include it. Here is my simple way of cooking bopis.

Ingredients:
1 piece pork's heart ( boiled and chopped)
1/2 kilo pork's intestine ( fully cleaned, boiled and chopped)
1/4 kilo pork's liver ( chopped)
1 big tomato (diced)
1 small carrot ( minced)
1/2 cup minced radish
3 cloves garlic (minced)
thumb size ginger (minced)
1 onion (minced)
3 tablespoons vinegar
3 tablespoons soy sauce
2 laurel/bay leaves
chopped chili according to your taste
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure
1. Sauté garlic, ginger, tomato and onion then add the pork's heart, liver and intestines, increase the heat, then give it a good stir.
2. Add all the ingredients then simmer until fully cooked stirring every now and then.
3. Serve hot and do not forget to smile :-)

Tapioca Fruit Cocktail Salad

A refreshing salad that I made for a family friend that I visited recently. It's their first time to taste a tapioca pearl salad and they were all amazed how yummy it is.

Ingredients for 20 servings:
1/2 kilo Tapioca pearls ( cooked and drained)
1 can Fruit cocktail
500 ml Nestle All purpose cream (2 tetra packs)
1 1/2 cans big condensed milk
2 cups red nata de coco

Procedure:
1. Combine all the ingredients then refrigerate for few hours.

2. Serve with love and enjoy :-).

Blanched Camote Tops

I always like camote tops salad specially when it is raw, but some of my friends do not like it raw so I blanched it. The best when paired with fried or grilled meat or fish.

Ingredients:
2 bunches of camote tops ( talbos)
2 tablespoons of vinegar or calamansi juice
3 cloves garlic ( crushed)
pinch of sugar
salt and pepper to taste

Talbos ng Camote/ Camote tops

Procedure:
1. Boil 3 cups of water, when it is boiling turn off the heat then put the the camote tops to blanch it. Set aside after blanching.
2. Mix the vinegar, garlic, sugar, salt and pepper then sprinkle over the blanched camote tops.
3. Serve and enjoy your meal :-).

Note: You can add tomatoes, onion, fish paste and other spices for this recipe.

Tinolang Bangus

Simple and easy to cook but the soup is very delicious, I learned this from my mother. I love the taste of this light soup dish specially when the milkfish is so fresh, the flavor of the soup is too good to resist.

Ingredients:
1 piece milk fish (bangus) Sliced to your desired size
4 small tomatoes
2 small red onion
thumb size ginger
3 cups water ( add if needed)
2 chili finger (siling haba)
2 tablespoons fish sauce (optional)
salt to tast

Procedure:
1. In a pot, put the water, onion, tomato and ginger then bring to a boil,

let boil for 2 minutes then add the fish, chili and fish sauce or salt to taste then just simmer until the fish is fully cooked.
2. Turn off the heat then serve.

Gingered Crab

A simple crab dish that is pungent and aromatic because of the ginger that will surely make your taste buds excited :-).

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo crabs (cleaned)
100 grams ginger
3 cloves garlic
1/2 cup sliced spring onion
salt or fish sauce to taste

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic and ginger until the aroma comes out then add the crabs and stir well.
2. Simmer for 3 minutes then add the salt and spring onion then simmer until cooked.
3. Serve it hot with rice.

Tulingan Paksiw with Pork

Somebody emailed me requesting this recipe, "Tulingan Paksiw with Pork" this is yummier than the ordinary paksiw, the vinegar and spices blended well with the pork making it tastes excellent! Try it.

Ingredients:
2 pieces Tulingan = skipjack Tuna ( sliced to your desired size)
1/4 kilo pork belly
3/4 cup vinegar
4 cloves garlic ( crushed)
1 onion ( diced)
1/2 teaspoon peppercorn (pamintang buo)
thumb size ginger( strips)
some chili
salt to taste

Procedure:
1. In a pan put all the ingredients and let it boil, then simmer over low fire  until cooked.

2. If the taste of the vinegar is so strong, you can add a little water.
3. Simmer for few  minutes or until done.
4. Serve it with rice.

No Bake Durian Pie

Sniff, sniff, do you smell something? It's the Durian at the back of our house, it's already ripe because you can smell it anywhere. My family made it into a very delicious pie for my blog :-). I love you all.

Crust Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup powdered Graham Crackers
1/2 cup melted butter

Crust Procedure:
1. Mix the powdered Graham crackers and melted butter then put in a springform baking pan and refrigerate for an hour or until hardened.


Filling Ingredients:
4  seeds with flesh of Durian
1/2 cup white  sugar
4 tablespoons  cornstarch
2 cups Evaporated Milk
2 egg yolks
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon vanilla
dash of salt

Durian Fruit

seeds with flesh

Filling Procedure:
1. Remove the seeds of the durian then mash well. In a pan put all the ingredients then cook for 10 minutes or until thickens, stirring occasionally. Then let cool.

To assemble:
Get the refrigerated powdered Graham cracker then pour the filling and refrigerate for few hours.

2. Remove from refrigerator, un-mold then slice and serve with a smile.