Make no mistake. Cooked adobong pusit may be filled with ink-colored mixture but it is a tasty squid dish cooked using the same procedure as the very popular Filipino adobo recipe. Cooking Ingredients: 2-3 cloves garlic, minced 1 medium-size onion, chopped 1/2 kilo pusit (squid), cleaned cooking oil 1/2 cup vinegar patis (fish sauce) and pepper…
Talakitok or we call it “bigeye trevally fish or cavalla fish” in English is a popular kind of fish not only in the Philippines but also all over the world. Although I featured a few other varieties of isdang paksiw, I will show how it’s done with this fish we call talakitok. Ingredients: 1 big pcs of…
The word broccoli, from the Italian plural of broccolo, refers to “the flowering top of a cabbage”. Broccoli is a plant in the cabbage family, whose large flower head is used as a vegetable. As one of the most nutritious vegetables, it’s good to have broccoli on your table as often as possible. Ingredients: 2…
There are quite a number of Filipino noodle varieties: from the popular Malabon, sotanghon and bihon guisado to the lesser-known alanganin, alahoy and cabagan. Each has its own distinct characteristic, influenced by foreign visitors or locally available ingredients. So it’s not a surprise if you’ll see a series of pancit recipes I will be featuring…
Shrimp paste or popularly known to us Filipinos as alamang is not only made from shrimp. Small fish, small prawns, and krill can be used to make shrimp paste. Shrimp paste is made by mixing salt with either shrimp or fish or both. The mixture is stored overnight, drained, and sun-dried. The dried mixture is…
Got any leftover lechon or roast pig from a big celebration such as town fiesta, wedding party or birthday bash? Lechon Paksiw is the best “scavenged” dish you can prepare. We Filipinos are not used to throw the food leftover instead we make to it in other way around of dish and so it remains…
In cultures around the world, dessert is a course that typically comes at the end of a meal, usually consisting of sweet food. Now, I’ll help you create a very simple kind of dessert which is baked creme caramel. Ingredients: For Caramel: 150 g sugar 40 ml water 400 ml water For Creme: 325 ml…
I’ve been watching the Junior MasterChef Australia at TVB Pearl the past few weeks. The show is a cooking contest among young kids aged 8-12 who will compete as Australia’s top young chef by undergoing through cooking various recipes depending on certain criteria. The show takes me back when I was a kid myself. Growing…
Tulingan or mackerel tuna fish are prized (and are highly harvested) for their meat, which is often very oily. They are known for their fighting ability, and are important in recreational and commercial fishery. Now, I’m going to share to you a very popular dish in the Philippines which is ginataang tulingan. Since we all…
Steaming works by boiling water continuously, causing it to vaporize into steam; the steam then carries heat to the nearby food, thus cooking the food. The food is kept separate from the boiling water but has direct contact with the steam, resulting in a moist texture to the food. This differs from double boiling, in…