In cooking a dish, it is not necessary to follow procedures step by step as what recipe books say. Explore your creative flair and make your own style and ingredients added unto it. One example of doing so is the dish I would like to feature, a modification of the quintessential Filipino dish: adobo. Normally, we…
I used different type of seafood cooking for this variety of vegetables called “Chop Suey”. Chop Suey is one of the best dishes for Pinoy taste in terms of cooking vegetables. I found it very colorful and tasty. In this type of dish, I made sure to it that it will not overload the seafood…
Tell me I’m crazy, but it’s true. I created another version of adobo which also makes use of okra as main ingredient. This is unusual and uncommon recipe’s that I cooked. Believe it or not, I found it very delicious. Ingredients: 500 g of pork spareribs, cut in to a small chunk 2 gloves of…
Pinaypay na saging is a famous Filipino snack or dessert made with thinly sliced, battered, and deep-fried plantains till crispy and golden brown. The name “pinaypay” is derived from the Filipino word for “fan,” since the sliced plantains are stacked in a fan configuration before being battered and fried. For extra sweetness, pinaypay na saging…
Actually, this type of adobo is the same version that we used to have. I just only add another part of pork meat which is the liver. Every time I cook adobo, I make sure that I have enough steam rice. Most of the Filipinos really love to eat adobo. It is already part of…
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…
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…
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…
We are very lucky that we have a lot of varieties of fish. Fish are good sources of protein and are low in fat. It’s one of the best ways to get protein in your diet without all the fat like in other meat sources. Fish is an excellent source of high-quality proteins with sufficient amount of…