Do you enjoy seafood? If so, here’s the other way of cooking it for your lunch and dinner. I hope you’ll love this curry recipe that I made because I believe this is the healthiest curry I have ever cooked. There are lots of variations and colourful ingredients and it tastes good too! Ingredients: 2…
Tinola in Tagalog, tinuwa in Cebuano or la uya in Ilocano is a soup-based dish served as an appetizer or main entrée in the Philippines. This is an ideal treat served with rice during cool periods such as rainy days where hot soup is best appreciated. Traditionally, this dish is cooked with chicken, wedges of…
My husband and I went to a Thai restaurant in Causeway Bay and I was inspired to prepare one this unforgettable dish: Thai beef salad. It is a spicy blend of beef, assorted herbs and often wrapped in lettuce. I love this dish so please forgive me for including Thai recipe in our Pinoy food…
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…
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…
Ox tail is the culinary name for the tail of cattle. Oxtail is a bony, gelatinous meat, and is usually slow-cooked, often stew or braised. It is a good stock base for soup. The consumption of ox tails dates back as far as the consumption of beef, when no part of the animal went to waste. Every part of the…
There are many ways of cooking shrimp and this is my version in terms of simplest way boiling the shrimp. Shrimp can be cooked in a variety of way: boiled, steamed, grilled, sautéed, baked, or deep-fried. They can also be cooked with or without the shell, with the vein or deveined. Boiling Method: This is…
Tulingan or English name called “mackerel tuna” is extremely buff; in other words, it has dark red meat, probably the result of the vigorous and powerful swimming it does in large schools in ocean waters. Thus, this fish is best prepared grilled as it holds up well to the open flames and its dense flavorful…