I was raised in a place where this dish is a common fixture on the table: odong and tinapa. While tinapa means smoked fish, Cebuanos refer this to as canned sardines or mackerel. Odong is salted flour noodles characterized by a thin hard texture (soft when cooked) and yellowish color. A worthy substitute is misua,…
There are many ways of cooking vegetables. You may use your imagination to visualize your food. Like what I did. I found minced pork in my freezer and decided this is going to be an ingredient of what I am going to cook. Ginisang gulay na may giniling na karneng baboy whose ingredients are easy…
There also many ways of cooking squid. One of the ways I tried is a spicy sweet and sour squid. Normally, cooking a squid is easy and quick dish. So, try this recipe that I wanted to share. Ingredients: 1 kilo squid, clean and cut into a square shape 3 gloves garlic, mince 1 small…
Kare-kare is a stew of oxtail, beef, occasionally added beef tripe, lots of varieties of vegetables and we called a combination of all three main ingredients (beef, oxtail and tripe) commonly cooked with a peanut butter paste and serve it bagoong. Estimated time of cooking for this type of dish is 2 1/2 hours. Ingredients:…
Pancit bihon is commonly known as a Filipino type of noodles. Noodles in every Filipino’s life is very significant. For instance, eating and serving noodles especially during your birthday is symbolic way of saying “may you have a long life ahead of you”. This type of noodles called rice stick noodles or bihon vermicelli is…
There are many ways of cooking noodles, locally known as pancit or pansit. This is a term of noodles in Filipino cuisine the Chinese immigrants introduced to the Philippines. Another type of it is pancit palabok. It is a kind of rice noodles with a thick shrimp gravy or a seafood sauce with a bright…
Relyenong Bangus or stuffed milk fish is a famous dish usually served during special occasions such us fiestas, weddings or beach parties or without any occasion. It is very yummy and tasty but also it requires a lot of effort to prepare this recipe. Many people think that relyenong bangus is considered a very special…
Do your children eat ampalaya (bitter melon)? If not, try this recipe of mine. It is easy to cook it’s likely your children would love it. I creatively cooked it that your children might think it is not an ampalaya but pancake variation. Ingredients: 1 whole of ampalaya, sliced thinly 50 g minced pork 3…
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…
Abundance of bananas in our country is a blessing we should take advantage of. You can use to it by baking, banana chips, banana cue, pinaypay na saging and so many more. This is the advantage that I live in a tropical country. Banana offers a lot of nutrients such as Vitamin C, iron, Calcium,…