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,…
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…
Are you one of a seafood lover? Take this recipe, easy to cook dish and brings tasty meals everyone would love. You can even lick your fingers to affirm the sweet and spicy prawn taste. Ingredients: 1 pound fresh prawn 2 tbsp vegetable oil 3 tbsp fish sauce 1 tbsp seafood soy sauce 2 tbsp…
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…
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…
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…
Sawsawan or we call it in English “dip/ dipping” is a common part of a Filipino meal. Wherever in the world we Filipinos find ourselves in, one of the first things we do after sitting down for a meal is prepare the sawsawan. Lunch or dinner would not be complete without it. Ingredients: 2 cups…
Camote tops are very often eaten as local salad. This is a plant that was introduced during the Spanish period to our country. Camote which is a native to tropical America is scientifically known as Ipomoea batatas. Ingredients: 1 catty camote tops ( sweet potato leaves) or in chinese (yam) 2-3 fresh tomatoes (cut into…
Paella is a Spanish dish originating in Valencia. As a colony of Spain, Filipinos learned to adapt the food, which is a mixture of rice, meat, seafood, beans and vegetables. The word paella comes from the Old French term paelle which means pan. There are various types of paella, but what we’ll describe here is…