Street Food, Banana Q

One of the many Filipino snack I miss so much is banana cue. The banana is similar to a plantain only this is golden brown when it is ripe. It is cook wit brown sugar on a hot oil. Then, place it on a skewer. I you are lazy to make some, just buy it already made. It is sold in the streets that is why we call this a "street food".

It is very yummy and filing, too. Try it and you'll love it for sure!

FTF: My Quick Chicken Adobo

I happened to have boiled chicken, so what I did was, sauteed it in oil, minced garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, brown sugar, bay leaves and a little bit of chili sauce. I waited till the sauce is almost gone, then it is ready. There are many style of how Pinoys cook adobo. Sometimes, you can just mix all the ingredients, then boil them until the meat is tender; if you want it dry or with a little sauce, it's up to you.

Leche Flan

My favorite Filipino style flan or shall we call it 'leche flan' in Tagalog. This yummy and creamy dessert is very famous during special occasions such as Christmas and New Year. I so love it. You should try it because it taste so much better than the custard pudding than Mexican style.

Ingredients:

• 10 pieces raw eggs
• 1 small can condensed milk
• 1 cup fresh milk (or evaporated milk)
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Directios:

1. Using all the eggs, separate the yolk from the egg white (only egg yolks will be used).
2. Place the egg yolks in a big bowl then beat them using a fork or an egg beater
3. Add the condensed milk and mix thoroughly
4. Pour-in the fresh milk and mix well
5. Put the mold (llanera) on top of the stove and heat using low fire
6. Put-in the granulated sugar on the mold and mix thoroughly until the solid sugar turns into liquid (caramel) having a light brown color
7. Spread the caramel (liquid sugar) evenly on the flat side of the mold
8. Wait for 5 minutes then pour the egg yolk and milk mixture on the mold
9. Cover the top of the mold using an Aluminum foil
10. Steam the mold with egg and milk mixture for 30 to 35 minutes.
11. After steaming, let the temperature cool down then refrigerate
12. Serve for dessert. Share and Enjoy!

Chowking Braised Beef

A Filipino dish I love so much. Braised beef Chowking style and it is oh so good! It is serve in  fastfood chain called "Chowking". You should tr it because i is really good. It taste exactly as the one they serve at that restaurant. During my visit of my in-laws here this week, I made this for our dinner serve with corn bread. They love it. My mother in laws even asked for a recipe.

Ingredients:

1/2 kg beef brisket

4 cups of water, add more if needed and 1/4 cup for cornstarch

2 tbsp Kikoman soy sauce

2 tbsp soy sauce

2 star anise

2 tbsp onion, minced

1-2 tbsp sugar

1 tsp cornstarch

ground pepper to taste

1 carrot, cut diagonally 

spring onions to garnish

Procedure:

1. In a saucepan, combine all the ingredients except the carrots and the spring onions. Boil the beef until tender.

2. Add the carrots.

3. Dilute the cornstarch to 1/4 cup water and add to the beef to thicken the sauce.

4. Put on top of a steamy rice and garnish with spring onions.

Fried Rice (Sinangag)

Fried Rice

Ingredients:

• 6 cups cooked white rice, refrigerated overnight
• 1 cup barbecued pork, chopped or ham
• 1 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 3/4 cup green peas
• 1/4 cup green onion, chopped
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon ginger, minced
• 1 teaspoon garlic, minced
• 3 tablespoons cooking oil

Watch the cooking video:

Cooking Procedure

1. Heat cooking oil and sauté ginger and garlic.
2. Add shrimps and cook for a minute. Remove the shrimps and set aside.
3. Pour-in the beaten egg mixture and cook.
4. When the egg is cooked, divide into small pieces. Add the rice and mix well.
5. Put-in the soy sauce, sugar, and salt. Mix with the other ingredients.
6. Add barbecued pork. Cook for 3 minutes.
7. Add green peas and shrimp. Cook for another 3 minutes.
8. Put-in the green onions. Cook for 2 minutes while mixing with the other ingredients.
9. Turn the heat off and then transfer to a serving plate and serve.

Lumpiang Shanghai

 Lumpiang Shanghai

Ingredients:

• 2 lbs ground pork
• 1/2 cup green onions
• 1 cup carrots
• 1 cup onion
• 2 tsp soy sauce
• 1 raw egg
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tsp ground black pepper
• Lumpia wrapper (Spring roll skin)

Cooking Procedure:

1. Mix all the ingredients with the pork starting with the onion, carrots, green onions, salt, soy sauce, ground pepper, and raw egg
2. Wrap the meat using the lumpia wrapper (for proper way, see video)
3. Fry the wrapped meat making sure that all the sides are cooked right
4. Serve with sweet and sour sauce (see sweet and sour sauce).

Sotanghon Guisado

Sotanghon Guisado Recipe

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb vermicelli noodles (sotanghon)
• 1 lb chicken
• 1 cup celery, chopped
• 1 1/2 cups onion, diced
• 1 teaspoon whole peppercorn
• 4 cups water
• 1/4 cup annatto water
• 2 to 3 tablespoons garlic, minced
• 1 cup onion leeks, chopped
• 2 tablespoons fish sauce
• 1/2 cup carrots, julienned
• 2 tablespoons cooking oil

Watch the cooking video:

Cooking Procedure

1. Pour water in the cooking pot and apply heat.
2. When the water starts boiling, add celery, 3/4 cup diced onions, whole peppercorns, and chicken
3. Simmer for 40 to 60 minutes then turn off the heat and let cool.
4. Remove the meat from the chicken using your hands. Discard the bones and skin. Set aside.
5. Filter the liquid using a strainer and set aside. This will be the chicken broth.
6. Soak the noodles in water until it becomes soft.
7. Heat a clean wok or cooking pot and pour-in cooking oil.
8. When the oil is hot enough, sauté garlic and the remaining 3/4 cup diced onions.
9. Add-in chicken and cook for 2 minutes.
10. Pour-in annatto water and chicken broth then bring to a boil.
11. Stir-in the carrots and half of the chopped onion leeks. Cook for 3 minutes.
12. Add the noodles and fish sauce then cook for another 2 minutes.
13. Transfer to a serving plate and top with remaining onion leeks and place lemon or calamansi slices on the side.
14. Serve hot. Share and enjoy!

Chicken Macaroni Salad Filipino Style

Chicken Macaroni Salad Ingredients:

• 1/5 kilo macaroni noodles
• 2 to 3 pieces, medium sized carrots
• 1 big chicken breast
• 500 ml of mayonnaise
• 1 can (836 g) pineapple chunks or tidbits
• 1 big white onion, finely chopped
• 1/2 cup sweet pickle relish
• 3 hardboiled eggs, diced
• 1 cup diced cheddar cheese
• 1/2 cup raisins
• salt and pepper to taste

Macaroni Salad Cooking Instructions:

• Cook macaroni noodles according to package cooking instructions.
• In a pot, boil carrots in water for 15 to 20 minutes or until cooked.
• Drain carrots and let cool. Peal skin then dice.
• Boil chicken breast in water with salt. Drain chicken breast, then shred in 1 inch lengths
• Drain pineapple chunks or tidbits.
• Combine all ingredients while adding salt and pepper, to taste.
• Refrigerate, then serve.

FTF: Stir - Fry Bean Sprout, Tofu and Turon

I made a nice dinner yesterday and my son loved the 'ginisang toge.' He said; Mommy, this veggie is so yummy! Thank goodness he ate a lot. Tofu is one of his fave food, too. We have finished our dinner with Turon. I miss this dessert so much! I am glad I've found a 'saba' at Hongkong market this Monday. Lucky me for I seldom see this kind of banana here in the U.S. Most Filipino use plantain for their Turon.

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FTF: Embutido

One of my fave Filipino food that I seldom make because it takes a lot of work, but once it is done...you'll forget all the hard worked because this is one yummy dish!

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Embutido is a type of meatloaf prepared Filipino style. Though a well known dish for the holidays, Embutido can be enjoyed everyday without any hassle. Several meat processing companies now produce this meatloaf for commercial purposes; all you have to do is grab one from your favorite grocery store.

Ingredients:

2 lbs ground pork
12 pcs Vienna sausage or 6 pcs hotdogs, cut in half lengthwise
3 pcs hard boiled eggs, sliced
1/2 cup sweet pickle relish
1/2 cup tomato sauce
2 pcs raw eggs
2 cups cheddar cheese, grated
1 cup red bell pepper, minced
1 cup green bell pepper, minced
1 1/2 cup raisins
1 cup carrots, minced
1 cup onion, minced
salt and pepper
2 cups bread crumbs (made by placing 4 slices of tasty bread in a food processor. If not using any food processor, just tear the bread.)

Cooking Procedures:

1. Place the ground pork in a large container
2. Add the bread crumbs then break the raw eggs and add it in. Mix well
3. Put-in the carrots, bell pepper (red and green), onion, pickle relish, and cheddar cheese. Mix thoroughly
4. Add the raisins, tomato sauce, salt, and pepper then mix well.
5. Place the meat mixture in an aluminum foil and flatten it. (see video for guidance)
6. Put in the sliced Vienna sausage and sliced boiled eggs alternately on the middle of the flat meat mixture.
7. Roll the foil to form a cylinder locking the sausage and egg in the middle if the meat mixture. Once done, lock the edges of the foil.
8. Place in a steamer and let cook for 1 hour.
9. Place inside the refrigerator until temperature turns cold
10. Slice and serve.

Pasalubong from Ams!

Who would have thought that through internet I would meet such a simple, smart outgoing and real friend in the person of Amy Nobillos of Florida. Yup, I found a real friend in her. Though we haven't met yet in person I know and I can feel that she is a friend you will keep. We've been friends for more than two years now and yet she hasn't change a bit. I am pretty sure that one of these days we would meet in person and I couldn't wait for that day! Anyway, she went for a month vacation in the Philippines and when she came back, she sent me a package with some of the foods I missed most. Thanks again dear for being so thoughtful and sweet.

The package includes: dried sweet mango, dried fisg (danggit), pili nuts, polvoron (goldilocks) and chocolates :-)!

Missing These Pinoy Foods

Look at these foods, I bet you are already drooling by just looking at the photo especially if you are a Filipino like me. I miss it so much! I must admit I can cook, but not an expert of it especially when it comes to the foods below. Lechon or pig roast, Siomai, and Barbecue in Skewer are Pinoy foods most Filipino crave for.

How about you? What Pinoy foods you greatly miss since you arrived here in United States or in the country where you reside now other than Philippines?

Filipino Foods: Sizzling Sisig

Ingredients:
- 1 kg Pork Face
- 1/4 kg Pork Brain (Optional)
- 2 tsp. butter
- 4 pcs. Onions, chopped
- 3 Tbsp. Soy Sauce
- 1 Tbsp. Vinegar
- 1 Tbsp. Catsup or Chilli Sauce
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Fried Pork skin, grounded (Optional)
- 1 Egg (Optional) - only when serving

Cooking Procedures:

- Boil pork face till tender; slice thinly into cubes.

- Saute 1 pc. onion in butter and add the sliced pork face and the brain in a deep skillet.

- While sauteing, mix the liquid ingredients.

- Add the liquid mix in the pan. Simmer for about 15 mins.

- Serve in sizzling plate, garnish with Fried pork skin, egg and chilli for your taste.

This Is What I Ate!

I didn't feel like making a dinner today since hubby is back to work. And so, I decided to prepare myself an easy to make dinner. I fried a pinoy mini hotdog which my son loves, and ate it with steamed rice and sliced tomato. Oh boy, I was full after eating this :-)!

Well, I had an appointment to see a sister in the church and I don't want to smell foods when we go to visit her tonight, that is why I didn't cook dinner. Tomorrow, I will make dinner since I will not be very busy then. I am still torn between whether I would or wouldn't attend my son's school activity tomorrow night. Oh well, I still have a day to decided before that multi cultural night where I am supposed to bring a dessert; and if I decide to go, I will bring fruit salad. Sound good, don't you think?