Friday, October 24, 2014

Red Pork Sinigang

Red Pork Sinigang. The addition of tomato sauce to the Pinoy popular soup dish sinigang, has made a lot of Pinoy households trying the sinigang twist for some time. The tomato sauce can of course be used as ingredient to sinigang, traditionally fresh tomatoes are used in most sinigang recipes. In fact there are some Pinoy that uses a lot of tomatoes to their sinigang. For my version of Red Pork Sinigang I chosen not to use the tomato sauce, instead...

Monday, October 20, 2014

White Chicken Adobo, Adobong Puti

White Chicken Adobo, Adobong Puti is another version of my Adobong Puti. This time I have adopted the recipe from my post, Food SafariChef Ricky Ocampo's Recipe of Chicken Adobo. Cooking method is basically the same, I just omitted the soy sauce. The resultant dish was as expected very yummy, even without the soy sauce.Here is the recipe of my White Chicken Adobo, Adobong Puti, enjoyIngredients:1 kilo chicken, cut into large servings1/2 cup apple...

Friday, October 17, 2014

Fish Head Curry Pinoy Style

Fish Head Curry Pinoy Style. Fish head curry is one of the more popular dish in most of our Asian neighbors. Some of the best I have eaten are the Fish head curry from Singapore and Malaysia. Those fish head curries use the full dose of curry spices which most of the Pinoy will find very strong, hot and spicy. Our versions of curry are super mild and most are even on the sweet side. Never the less Pinoy curries will always be one of my favorite...

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Mango Beer Braised Beef Spare Ribs

Mango Beer Braised Beef Spare Ribs. Using beer in cooking is just like using another spice or flavor in the dish. Just like other spice and aroma ingredients it should not be overdone. Beer will add some bitterness and sweetness to a braised dish. Our dish for today is a good example the fruity mango beer will add some fruity sweetness and mild bitterness to our sweet salty and bitter braised recipe. The beef spare ribs is slow cooked with beer...

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Adobong Okra

Adobong Okra. Okra is one of the Pinoy vegetable that I have noticed that are regularly available here in Darwin both in the supermarkets and produced Sunday and Saturday markets around town. The okra quality is very inviting I was tempted to purchase some without thinking what to cook out of it. Well I did not have trouble what to cook, I decided, why not try adobo using the dark soy sauce that I have recently bought from the Asian section of...

Monday, October 13, 2014

Meal Planning Monday - week 42

I'm a sucker for pretty stationery and love notebooks, sticky notes and so on. I went into Paperchase last week to literally just buy a pencil (for scribbling notes in my choir music) and ended up spending £8 on this magnetic meal planner. How cute is that?! Each week is a page that you tear off afterwards - I prefer this to the wipe-clean kind even though it is less economical, because I always find the pen that you get with the wipe clean boards...

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Island Chicken

This month's letter for Alphabakes isn't an easy one - i. Other than icing, not a huge amount springs to mind. I made Idaho potato cake last time the letter came up for Alphabakes in March 2013 - quite an original idea, I thought. This time I was at a bit of a loss, and hadn't unpacked any of my cookery books since moving house (though they now have their own bookcase in the kitchen which is a joy to behold!). I had a browse around on the internet...

Friday, October 10, 2014

Tinolang Manok sa Zucchini

Tinolang Manok sa Zucchini. I was craving for chiken tinola but I cannot find papaya or sayote at the supermarket, I thought zucchini would be a good alternative. This is not the first time that I used zucchini on some of my Pinoy Dishes. I even have a version of pinakbet using zucchini as one of the vegetable ingredients. Please note that zucchini cooks quickly and becomes really soft and mushy when overcooked, I suggest that to add the zucchini...

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Slow Cooker Baked Potato

I haven't used my slow cooker for a few months since I moved in August, so was inspired by the Slow Cooker Challenge on Farmersgirl Kitchen to dig it out. Janice, aka Farmersgirl, has an open theme this month so I had a look around on other blogs to find something that would be fairly easy. I came across a couple of recipes for jacket potatoes done in the slow cooker - it never occured to me to bake them like that. Jacket potatoes take a good 1-2...

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Chicken Bopis

Chicken Bopis. To Overseas Pinoys who are lovers of bopis and have for some time craving the dish but cannot cook one because the pork or beef internal organs for some reasons are not available in your locations, I would like to share a chicken version instead. Otherwise try my vegetarian version Vegeterian Bopis. Occasionally on some supermarkets here in Australia chicken innards are available, and I am sure it may be available elsewhere specialty...

Masterclass: Mike's Amazing Cakes

Mike of Mike's Amazing CakesAt this year's Cake and Bake Show in London I took a masterclass with Mike McCarey of Mike's Amazing Cakes, a US bakery that is known for producing elaborate three-dimensional cakes for weddings, birthdays and other occasions. He can often be seen on the television channel the Food Network, though I have to admit when I signed up to the class I had never heard of him before - I gathered he was famous though and was interested...

Monday, October 6, 2014

Kinilaw na Tanguige sa Strawberry, Strawberry Flavored Kinilaw

Kinilaw na Tanguige sa Strawberry, Strawberry Flavored Kinilaw. This is my second strawberry innovation on a Pinoy dish. May be some of my regular readers would remember that I have used strawberry in one of my sinigang na bangus, Sinigang na Bangus sa Strawberry. That was some fruity sininigang that something to try whe you are tired of your usual siningang na bangus. For today I tried to add a fruity twist of one of Pinoys favorite, kinilaw....