Ginataang Kalabasa with Sitaw at Okra

1. Saute garlic and onion, and add pork cubes and add some patis for taste
2. Pour in the pork broth (knorr pork cubes in cup of hot water)
3. Add the squash or kalabasa
3. Add the sitaw and the okra
3. Let it simmer then add the coconut milk

Turbo Lechon Kawali

1. Boil the pork slab with garlic, peppercorns and salt
2. Once its quite soft remove the meat and prepare the turbo broiler
3. Pre-heat the turbo
4. Cook meat for 30mins at 200deg Celsius for more tender and juicy meat

i hope its good

Crispy Pork Binagoongan

Ingredients:
- pork cubes
- garlic
- vinegar
- pepper
- oil

Boil the pork with 1cup water and tablespoon of oil until all water evaporated.
Fry on its own oil until brown and crispy. (I remove the excess oil).
Add chopped ginger
Add 1/4 cup of vinegar and tablespoon of water.
Add bagoong and pepper and stir.
You can also add brown sugar (but since I have gestational diabetes I didnt add anymore)

Serve with white rice and tomato on the side.

Chicken Ampalaya

Because of my GDM I'm forced to diet. And ampalaya is one of the best food that is good for diabetes.

Here's another dish hopefully will satisfy my tastebuds and normal blood sugar.

- saute garlic, onion, ginger in chicken fats
- saute the chicken
- add some patis and pepper for taste
- simmer
- add ampalaya

tyaran!

Ampalaya con corned beef

Saute garlic, onion, tomato
Add ampalaya (submerged in water with salt to remove bitterness)
Add water, pepper and patis
Simmer
Add corned beef
Add egg

Chicken Misua Soup

even though its hot I suddenly craved for Misua soup. Usually we used pork giniling but since its not available I used chicken thigh instead.

for broth: Boil chicken thigh with salt and pepper
set aside broth and shred the chicken

saute garlic and onion
Add the shredded chicken thigh
add patis
then add broth
let it boil then add the misua
wait until misua is soft and cooked

paksiw na Gindara

Garlic, Onion, Ginger, pepper, vinegar and sugar -- add everything to the gindara fish and let it simmer.

also add some okra or lady finger for a much healthier lunch

Pinakbet

i have Ilocano roots but guess I never learn how to cook their specialty --- Pakbet or Pinakbet.

Since I need to eat healthy, we bought vegetables. So we picked from the grocery mixed vegetables for pinakbet.

what i did is just saute garlic, onion, then add pork meat. Then let it simmer and once its tender add the tomato. then I put the squash when its soft I then add the remaining vegetables. (ampalaya, sitaw, eggplant, etc... ) note that once you add ampalaya do not stir the food or it will have bitter taste. then add the alamang for taste. i also added pork meat cubes for more meatier taste. hehe.

caramelized pork adobo

i tried to do this:
http://www.pepper.ph/sunday-classics-ultra-rich-caramelized-pork-adobo//a>/

but the result is just a simple adobo.

- marinate pork cubes with soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, bayleaf and pepper for 30 mins
- saute the pork with garlic
- add brown sugar
- add the marinate sauce and add water
- simmer
- boil eggs and add in the dish

Nilagang Baka

Nilagang baka is always time-consuming. How i wish we have a slow cooker to lessen the cooking time and save up on shellane.

1. Boil the beef in water with ginger and onion. I boil it for almost 2hrs until soft and chewy.
2. Add pepper and salt to taste.
3. Then add potatoes until soft
4. Add pechay.

I was surprised with the pechay's price. It costs P25 for 3 stalks of pechay. I know vegetables increased prices due to rains last week. But P25 is just too much. But for the sake of my Nilagang baka, i still bought one.

as always, John said its good. hehe.

chicken afritada

After 3days of rain and flood, it feels like its been so long since I ate "real" food. We've been eating hotdog, spam, corned beef, century tuna, sausage .. all the easy to cook foods.

And so i cooked something real.. hehe.. here goes the Afritada...

procedure:
- boil the chicken
- saute garlic, onion, ginger
- add the half-boiled chicken
- then add the afritada sauce and the chicken broth
- let it boil, until it becomes creamy or saucy.. (not soup-like)
- then add carrots and bell pepper

It taste so salty :( i just hope John would still like it.

adobong sitaw with bacon bits & sardines

Its really hard to think on what to cook.

And for tonight, i prepare adobong sitaw with bacon bits.
- saute the bacon in garlic and onion
- add 1cup of water, 1/3 cup of vinegar and 1/2 cup of soy sauce
let it cook
- add the sitaw and let it cook

then i saute the sardines in garlic, onion and tomato

pork giniling & longanisa

Its really hard to think on what to cook especially if you only love to eat and not cook.

i made pork giniling in menudo sauce.

Procedure:
- saute garlic and onion in oil
- add the pork giniling until brown
- add the menudo sauce (i used UFC menudo sauce instead of tomato sauce
- add water
- add the potato, wait until tender
- add carrots
- separately boil an egg, then add it to the dish

just in case they dont like it, i cooked longanisa. hehe.

Fried chicken

For tonights dinner, i cooked fried chicken.

to marinate, i used patis or fish sauce, calamansi, and pepper.
i marinated it for 3hours.

then use flour for breading.

i also cooked knorr pork and mushroom soup.

i just hope it would taste good. hehe

Fried porkchop

For tonights dinner i will prepare fried porkchop.

I used patis or fish sauce to marinate the porkchop with little soy sauce and some peppers.
Then will spread cornstarch before frying it.

Hopefully it would taste good. Hehe.

Mussels soup

For dinner today im currently cooking mussels or tahong soup.

Ingredients:
Garlic
Onion & onion leaves
Ginger
Tomato
Mussels
Spinach

Saute the garlic, onion and ginger. Add tomato. Add mussels or tahong. Add water just enough to cover the mussels. Let it boil.

Once all the mussels opened. Add the spinach and onion leaves.

Add patis or fish sauce to add taste.

Hope it would taste good. Will see...

Test

Turbo Chicken with Lemongrass

Today we will be attending a D-group and celebrate Father's day and each couple will bring any food. Every house party that we attended we bought food either cake, pancit, spaghetti, siomai, lechon manok or anything good for party.

But since (I think) most couples from the group knew how to cook except for us. I'm pressured to bring home cooked food as well. So the easiest Turbo Chicken.

To make sure that the chicken would be very tender. We marinate it overnight rather almost whole day.

Preparation:
3 whole chicken
soy sauce 
7up soda
garlic

I place all the ingredients in a basin then refrigerate.

According to my research and my sister. I need to put a lemon grass (tanglad) inside the chicken for a good aroma. So I went to Arangque market not knowing what does it looks like. ^-^

In a few hours I will start cooking it in the turbo broiler. But need to wait for my husband so we could set the correct temperature of the turbo.

I pray it will all go well.

Will post pics soon :)

Shredded beef with sayote

Since i just need to eat something healthy and dont know how to cook. I just toss beef and sayote. Cut the beef to thin slices, then saute it to onions. Wait until its tender. Add some seasoning and patis. Then add the diced sayote. I hope its good. In fairness, it looks edible.

10th Anniversary Weekend (Jan 28-29)

We had lunch at Glass Garden, during a friend's wedding.

Then we had dinner at Club Balai for another friend's wedding.

Stayed at the resort and had a breakfast buffet.

And to end the day, we had dinner at Tong Yang my favorite buffet.