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...

John's bday dinner

To celebrate John's 30th birthday, we had dinner at Texas Roadhouse @ Bonifacio High street.

Pepper steak house

We had lunch last Saturday (Dec 10) together with my sister at Pepper Steak House. We all ordered a variety of beef.

I love how the ordering works... You need to "Moo-oove" and the waiter will come at your table.

 

After ordering you can now select the Stop 

So we ordered sizzling beef food, John had the beef with mushroom, May had the pepper rice, and I had the "Gyuniko"something - it's beef as well with egg yolk on top.

And added an extra order of Fish and chips.

Our bill is almost P1k, good thing it accepts Sodexo gift cert ^-^

To go @ Burger Project

Last Friday (082611), I ordered a take out Burger for me, John and Achi at Burger Project.Plus Kamote Fries and Potato Fries. I couldn't decide which so I chose both. ^-^

Pic doesn't look good but it is ;)

Kamote or Sweet Potato Fries

Potato Fries

Happy 7th Birthday Jana

We went to Tabang, Bulacan to attend a Hannah Montana Themed Birthday party. It was a grand birthday for a 7 year old kid. She's John's cousin. There are food carts like Ice Cream, Cotton Candy, Hotdog, Fishball, Kikiam and Squid ball. Instead of the usual face paint, there's a kiddie salon where the girls are prettified. There's also kakanin or rice cakes available. For the main course, there's a palabok, spaghetti, pancit canton, lechon, beef, chicken, shrimp, cordon bleu. I'm already full after the hotdog and so I only ate a little off the main course.

I was not able to take a picture but if Achi got pics, I'll post it :)

Happy 11th Month

Today is my nephew's (Eugene Keane) 11th month. For sure, he won't be with us on his 1st birthday so I bought food for him to celebrate his 11th month birthday!

Just for a simple salo-salo, I bought a cake (which is always by default), and a bilao of Pancit Malabon. I asked my sister to buy 2 pcs of Chicken from Robina as well.

Pancit Malabon

Chocolate Nelusko from Goldilocks

Feast @ Vikings

Achi treated us for her promotion @ Vikings , Mall of Asia. The Eat-all-u-can dinner cost is P888 + 5% service charge.The place is huge but still a lot of people are coming here to eat. Despite the rainy weather we still waited for almost 2hours. We started eating around 9pm then at 10:30 we were asked to get our last share of food. There are lots of food to choose from Japanese, Chinese, American, Italian, Filipino. There's also hotpot soups and fishes for grilling. And of course the desserts, there's a lot to choose from.Choices are like Sofitel's SPIRAL but a lot cheaper. A good find indeed :)

Next time we need to reserve seats to be able to fully enjoy the food ^-^

WB Keane

I bought Blueberry Cheesecake from Contis and Barbeque from Inengs for Keane's homecoming and also for his belated 6th month.

Belated Birthday

John and Achi celebrated their birthday @ Hongkong Emperor, MOA. I reserved for 20 guests and I really love their VIP rooms overlooking the bay.



We ordered 2 Set Meals good for 12pax (P15760) composed of Cold cuts, Steamed Live Suahe, Four Treasures Soup, Dried Scallop with Abalone, HK Famous Pork Leg, Fish Fillet with Garlic, Emperor Crispy Chicken, Steamed Crab, Fried Rice and Mixed Fruits. We added additional order of 2 Birthday Noodles (P1360), 2 Salt and Pepper Fish Fillet (P1640), 10 Siu Long Pao (P1080).

~Cold cuts~


~ Fried Rice ~


~ Dried Scallops with Abalone ~


~HK Famous Pork Leg~


~Steamed Suahe~


~Salt & Pepper Fish Fillet~


~Steamed Fish Fillet~ (I love this one!)


Since it's their birthday we had birthday noodles :)


~Steamed Crab~


My favorite Shiao Long Pao


Mixed Fruits for dessert


I was so shocked to see the bill amounting to P22,750+, which includes 10% service charge. But overall, aside from the price the ambiance is very nice (no added payment for room) and food is great as well.