Adobong Pusit ^_^

Adobong Pusit, a tasty squid dish cooked in soy sauce and vinegar. I don't have really the intention of cooking this dish today. But while I am cooking other dish, my friend arrived with a squid she bought from the market near our place :) So I cooked it the way I know.. if you want try it see below ingredients and cooking instructions. Enjoy! ^_^

Ingredients:

• Squid, cleaned
• Onion
• Garlic
• Soy sauce
• Vinegar
• Cooking oil
• Sugar 
• Salt and pepper
• Dried bay leaves

Cooking Instructions:

• In a cooking pot, pour in water, vinegar, soy sauce, bay leaves and squid.
• Simmer for 5 minutes. Set aside.
• In a separate pan heat cooking oil, saute garlic and onion.
• Pour in the squid cooked earlier. Let it simmer for another 5 minutes.
• Add sugar, salt and pepper to taste.
• Let it simmer for another 3 minutes.
• Serve hot and enjoy! ^_^

Squash and String Beans with coconut milk ^_^

"Ginataang Sitaw at Kalabasa" a Filipino style recipe.. a combination of string beans and squash simmered in coconut milk, simple but tasty and nutritious vegetable dish. It can be cooked with pork, shrimp or crab whichever you prefer to mix with it. This time, I've cooked it with pork as one of my friend don't eat shrimp nor crab.. :) Hope she will like it.. below are the ingredients and a simple and easy way of cooking this dish.. ^_^

Ingredients:

• Squash, peeled and cut into cubes
• String beans, cut into pcs.
• Pork, diced
• Fish sauce
• Coconut milk
• Garlic, minced
• Onion, chopped
• Cooking oil
• Salt and pepper
• Water

Cooking Instruction:

• In a saucepan, heat cooking oil then saute onion and garlic. Put in pork meat and mix well.
• Add the squash and string beans. Pour in water and season with fish sauce.
• Let it simmer until vegetables are tender.
• Pour in coconut milk and simmer for another 5 minutes.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Serve hot and enjoy! ^_^

Pork Binagoongan ( Pork in Shrimp Paste) ^_^

Yesterday, one of my team mate told me that his girlfriend was happy checking on my blogs, then he asked me if I know how to cook "Pork Binagoongan" then suddenly I was challenged.. though I never have the chance before to cook it.. I suddenly said "yes I can! ".. ^_^ I was so glad knowing that someone I haven't  meet yet, appreciated my blogs.. and it inspired me to cook more..  :)  "Pork Binagoongan" this is the first time I'm going to cook it and I am excited! Hoping they will like it.. and everyone who got the chance and time to check on this blog of mine. If you want to try the way I've experimented.. below are the ingredients and instructions. Hope you'll like it! ^_^

Ingredients:

• Pork Liempo, cubed
• Garlic, minced
• Onion, chopped
• Tomato, chopped
• Chili, sliced
• Shrimp paste
• Vinegar
• Bay leaves
• Pepper Corn
• water
• salt and pepper

Cooking Instructions:

• In a pot, pour in water, pork, vinegar and bay leaves and simmer for 30 minutes or until meat is tender.
• Remove the meat from the pot and separate the liquid from it then set aside.
• In a separate pan, saute garlic, onion and tomato. Add the shrimp paste and let it simmer for 5 minutes.
• Put the pork in , mix all the ingredients well and cook for another 10 minutes.
• Add salt and pepper to taste.
• Serve hot with more rice. Share it and enjoy! :)

Tilapia with coconut milk ^_^

This is my first weekend in our apartment and got a chance to go around the wet market just near our place. And I saw a lot of fresh fish, so I decided to cook Ginataang Tilapia for Sunday lunch.. ^_^ If you want to try it, just follow the instructions below. It's very easy to prepare! :)

Ingredients:

• Tilapia, medium size
• Pechay
• Garlic, crushed
• Onion, diced
• Ginger, minced
• Green Chili, long
• Coconut milk
• salt and white pepper 

Cooking Intructions:

• In a cooking pot, place all ingredients and simmer for 15 minutes.
• Season with salt and pepper, then let it cooked for another 5 minutes.
• Serve hot! Enjoy! :)

Pork Liempo Sinigang ^_^

I love to cook and eat sinigang whenever it rains, I don't know the significance but I just do. And now that it's raining, I was inspired to cook Pork Liempo Sinigang even though I am tired from office :) If you want to try it, see below ingredients and on how to prepare it.. enjoy! ^_^

Ingredients:

1 kilo, pork liempo sliced

Okra

Pechay

Long green chili

Gabi

Onion

Tomato

Sinigang sa Gabi Mix

Water

Patis or salt 

Cooking Procedure:

• In a large pot, put together pork liempo, onion, tomato and water. Cover and simmer for 30 mins or until meat is tender.
• Put gabi and okra then simmer for another 30 mins. Then pour Sinigang sa gabi mix and long green chili. Season with salt or patis.
• Serve hot, enjoy! :)

Pininyahang Manok (Pineapple Chicken)... ^_^

Pininyahang Manok.. the first dish i've cooked in our new place.. :) This is one of my favorite viands, i like the taste of pineapple combined with the evaporated milk. You can also use coconut milk instead of evaporated milk. Try it! Below are the ingredients and steps to cook it..enjoy! ^_^

Ingredients:
Chicken, cut into serving pcs.
1 canned pineapple chunks
1 small canned, evaporated milk
Carrot
Bell pepper
garlic
onion
salt and pepper
cooking oil

Cooking Procedure:

• In a cooking pan, saute garlic, onion and bell pepper in cooking oil.
• Add the chicken and pineapple juice derived from the can of pineapple chunks for about 20 minutes.
• Add the evaporated milk and bring to boil. Add salt and pepper to taste.
• Add the pineapple chunks and carrots, simmer until the chicken is tender, approximately about 20 minutes.
• Serve hot and enjoy! ^_^