Garlic Fried Rice (Sinangag sa bawang)

Who would not love the smell of fresh garlic from your garlic rice being cooked in your pan?  Just the smell of it makes one's tummies hungry.  This is the easiest and simplest sinangag that anyone could cook without any fuss.   My father would always cook garlic fried rice for us using the day old rice we have in the fridge.  He would toast the rice first a bit before adding the oil and toasting the garlic.  The best treat...

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TOCILOG (Tocino-Longganisa-Sinangag)

I actually had no idea that tocino in the Carrebean is not cured at all but just fried until it's crispy and added to another dish.  They would also use the backfat though just like the tocino we make in the Philippines. The one we have in the Philippines is made thru curing for a number of days using brown sugar, saltpeter (salitre), anise wine, and annatto water.  Saltpeter or salitre is actually potassium nitrate similar to the ones...

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Beef Soup Bones Mami

When I went to NSO, Quezon City years ago, I noticed this karinderia on wheels just across BIR.  It was lunch break and there were lots of people rushing to make their move in crossing the street. In a flash the rolling karinderia was full of customers.  I went near the place just to see what's there and I've found they're selling lunch meals and one of these was the Beef Mami. I suddenly got transported...

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Pinoy Bistek (Filipino Style Beef Steak)

One beef steak that I would always love to eat is the Pinoy Bistek that most Filipinos I'm sure would know how to cook.  It was my father who taught me how to cook this dish when I was just probably still in High School or Elementary.  I am not really sure but I know that I was quite young then. This is also my nanay's favorite...so whenever she's here in Queensland, she would always request for bistek.  We normally use the calamansi...

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Easy to Cook Italian Beef Steak

This is an easy to cook beef steak recipe that I have made.  I would usually do an Italian steak using pork chops but there's no more pork in my freezer so I ended up cooking the beef one. Amazingly, the taste is quite good.  It's an honest to goodness dish that I'm sure you and your family will enjoy eating. Ingredients 2 beef round steak cut 2 tbsp italian seasoning salt and pepper to taste olive oil Procedure Marinate each side of...

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Easy Bake Chewy Gooey Chocolate Chip Cookies

Who doesn't like chewy chocolate chips? Everybody loves them! And it's always best to make homemade ones that buying those in jars.  This recipe that I did, has this nice chocolaty goodness in it.  I guess the more chocolates the better.  You see the family is chocolate lover...not a chocoholic though. This particular type of cookie is actually a drop cookie (meaning you just have to drop a spoonful or so in your baking sheet and...

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Easy Chicken Curry

Curry is actually an English word which believed to get its origin from the Tamil word "Kari" which means sauce with its components --veggies and /or meat cooked in spices.  It is interesting to note that as early as mid 17th century, merchants had been selling this mixture of spices to the members of the British East India Company although it is also said that the word "curry" had been used already in 1390 even before India has contacts with...

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Sauteed Tomatoes and Eggs

You might be wondering why I am making two egg dishes in a meal.  One eggs with onions and this sauteed tomatoes and eggs.  You see, the first one is my husband's favorite and the latter is my favorite so I had to do two egg dishes.  In our house in Bulacan, we would always partner this with tuyo (dried salted fish) and the tomato-egg dish balances its saltiness which makes it more wonderful to eat. Here is my version. Ingredients 3...

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Egg & Onion Omelet

One quick and easy egg dish is eggs and onions omelet.  If you're on the go and will be late for work or school, this one is the dish that you can do without any fuss. When we were still kids, my father would always make this dish for us but of course without the ginisa mix and chicken cubes.  The best thing about it aside from the nice taste, it stretches the eggs' size because of the onions.  One of the cheapest no fuss dish to...

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Spring Rolls with Rice Vermicelli Noodles (Lumpiang Shanghai the healthier version)

I would always make spring rolls or lumpiang shanghai for my husband and he would always bring some to his friend at work. It has always been a blockbuster.  They both love the taste and the crispiness of the spring rolls. Spring rolls are usually eaten on spring season/festival in China, hence the name.  They are well known appetizers in Asia especially the eastern and southern parts.  The versions are various depending on what place...

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Spiced Cinnamon Bread Pudding with Dried Apricots and Sultanas

As I have promised, this is my second installment of my Bread Pudding series.  This one is different from the first one.  The texture is not as soft as the Pinoy Bread Pudding recipe but it's a bit firmer because of the amount of bread added to the mixture.  In this recipe I have used a dozen of pieces of bread instead of 6 to 7.  I also added condensed milk and brown sugar instead of white to add a sweet taste to the pudding...

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Pinoy Bread Pudding

My first of my bread pudding series.  A delightfully steam-baked breadpudding that will melt in your mouth.What do you do with old bread sitting on your kitchen benchtop or freezer?  This has always been a problem in our house.  My husband tends to buy lots of bread not realizing that we still have plenty at home.  Most of the time, we would just feed the birds in the back lawn with bread...worst they would end up in the bin. ...

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Spicy Chicken Wings Adobo

This is first of the recipes that I would make for my Adobo series in my foodblog so please enjoy reading, cooking and eating.  The Philippines is an Adobo Nation.  If I am ask what is my mother country's national dish, I would definitely say adobo without batting an eyelash.  Adobo is a Filipino dish that I think has the most variations...depending from the family you come from, town or province or region you come from.  No...

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