Crabs cooked in Sprite

Happy 2017 to everyone!!! This recipe is VERY easy and simple. This is by far the easiest way I think to cook crabs. I learned this from my father. We love to eat crabs. The taste is simple and yummy. Please watch the video below.

Pork with Carrots, Potatoes and Green Peas (Ginamay)

Here's another family's favorite recipe that we love especially the kids - Pork with Carrots, Potatoes and Green Peas. We call this Ginamay in Cebu, Philippines. Ginamay means "little" from the word "ginagmay". Mainly because everything is chopped in smaller sizes.  For a dose of healthy meal for my kids, I cook this dish. Our picky-eater little boy love it.

Ginamay

Pork with Carrots, Potatoes and Green Peas

Ingredients:

2 tbsp cooking oil

1 tbsp minced garlic

1 small onion

1/2 kg sliced pork belly

1 cup carrots, diced

1 1/2 cup potatoes, diced

1/2 green peas (guisantes)

2tbsp red bell pepper, julienne cut

3 cups water

2 beef broth cubes

2 tbsp soy sauce (optional)

Cornstarch mixture:

1 tbsp cornstarch

5 tbsp water

Instructions:

1. Saute garlic and onion.

2. Add pork. Cook until light brown. You may add soy sauce for added taste and color (optional).

3. Add carrots and cook for 2 mins.

4. Add water and let it boil.

5. Add potatoes. 

6. Add beef broth cubes and simmer for 5 mins.

6. Add red bell pepper. cook for another 1 min.

7. Press some cooked potatoes (optional) 

8. Add green peas, cook for another 2 mins

9. Add cornstarch mixture. Simmer for 1 min. Adjust taste.

10. Serve with hot rice.

Very easy and lovely dish. You can always add some small shrimps or sausage if you like. Try this for your little ones and let us know in the comments how it turned out.

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Tinolang Isda Recipe

Hi everyone! Here's another comfort food that Filipinos love. It is healthy and refreshing especially when you are doing hard labor. This fish soup will really make you feel refresh. Do you know the saying fight the heat with heat? The feeling is like that. I am not sure if I am making sense but I hope you get what I mean. :)

Anyway, here's the recipe.

TINOLANG ISDA

Ingredients:
3 sliced fish (Mamsa)
1 ripe tomato
1 stalk spring onions (you can add more)
2 green serrano pepper
3 cups water
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp magic sarap or your favorite seasoning

Instructions:
1. Boil water then add fish. Let it boil.
2. Add tomato
3. Let it boil for a minute
4. Add serrano pepper. Cover. Let it boil for another 2 minutes.
5. Season with salt and magic sarap. Do not stir too much to keep fish intact.
6.Add spring onions and let it boil for another half a minute.
7. Turn off the heat. Serve and enjoy with hot rice.

How to Cook Tortang Giniling - Filipino Food

Hi everyone! How to Cook Tortang Giniling is coming right up.

Tortang Giniling is a comfort food for us Filipinos. It is a very simple dish and is commonly sold at karenderia (small eatery). The main ingredient is ground pork that is cooked first before adding eggs then fried once again. The tricky part of this dish is how to make it a perfect circle tortang giniling. If you want to know how I did mine, please watch my video.

TORTANG GINILING

Good for 3-4 persons
Ingredients:
2 tbsp cooking oil for sauteeing, add 6 tbsp for frying
1 tbsp minced garlic
1 tbsp minced onion
1/4 kg ground pork
3 eggs
1 1/2 tsp magic sarap seasoning or your favorite seasoning

Instructions:

1. In medium heat, saute garlic first and then after a minute add minced onion.
2. once onion is translucent, add ground pork.
3. Cook until light brown about 5-10 mins.
4. Remove from pan. Transfer to a bowl. Let it cool for about 3-5 mins. You can definitely use a fan to cool it faster.
5. Add eggs, mix then season. Taste it if its according to your liking.
6. Using the same pan, add cooking oil for frying the mixture.
7. Add mixture and fry until bottom turns golden brown.
8. Remove oil and save it for later. Using a large round plate, put it on top of the pan and flip it quickly. The plate should be bigger than your pan.Watch my video how I did mine.
9. Put back the used oil, then slowly put back the tortang giniling.
10. Continue frying until bottom turns golden brown.
11. Repeat the same process. Remove oil from the pan. The less oil the easier to remove the tortang giniling. Put large round plate on top of the pan and flip as quick as you could. Watch the video if you are unsure how to do this.
12. Transfer to a clean plate by putting another clean round plate on top and flip. Serve and enjoy together with hot rice.

How to cook Tortang Giniling video below.

Bam-i Pancit Bisaya Egg Noodles and Glass Vermicelli

Bam-i is a noodle dish. From what I read online, it originated in Cebu, my hometown. It is consist of egg noodles (canton), glass vermicelli (sotanghon), meat and vegetables. There are various ways to cook Bam-i. Some would go all out with the ingredients, others would just go as simple as putting few pieces of meat and vegetables. Majority of Karenderia (small eatery) in Cebu are selling Bam-i. Don't expect too much though, the Bam-i from these eatery are very simple and are sold cheap. You can buy it at P5.00 or P10.00 depending on how much ingredients they put in.

Cebuanos love Bam-i. In special occasions like birthdays, anniversaries, fiestas, it is almost always present.

So my recipe is somewhat in the middle, I think. Not so sophisticated nor too simple.  Here it is...

Ingredients:
1/4 kg pork belly, sliced
1 beef cube
2 tbsp oyster sauce
1 cup carrots
1/4 cup red bell pepper
2 cups chinese pechay
1 tbsp minced garlic
2 tbsp cooking oil
1 medium size onion
2 rolls Sotanghon (glass vermicelli)
1/8 kg Egg Noodles or about 2 1/2 cups (you can always add more)
2 cups water
2 tbsp soy sauce

Instructions:
1. Saute garlic and onion.
2. Add pork and saute until light brown.
3. Add soy sauce and cook for another 3 mins.
4. Add water. Let it boil for 5 mins.
5. Add carrots and cook for another 2 mins.
6. Add beef broth cube and mix.
7. Add red bell pepper.
8. Add more water if necessary. I added 3/4 cup of water.
9. Add egg noodles.
10. Combine and cook for 2 mins.
11. Add sotanghon.
12.  Combine and cook for 2 mins.
13. Season with oyster sauce.
14. Add chinese pechay
15. Add black pepper
16. Serve hot and enjoy!





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Garlic Vinegar Pork - Filipino food

Hi Friends,

Here's another favorite simple dish that I learned from my Mama - Garlic Vinegar Pork. I just gave that name to this dish. Obviously, the main ingredient is pork. This can be an appetizer or main dish.
I love this even more when dip in hot spicy vinegar paired with hot rice.

Ingredients:
1/2 kg pork belly, sliced
3/4 cup white vinegar
2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp umami seasoning
2 tbsp minced garlic
1/4 cup water

Instruction:
1. Combine all ingredients.
2. Cook in medium heat, let it boil until mixture evaporates with stirring every 2 minutes.
3. Keep frying until golden brown
4. Serve with spicy vinegar and hot rice
5. Enjoy.

Please watch the video

How to cook Tinolang Manok - Bisaya Version

Hi everyone! Since yesterday was raining, I was craving for chicken soup. I decided to cook Tinolang Manok. Tinolang Manok is a chicken soup consist of chicken (any parts or whole), sayote and malunggay (horseradish). There are some varieties to this dish, some are using green papaya. Here's my recipe for Tinolang Manok.

Tinolang Manok

Ingredients:

1/2 kg chicken (any parts)

2 tbsp cooking oil

1 broth cube

2 tbsp soy sauce

1 tanglad (lemon grass)

2 cups malunggay (horseradish)

2 tbsp ginger

1 tbsp garlic

1 medium onion

1 1/2 cups sayote

2 1/2 cups water

1 tbsp spring onions

Instruction:

1. In a medium heat, heat pot. Add oil.

2. Saute garlic and onion.

3. Add ginger. saute for a minute

4. Add chicken. Saute until chicken turns light brown. 

5. Add soy sauce. Mix and saute for another 2 mins. (if you want clear soup, you may skip this part)

6. Add lemon grass, water, and chicken cube, 

7. Let it boil for 5 mins. Stir every 2 mins.

8. Add sayote. Let it boil for another 5 mins or until chicken is tender.

9. Turn off the heat. Add malunggay and spring onions.

10. Season it again to your liking. If its too salty for your taste, turn the heat back on and add more water gradually. Make sure you don't overcook the malunggay. This should be done in less than a minute.

11. Enjoy your chicken soup. 

Watch the video to learn more.

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Oreo S'mores Chocolate Chip Cookies

It was an ordinary afternoon, our little girl suddenly asked me to make S'mores cookies. I was a bit tired and don't have the energy to do it but she insisted - I gave in.

She was so eager to help me. She measured and mix the dry ingredients. She also crushed the oreo cookies. I did mix the wet ingredients.

Here's the cookie dough.

She drop the dough on a wax paper using 1 tbsp measuring spoon. The dough doesn't stick much to the hands which is good.

Our little boy tried to sneak and tasted the dough.

Look at these pretties. Little boy got the first bite.

I have to baked them longer because 8mins is too soft for my liking. I used 70%  Dark Chocolate. You can use any chocolate chips you like.

You can see the melted marshmallows as well as the chocolate chips. Yummm!

Once it cooled down the marshmallows will harden a bit and adds chewy texture to the cookie.

Verdict: This cookie is delicious. I love the texture. For me, this cookie is not like any ordinary cookies I made before. It is really good. Hubby loved it so much.

Recipe:

Name: Oreo S'mores Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup crushed Oreos (remove the cream).
1 1/4 cup Flour
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Butter (salted or unsalted), room temp
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1/3 cup Granulated Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1/2 cup Chocolate Chip or crushed chocolate. You can add more to your liking.
1/2 cup Mini Marshmallows
1 Egg

Oven temp: 350C Baking Time: 6-8 mins Yield: 22 small cookies using 1 tbsp

Instructions

1. Cream butter, brown and white sugar. Add egg. Mix together. Add Vanilla Extract. Mix.
2. Combine Flour, Baking Soda, Salt, Chocolate Chips, Mini Marshmallows and crushed Oreos. Add to the butter mixture.
3. Combine everything. I used rubber spatula to combine all ingredients.
4. Drop 1 tbsp cookie dough unto a pan with wax paper or you may grease the pan if you prefer this method. Place dough 2 inches apart.
5. Bake in the oven at 350C for 6-8mins or longer if you want crunchy cookies.
6. Serve and enjoy!

This recipe is very simple. You can have fun making it together with your kid/s. If you are thinking of selling something, you can try selling these too. Cha Ching!

We hope you'll try this cookie recipe and let us know in the comments if you did. If you have any questions, drop us a comment down below anytime.

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