Cooking
Sauteed beef in salt and pepper with beans, green cauliflowers and white broccoli
This doesn’t usually happen. I successfully cooked a very delicious masterpiece that I bet I wouldn’t be able to do again. And pardon the very long name for a recipe. I see all masters have longer.
Instructions:
- Buy a pack of chopped beef from the grocery
- Also buy some green beans, green cauliflowers and white broccoli (chopped is also preferred)
- Pay and go home
- Put the ingredients in the fridge (not in freezer)
- Leave them for one day
- Take them off of the fridge
- Stare and think
- Rinse the beef and the vegetables with water
- Heat the pan in low heat (non-stick pan preferred)
- Put some oil
- Put the chopped beef
- Put salt at pepper (amount depends on you)
- Cook for 5 mins with eventual turns (up and down, left and right)
- Put the cooked beef on a plate
- Do not wash the pan, leave it on the oven
- Put the vegetables and saute until cooked
- Serve
This is honestly how I did it and it was delicious. Now come over and enjoy!
Dried Pusit Fried Rice
Here is another breakfast dish that will surely brighten up anyone’s day.
Aldrin and I both love dried pusit, we can finish off one 500-gram pack in just one sitting. With sukang may bawang at sili na sawsawan, you just can’t go wrong. I specially love Pinakurat or the hot and spicy Datu Puti Suka.
Fried Dried Pusit
I used dried pusit to jazz up our ordinary sinangag. It’s as easy as 1-2-3, and one of those that you can call 10-minute kitchen wonders, like one of my favorite local cooking shows, QuickFire in CH.11.
Read the recipe after this break…
Fabulous Sumptuous Dinner!
It’s been a week since my last post. I have been very busy with house de-cluttering and wrapping gifts for the holidays. We also went to Batangas for the debut of Aldrin’s sister.
Yesterday, we went to the grocery to buy food and other home supplies. While I was there, I decided to cook something special for the night.(yeah, compulsive impulses) I envisioned a plate of cheesy mashed potato, beef steak with warm gravy and for side dish, penne with garlic and bacon bits. And so, that was the menu for last night.
Beef steak with mashed potato and Penne with Garlic and bacon
More of the details after this break…
Hawaiian Pork chops for Dinner
Last night, was make or break for me, my hubby had a little tampuhan and I so wanted for him to forgive me already. So I thought of preparing a really special dinner for him using one of his favorite fruits as an ingredient. PINEAPPLE.
So here is my recipe for my Hawaiian Pork Chops.
Hawaiin Pork Chops
Ingredients:
- 1 medium can of pineapple slices, syrup reserved (I prefer Del Monte Pineapple Slices)
- 4 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 1 tbsp of brown sugar
- 2 tbsps of soy sauce
- 1/2 kilo porkchops
- 1 tbsp of cornstarch dissolved in 1/2 cup of water
- 1 tsp of butter
- salt and pepper to taste
Procedure:
- Combine the syrup, chopped garlic, sugar and soy sauce in a bowl.
- Season this with salt and pepper.
- Marinate the pork chops and pineapple in this mixture for about 30 minutes to an hour. Reserve the marinate later for the gravy.
- Fry the porkchops and pineapple in little oil until the sugar has caramelized to get that BBQ effect.
- Set the porkchops and pineapple aside.
- In the same pan, lower the heat and simmer the reserved marinate mixture. This will serve as the gravy.
- Add a tsp of butter to make the gravy more delicious.
- Stir in the dissolved cornstarch to thicken the gravy and give a glossy effect.
Ways to brighten up your breakfast!
Breakfast for me is the most important meal of the day. For my family, its the meal where me, Aldrin and the get the kids get together. Aldrin goes to the office so he eats lunch there and most of the time, the kids are already asleep when he gets home. I take the breakfast meal seriously, I want the kids and of course my husband to really enjoy their breakfast. Aside from preparing meals that are delicious and sure to give boost their energy for the start of the day, I also like the food to be presentable.
Even if the dish is just simple, the presentation makes a lot of difference.
And so, here are some of the breakfast meals that I’ve prepared for my family. The one below was taken this morning. I used a small rounded container to mold the fried rice, topped the luncheon meat with a pineapple ring, the juice of the pineapple will be soaked by the luncheon meat which will also sweeten the usual salty luncheon meat. Then as an accent, I made dots using ketchup. Viola! A masterpiece!
Garlic Fried rice, Luncheon Meat, Sunny side-up egg and pineapple ring