8 April, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Ingredients:
1 kilo medium to large fresh squid
1 bottle or 1 cup Sprite or 7-up (for extra sweetness)
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons calamansi juice
2 tablespoons minced garlic
2 teaspoons cracked black pepper
Optional stuffing for body cavity
2 medium-sized onions, sliced
2 medium-sized tomatoes, chopped
salt and pepper for seasoning
Directions:
1. Wash the squids well. Remove the long thin membrane in the head and body and slit the eyes to bring out the ink. Wash the body cavity well.
2. Place the squid in the bowl.
3. Add all the ingredients all together. Marinate for 1 hour or more.
4. Before grilling, place the squid in barbecue sticks. Keep the marinade sauce.
Optional
Stuff the squid cavity with a mixture of onions and tomatoes. Sew the ends of the squid so contents to prevent spillage.
5. Prepare the fire.
6. When grill is ready, grill the squid. Use the marinade sauce to baste the squid while it is being grilled.
Don’t overcook or else the squid will come out chewy. One just wants it easy to bite and tender.
7. You will know it is cooked when there are few grill marks, the squid is cooked to the center of the body. It takes around 3 to 5 minutes. Just exercise caution not to overcook. You can always check one squid to determine doneness.
7. Serve hot with dipping sauce like soy sauce with sili.
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2 April, 2010 at 7:38 am
Ingredients:
½ kilo chicken wings (you can use other cuts as you wish)
1 can pineapple chunks (830 grams)
2 tbsp oil
2 tbsp. ginger strips (optional) I love the taste of ginger.
2 medium-sized cloves garlic, minced
2 medium-sized onions, chopped
1 cup evaporated milk or coconut milk
patis or fish sauce
salt to taste
Directions:
1. Sauté ginger, garlic and onion.
2. Add the chicken wings, cook until all water evaporates and the chicken is lightly brown.
3. Add 1 cup water and bring to boil for 5 minutes.
4. Add the pineapple chunks. Simmer for 5 minutes.
5. Pour the evaporated milk. Cover and bring to a simmer for 2 minutes. (If you are using coconut milk, do not cover otherwise it will curdle).
6. Add fish sauce and salt.
7. Simmer again for 2 minutes
Best serve with steam rice. Makes 3-4 servings.
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2 April, 2010 at 6:45 am
Kilawin or kappukan is a spicy Ilocano dish from the Philippines. Find the recipe below.
Ingredients:
1 kg goat meat (preferred cuts are from the thigh, loin, neck and shoulder area)
goat’s brain, boiled
10 large-sized onions, finely chopped
2 pieces ginger, peeled and finely chopped (optional)
20 pieces (or more) chili pepper or siling labuyo, finely chopped (chili powder will do)
20 pieces kalamansi, (citrus fruit), extracted and strained (vinegar will do)
Spring onions, finely chopped
Salt to taste
Directions:
1. Thinly slice and grill choice cuts of goat’s meat.
2. Chop grilled meat into small pieces.
3. Put all ingredients in a large bowl and mix well.
4. Top with finely chopped spring onions.
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25 March, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Ingredients:
3/4 kilo pork good for stewing
40 g. tamarind soup base
3 small tomatoes
1 medium onion
a bunch of water spinach (kangkong), chopped
a bunch of winged beans, chopped
1 medium size white radish, chopped
a couple of taro root, chopped
5 1/2 cups of water
long green chili, chopped
salt to taste
Directions:
1. Pick the leaves of the water spinach and the soft stem part.
2. Peel and slice the radish diagonally.
3. Slice the winged beans in the same manner.
4. Peel the taro root and slice into half.
5. Slice tomatoes and onion.
6. Boil the pork in water.
7. Season with a little bit of salt and cook until tender.
8. Add in the tamarind soup base, onions and tomatoes.
9. Drop the taro root as it takes quite some time to cook. Let it boil for about 10 minutes.
10. Add in the radish. Cook for roughly about 7 minutes.
11. Add in the winged beans and the stem of the water spinach. Cook till done for a few minutes.
12. The moment the color turns to bright green it should be done.
13. Add lastly the leaves of the water spinach.
14. Boil for 10 seconds.
15. Remove from heat.
Serve hot.
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23 March, 2010 at 7:13 am
Ingredients:
4 large eggs
4 cups cold cooked rice
8 cloves of garlic, minced
1 small onion, minced
1/2 cup chopped green onions
4 tablespoons vegetable oil (for frying the eggs, 1 tablespoon per each)
3 tablespoons vegetable oil (for frying rice)
Salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
FOR THE FRIED RICE
1. Heat 3 tablespoons oil in the pan over high heat.
2. Add garlic and cook until brown.
3. Put in the onions, stir for about 10 seconds.
4. Add the rice and mix well with the onion and garlic.
5. Add salt and pepper.
6. Stir in the green onions.
7. Stir fry until the rice is heated through.
FOR THE FRIED EGGS
1. Heat 1 tablespoon cooking oil in a non-stick skillet over medium-high heat.
2. Crack egg on the side of the pan, let the egg slide by itself into the pan. In order to keep the egg in a perfect rounded shape. Do not spread out too much while frying.
3. Fry for 1-1/2 to 2 minutes until the whites are firm. Serve sunny side up.
4. For a hard fried egg, gently flip the egg over using a spatula and fry each side for 25 to 30 seconds.
Repeat this Step for the other 3 eggs.
PRESENTATION
1. Fill rice in a bowl or cup. Place the bowl or cup upside down on a serving plate, then lift.
2. Place fried egg on the side of the rice. Repeat for the next three.
Recipe good for 4 persons.
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23 March, 2010 at 5:32 am
Ingredients:
1 1/3 uncooked instant rice
1 1/2 pounds medium size shrimp, peeled and deveined
1/2 cup baby corn
1/2 cup unsalted cashews
1 cup broccoli florets
3 tablespoons coarsely chopped fresh lemongrass
1 tablespoons chopped garlic
2 tablespoons fish sauce
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
1 tablespoon soy sauce
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 tablespoon caramel sauce or brown sugar
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
Directions:
RICE
1. Wash rice in a colander to rinse off excess starch and debris.
2. Soak for 15 minutes with cold water just enough to cover the rice.
3. Cook in a pot according to package instructions.
4. Reserve and keep warm after cooking.
SHRIMP
1. In a medium bowl, whisk together the lemon grass, soy sauce, fish sauce, lime juice, sugar, caramel sauce (or brown sugar) and salt.
2. Mix until sugar is dissolved. Set aside.
3. Pour vegetable oil in a skillet or wok over high heat.
4. When oil is hot enough, stir-fry baby corn for 2 minutes.
5. Turn heat down to medium.
6. Add broccoli florets and shrimp.
7. For about 4 minutes, saute until shrimp turns opaque or clear.
8. Pour in the sauce made in Step 1 to the skillet, stirring to coat evenly the mixture with the sauce.
9. Cook for another 2 minutes.
10. Turn off heat.
11. Add the cashews and toss with cooked ingredients.
12. Transfer to platter. Serve with steamed rice.
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20 March, 2010 at 12:14 am
Ingredients:
400 grams pig’s meat (ear, tongue, face)
2 medium-sized white onion, sliced
1 large-sized ginger, chopped
dash of salt and pepper, according to taste
kalamansi or lemon juice
pork brain
Directions:
1. Boil pork until half cooked. Strain and grill until brown.
2. Sliced the pork meat into 1″ long and 1/4″ thick (or your desired sizes).
3. Place in a bowl and then add onion, ginger, and lemon or kalamansi juice.
4. Wrap pork brain in an aluminum foil.
5. Grill the pork brain until medium cooked.
6. Add grilled pork brain to the dinakdakan.
7. Season with salt and pepper according to taste.
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19 March, 2010 at 10:43 am
Ingredients:
250 to 350 grams pig’s meat (ear, tongue, face)
1 medium sized white onion, sliced
1 medium sized ginger, chopped
Salt and pepper
calamansi or lemon juice
1/2 cup mayonnaise
Directions:
1. Boil pork until half cooked. Strain and grill until brown.
2. Sliced the pork meat into 1″ long and 1/4″ thick (or your desired sizes).
3. Place in a bowl and then add onion, ginger, and lemon or kalamansi juice.
4. Mix well with mayonnaise.
5. Season with salt and pepper according to taste.
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24 February, 2010 at 10:01 am
Ingredients :
2-3 tbsp. oil
3 potatoes, peeled, quartered and fried
1 lb. chicken, cut into serving pieces
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 large onion, quartered
1 tbsp. patis or fish sauce
3 tbsp. curry powder
salt and pepper
1 cup water
1 red bell pepper, cut into big squares
1 green bell pepper, cut into big squares
3 celery stalks, cut into 1-1/2″ long
1 cup coconut milk or evaporated milk
Directions:
1. Fry sliced potatoes in oil. Set aside.
2. In the same pan, fry chicken pieces until brown.
3. Add garlic and onion. Sauté for a few minutes until soft.
4. Pour in patis and season with curry powder, salt and pepper. Stir for 2 minutes.
5. Add water. Cover and bring to a boil. Lower the heat.
6. Add celery, bell peppers and fried potatoes. Simmer for 3 minutes or until half done.
7. Add milk and stir occasionally. Cook for another 7 minutes (or lesser when using evaporated milk because the liquids will curled).
8. Remove from heat. Serve hot.
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7 January, 2010 at 6:07 am
Food is even more attractive and more appetizing when carved. The choices of food that you can carve are plenty. It does not matter if you don’t like to eat vegetables since you use your carving skills on fruits instead.
A homemaker or caterer welcome guests with fruits carefully pared, seeded, and perhaps sliced into bite-sized cuts depending on the type. Vegetables can also be delicately carved, cooked, then finally arranged attractively to decorate the dish. The gracious welcome depicted by your creations will surely please guests as it also expresses the wiling hospitality of the maker.
Get to know tips from selecting, storing, preparing to carving below.
Tips before carving
1. Before carving, fruits and vegetables must be washed and cleaned thoroughly.
2. Use knives with stainless steel or bronze blades. Knives with ordinary steel blades will cause discoloration of fruits and vegetables.
3. Do not carve excessively so as to avoid waste and loss of nutritional value.
4. The designs carved should be appropriate for decorating a plate of food; thus, floral patterns are suitable, while figures of animals such as rats are not.
5. Vegetables to be dipped into sauces should be cut to appropriate sizes.
6. Vegetables chosen for carving should be appropriate to the dish in which they are to be used, and they should be vegetables which are resistant to wilting, such as carrots and Chinese radishes.
7. Care must be exercised during carving so as to avoid bruising fruit and vegetables.
Tips on selecting fruits and vegetables for carving
Each kind of fruit and vegetable has its own unique characteristics, so keep these pointers in mind when choosing fruits and vegetables to carve.
Onions and shallots should be fresh and without wrinkles. Choose either medium sized or small bulbs that are all of uniform size.
Carrots should be straight and of medium or large-size.
Radishes should be fresh, firm, and round. Use medium-sized radishes, all of uniform size.
Chinese radishes should be straight and of medium-size with clear bright skins. The flesh of large Chinese radishes tends to be mealy.
Cucumbers should be green, straight, and of medium-size. The type called for in this book is the larger type (Tang Ran). If the smaller type (Tang Kwa) is used, those with green skins have firmer flesh and are better for carving than those with greenish white skins.
Tomatoes should be of uniform size. Plum tomatoes with elongated fruits are firmer than round varieties. Choose fresh ones with no wrinkles.
Pumpkins should have thick, firm flesh. Such pumpkins have a rough exterior.
Spur chillies should be fresh and have firm skins. Generally small ones are used, because if large ones were cut and spread out to make a blossom, they would cover the entire plate. However, large spur chilies are used for making anthurium flowers.
Spring shallots and leek should be fresh and green with no yellowing on the leaves. Select thick, medium-sized plants.
Cabbage and Chinese cabbage should be fresh with firm, heavy heads. Use medium sized heads.
Lemons should be very fresh.
Taro should be of medium-size. The fragrant taro has fine-textured flesh.
Cantaloupes should be those that are not yet fully ripe. The skin should be pale yellow without wrinkles or scratches.
Yam bean tubers used for carving should not be too large. Large, mature tubers have a lot of fibers. These become frayed in carving, detracting from the appearance of the finished work.
Papayas should be straight, thick-fleshed and without any bruises. They should not yet be fully ripe so that the flesh is firm and does not bruise easily. The Khaek Dam variety is recommended be cause of the beautifully colored flesh.
Green mangoes should be fully mature and of a variety whose flesh is not too crisp. The skin should be green and un-wrinkled and the stem should look fresh.
Watermelon should have red flesh and green rinds with no bruises or wrinkles.
Pineapple should have large eyes. The leaves should be fresh and green and there should be no shriveling of the skin or stem.
Guavas should be those that are just becoming ripe. The skin should be a fresh light green with no bruises or scratches.
Apples should be fresh with glossy, brightly colored skins and no bruises.
Jujubes should have straight fruits with green skins and no bruises.
Sapodillas must be firm, so avoid fully ripe fruits. The skins should be even and clear. Avoid sapodillas that have been dyed for the market. Their skins have a dusty appearance.
Rose apples should have clear, fresh looking skins.
Tips on preparations and treatments
1. Tomatoes should be soaked in a mixture of limejuice and water to prevent browning.
2. Shallots and onions should be soaked in water before being peeled and carved to reduce irritation of the eyes.
3. Taro should be washed thoroughly before being peeled. If washed after peeling, a slime is released which causes itching.
4. Carrots should not be soaked in water before carving, as this will make the flesh tougher and more difficult to carve.
5. Beets should be washed in water to which a little salt has been added. This will reduce loss of color. Also, if left standing, beets will blacken, so they should be kept moist by spraying them with water regularly.
6. Potatoes should be washed with water after peeling to remove the sap and then washed again after carving. This will help prevent browning.
7. Apples should be soaked in mixture of limejuice and water before being peeled to prevent browning.
8. Cantaloupes should be washed before carving. While carving, avoid letting water come into contact with the fruit because it will lose its taste and spoil more quickly.
9. Yam bean tubers should be soaked too long after carving, will yellow.
Tips on how to store carved fruits and vegetables
1. After carving, fruits and vegetables should be placed in ice-cold water so the petals of flower designs are firm and spread beautifully.
2. Carved fruits and vegetables should not be left in water, as this will cause petals to become discolored and to spoil.
3. Each type of carved fruit should be kept separately. This will prevent loss of all your work in the event that one type spoils.
4. Store carved fruits and vegetables by putting them in containers and placing in a refrigerator, or if no refrigerator is available, by covering them with a damp piece of thin white cloth and putting them in a place protected from drafts so they do not dry and wilt.
5. After carving, pumpkin should be dipped in water and removed right away. If left in water, flower petal designs will become bruised.
The task of artistic carving is by no means difficult. All it takes is concentration to decorate fresh, well-formed and colorful fruits and vegetables. You don’t need to have special carving knives to start out. A sharp pointed paring knife is enough to carve fruits and vegetables beautifully.
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