Slow Cooker Hot Chocolate

Now the clocks have gone back and the nights are drawing in, I'm thinking of cosy warming meals and making more use of the slow cooker. I kept seeing recipes for hot chocolate made in the slow cooker on the internet and decided to have a go. Be warned - this is a very indulgent recipe and a little goes a long way, but it's really something that should just be an occasional treat - perhaps after an evening of trick or treating or coming back...

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Lechon Kambing at Iba pa...

Pinas Sarap: Lechon kambing ng Tarlac, paano niluluto? Madalas na bida ang lechon baboy at lechon manok pagdating sa mga handaang Pinoy, pero ibahin n'yo ang Tarlac dahil ang kanilang specialty... lechon kambing! Paano kaya ito hinahai...

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Tuna Lechon at Iba pa...

Pinas Sarap: Ipinagmamalaking tuna lechon ng GenSan, paano niluluto? Kung darayo sa GenSan, tiyak na grilled tuna belly at tuna panga ang hahanapin mo. Ngunit alam n'yo ba na ang tuna, ginagawa ring lecho...

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Meal Planning Monday 2018 Week 44

Monday Breakfast for baby S porridge with fruit Lunch for baby S Leftover chicken with veg Lunch for me pasta salad Dinner for us Chicken and pesto pasta to use up chicken from yesterday Tuesday Breakfast for baby S pancake Lunch for baby S cheesy pasta with broccoli Lunch for me sandwich or salad Dinner for us salmon and broccoli bake from this recipe for me, sausage rolls for him Wednesday Breakfast for baby S porridge with fruit Lunch for baby S  jar of 'my first bolognese'  mixed with added minced turkey Lunch for...

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Ozeri Stone Earth Pan Review

One of my husband's favourite meals is steak and chips, which luckily is very easy to cook - all you need is an oven and a frying pan! I have a couple of Ozeri frying pans which I really like, and was recently sent another one to review - the Ozeri Stone Earth Frying Pan. I got the 30cm size which is available from the French Amazon site (which delivers to the UK) here. It's made of durable die-cast aluminium so I was expecting it to be heavier...

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Restaurant review: JJ Cafe Pie & Mash Carshalton

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Meal Planning Monday 2018 Week 43

Monday Breakfast for baby S just milk as I had an appointment Lunch for baby S chicken pieces and veg Lunch for us (my husband is off as he is looking after baby S during my appointment) hot dogs Dinner pork fillet with cheat's tonnato from Delicious magazine for me I was going to do last night but didn't, steak for him Tuesday Breakfast for baby S porridge with mashed banana Lunch for baby S homemade lamb hotpot Lunch for me any bits and pieces I need to use up from the fridge Dinner pasta with rest of tonnato sauce for me, pasta with meatballs...

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Di Oro Seamless Spatulas Review and Discount Code

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Dinuguan sa Kamias

Dinuguan sa Kamias. Some of our readers may  remember our Dinuguan sa Sampalok post, I would say that was one of the best Dinuguan Recipe that we had. The sourness was  not acidic , it was definitely sour but  you could taste the difference , it was mellow but still sour as we wanted. Today I would like to share another dinuguan version, Dinuguan sa Kamias.  Just reading the wo...

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Buko Almond Salad with Vanilla Ice Cream

Buko Almond Salad with Vanilla Ice Cream. While browsing around at the supermarket for the gulaman powder for my Buko Pandan Salad with Pandan Ice Cream, I again saw these packets of almond flavoured gulaman powder which incidentally I have used in my Almond Jelly, Lychee and Pineapple Salad.  I was supposed to make Buko Pandan Salad with Pandan Ice Cream out of the buko strips from ...

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Buko Pandan Salad with Pandan Ice Cream

Buko Pandan Salad with Pandan Ice Cream. One Pinoy sweet salad dessert is the classic Buko Pandan Salad. The recipe goes back to our grandparents where the only source of gulaman gelatine come from Agar Agar bars. Agar Agar is gelling agent from a kind of seaweed. Today we now have the options of the Agar Agar in easy to use powder form. Buko Pandan Salad is not new to OPC in fact ...

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Fried Pork Lumpia Roll with Ham

Fried Pork Lumpia Roll with Ham. Lumpiang Shanghai is served with Pansit are the two Pinoy dish that probably the most popular “handa” during birthday celebration or any other similar family celebration. The popularity of Lumpiang Shanghai and Pansit are also true to most if not every OFW and overseas Pinoy. With these celebrations it has become venues for the introduction of Lumpia...

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Binagoongan Kamias at Baboy

Binagoongan Kamias at Baboy. I have been having a steady supply of kamias lately, rather than letting the sour fruit go to waste I thought I could incorporate it to my Binagoongan Baboy Recipe that did become a hit to my fellow OFW. Sourly and salty have always been a complimentary flavour to most Pinoy. It makes everyone salivate just the thought of it. In the Visayas they u...

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Adobong Puso ng Saging, Banana Blossom Adobo

Adobong Puso ng Saging, Banana Blossom Adobo. The first time I had Adobong Puso ng Saging was from a dinner with our crew on a work project assignment. One of our technicians brought several banana blossom or bud back from a break. I asked what shall we cook out of those several banana blossoms. Most of the guys really do not know any other cooking method except Adobo. Adobong Puso ...

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Nilagang Saging na Saba at Bagoong

Nilagang Saging na Saba at Bagoong. Boiled unripe plantain banana dip in bagoong na isda. “Sa Bisaya pa, nilung-ag nga hilaw na saging ug ginamos, kalami”. Most Bisaya love boiled unripe saba bananas dipped in guinamos.  The Warays even served boiled unripe saba banana as accompaniment to Lechon. Nilagang  saging na saba at Bagoong is served as “meryenda”,  snack food while on outi...

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Paho, Paho Salad

Paho, Paho Salad. Most of my readers would most likely do not know what a Paho is?  If you search on google about  Paho, there is little information. Those information most likely came from a single source. Search will also return two recipe of Paho, Paho Salad and Pickled Paho. To give you an overview what is Paho, I will not echo the information from the web, you probably ha...

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Baked Tulingan, Sinaing na Tulingan Style

Baked Tulingan, Sinaing na Tulingan Style. Do you love the Batangas Sinaing na Tulingan and want to impress your family or friends here is my innovative baked version. The ingredients including the banana leaf wrap are basically the same with the usual Sinaing na Tulingan. Or you may use your own usual ingredients if you think my recipe is missing some ingredients. To cook my Bak...

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Grilled Tagaytay Beef T-Bone Steak with Mushroom Sauce

Grilled Tagaytay Beef T-Bone Steak with Mushroom Sauce. On my recent trip to Tagatay Mahogany Market I have noticed that some of the stalls there are selling also beef T-bone steak cuts, besides the usual Bulalo. Local tourists are also going to Tagaytay for the cheap beef besides enjoying the Taal Volcano scenery and cool weather.  Ok back to the T-bone steak, I have noticed th...

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Sautéed Ilocano Vegetables with Ground Beef

Sautéed Ilocano Vegetables with Ground Beef. It has been sometime since I had an authentic Ilocano vegetable dish. Today I am sharing the beef version of a similar Ilocano vegetable dish Sautéed Ilocano Vegetables with Ground Pork. Cooking procedure is basically the same all I did was used ground beef instead of ground pork. The vegetable ingredients are a medley of Ilocano vegetabl...

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Mang Raul’s BBQ

Mang Raul’s BBQ is a popular neighbourhood BBQ stall located in BF Almanza, Las Pinas. I am pretty sure that you have already seen Mang Raul’s BBQ on your searches if you are one of those who frequently been searching for eating places around Las Pinas, Alabang or particularly BF Homes here in the South. Mang Raul’s BBQ is famous in Las Pinas for its delectable pork and chicken isa...

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Pork Adobo with Garbanzos

Pork Adobo with Garbanzos. I have been thinking for a while on what to do with the canned garbanzos that I have bought several weeks ago. I am too lazy to cook a tomato stew dish, I just wanted a simple Pinoy dish with garbanzos, but I ran out of ideas. Besides all I had was just a half kilo of pork rashers that was also in the fridge for several days now. Out of my laziness to co...

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Turon Tikoy and Fried Tikoy

Turon Tikoy and Fried Tikoy. These is not a about how to cook Tikoy, I mean how to actually cook a Tikoy Cake. I really do not know how to make Tikoy. But all that I know  the Tikoy Cake is usually cut in thin slices then fried with beaten egg coating. That is how we have been cooking Tikoy ever since I could remember. But recently Tikoy Cake slices are now cooked Turon Style, y...

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Kasoy Kare Kare, Pork Hocks

Kasoy Kare Kare, Pork Hocks. I just found out that I still have one bottle of the cashew spread that I brought home from Australia. To make the best out of it I decided to make another Kasoy Kare Kare. This time, I decided to use pork pata/hocks. My Kasoy Kare Kare, Pork Hocks is basically similar to my Kare Kare, Pork Hocks, cooked from scratch, no kare kare mix. Ingredients a...

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Dinengdeng na Saging na Saba

Dinengdeng na Saging na Saba. Unripe plantain banana to genuine Ilocano can be cooked into Dinengdeng. Beside making saging na saba as Minatamis na Saging or Nilagang Saging, plantain banana or saging na saba can be cooked as “ulam” or viand.  Of course we have been adding plantain bananas to out Pochero, Nilaga and other Pinoy food. But our Dinengdeng na Saging na Saba uses unri...

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Meal Planning Monday 2018 Week 42

Monday Breakfast for baby S pancakes Lunch for baby S cheese, tomato, cucumber, mini rice cakes Lunch for us: ploughmans Dinner for us for me - smoked haddock and cauliflower gratin from a magazine cutting (You Jan 2017) , for him something ready made Tuesday Breakfast for baby S yogurt and fruit Lunch for baby S :  some of my haddock gratin from yesterday Lunch for me: sandwich Dinner for us fishcake for me, chicken chargrills for him Wednesday - with my parents Breakfast for baby S  pancakes Lunch for baby S homemade chicken...

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Tinolang Tahong with Sotanghon

Tinolang Tahong with Sotanghon.  I had a similar dish called Tinolang Halaan with Sotanghon. Today I tried a version using tahong or mussels. Cooking the dish is basically the same, it is also similar to any tinolang tahong or tinolang halaan. All I did was to add some extra liquid and some soaked sotanghon noodles. Tinolang Tahong with Sotanghon is obviously soupy dish that is ide...

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Chicken Mushroom Adobo

Chicken Mushroom Adobo. I had a similar post using pork belly, Pork and Mushroom Adobo. If you love adobo and you have not seen that post, I suggest click the link now and visit the post. The pictures make you droll and crave. It may not be presented as fancy as a glossy recipe book, but it is how we Pinoy serve our meals every day. It is served strait from the pan with out all those cosmet...

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Ginisang Delatang Salmon

Ginisang Delatang Salmon. Being an OFW myself ginisang sardinas is a regular fare for us.  Sardinas is nutritious, cheap and easy to prepare. Most overseas Pinoy would likely not miss picking a week’s supply of canned fish on their weekly visit to their Asian Store. If you are located on an area where there are no Asian Store it is always worth a try to check out the Asian section of yo...

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Pansit Bihon Gisado Topped with Bacon

Pansit Bihon Gisado Topped with Bacon. Who do not like crisp bacon? Would you like to be more creative with your pansit bihon gisado? Top it with bacon. The dish just come out casually when I noticed that I have still half of the bacon the I used in my Cabbage and Bacon Pinoy Style, Ginisang Repolyo with Bacon. To make my Pansit Bihon Gisado Topped with Bacon, I elected to make ...

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Garlic Sotanghon

Garlic Sotanghon. If you have been eating at Conti’s Pastry Shop or at Reyes Barbecue you may already be familiar with their Garlic Sotanghon. It is basically a ginisang sotanghon overloaded with fried garlic with minimal meat and vegetable ingredients. Not unless you love your garlic in your ginisang pansit you will definitely would not try to order it on the second time. I would probab...

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Cabbage and Bacon Pinoy Style, Ginisang Repolyo with Bacon

Cabbage and Bacon Pinoy Style, Ginisang Repolyo with Bacon. Today I would like to share a delicious, quick and easy to prepare vegetables dish which is inspired from a classic cabbage and bacon. The dish is actually just a ginisang repolyo but instead of using fresh pork for the meat ingredient, I used bacon. Cooking my Cabbage and Bacon Pinoy Style, Ginisang Repolyo with Bacon is ...

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Chicken Tinola with Sotanghon and Ampalaya

Chicken Tinola with Sotanghon and Ampalaya. I just love my tinola with ampalaya, I just can’t resist the gingery bitter taste of the broth. Be warned to those who hate ampalaya, this dish is obviously bitter. If you do not like the dish please skip this one.  I do have some other tinola version in the archives to browse. This is not a new dish. I had already a few similar recipes ...

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Stirfry Chicken Heart in Oyster Sauce

Stirfry Chicken Heart in Oyster Sauce. Chicken offal like the liver, gizzard, heart, etc. are dead cheap but are dreaded by most because they are intimidated on what dish to cook out of it. To the average Pinoy chicken offal would probably best cooked adobo style. It satisfy the Pinoy palate, goes well with hot steaming rice and of course it is a failsafe and easy to cook. I have ...

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Pinatolang Oxtail

Pinatolang Oxtail. While looking for vegetables at Darwin’s CBD Woolworths Supermarket it immediately caught my attention on a vegetables that seams look like patola. It was strange but after making a closer look it was a patola indeed. Without hesitation I grab some of the good ones. Without any doubt I am making pinatola soup out of it. Immediately proceed to the meat section of t...

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Ginataang Pinakbet

Ginataang Pinakbet. I have been planning to cook pinakbet with gata for some time now. Ginataang Pinakbet is not new. I have seen some recipes in the net already. Today I would like to share my own take of Ginataang Pinakbet. My version was cooked while I am here in Australia. Obviously I am limited to vegetables that are only available at Woolworth Supermarket. All I had was some Asi...

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Pinoy Ground Beef Stroganoff over Egg Noodles

Pinoy Ground Beef Stroganoff over Egg Noodles. Beef stroganoff is a classic dish, I no longer see the dish in today’s restaurants. Provably because it is no longer as popular as it was decades ago. If you are looking for a simple recipe, I do have my own version of cooking beef stroganoff using beer instead of wine. Today I am making Pinoy Ground Beef Stroganoff over Egg Noodles. It ...

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Chicken Humba

Chicken Humba. The humba is usually cooked using pork. However there are countless versions in every place of the country. Versions are defendant of locality, personal preference and availability of ingredients. Today I would like to share my version of Chicken Humba.  Cooking is basically similar to my pork humba. I did not have the banana blossoms or even the lily buds so I have ...

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Chicken Guya Adobo

Chicken Guya Adobo is what I cooked on the second set of the chicken guya with immature eggs set that I bought from South Supermarket in Filinvest Alabang. To those who are new to OPC the first set was made into arroz caldo style. Check out that post of Chicken Guya Lugaw if you are interested. As I mentioned on my Chicken Guya Lugaw post, the guya set consist of the guya or t...

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Nilagang Beef Ribs, Nilagang Tadyang ng Baka

Nilagang Beef Ribs, Nilagang Tadyang ng Baka. To most Pinoy beef ribs are best for nilaga. Beef ribs has the correct balance of meat and bones that is essential to a good nilaga dish. Today my Nilagang Beef Ribs, Nilagang Tadyang ng Baka is made up of course the beef ribs, some bok choy, potatoes and carrots. I decided to slow cook the beef ribs with celery stems in addition to the usu...

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Pinoy Egg and Tomato Salad

Pinoy Egg and Tomato Salad. I am one of the countless Pinoy who loves the egg and tomato salad. It is a salad to the non-Filipino but for most Pinoy the egg and tomato salad is served as a viand to be eaten with a lot of rice. It is full nutrients, it is delicious and of course it is a cheap Pinoy viand when times are lean. The Pinoy Egg and Tomato Salad is a regular fare to most O...

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Chicken Guya Lugaw

Chicken Guya Lugaw. Have you tried Lugaw or Arroz Caldo with chicken innards with immature eggs? Today I am sharing you my Chicken Guya Lugaw. If you are from the South of Metro Manila, Alabang in particular South Supermarket at Filinvest Alabang you could find all kinds of farm poultry products like black chicken to native ducks, they are frozen but it is good enough if you live in Met...

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Pork Ribs Tinola with Sotanghon and Ampalaya

Pork Ribs Tinola with Sotanghon and Ampalaya. This dish was inspired by the Ilocano tinola version where ampalaya is used instead of the usual vegetable tinola ingredients. Similarly sotahnghon is also added to some versions of tinola. Today I used them both on my Pork Ribs Tinola with Sotanghon and Ampalaya. To make the dish firs we need a fresh pork ribs, for this recipe. I used t...

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Adobong Pusit at Baboy

Adobong Pusit at Baboy. I still remember my very first post of Adobong Pusit. It created a lot of discussion on the cooking time of squid or Adobong Pusit. As I mentioned on that post squid should either be cooked in less than 2 minutes or more than 20 minutes. In cooking between, the squid will turn rubbery. Cooked less than 2 minutes and the squid are half cooked and fishy if cooked wi...

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Black Peppered Prawns Pinoy Style

Black Peppered Prawns Pinoy Style. I the tradition of Black Peppered Crab I am today sharing a version of Black Peppered Prawns Pinoy Style. I used whole shell on large prawns for this recipe. I wanted to eat the prawns using my hand. Eating with your hands is a Pinoy thing that we really enjoy when eating shelled seafood in our own dining table. Now it you wish to remove the shell ...

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Tanguigue Steak Paksiw with Eggplant

Tanguigue Steak Paksiw with Eggplant. Paksiw na isda is often cooked topped with vegetables usually eggplant. The eggplants are cooked or steamed from the vapors of the cooking liquid of fish paksiw. The vegetables juices dripped and are infused to the paksiw broth adding an additional layer of flavors to the Paksiw na Isda. Our Tanguigue Steak Paksiw with Eggplant post today is ...

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Meatless Pinakbet, Fish Pinakbet

Meatless Pinakbet, Fish Pinakbet. This is my take of meatless pinakbet. Instead of using pork I used fried tanguigue cubes. I am sharing my Fish Pinakbet in time for the Holy Week or Lenten Season. To make my Meatless Pinakbet, Fish Pinakbet I have to cut the tanguigue steak slices in to serving pieces cubes. The fish is fried to a crisp to hold together the fish and to prevent it fr...

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Fried Fish Fillet with Mushroom Sauce

Fried Fish Fillet with Mushroom Sauce. In observance of the Holy Week specifically on Good Friday most of us will be keeping away with meat dishes. Traditionally most Pinoy will be having mostly fish or meat free dishes. If you are looking for something different, today I want to share my first Holy Week fish dish. Fried Fish Fillet with Mushroom Sauce is simple and easy to prepare. The ba...

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Adobong Pork Chop

Adobong Pork Chop. If you are a regular reader of OPC you have provably read my post on Chicken Adobo, Food Safari Chef Ricky Ocampo’s Recipe. Today I am posting a similar post but this time instead of using chicken on the recipe I used pork chops. Cooking is similar to that adobo cooking technique of frying instead of braising the meat. The pork chops are first pan fried before addi...

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Pork with Spring Onion Stirfry

Pork with Spring Onion Stirfry. I can no longer count how many stirfry dishes I have shared. I just can’t help it. Stirfry dishes are easy to make and are always a hit. It is one of the dishes that you cannot go wrong literally. Stirfry are popular particularly is Asian cooking. Today’s Pork with Spring Onion Stirfry requires minimal ingredients. However it is packed with flavor...

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Snapper Fillet Pinoy Escabeche Style

Snapper Fillet Pinoy Escabeche Style. I am still having some of the snapper fillet that I used on my Fried Snapper Pinoy Bistek Style. Today I pan fry and cooked them Pinoy escabeche style. Fish escabeche Pinoy style is simplier version of Sweet and Sour dish. It requires few ingredients. It is tasty sweet, salty and gingery. The fish is first fried either crispy or just pan frie...

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Pansit Sotanghon with Roast Chicken Breast

Pansit Sotanghon with Roast Chicken Breast. Most often we reserved the breast part of our roast chicken or lechon manok for a planned Pansit dish. Pansit Sotanghon with Roast Chicken Breast is not a new recipe. Most likely you have already cooked pansit sotanghon using your leftover lechon manok. Most of my readers may not need this recipe but again for those who are learning how to coo...

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Fried Snapper Pinoy Bistek Style

Fried Snapper Pinoy Bistek Style. I have cooked this similar dish using salmon fillets before. Check that post of Fried Salmon Pinoy Bistek Style. Cooking is definitely exactly the same.  Similar to the salmon recipe our Fried Snapper Pinoy Bistek Style was cooked perfectly. The pictures speaks for itself… a thousand words! Of course beside good photos the dish came out really great. It ...

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Pinoy Omelet

Pinoy Omelet. The Pinoy omelet is one of the comport food which brings back childhood memories. It is a regular breakfast fare with fried rice that I grow up with. I am pretty sure that most Pinoy would have memories of the Pinoy omelet. The Pinoy omelet is made up of sautéed tomatoes and onions and mixed with beaten egg, cooked omelet as in torta style or scrambled. Cooking is fair...

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Pork Adobo with Coca Cola

Pork Adobo with Coca Cola is not your regular adobo. I am not even sure if it should be called adobo at all. Our Pork Adobo with Coca Cola is made up of pork belly with rib bones braised with vinegar, some tomato paste and coca cola beverage drink.  We Pinoy have always been using carbonated drink in some of our dishes. We use carbonated drinks on our cooking for the reasons that th...

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Pork Gisantes and Garbanzos

Pork Gisantes and Garbanzos. This dish is an adaptation to Pork Guisantes. Pork Guisantes is not your usual home dish. It is most likely serve in Fiestas. At home I rather cook menudo or afritada. To make the Pork Guisantes more inviting I tweaked the recipe by adding garbanzos to the recipe. I myself like garbanzos better that green peas. Garbanzos are crunchier and add more texture to t...

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Pork and Asparagus with Oyster Sauce

Pork and Asparagus with Oyster Sauce. Stir-fry dishes are easy are quick and easy to prepare. Stir-fry could be a combination of any tender meats or seafood with vegetable and with a choice of savory sauce.  Today I would like to share another variety of a Pinoy style stir fry dish, Pork and Asparagus with Oyster Sauce. It is made up of pork loin and some asparagus stir fried wi...

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Pinoy Burger Steak with Onions and Oyster Sauce

Pinoy Burger Steak with Onions and Oyster Sauce. Here is my take of burger steak with onions and oyster sauce. First of all find a good beef burger. Panfry the beef burgers with using just some oil, just enough to keep the burger from not sticking to the pan. Cover the frying pan to evenly cook the burger steak. Now using the same pan, fry some onion rings. Now simmer the fried onion and t...

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Ginisang Kamatis at Itlog

Ginisang Kamatis at Itlog is a Pinoy version of scrambled egg with tomatoes and onions. It is a quick Pinoy breakfast fare served with garlic fried rice or pandesal. It is popular and easy to prepare. Because of the ease to cook, it is ideal for those who have limited time to cook for breakfast but want to have some variety on their fried eggs. Most of my readers may have cook...

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Adobong Baka sa Gata

Adobong Baka sa Gata. I have never cooked Ginataang Baka before. Today I tried to cook one. There is some cube cut beef that was lying in the fridge for some time now. All I have in the pantry that is useful for a new recipe is a can of coconut cream. I am intimidated to cooked Ginataang Baka in the past. I have to get over it so I decided to cook Adobong Baka sa Gata. To make the di...

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Tortang Giniling

Tortang Giniling is a Pinoy classic dish. It is inexpensive and easy to prepare.  Tortang giniling are best for baon for the reason that it does not have sauce and it has a longer shelf life. All that is needed is a banana ketchup dip. When I was in school the dish was a regular pack lunch in school. Tortang giniling is served also during breakfasts and of course garlic fried rice. ...

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Eggplant Pinoy Bistek

Eggplant Pinoy Bistek is another OPC’s innovative Pinoy dish that is simple, economical and most of all very yummy that suit the Pinoy palate. For this recipe, I used the large classic eggplant. Sliced the eggplant crosswise into thin round slices. I then fried the slices in batches. Please be aware that the eggplant will absorbed the oil during frying. Now if you are not into ve...

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Beef with Garlic Stem Stirfry

Beef with Garlic Stem Stirfry. Garlic stem may not be normally found in Public Markets or most supermarket in Manila. I do regular see them at South Supermarket in Filinvest Alabang. When they are available or in season I regularly buy them for my stirfry dishes. In Fact I have already posted a pork stirfry with garlic several years back. Check my Pork with Garlic Stem Stirfry if you like ...

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Ginataang Tulingan Steak with Pechay

Ginataang Tulingan Steak with Pechay. I had this large sized tulingan steak that was sitting in the freezer for some time. I decided to cooked ultimately cooked it with coconut milk with some pechay that are similarly in the refrigerator for a couple of days already.  For my coconut milk I used the fresh one from a wet market near our home. The coconut milk was freshly extracted usi...

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Oxtail Sarciado, Kinamatisang Oxtail

Oxtail Sarciado, Kinamatisang Oxtail. Our kinamatisan version is not new but it is one of the earliest innovative Pinoy dish that we have published here at OPC. My kinamatisan was inspired by a dish that was regularly cooked by a good friend and work colleague when I was working in Abu Dhabi. That kinamatisan recipe uses pork or chicken. Click the link list below to check them out. Chick...

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Pinatolang Sugpo

Pinatolang Sugpo. Pinatola is a soup dish usually made up of boiled beef with patola as the vegetable ingredients. Patola is a versatile ingredients for Pinoy soup dishes. The vegetable is added to any nilaga or dishes soup dishes. This includes a variety of noodles soup dishes and meat nilaga recipes including the bulalo. In fact I have already cooked several variation of Pinatola dishes. N...

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Seafood Tinowa with Malungay

Seafood Tinowa with Malungay. Today I want to share a comport food. A classic dish from the Visayas and Mindanao. It’s another version of my seafood tinowa. Seafood Tinowa with Malungay, as the name suggest, I added some malungay to the basic tinowa. The addition of malungay bring up the simple tinowa to another level. This probably not new but I could not resist to share it. How could y...

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Giniling at Patatas Carinderia Style

Giniling at Patatas Carinderia Style. My love to the Giniling goes all the way when I was still a student and when I was working in several companies in Manila. Giniling then would be a staple dish in in school canteen, office canteen and road side carinderia. Giniling is cheap, very yummy and goes a long way with rice. I still cook and enjoy the classic giniling. The classic Ginili...

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Ginisang Togue at Sigarillas

Ginisang Togue at Sigarillas. I cannot help it I have to post another version of Ginisang Togue. Winged bean or sigarillas is one of the vegetables that you would see very often in vegetable markets and most supermarkets in Metro Manila. Sigarrillas best used in sinigang. Other than that you may be wondering how to cook sigarillas other than one of the vegetable ingredient for sinigan...

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Ginataang Manok sa Dilaw

Ginataang Manok sa Dilaw. Are you one of those who have caught with the turmeric powder health craze? There is no question about the health benefits of turmeric but we are not talking about that at this time. Instead I made a Pinoy recipe to make use of that same turmeric powder. Turmeric is no other than the luyang dilaw we used in some of our Pinoy dishes. Turmeric is not new to OPC in fa...

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Steamed Pampano with Soy Sauce and Sesame oil

Steamed Pampano with Soy Sauce and Sesame oil. Steaming fish similar of what is served in Chinese restaurant is a challenge. Most of the time you will end up with visually unappealing plate of fish. Worse is it may also taste awfully fishy. This is of course if you try to steam a fish without first reading at least a how to steam a fish Chinese style book or a recipe.  Steaming a fi...

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Lechon Manok, Pinoy Barbecue Marinade

Lechon Manok, Pinoy Barbecue Marinade. I have been cooking Lechon Manok and trying different marinade combinations. Today I want to share another of my Lechon Manok. This time I used the classic Pinoy barbecue marinade made up of soda drink, soy sauce and kalamansi juice. Of course the marinade includes the basic Pinoy aromatic ingredients. For staffing I had lemongrass, spring onion a...

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Ginisang Labong at Ayap

Ginisang Labong at Ayap. Every Pinoy should know what labong is. Still thinking? Labong is the edible bamboo shoots. The Pinoy variety is fibrous compared to the Chinese varieties. Because it is woody it require skills to thinly slice it. It also requires a lot of boiling time to get the bamboo shoot acceptably tender. Never the less forget about slicing and pre boiling. Labong in Met...

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Easy Loaf Tin Carrot Cake

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Chicken Tinola with Gold Squash

Chicken Tinola with Gold Squash. When in overseas every now and then, we find ourselves craving for our favorite comfort food. One of the Pinoy comfort food that I do crave most is Chicken Tinola with a lot of ginger. Every time I see fresh chicken in the chicken shelves of supermarkets, the first Pinoy food that lights ups in my brain is tinola.  And I believed it is very likely it is t...

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Mais Baboy at Langka or MBL

Mais Baboy at Langka or MBL. This dish was inspired by Kadyos Baboy at Langka or KBL one of Ilongo’s signature dish.  I was trying to look for kadyos beans when I stumble upon these beautiful fresh glutinous white corn in a Public Market near where I live in Manila. If I do not have kadyos for my KBL why not use the white corn instead. Immediately without hesitation bought 4 white corncobs a...

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Buridibud a Parda ken Malaga

Buridibud a Parda ken Malaga. Buridibud is an Ilocano vegetable dish. It is made up of combination of native vegetables cooked with kamote or sweet potato and flavored with bagoong na isda. Buridibud is usually topped with grilled or fried fish. The pungent aroma of the bagoong na isda compliments the flavours of fresh vegetables and the sweetness and texture of the kamote.  T...

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Paksiw na Alumahan sa Kamias

Paksiw na Alumahan sa Kamias. I just recently posted my Sweet and Sour Alumahan. But I need to post this Paksiw na Alumahan sa Kamias. As the name suggest I cooked my Paksiw na Alumahan using kamias as the souring ingredients. For some reason paksiw na isda dishes make me drool. Some will shy away from paksiw na isda dishes for the reason or belief that paksiw is fishy and un-appealing. B...

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Pork Chop Steak, Bistek Style

Pork Chop Steak, Bistek Style is not new. Pork chop cooked Bistek Style is very common especially in most carinderia and canteen or similar turo turo restaurants. This is because pork chop is one of the most favorite pork cut of most Pinoy who loves pork. Pork chop in turo turo restaurant is very easy to quantify or measure, it is served by piece therefore it is priced by piece. Pork Ch...

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Sweet and Sour Alumahan

Sweet and Sour Alumahan. Alumahan is one of the very common fish in the Philippines. The fish is very affordable and always available in public markets and most supermarkets in Manila. In fact I do have a couple of alumahan post, check them out to find out about how I cooked them. Fried Fish, Pritong Alumahan Inihaw na Alumahan Now if you are still looking for other sweet a...

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Batso with Pasayan, Ginisang Upo with Hipon

Batso with Pasayan, Ginisang Upo with Hipon. Batso is an Ilocano dish made up of diced upo or bottle gourd flavored and colored with atsuete or annatto. Batso or some call it batcho is nuclear in color because of the annatto coloring. The dish is very tasty and really goes very well with white rice. It can be a side dish but it is normally serve as a vegetable main dish. Click t...

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Buko Fruit Salad, Fresh Buko Version

Buko Fruit Salad, Fresh Buko Version. Buko Fruit Salad is unique to Pinoy. It is one of the more popular Pinoy dessert. Today buko fruit salad come in many forms, there is an ice candy version, an ice cream version, a refreshing drink version and other sweet food and dessert with buko fruit salad as the main ingredients. Check my other buko salad recipe listed below. Buko Sal...

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Ukoy na Hipon at Bulaklak ng Kalabasa

Ukoy na Hipon at Bulaklak ng Kalabasa. Ukoy with large shrimps always caught my attention in week end markets. For some reason ukoy will most likely sell in the food section of most weekend markets, in Metro Manila in particular. I bought to try it of a couple of occasions but they are either lump or saggy, that was my personal experience. Those bad experience has inspired me to make ...

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Ginisang Ampalaya with Pork

Ginisang Ampalaya with Pork. To most Pinoy Ginisang Ampalaya is made up of sliced ampalaya sautéed with garlic, onions and tomatoes bind together with scramble egg. Today I level-up the Ginisang Ampalaya by adding some pork slices to the dish. Cooking method still the same, all I did was just add the pork. Since Ginisang Ampalaya with Pork is a stirfry dish, I used pork loin. Po...

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Grilled Tanguige Steaks with Star Margarine Garlic Sauce

Grilled Tanguige Steaks with Star Margarine Garlic Sauce. King fish or Taguige is a tasty but delicate. When sliced into steaks grilling is sometimes tricky. The fish meat will tend to stick to the grills or grilling plates when it is not heated properly. They also disintegrate or break up when turned or fliped prematurely, otherwise grilled tanguige steaks are great and definitely all fi...

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Sizzling Bulalo Steak

Sizzling Bulalo Steak. Bulalo to Pinoy is beef shanks boiled for hours till all the flavors are extracted and the meat and tendons almost fall off the bones. Ok that is the how most Pinoy enjoy their bulalo. Today I would like to share another cooking method of bulalo, Sizzling Bulalo Steak. The idea is not new in fact it also one of the more popular restaurant Pinoy dish. Cooking t...

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Ham and Egg Fried Rice, Yang Chow Style

Ham and Egg Fried Rice, Yang Chow Style. It has been sometime since I posted a fried rice recipe. I know it is only a fried rice and most would probably know how to cook some kind of fried rice. But I believe that a lot of our readers are looking for a recipe of fried rice other than the Pinoy garlic fried rice. We do have several versions of fried rice in the archive including...

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Hotplate Grilled Tulingan

Hotplate Grilled Tulingan. I wanted to make sure that my recipe for Inihaw na Talakitok sa Hotplate will work with other similar big sized fish. As expected the fish was cooked perfectly without complicated grilling procedure and minimal cooking effort. It was so beautiful that I could not resist sharing it. Of course preparation and grilling of my Hotplate Grilled Tulingan is simil...

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Sinigang na Bilong Bilong sa Kamote

  Sinigang na Bilong Bilong sa Kamote. Sinigang na isda one of the most common fish soup dish to most Pinoy. It is easy to prepare, almost every fish can be used and similarly there are a lot of choices for the vegetable ingredients. Today I would like to share my Sinigang na Bilong Bilong sa Kamote. Obviously for my main ingredients I used bilong bilong or moon fish and kamote tops for ...

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Ulam Burger, Pinoy Burger Steak Style

Ulam Burger, Pinoy Burger Steak Style. We do have already posted a Pinoy Burger Steak in the archives, that Burger Steak was however uses real ground Australian beef and Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Condense Soup for the gravy, premium  ingredient for our premium version of the Pinoy Burger Steak. Today I would like to share an affordable version of the Pinoy Burger Steak, our Ul...

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Tinolang Manok sa Buko

Tinolang Manok sa Buko is inspired by a similar dish called Chicken Binakol, a native chicken cooked with young coconut water in bamboo tubes. Our Tinolang Manok sa Buko is instead cooked in a regular household kitchen, with usual kitchen utensils and ingredients that should be available in wet markets and supermarkets including the buko or young coconut. Tinolang Manok sa Buko ...

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Pork Tenderloin with Mushrooms

Pork Tenderloin with Mushrooms. I would like to share a simple Pinoy version of cooking stirfry with fresh mushrooms. My point is to try to educate our readers that fresh mushrooms are also available in Manila. They are reasonably priced, and they are available in most supermarkets in Metro Manila. The only reasons in my opinion that fresh mushrooms are not priced at affordable level ...

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Pansit Bato, Pansit Bicol Special

Pansit Bato, Pansit Bicol Special. If you are health buff, Pansit Bato has healthier options. Pansit Bato dried noodles are also available fortified with vegetables, the noodle colors are indicative of what type of vegetable are added to the ingredients of the dried Pansit Bato. For green it is fortified with malungay, yellow with kalabasa and orange with carrots. We do have already...

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Dinuguan sa Sampalok

Dinuguan sa Sampalok. I have finally had a chance to cook Dinuguan sa Sampalok, no this is not Tinumis. Tinumis uses sampalok leaves instead of the unripe fresh sampalok fruits that I used in my Dinuguan sa Sampalok.  To highlight my sampalok ingredient in my Dinuguan sa Sampalok, I included same whole un-crushed sampalok in my photos. The sampalok paasim should be cook...

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Pinaniki, Ginattang Bopis ng Laguna

Pinaniki, Ginattang Bopis ng Laguna.  If you are not from Laguna you may not know that there is a ginataang version of bopis. In Laguna they call it Pinaniki, do not ask me why or what is in the name, I hope our readers from Laguna or those who have first-hand knowledge of the Pinaniki, Ginattang Bopis ng Laguna can share more information about it. My version of Pinaniki, Ginatta...

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Meal Planning Monday 2018 Week 41

Monday Breakfast for baby S porridge with apple Lunch for baby S  finger food of chicken and veg Lunch for me: smoked salmon leftover from Sunday with bread and butter Dinner for us: spaghetti bolognese Tuesday Breakfast for baby S toast Lunch for baby S leftover spaghetti Bolognese Lunch for me: Also leftover spaghetti Bolognese as I always make too much! Dinner for us: gammon grills/ cauliflower cheese grills Wednesday Breakfast for baby S Farley's rusk Lunch for baby S  salmon with sweet potato and broccoli Lunch for me: toasted...

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Inihaw na Talakitok sa Hotplate

Inihaw na Talakitok sa Hotplate. Sometimes it is more convenient to grill a fish using your regular stove using hotplate. This will spare you of all the troubles of preparing your outdoor barbeque grill for just one serving of fish for the lunch or dinner. Be aware also that grilling fish indoors will trap all the smoke and fumes created in grilling fish indoors. Therefore I would sugge...

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Cake and Bake Show 2018 and Bake with a Legend

This week I made bread with one of the finalists from the Great British Bake Off. It's not every day that you can say that! I was lucky enough to get a free ticket to the Cake and Bake Show for the Friday, and lucky that my husband offered to take a day off work and look after our seven month old baby. I wasn't gone for the whole day but I did miss my little girl, though she was quite happy with daddy! The show is a mixture of stalls selling...

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Baked Embutido

Baked Embutido. This embutido is wrapped with sinsal, instead with the usual aluminum foil. I wanted to try and bake an embutido with a skin and with no core filling.  Sinsal wrapped embutido are supposed to be best baked. The caramelized sinsal skin of the baked embutido came out very appealing with the veined membrane looked wrapper. The embutido mixture is made up of mostly simil...

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Pinoy Pineapple Honey Glazed Ham

Pinoy Pineapple Honey Glazed Ham. For this Christmas season I would like to share an easy way to glaze your ball cut ham to make it more appealing and of course super yummy. I have mentioned the King Sue Pina Ham on my ingredients, firstly because that what I used, secondly it has a good fat intact even though it is just an economy ball ham cut. But of course any brand of ham with fat will ...

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Menudo with Christmas Ham

Menudo with Christmas Ham. Most of us will usually have a lot of Christmas ham leftover or extra hams from Christmas party give away. In our case we have several ball hams that were from Christmas party give away and gifts from friend. If you have been following us during these couple of week you may have noticed that I have been using ham ingredient on several of my dishes. Today I would li...

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Pinoy Arroz Valenciana

Pinoy Arroz Valenciana. It has been a tradition that every Christmas we take all the effort to post a new version of paella, bringhe or valenciana. It is also the same dish that is traditionally prepared during the family Noche Buena dinner. It is our belief that a paella, bringhe or valenciana dish is a tradition to most Pinoy that brings the family together. For this year I decided ...

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Baked Biko Sapin Sapin Style

Baked Biko Sapin Sapin Style. Traditionally the Pinoy Christmas, native rice delicacies are the food center piece in the old days, especially in the countryside or in the provinces. Most households would cook their especial cooking method of rice with coconut like the Biko, Suman, Puto, Rice Cake, Bibingka and the lists goes on. Today being a very especial day I would like to sha...

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Fried Pork Lumpia Roll with Bacon

Fried Pork Lumpia Roll with Bacon. Lumpiang Shanghai is always a hit to most Aussie that have learn to love Pinoy food. Every Pinoy party that I attended while in Australia, the Top 3 Pinoy dish that Aussie friends and guests looks or put on their plates for are Lumpia, Pansit and Fried Rice, and Fried Lumpia Roll is top on the list The Lumpiang Shanghai is also one of the favori...

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Inihaw na Bangus, Pinaputok na Bangus

Inihaw na Bangus, Pinaputok na Bangus. Grilled bangus stuffed with tomatoes and onion is one of the usual inihaw na isda dish prepared on most Pinoy special occasion and celebrations for one reason that bangus of any size are always available year round in the Philippines. Now I have to include my Inihaw na Bangus, Pinaputok na Bangus as one of my recommended celebration dish for t...

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Cheesy Pork and Chicken Afritada

Cheesy Pork and Chicken Afritada is our Christmas version of our Afritada.  I have not only added cheese to our already yummy Pork and Chicken Afritada, I have also added some vegetables to make it complete dish and also make it more appealing in contrast to the usual faritada with our greens. Cooking is of course similarly the same with our already deliciously proven Afritada dish...

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Kalderetang Baka with Peanut Butter and Oyster Sauce

Kalderetang Baka with Peanut Butter and Oyster Sauce. When I was starting to cook I never add any peanut butter or oyster sauce in my kaldereta dishes. It was just recently that I started to add peanut butter and/or oyster sauce in some of my kaldereta dishes. I have learned to use peanut butter and oyster sauce from my colleague. Their kaldereta with peanut butter and oyster sauce, that...

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Marikina Everlasting Special, Christmas Everlasting,

Christmas Everlasting, Marikina Everlasting Special. The Everlasting of Marikina is similar to the Hardinera of Lucban. A lot of the ingredients are almost similar, cooking methods are also similar. They are also both served at specials occasions and celebrations. For us who are not from Marikina or from Lucban would not really know the difference. I will not talk about the origins of our di...

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Baked Macaroni and Cheese Pinoy Style

Baked Macaroni and Cheese Pinoy Style. I want to share an easier way of making Baked Macaroni and Cheese using Pinoy ingredients, these ingredients are very common grocery items that for sure it is available in most supermarkets in Manila and other parts of the country. To make my point that the ingredients are very common I have listed the brand names of the ingredients, now if the list...

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Pinoy Grilled Prawns with Garlic and Cheese

Pinoy Grilled Prawns with Garlic and Cheese is our grilled version of our Baked Prawns with Garlic and Cheese. Instead of baking, the prawns were grilled in open fire or charcoals. Grilling prawns tricky, the shells tend to burn immediately leaving the prawn meats uncooked.  To grill our Pinoy Grilled Prawns with Garlic and Cheese properly, the heat or flames shall be maintained ...

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Pansit Lucban with Lechon Kawali

Pansit Lucban with Lechon Kawali. Pansit Lucban or Pansit Habhab is a special pansit from Lucban, Quezon. Similar to any Pansit dish Pansit Lucban is serve on special celebrations like the Pahiyas Festival or in the household during special occasions. Pansit Lucban is also the most popular street food in Lucban, served in banana leaf and with vinegar instead of kalamasi or lemon, eat...

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Lechon Manok , Inasal Style

Lechon Manok , Inasal Style. Chicken inasal may be best cooked or grilled in charcoal fire, but there is no stop of trying to roast a whole chicken using chicken inasal marinade, let me share how I cooked my  Lechon Manok , Inasal Style. Before I go ahead I want to get everyone informed that my Lechon Manok , Inasal Style is our first post for our 2015 Celebration Recipe. To those who ...

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Tinolang Manok sa Malungay

Tinolang Manok sa Malungay. Malungay is one of the most common vegetable ingredients of chicken tinola. Our Tinolang Manok sa Malungay recipe for today uses both the malungay fruit and the malungay leaves. Cooking is basically the same with my other chicken tinola recipe, click the link list below to check them out. Tinolang Manok with Malungay and Sotanghon Tinolang Manok sa U...

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Igado with Pineapple and Mushroom

Igado with Pineapple and Mushroom. I made a level-up version on one of my favorite Ilokano food, the Igado. In addition to the usual ingredients, I added some canned mushroom and canned pineapple to the recipe.  I could not think of what to call or any special name of my tweaked Igado, I simply just called it Igado with Pineapple and Mushroom. The pineapple and mushroom added ext...

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Black Adobong Pusit

Black Adobong Pusit. Personally I want my Adobong Pusit as black as possible Ilocano Style Adobong Pusit, the squids are cooked longer until it is chewable to get rid of the fishy characteristic of the squid. Most adobo recipes now on the net requires cooking the squid half cooked to maintain its softness but because it is half cooked we have to get rid of the squid fishiness to do that ...

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Cheesy Maruya, Fried Banana with Cheese

Cheesy Maruya, Fried Banana with Cheese. The Pinoy plantain banana is popularly cooked as merienda or snack to almost every Pinoy. Traditionally it is either cooked as Banana-Que, Turon or Maruya. All mentioned cooking method are also very common street food in the Philippines. Today I want to share a level-up version of the lowly Maruya. First of all let me mention that Maruya is sliced ha...

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Ukoy na Alamang

Ukoy na Alamang. I found some fresh alamang at Filinvest South Supermarket the other day, what else you can make out of fresh alamang? Straight away I wanted to cook it as ukoy. There are a lot of ways to make ukoy, in fact I do not think that there are any exact ingredients and measurements of quantities on every recipe. Ingredients and quantities defend on what are available at the time ...

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Pork Tail Sinigang sa Sampalok

Pork Tail Sinigang sa Sampalok. This is my second post of Pork Tail Sinigang, the first post was way back when OPC was starting. That Sinigang na Baboy (Buntot) was one of the first post the we shared. Today our Pork Tail Sinigang sa Sampalok as the name suggest is cooked soured with real sampalok fruits. At this time, I would try not write a long write up about our Pork Tail Sinigang ...

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Kinilaw na Tanguige, KiIlawin Tanguige

Kinilaw na Tanguige, KiIlawin Tanguige. I do have several versions of Kinilaw na Tanguige dish or kinilaw na isda in general that we posted over time. For our Kinilaw na Tanguige, KiIlawin Tanguige today, I tried to replicate the restaurant version of Kinilaw na Tanguige. Every restaurant have their particular method of preparing Kinilaw na Tanguige, but I have observed that most restaura...

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Sinaing na Tulingan

Sinaing na Tulingan. The authentic Batangas sinaing na tulingan is cooked where the fish are individually wrapped with banana leaf and in a clay pot. The banana leaf besides adding the unique banana leaf aroma to the fish, the banana leaf wrap also protect the fish from disintegration, the fish has to be simmered in low heat  for a long time until the fish bones area so soft that it can ...

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Ensaladang Gulay, Ilocano Style

Ensaladang Gulay, Ilocano Style is one of the authentic Ilocano boiled vegetable that I grew up. It is a medley of Ilocano vegetables blanch or boiled then serve with KBL or Kamatis, Bagoong at Lasona (Sibuyas Iloco). The vegetables includes assorted vegetables that are in season, or whatever vegetables that is at the kitchen at the time of cooking. Below are some of the similar vegetabl...

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Ginataang Langka with Sugpo

Ginataang Langka with Sugpo. This Ginataang Langka is similar to my old post called Ginataang Langka, Jackfruit in Coconut Milk. However the cooking procedure was adapted to the ginisa cooking method, instead of the simple ginataang cooking method of combining all the ingredients, which I usually do with a lot of my Ginataang Vegetable dish. Another tweak was, Instead of using t...

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Pinatolang Pork Pata

Pinatolang Pork Pata is my pork version of Pinatolang Baka and Pinatolang Bulalo. To my regular readers most likely that you already know that patola is one of my favorite Pinoy vegetable that I used on a lot of my soup dishes. Pinatolang Pork Pata is our new and latest soup dish using patola, this is the first time that I cooked pork pata with patola. To make the dish as healthy ...

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Binukadkad na Maya Maya, Sweet and Sour Style

Binukadkad na Maya Maya, Sweet and Sour Style. One of the more popular fried fish served on most Filipino restaurants is the Binukadkad na Tilapia. The butterflied fried tilapia is fried with or without starch coating, served with a dipping sauce or salsa. Today I tried to make a different approach to the binukadkad na isda fish dish. Instead of using tilapia I level it up using...

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Vigan Longanisa Penne Pasta

Vigan Longanisa Penne Pasta. I would like to share my version of longanisa pasta using Vigan longanisa and penne pasta. The sourly, garlicky and aromatic Vigan longanisa is a perfect meat ingredient for pasta with a Pinoy touch. I have chosen the penne pasta for this recipe, I do love those small pieces on meats inside the cavities of the penne pasta. You may use spaghetti pasta or any type ...

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Ginataang Halaan with Kangkong

Ginataang Halaan with Kangkong. Ginattang halaan is not new to OPC, we have a couple of versions of ginataang halaan with malungay, click the link below should you want to check out the post on the archives. Ginataang Halaan Ginataang Halaan with Malungay at Bulaklak ng Kalabasa Today I want to share the recipe of another ginataang halaan using kangkong for the vegetable ingredien...

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Pansit Tinapa Bihon

Pansit Tinapa Bihon. This pansit version was inspired from our traditional Pansit Palabok and Pansit Malabon. Instead of using pork, chicken and seafood used on our regular pansit, Tinapa Bihon as the name suggest used only tinapa flakes as the main “sahog” ingredients. For the recipe I used tinapang Salinas but you may use any type of tinapa or Pinoy smoked fish variety. I also us...

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Tinolang Sapsap sa Malungay

Tinolang Sapsap sa Malungay. Tinolang isda is called tinowang isda in the Visayas and Cebuano speaking part of Mindanao. It is similar to what to our Sinabawan Isda in the Tagalog speaking part on Luzon. Tinolang Sapsap sa Malungay or Tinolang isda in general is one is best soup dish in Filipino Cuisine, probably because of its simplicity. To cook the dish we only require some salt ...

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Crispy Fried Tawilis

Crispy Fried Tawilis. Tawilis is supposed to be found only in Taal Lake. We are lucky because in Metro Manila, because of our proximity to Taal Lake the fish are readily available in most big supermarkets and wet markets, specifically in the Cities located South of Metro Manila. There is no need to travel to Tagaytay for a Crispy Fried Tawilis fix. That is, if you are one of t...

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Pinoy Rack of Pork, Lechon Kawali Style

Pinoy Rack of Pork, Lechon Kawali Style is another innovative cooking brought to you from OPC. Rack of Pork is a roasting cut of pork back ribs, it is usually roasted in the oven or grilled with rub mixes or marinating liquid. Serving by individually cuts with the bones similar to pork chops. This is our second Pinoy inspired recipe of Rack of Pork, if you are a regular reader of OPC sure...

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Chicken Tocino Recipe

Chicken Tocino Recipe. Our original Chicken Tocino recipe was first posted during the early years of OPC. The photos may not be that appealing, but that Chicken Tocino recipe was easy to make using simple basic ingredients. Today I would like to re-create that Chicken Tocino Recipe. I also wanted to check if indeed I have missed some ingredients on my version of Chicken Tocino. Most ...

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Beef Sopas, Beef Buto Buto

Beef Sopas, Beef Buto Buto. To most Pinoy beef buto-buto is the best ingredient for a Pinoy beef soup. We cooked beef bones in a variety of beef soup dish, these includes Beef Siningang, Beef Nilaga, Bulalo and the list goes on. Today I decided to make Beef Sopas out of beef soup bones. There should be no problem, beef bone and pasta will definitely result a Beef Sopas full of beefy flavor...

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Ginisang Togue with Mushroom

Ginisang Togue with Mushroom. I have said this before, I just love Ginisang Togue. It is cheap easy to cook and can be cook styrfry together with any “sahog”. Today I made Ginisang Togue with Mushroom, to our vegetarian readers you may leave the pork and shrimp ingredients, better substitute the meat and seafood ingredients tofu. But for today our ginisang togue, I cannot cook it without t...

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Fish and Shrimp with Black Beans Stirfry

Fish and Shrimp with Black Beans Stirfry is one of the quickie dish that I was able to fix for dinner at one time I came home late. Stirfry dishes are in my opinion a better way of cooking a quick dinner instead of just simply fan frying or deep frying something out from the refrigerator. Stirfry dishes involves a combination of ingredients, it could be anything that is available ...

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Kinilaw na Maya Maya

Kinilaw na Maya Maya. Our Kinilaw na Isda for today, we used maya maya or red snappers.  Maya maya is one of the more readily available fish in most supermarket here in Darwin. The fish are usually sold fresh in fillet form. Maya maya are not our preferred choice fish for Kinilaw na Isda but I could not resist the fresh pink meat of beautifully sealed packed maya maya at the fish section ...

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Ginataang Alimasag with Labong

Ginataang Alimasag with Labong. Bamboo shoot and green crabs cooked in coconut milk is a feast of flavors that most Pinoy would love. Today I would like to share how I cooked my Ginataang Alimasag with Labong. Cooking crabs may be not a problem to most of us, but cooking it with bamboo shoots seems to be intimidating, it is if you source your bamboo shoots, as is and not prepared or sliced a...

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Inihaw na Isda sa Tanglad

Inihaw na Isda sa Tanglad. Tired of grilled fish with lots of tomatoes and onions stuffing, I myself wanted to try to get out to that standard tomatoes and onions stuffing of Inihaw na Isda. Everyone knows that the most basic and best seasoning of Inihaw na Isda is just a salt rub, but at times we want a more complex flavors, and of course get rid of some of the fishiness of our Inihaw na Is...

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Patola Misua Soup with Prawns

Patola Misua Soup with Prawns. I said it before patola misua soup combination is one of my favorite soup dish. There is some chemistry, a fusion of flavors between patola and misua that makes the combination a great soup dish no matter what is the “sahog” ingredient. I have posted several combination before and they all did came out great, just click the link list below to check out t...

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Igado the Day After

Igado the Day After. I grew up with Igado. In fact Igado was one of our original post here at OPC when we were starting, that was sometime in 2007. That original Igado recipe, was how I remembered my grandmother made or cooked our Igado. That Igado post and Igado photo was so popular for the reason that it was one of the only few, I think it was the only Igado recipe and Igado photo that we...

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Paksiw na Sapsap, Paksiw na Isda

Paksiw na Sapsap, Paksiw na Isda, always make me droll even with just thinking about the dish. Paksiw na isda are best eaten with your hand. Eating fish with your hand also make life easier removing those bones from the fish meat. Eating with your hands also makes eating fulfilling and enjoyable. Some Pinoy or people may not like Paksiw na Isda, they find it un-appealing and fishy or ju...

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Ginisang Gulay with Pritong Samaral

Ginisang Gulay with Pritong Samaral. It has been some time since I last cook a Pinoy vegetable dish made up of a medley of vegetables native to the Philippines. This vegetable dish ingredients include talong, sitaw and sigarillas. For the leafy vegetable ingredients I also add talbos ng kamote, kangkong and talbos ng salutyot. This could have be a good dinengdeng topped with inihaw na Malag...

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Kare Kare, Pork Hocks

Kare Kare, Pork Hocks. This is my second kare kare recipe post cooked from scratch, without kare kare mix. It is actually the first cooked from scratch kare kare with peanut sauce, my Kasoy Kare Kare was cooked using kasoy sauce instead of peanut sauce. My Kare Kare, Pork Hocks is definitely is my first kare kare recipe post cooked using traditional cooking method. I hope my Kare Kare, Po...

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Ginataang Halaan with Malungay at Bulaklak ng Kalabasa

Ginataang Halaan with Malungay at Bulaklak ng Kalabasa. Squash flower are deliciously beautiful, they are in abundance during the summer months in the in Muntinlupa and San Pedro, Laguna area. The banks of Laguna Lake become dry during summer, exposing a very fertile land. The residence along the lakes take advantage of this fertile dry bank of the Laguna Lake and plant all kinds of vegetabl...

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Bulalo with Corn and Banana

Bulalo with Corn and Banana is my latest version of bulalo. In addition to the usual bulalo vegetable ingredients I also added corn on the cobs and take note plantain banana or saging na saba which we sometime use in our nilagang. Ok Bulalo is basically a nilaga soup dish adding banana should work. I have already a significant number of bualalo versions in the archive, cooking th...

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Pinoy Baked Prawns with Garlic and Cheese

Pinoy Baked Prawns with Garlic and Cheese. I have been trying to make Baked Prawns with Garlic and Cheese similar to my Baked Slipper Lobster with Garlic and Cheese but I did not have success till this one. The cheese topping is either not melting or ended up burning it. But this time during my short travel back to Manila I have a change to try it again. The secret ingredient? Quickmelt chee...

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Ginataang Santol, Sinantol

Ginataang Santol, Sinantol. Some of our readers may have had Ginataan Santol, specifically our readers who are ginataan loving Bikolano. If you are wondering how Ginataang Santol or Sinantol is cooked, don’t be intimidated. Except for the grating of the santol meat, cooking is fairly easy. Similar to any typical vegetable ginataang Bicol style there is no sautéing involve. The aromatics a...

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Paksiw na Dilis sa Dahon ng Saging

Paksiw na Dilis sa Dahon ng Saging. Banana leaves are used to wrap small fish like the dilis to prevent from disintegrating during cooking, this is usually done with Paksiw na Isda, Sinaing na Isda and Pinais na Isda where the fish are tend to be cooked longer time. For my version of Paksiw na Dilis sa Dahon ng Saging,I just half wrap the dilis to form about 10 to 12 pieces each bundle. ...

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Pansit Palabok, Rice Noodles with Seafood

Pansit Palabok, Rice Noodles with Seafood. This Pansit Palabok recipe was inspired by Chef Dennis Leslie’s version of Pansit Palabok featured on SBS Food Safari in Australia. The dish was however cooked when I was recently on a short leave in Manila. On Chef Dennis Leslie’s version he uses alternative ingredients that provably not available in Australia. Since I am in Manila I obviously us...

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Pinoy Pork Menudo

Pinoy Pork Menudo. Most Pinoy grow up with menudo with hotdogs as meat extenders. Particularly the younger Pinoy generations would have thought that the Pinoy menudo should have the red hotdog as a must ingredients otherwise it would not be a proper menudo. As an OFW whenever we cooked menudo we always make it a point that a Pinoy hotdog and make the extra trip to the Asian or Pinoy food sto...

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Minatamis na Saging with Sago

Minatamis na Saging with Sago. Is there a heatwave in Manila? In the last few days the temperature in some parts of Manila has reached the 40deg C mark. What would be a better time to enjoy a cooling and refreshing Minatamis na Saging with Sago. Minatamis na Saging is fairly easy make, but getting it to level up by adding sago to our Minatamis na Saging is a little bit troublesome f...

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Pinaputok na Talakitok, Pinaputok na Isda

Pinaputok na Talakitok, Pinaputok na Isda. I once live in one of the Barangay in Muntilupa along the banks of Laguna Lake, at that time tilapia and pla-pla fish pens were as popular as bangus. Whenever there are some social drinking in our neighborhood pinaputok na pla-pla was our quick pulotan fix. There were always constant supply of the largest fresh pla-pla. We just stuffed the degutt...

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Ukoy na Dulong

Ukoy na Dulong. Today I was lucky to find some fresh dulong in the supermarket, without hesitations I bought 1/2 kilo, even though I have no idea of what to cook out of it. I was initially thinking to cook the dulong, wrap with banana leave pinais style but I did not have any, I use up all the banana leaves on my Pinaputok na Tahong. I had to settle for Ukoy na Dulong which turned o...

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Pinaputok na Tahong

Pinaputok na Tahong. Once again I am sharing another OPC’s innovative dish, this one was inspired by a popular Pinoy dish called Pinaputok na Pla-pla or Pinaputok na Tilapia or Isda. If you are running out of ways to cook your tahong or you are simply sick of your usual Tinolang Tahong and looking for something different to cook your tahong, why not try my Pinaputok na Tahong. To ma...

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Sinigang na Sardinas, Mackerel Canned Sardines

Sinigang na Sardinas, Mackerel Canned Sardines is not an unusual dish to us OFW’s. I had this dish on several times, it is cheap it can go long way, defending on how much broth you used, it is as good as a fresh fish sinigang. Every time we visit a Pinoy Food or Asian Food Store we make it a point that canned sardines are included in our shopping list. Canned sardines in the cupboard are be...

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Mix Seafood Strifry with Oyster Sauce

Mix Seafood Strifry with Oyster Sauce is another simple mix seafood dish created from marinara mix that is intended to be use in Spaghetti Marinara. Last month on our post of Mixed Seafood Adobo I did mentioned that, I always have this question of what dish shall I cook with the mixed seafood, beside Spaghetti Marinara, well here is another one, Mix Seafood Strifry with Oyster Sauc...

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Beef and Eggplant Stirfry with Oyster Sauce

Beef and Eggplant Stirfry with Oyster Sauce. This is one of our innovative stirfry recipe, I have not seen many or similar beef and eggplant stirfry in the net. The combination of beef and eggplant in a stirfry is perfect. The rich flavors of beef combined with the crunchy sweet and hint of bitterish eggplant bind together with the oyster sauce is divine. To make the dish just use...

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Chicken Asado with Hoisin Sauce

Chicken Asado with Hoisin Sauce. I used Hoisin Sauce for this version of chicken asado which make it similar to the Chinese asado. I have an old Chicken Asado recipe in the archive, that version was based on Capampangan cooking method of Chicken Asado which used tomato sauce, kalamansi juice and some potatoes. There are countless version of asado similar to the kaldereta and other Pinoy dis...

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Ginisang Sotanghon with Sardinas

Ginisang Sotanghon with Sardinas. Canned sardines and noodles are the two Pinoy food that we never forget to buy whenever we visit an Asian or Pinoy Food Store while overseas, for the reasons that canned sardines are cheap, are easy to prepare, it can be eaten as vian as it is, straight from the can, and canned sardines are versatile that it can be cooked with anything. On the oth...

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Adobong Talong

Adobong Talong. Here is an easy straightforward and simple way to cook Adobong Talong. First of all you need a young eggplant the long variety. Do not slice, slicing will exposed more of the eggplant meat and will absorb the oil during cooking. Slicing will also make the eggplant easier to disintegrate during cooking, we do not want a mushy eggplant adobo. Just cut the eggplant crosswise abo...

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Ginataang Papaya with Canned Tuna

Ginataang Papaya with Canned Tuna. Ginataang papaya is usually cooked with tinapa or dried fish, I did not have both so I substituted it with canned tuna, as expected it was as good. Ginataang papaya is one of my favorite ginataang vegetable dish, there is that thing with papaya, when cooked with coconut milk that make the dish match with a lot of hot steamy rice. Just thinking about a crea...

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Vangie’s Kitchen, Pinoy Takeaway in Darwin

Vangie’s Kitchen, Pinoy Takeaway in Darwin is a place as close to a Pinoy Restaurant in Darwin. Last week I found this Pinoy Food takeaway shop at Sabine Shopping Center located at the corner of Sabine Road and McMillans Road. It is on your right side if you are traveling from the Darwin airport towards the City. On my last post on my continued quest for Filipino Restaurant, Pinoy Fo...

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Quinoa Pinoy Arroz Caldo Style

Quinoa Pinoy Arroz Caldo Style. Quinoa, pronounced as “keen-wah” is a highly nutritious gluten-free grain or seed? That’s supposed to be a healthier alternative to rice. A super-food to heal buff because of the numerous health beneficial properties. I will not talk about what is quinoa, I am not the right person, it would be best to check it out on other health sites. Because quinoa ...

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Fish Steak Sarciado, Sarciadong Isda

Fish Steak Sarciado, Sarciadong Isda. I needed a quick to cook meal, after a day’s hard work, all I had on the fridge are some tanguige steak slices and some tomatoes and onion. I do not have time to cook a cumbersome meal, I end up with today’s dish Fish Steak Sarciado, Sarciadong Isda. All did was pan fry the tanguigue steaks seasoned with salt and pepper then stir fry some tomato...

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Pinoy Burger Steak

Pinoy Burger Steak. This Pinoy Burger Steak looks like the Jolibee version, however this is my Pinoy version of my Salisbury Steak, Burger Steak with Mushroom Sauce. Salisbury steak is not new. It has been around since the 80’s that was the time when Food Courts were popular. Salisbury Steaks are made up of ground meat, and are served with gravy, it is usually served on a sizzling plate ...

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Bicol Express an authentic Bicolano dish?

Bicol Express an authentic Bicolano dish? Or a dish named after a train that travel to Bicol. Whatever it is, this dish is one of the more popular Pinoy dish, and it has evolved in many form. Bicol Express is one of the mainstay viand in most carinderia turo-turo stalls to a highly recommended dish on a fine dining Filipino restaurant. We have posted several version of Bicol express in t...

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Batangas Bulalo at Rose and Grace Restaurant

Batangas Bulalo at Rose and Grace Restaurant. If you are a frequent traveler to the south particularly to Batangas, Laguna and Quezon, then you may know or heard from your parents, Rose and Grace Restaurant. Rose and Grace Restaurant claim to be “The home of the famous Batangas Bulalo”, that is according to the sign’s on their Santa Rosa Branch. The restaurant was indeed one of the best Bula...

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Pinoy Baked Pene Pasta

Pinoy Baked Pene Pasta is similar to my popular Pinoy Baked Macaroni dish that was posted a couple of years ago. The recipe of the photos here are from the Pinoy Baked Pene Pasta that was cooked for my daughter’s birthday it was in four baking dish for her office mates. I was just testing the recipe if it works with large quantities, the result was great, and the recipes works. Usi...

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Ginataang Atay ng Manok, Chicken Liver in Coconut Milk

Ginataang Atay ng Manok. I started to work as a technician, at that time fast food was not yet around. We take our lunch breaks at our canteen usually manage by some labor union official or at makeshift carinderias that are always located near the company gate’s. Adobong Atay ng Manok will mostly if not always present on the food choices, for the reason that it is cheap, but the main reas...

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Nilagang Ham Bone

Nilagang Ham Bone is a product of the left over ham bone used on our Pinoy Pineapple Glazed Ham, Pinoy Style Easter Ham posted last Lenten Season. The ham was sitting on the ref for some time, as you can see on the photos there are still a lot of meat left. I could not think of any other Pinoy recipe for a leftover ham bone, the first thing that I see on the ham bone is like looking at...

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Salmon with Sotanghon Noodle Soup

Salmon with Sotanghon Noodle Soup is a comport food that brings childhood memories. I grew up in the province and a noodle soup with canned fish and some vegetables is a regular fare when times are bad or when there is typhoon or heavy rains where the markets are closed. This type of dish is not limited to canned salmon and sotanghon noodles combinations. Check out below if you a...

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Pinakbet Tagalog

Pinakbet Tagalog.  I did not realized OPC do not have a Tagalog version of pinakbet with pork. We do have a Pinakbet Tagalog on the archives but it is my tweaked version using ground beef instead of pork for the meat ingredients, click the link Pinakbet to check the recipe. We also have a Pinakbet Overseas Pinoy Version, instead of using Pinoy vegetables I used substitute vegetabl...

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Chicken Wings Pinoy Curry Style

Chicken Wings Pinoy Curry Style. I got loads of Pinoy Curry already in our archives, but I just could not resist posting this Chicken Wings Pinoy Curry Style that I have cooked a few days ago, it is just too beautiful, not to mentioned it was one of the best Pinoy Curry I had for a long time. Using chicken wings although it is unhealthy makes the difference. Cooking is basically simil...

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Crispy Pork Binagoongan

Crispy Pork Binagoongan. I was craving for fried pork the other day and decided to make Lechon Kawali from pork belly rashers. The problem was I ended, eating only couple of pieces and now I have a lot of left over Lechon Kawali. This time I thought, perhaps I could make a Crispy Pork Binagoongan from the left over Lechon Kawali, still unhealthy but how can you not be tempted with su...

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Adobong Tupa

Adobong Tupa. Most Pinoy will keep away from lamb, I think it is miss understood. To most Pinoy lamb is smelly, gamey like goat. It is true but if it cleaned and prepared properly, lamb taste great, the meat is sweeter than beef and juicier. To cook our Adobong Tupa, first buy fresh, removed and discard the fats, this is where all the gamey smell come from. To make sure that all t...

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Halabos na Hipon sa Royal Tru-Orange

Halabos na Hipon sa Royal Tru-Orange. You may love or hate this dish, where in a world would you cook using Royal Tru-Orange softdrink. Most of our Halabos recipes are cooked using Sprite or 7-Up, most likely you yourself or your parents, all this time have been using Sprite or 7-Up when steaming your seafood or as marinade for your favorite BBQ. Now we are on the same direction. A...

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Pinoy Pineapple Glazed Ham, Pinoy Style Easter Ham

Pinoy Pineapple Glazed Ham, Pinoy Style Easter Ham. The truth is this Pineapple Glazed Ham, Pinoy Style ham was our Christmas Ham, last year. I was not able to post it for the reasons that I have traveled to India after New Year as I have already mentioned on some of my recent post. Those who may not know it has been a tradition that every Christmas Season I have been trying to post a speci...

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Pork Ribs Sinigang with Upo

Pork Ribs Sinigang with Upo. Tired of the usual sinigang vegetables on you Pork Sinigang try jazzing up with other vegetables that are in your vegetable basket, I had upo or bottle gourd that was sitting for some time now it the fridge. Why not use it on my sinigang? Have anyone ever tried it? Today I want to share my Pork Ribs Sinigang with Upo, the dish was indeed went very goo...

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Chicken Inasal, Mama Sita’s Inasal

Chicken Inasal, Mama Sita’s Inasal. This is a late post, this Chicken Inasal was part of our inihaw New Year meal, together with the Pork Barbecue and Inihaw na Liempo that I have recently posted. Because of time constraint and inability of inasal marinade ingredients at that time, I end up using the ready mixed Mama Sita’s Inasal marinade in pouch. But if you want to do your Chicken Inas...

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Inihaw na Liempo, Pork Belly BBQ

Inihaw na Liempo, Pork Belly BBQ. This is one and together with the Pork Barbeque on Sticks was part of our inihaw dishes on last the New Year’s celebration. It should have been posted earlier but I did not have time, I traveled to India right after New Year for a month of work related training. Now, I decided to start posting our last New Year’s dishes as I feel they are relevant and wort...

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Prawn Afritada, Afritadang Sugpo

Prawn Afritada, Afritadang Sugpo. I myself love afritada, who would not? Afritada is just like kaldereta in terms of cooking versions, there are countless cooking method out there. Everyone’s version are different, each versions will depend on availability of ingredients and family’s cooking method. As a general rule just remember that recipes are just guides, it is not necessarily that eve...

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Fried Salmon Pinoy Bistek Style

Fried Salmon Pinoy Bistek Style is another innovative dish from OPC. I have been in Australia for years now and all those years, I was stayed away of cooking salmon for the reason that I find it intimidating to make a Pinoy dish out of it. I did tried once to cook a skin on salmon fillet that was when I first arrived here in Australia. It was a beautiful Sweet and Sour Tasmanian Salmon, I d...

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