Tefal Edition - Stir fry Pan with Induction Technology

Tefal cookware products are undeniably huge players in the market. My dad bought home a complete set of tefal cookwares the last time he arrived from the Middle East. My mom loves it as well as my aunts and uncles who were also gifted by my dad. The latest pan we took out from the box is this - Tefal C8771905 Edition 28cm Stir fry Pan

Tefal Edition with Induction Technology 

Features:
18/10 SS with tubular handles
Induction compatible
Aluminium sandwich base
Uncoated stir-fry pan

Have some questions regarding your Tefal Fryers? Get your answers here

A cup of Hot Healthy Coffee

For more than 10 years now, our family consumes an average of 2-3 boxes of Pioir Ganoderma Coffee a month. Wanting to feel good and healthy, it's our no nonsense effort to combine health and habit. I mean most, if not all of us drinks coffee right? Now what makes this coffee different from the others in the market?  World's most expensive coffee would indeed be interesting to sip but this beverage is just as good as it contains ganoderma, a specific mushroom found in Malaysia and is considered as the "King of Herbs". I've heard so many wonderful benefits it offered to thousands of people. Want to know more? Check out this link

My dad on the other hand prefer the Tongkat Ali Coffee. Men loves this coffee because of the benefits they get from tongkat ali. Read more here

Know more about ganoderma lucidum and its other products at http://shopganoderma.blogspot.com/

Recipe: Pork Sinigang

Ingredients:
1/2 k pork, cut into serving pieces
2 large tomatoes
4 pieces green tamarind fruit
1 medium sized radish
2 medium sized gabi root
5 mustasa leaves (buro)
6 kalabasa tops
1 qt. water
1/4 c patis
1/8 tsp white pepper

Procedure:
1. Place pork, tomatoes and green tamarind fruit in a pan. Add the water and let simmer until meat is tender.
2. Press and strain the tamarind fruit with a little of the broth
3. Add the vegetables and seasonings.
4. When done, serve with broth and patis.
5. Serve hot for 6.

Recipe: Pan Seared Butter-Garlic Tanigue

This is my first time to cook Pan Seared Butter-Garlic Tanigue recipe inspired from another recipe website. My dad bought home half a kilo of Tanigue and he (as always) asked me to cook. Not wanting to prepare another same old boring fried tanigue, I scouted the net for some refreshing tanigue recipe and I simply followed the instructions.

Pan Seared Butter Garlic Tanigue

Ingredients:

olive oil

tanigue

butter

pepper

salt

garlic, minced

calamansi

liquid seasoning

Procedure:

1. Season the fish with salt, pepper, calamansi and liquid seasoning. Set aside.

2. Heat olive oil in a pan.

3. Toast the minced garlic until slightly brown.

4. Pan sear the tanigue about 3-5 minutes on each side depending on your preferred done-ness and thickness of the fish. Cover to trap the heat.

5. Add butter

6. Place the tanigue in a serving plate and pour the remaining garlic-butter-oil mixture on top.

my second attempt on making Buttered Tanigue

Buffalo Chicken and Onion Rings Pizza from Greenwich

Blue cheese and mozarella cheese topped with juicy buffalo chicken with a tower of crunchy onion rings - the latest offering of Greenwich, the Buffalo Chicken and Onion Rings Pizza!

After a mind blowing 2 day seminar I attended in Makati, mom and my 2 siblings met at Greenwich for some pizza pasta crave. And I opted to try one of their Top That Pizzas, their TV ad enticed me to try have that pizza experience.

Buffalo Chicken and Onion Rings Pizza from Greenwich

We ordered the Family size thick crust Buffalo Chicken and Onion Rings Pizza. My mom though it was spicy, while I thought it doesn't offer that much flavor. While the serving was good, I wasn't really happy with it. It's one pizza I would not order again, uhm sorry Greenwich. Your lasagna is good though, it has always been my favorite!

Greenwich Lasagna

You can also try the other Top That Pizza - Meatballs and Fries Pizza. :)
Here are the price:
Original Thin and Crispy Crust:
Double: Php296
Family: P494
Square: Php582

Rolled-Edge Thick Crust
Double: Php329
Family: Php527
16" Party Size: Php799

Recipe: Meatballs with Tomato Sauce

Ingredients:

1 k ground pork
1 c onion, chopped
1/4 c green onion, chopped
1 tbsp. salt
1/8 tsp white pepper
1 raw egg
1/4 c oil
1 tbsp. garlic, macerated
1 onion, chopped
1 (8 oz. can) tomato sauce
1/2 c water
1 tbsp. patis
1 tabasco sauce - few drops


Procedure:
1. Combine pork, onions, salt, pepper and eggs.
2. Shape into 2" balls and roll in flour.
3. Fry in hot fat until brown.
4. Saute garlic in remaining fat; then onions.
5. Add tomato sauce, water and seasoning.
6. Add meatballs and let simmer for 10 minutes.
7. Serve hot for 6.

Meatballs with Tomato Sauce

Enjoy an afternoon of Buko Halo Halo

If you happen to be in Southern part of the Philippines on an extreme sunny day, I highly recommend a short stop over in Koronadal and enjoy this sweet "tatak pinoy" treat - Apareja Buko Halo Halo! Read more about Apareja at my Travel blog.

Recipe: Carrot Pipino Juice

My parents are soooo into healthy stuff nowadays - from cooking healthy but sometimes bland food (oh, poor kids) to taking some food supplements, to listening radio health programs and I could go on and on. I guess it just proves the emerging health and wellness industry. My parents have been buying a lot of stuff they hope would make them feel better...and they do!

This particular recipe has in fact replaced juice packs and soft drinks we as family once loved to have every now and then. Mom and I had this particular juice when we visited our relatives in Lake Sebu. They have been serving this to some of their guests and I must say, I love this juice!

A blend of freshness: carrot - pipino

It's very easy to make. Just blend one carrot, one pipino (cucumber), 2 kalamansi and you're done. For added sweetness you can put on a tbsp of honey. :)

Win Pizza Hut's Ultimate Cheese Treat

My whole family loves Pizza Hut. In fact it has been a famous must eat food during family birthdays, which has very much replaced the idea of having a cake for a must have. It has a tradition for years now, really!

I even have a Pizza Hut Palm card used almost every month!

So here's the Good news to all Pizza Hut lovers like me. Pizza Hut gives you the Ultimate Cheese Treat for free. Not only that, you and your friends could also get a Pizza Hut Gift Certificates worth Php3,000 weekly!

Visit their official Pizza Hut Facebook page for more details :)

Recipe: Fried Bananas

Here's an easy to do merienda treat popular to Filipinos plus it's healthy too! This recipe is so damn easy, it wouldn't take 10 minutes to prepare and all you need frankly is a  cluster of bananas called saba. Peel and cut them in half and simply fry these guys! This easy to de recipe is ideal for health conscious buffs craving for a delicious healthy snack food :)

saging na saba

Fried Bananas

Recipe: Lumpia Shanghai

Ingredients:

1/4 k ground pork
1/4 k shrimps, shelled and chopped
1/2 c chopped onion
1/2 c chopped water chestnut or singkamas
2 eggs
1/4 c green onion leaves, sliced fine
1/8 tsp white pepper
1 tbsp. patis
25 lumpia wrappers

Procedure:
1. Mix all ingredients except wrapper in a bowl.
2. Divide wrapper into half
3. Place a tablespoon of the meat mixture into the halved wrapper and wrap with both ends sealed.
4. Heat enough oil in a frying pan and deep fat fry the lumpia.
5. Serve with sweet and sour sauce.

Recipe: Homemade Peanut Butter

When we were younger, my brothers and I would drool over a bottle of peanut butter bought from the supermarket. Today, we appreciate peanut butters that are home made. I have one particular favorite, the peanut butter that is made by ate Nene in South Cotabato. My aunts would bring these pasalubongs for us in Manila and they are just wonderful to eat.




 
Ingredients:
1 1/2 pound roasted peanuts -- unsalted in the shell
Salt to taste
2 1/2 tablespoons cooking oil or margarine

homemade peanut butter from South Cotabato

Directions:

1. Shell the peanuts.
2. Grind in food processor until almost smooth (you can leave some lumps if you want crunchy peanut butter).
3. Add oil, enough so mixture is spreadable. Add salt. Blend just to mix.

Recipe: Sweet Honey Chicken Adobo

I have posted here already the recipe for making the Sweet Honey Pork Adobo. This time I'll be making Sweet Honey Chicken Adobo which is frankly just very much the same as that of the former recipe. From the ingredients down to the cooking part. For this post, I would like to include some tips and more pictures in making this recipe :)



In cleaning the chicken, make sure to remove that chicken fats.

a kilo of chicken

crushed garlic

And these my friends are the secret ingredients in making this a sweet Pinoy meal. I was actually inspired first by the honey I bought for Php140 during my recent travel to Socksargen. My dad requested for that pure wild honey (Non Processed) from the mountains of Lake Sebu and T'boli, South Cotabato. Don't miss this honey once you get to General Santos Airport. You can buy this at 2nd floor near the stairs. Few months after, I saw the honey sitting in the kitchen cabinet and an idea popped up! So instead of brown sugar, I used the Lake Sebu honey as an alternative for my Adobo.

Of course you can use other brands of honey out there. I bought the Palawan honey in Robinsons supermarket, much cheaper compared to that of Lake Sebu honey.

Pure Wild honey from Lake Sebu and Honey bottle from Palawan

marinated Sweet Honey Chicken Adobo

After marinating simply add a cup of water and cook the chicken for about 30-40 minutes in low to medium heat.

Sweet Honey Chicken Adobo

Again, you can check out the Sweet Honey Pork Adobo for the list of ingredients. Happy eating!

Recipe: Embotido

Ingredients:
1 k ground pork
1/2 frankfurters, chopped fine
1 chorizo de Bilbao, chopped fine
1/2 c mixed relish or chopped sweet pickles
1 onion, chopped
2 tsp. pepper
2 eggs raw
1 c bread crumbs
1 c sweet peas
1/4 chopped red pepper
Sinsal or wax paper

Procedure:

1. Combine all ingredients and shape into a loaf.
2. Wrap with sinsal or wax paper, wrap the roll in cheese cloth tying both ends.
3. Steam for one hour.
4. When done, remove cheese cloth and brown meat in hot fat.
5. To serve, slice and pour tomato catsup on top.
6. Serve hot for 8.

Everything is Fresh at the Seaside Wet Market

Standing at the back of SM Mall of Asia in the Seaside Boulevard is a vast array of Seafood Paluto Restaurants. Here, customers would buy fish and seafood from the vendors and ask the food stalls to cook these. Below photos are just some of the scrumptious recipes to try prepared by Aling Mahsya!

Aling Mahsya Restaurant SM Mall of Asia, Seaside Boulevard

calamares

shrimp

“The concept of paluto has become a hit among clients. Many like the idea of going to the nearby wet market to choose the freshest seafood, haggle until they get the lowest price possible, and then ask restaurants to cook the menu they want,” says Nerissa Cailles, Seaside’s general manager.

Seaside Wet Market

Seaside Restaurants along Seaside Boulevard

Chocolate is the world's perfect food!

Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food.

Michael Levine, nutrition researcher, as quoted in The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars

Chocolate Gold Coins, Snickers, 100 Gram, Crunch

Pinoy Tasty

Pinoy Tasty, the country's first nationally distributed generic bread loaf hits store shelves this first week of October. My dad bought home 2 loaves of it for us to try. Selling at P36 per 450 gram loaf, this bread is a sure help for those who want to save big on bread.

My take? It's not as soft and tasty as Gardenia, a must have in our grocery list. Probably because Pinoy Tasty is not enriched with milk, eggs, margarine, cream and butter, and uses the cheaper non-vat washed sugar. But for the budget concious out there, Pinoy Tasty can help you save more.

Pinoy Tasty

Dine in: Red Ribbon Cakes and Palabok Meal

Mom and I has always been a Red Ribbon fan. We love their cakes because of their richness and moisture which I really prefer compared to Goldilocks. When the cravings sets in, I know very much what to order. 

Red Ribbon: Sansrival

Way back 2004 when I first ordered their Palabok plus cake meal, they just have this simple presentation, very plain. We would always order that because, oh well, it's budget friendly :) Then yesterday, mom and I were actually amazed to see how it is now presented! These cakes rock!

Red Ribbon: Mocha Caramel Cake

Palabok is an old time favorite. And Red Ribbon's palabok never fails to satisfy my hunger :)

Red Ribbon: Palabok

Most of the time, I order their coffee crunch cake but it's not one of their "cake slices for the day", so I chose another favorite, sansrival and mocha caramel cake for mom. For Php120, you can have a plate of palabok, your choice of cake (you can choose from 3-4 cakes depending on availability) and a drink.

Recipe: Sweet Honey Pork Adobo

Adobo is my family's all time favorite Filipino recipe. I suppose there are thousands of adobo recipes out there, as many as the number of houses in the Philippines... I mean who in the world (err, I mean Philippines) has not been captured by the simplicity yet satisfying taste of adobo? I probably have 10 variety of adobo recipes and I'm gonna share one today :)

Sweet Honey Pork Adobo

Ingredients:

1. half kilo of Pork

2. Soy Sauce

3. Vinegar

4. Pepper to taste

5. 2 tbsp of Honey (I use pure wild honey from Lake Sebu or Palawan honey)

6. I head garlic, minced

7. 1 cup of water

8. cooking oil

9. ginger

Procedure:

1. Saute garlic into oil

2. Add Pork and stir until the outer part looks cook

3. Add soy sauce, vinegar, pepper, ginger, honey and water, let it boil until the pork is nicely done

Sweet Honey Pork Adobo

Homemade Chicken Fingers

Here's this very easy to do recipe for every chicken lovers out there. It's fast, easy, delicious and best of all budget friendly! All you need to have are chicken (cut into strips) and a breading mix (I used crispy fry breading mix for this recipe). Partner it with your fave ketchup or gravy and you can munch these guys during meals or even merienda. :)

Homemade chicken fingers

Simply Smores

My family is lucky to be blessed with a spacious garden. Come night time, we would merely hang out there with our coffees and snacks and basically  chitchatting til we feel like sleeping. Sometimes I would buy packs of marshmallows at the grocery store and some graham crackers for our "garden camping" kuno escapade, lol!

Ber months has arrived and we can almost feel the cool breeze. And probably one of the exciting and budget friendly things to do during cold boring nights is to put up a campfire, roast some mallows and place it in between graham crackers and you've made yourself a simplified smores! Gather everyone around for some quality family bonding moments :)

roasting mallows by the open fire