1. What is your favorite food?
~ I have a LOT of favorite, one is chicken adobo.
2. What food have you been eating since you were a kid?
~ fried chicken (yes I love chicken!)
3. What food can you eat for an entire week?
~ salmon fish
4. What food can you NEVER eat?
~ spicy foods
5. What is the most exotic food you ate?
~ I can’t remember, hehe
6. What food reminds you of your parents?
~ lechon
7. What would be the worst food you will eat first thing in the morning?
~ mussels but I like this just not in the morning. A bit upset on my stomach.
8. What is your favorite pizza?
~ just the simple pizza flavor- Hawaiian pizza.
9. Do you like meatballs on your spaghetti?
~ yes but not much.
10. Would you ever eat a fried scorpion?
~ not at all.
11. What food makes you hungry when you smell it?
~ any food that smells good
12. What is by far the best food you’ve ever tasted?
~ Back ribs from Fat Angelos (our favorite italian resto)
13. What food do you regret eating?
~ Nothing.
14. Do you think vegetables are food?
~ yes of course.
15. What about ice cream?
~ hmm, yep…

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1. Were there any cooking disasters at your Christmas meal last year?
~ none.
2. Do you think you get drunker, drinking from a straw?
~ I don’t think so
3. Do you save the packets of condiments that come with take out food for later use?
~ sometimes especially the ketchup, hehe
4. How do you like your steak cooked when you go out to eat?
~ well done.
5. You are a baker and one of your customers is getting fat on your food, what do you do?
~ nothing, lol! that means he like the food and he’s use to it… hehe

5 for wednesday

Usually I cooked rice meal for our breakfast. Though my son have their snack in school, it will be served around 10:30 or 11am so I make sure he has his morning breakfast. Most of the time, I re-heat the leftover food we had the previous night. If there’s no leftover, I cooked but the quick ones only. But if there’s no more time let’s say I woke up late, then the above food will be my morning savior, hehe…

1. Do you like to share your recipes? If yes, share one.
~ Oh yes… you can find it all here…

2. If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?
~ chicken adobo with rice… just love it!

3. Do you like a porridge for breakfast?
~ not much…

4. What’s your favorite restaurant? What kind is it?
~ Our favorite is Fat Angelos, an Italian restaurant.

5. Do you eat from the container?
~ nope. I usually put it on a plate…

5 for wednesday

I don’t usually buy breakfast for myself alone but I told you I’m too lazy today, hahahaha!

Happy Tuesday everyone!

Not a sharp photo as I took it on my phone only…

More weekend shots here.
Weekend snapshot

I called it “mini” because these are not large squids, lol… but nonetheless I managed to stuff these medium squids and turned out great. Unlike with our previous Relleno, which is a bit oily this one is not since I cooked it by steam…

I have the recipe below in case you’d like to do it as well:

You will need:
10-12 pcs large squids (a medium one will do just what I did, hehe)
1/2 lb ground pork
3 stalks green onion, finely sliced.
i egg, beaten
salt and pepper to taste

For the sauce:
1 tbsp oil
1 clove garlic, minced
1 medium-sized onion, chopped
1 medium-sized tomato, chopped
1/2 bay leaf
1 tbsp soy sauce

Here’s how:
Remove squid heads and ink sacs. Clean cavities well, Sprinkle salt lightly on squids. Set aside.
In a bowl, combine ground pork, green onions, beaten egg and a little salt and pepper. Stuff squid cavities with this mixture. Place in a pan in a steamer and steam covered for 10-15 minutes or until filling is cooked. Drain liquid that will accumulate in pan. Set aside.

Prepare sauce while steaming squids.
In a skillet over medium heat, saute garlic in oil until lightly browned. Add onion and stir for 1 minute. Add tomato, bay leaf and soy sauce and cook for 3-5 minutes until tomato pieces are soft. Pour sauce on top of stuffed squids. Serve immediately.

This is good for 4-5 persons.

Try it! Enjoy…

Happy Friday everyone.

food-friday

The dinner I cooked the other night. It’s not my first though, but first time I use a Tilapia fish. Usually we have the fillet but last weekend, the husband bought 2 big tilapia and asked me to cook this particular recipe that I have done before. So I cooked it for our dinner and he said, the taste just right!

I got the recipe from my old old food magazine but it has a creamy sauce due to the mayonnaise and evaporated milk included on the ingredients. I have tried that the first time I cooked this meal, but we just don’t like the combination (nakaka umay, hehe) …

So I made a change on the recipe, I removed the two ingredients and served the sauce on top of fish and not as a side sauce only. Here’s the process I did:

You will need:
Fish (tilapia or tilapia fillet is recommended)
1/4 c flour
1 slice ginger, minced
1 clove garlic,minced

For the sauce:
1/4 c soup stock
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp Black bean garlic sauce ( I use the Lee Kum Kee)
1 tbsp sesame oil
2 tsp minced garlic

Here’s how:
Make sauce by combining the soup stock, soy sauce, black bean garlic sauce, sesame oil and garlic in a bowl. Pour one-fourth of the mixture over fish to marinate fish at least 10 minutes. Set aside leftover sauce mixture.

Dredge fish in flour. Heat cooking oil in a hot frying pan then pan-fry the fish. Transfer to a serving plate and keep warm.

To prepare the sauce: heat 1tbsp oil in a hot pan over medium heat; Add ginger and garlic; stir-fry until fragrant. Add the leftover sauce mixture to the pan and bring mixture to a boil.

Pour sauce on top of the fish. Serve immediately.

Try it!

1. Does drinking too much coffee make you nauseous?
~ hehe, being me a coffee addict I have this big smile when I read this question… and to answer it- NO
2. When eating a meal, do you eat the yummiest part first, or save it for last?
~ Save it for last.. the husband knows that so much. hahaha… (Now I remember a memorable story about this, hahahaha)
3. Tell me what kinds of foods just don’t taste good when reheated.
~ for me, anything with coconut milk.
4. Are there any strange food or drink combination that you like?
~ hmmm, I can’t think of one. LOL!
5. What would you say is your idea of fine dining?
~ expensive, LOL!

5 for wednesday

And what we order always are these:

Thai Black Glutinous rice with Mango

This is my favorite. And serve either in hot or cold, your choice. I love the hot serving and it’s really so good!

Mango Sago

My son’s all-time favorite. We’ve tried this at home. I’ll share to you next time.

Mango pancake

this is our new discovery and our second time to have this. It’s so good! They have other fruits pancake as well, we’ll try it next time…