Pork Asado

Pork Asado is a filipino dish made from pork shoulder or butt marinated in Calamansi(filipino lime)Star anise, brown sugar,some garlic dark soy sauce bay leaves and black peppercorn. Soaked in marination overnight or more then brown in skillet or dutch oven cast iron pan then simmer gently in its own marinade. Best serve with rice or potato

Pure Honey from Sariaya Quezon

Local andBest Honey bee in town
One of the best goodies from Quezon is Pure honey with a piece of genuine Beehive in it. It only cost   roughly $US 5.00 per bottle (600ml) you'll get the natural flavour of the wild real honey. it is best with desserts and dessert sauces, alternative for sugar, sweeteners for coffee and almost everything you wanna savour this stuff.

Canada Day 2013

As we celebrate Canada day, me and my friend Dhan decided to cook special Barbeque lunch at the picnc area.The day before celebration we headed to supermarket to buy the stuff that we will going to use. I have a plan to make Pork BBQ skewer "Filipino style" and sweet and spicy Spaghetti meat sauce while Dhan was assigned to make Fish dishes and sandwiches and some nibbles for the kids. So, here are some picture of what we had.

The Pinoy style Pork BBQ

In order for Pork to achieved its Golden colour and awesome flavour, I had to marinate them in Banana Catsup, little soy sauce, sugar,lime juice, white pop such as 7up or sprite ( if you don't like too sweet from the pop, you may substitute soda water or any kind of clear stock or consommé will do) salt and pepper, minced garlic and chop red onion. Marinating overnight would be recommended and the marination would be great basting as well.

Spaghetti Meat sauce

The Filipino all time Favourite pasta. Loved by the filipinos especially kids. The sauce is sweet and spicy but i made this sweeter.

Dhan's steamed tilapia with spices

Fish was seasoned very well, moist and sweet. It was seasoned with garlic, thyme, salt and dash of black pepper wrapped in tin foil and then steam. The Perfect pair of rice and stir fry vegetables

Lechon Kawali or  Deep fried pork belly

This was just awesome. whoever brought this, they are amazing. Pork belly was just perfectly cooked. Soft, tender and very moist meat and super crunchy skin. Unfortunately Liver sauce was missing.

Store bought fruit Platter

Fruit Plate for a refreshing dessert

Beef Burger with Sunflower essence.

Canadian Beef Burger with tomato slices and lettuce courtesy of Mr. Cesar Vergara. Storebought  Burger patties with a hint of sunflower with slice tomato and shredded romaine lettuce, mayo and catsup. Taste so good though.

Canada day is definitely a enjoyable time for every canadian and other people/nation who stayed here in canada.We spent more than half day in the park and yet a day is not enough for us. Indeed, we enjoy the foods so much and we had so much fun as well. Until next canada day folks!

HAPPY CANADA DAY EVERYONE!!!!

Scary Pork blood stew (Dinuguan)

Helloooooooo! How's everything in here? its been a year and a half since my last post and I'm quite excited to be back. Well i'll try to have post at least one in a month or so from now on. and that is a promise. I just can't get enough time to write because of my busy schedule to my job and to my friends asking for help doing about their cooking, buying stuff for the pantry, sharing my recipes for their occasions particularly the last summer season ( Picnics and birthdays occasion mostly)  Anyway I'm back and I'm so excited

And YES i was so excited these past few days as i heard from a couple of friends here in Regina that there's a FILIPINO restaurant and lounge will be opening soon. oh that would be awesome.

And YES finally after a long wait, I'm gonna taste the authentic favorite food of mine and i hope they will put this on the menu- The Dinuguan, dinardaranan (Ilokanos), Bagesen(pangasenense), Chocolate stew as the Canadian would like to call it, Pork blood stew or what so ever you wanna call it. I know it look so scary and unappetizing when you hear what is all about and where it came from you will freak out. Pork blood stew or dinuguan is made from concoction of pork meat including Butt, shoulder, loin, intestines, bladder, Heart, belly and fresh Pork blood, gently simmered in vinegar, stock and some spices like ginger and shallots.
I've cooked this in my house and brought some of it to my Canadian friends to taste and to know how they gonna react. Here their verdict:

Thomas Yates, 19 years old from Calgary says:Meat was cooked perfectly, all of the spices complimented the natural meat flavors and nothing was overpowering, Amazing taste and texture

Wes escalleta, 27 years old from Whistler B.C says: Great texture and full of flavors, simple but perfectly balanced and interesting. But a freaky idea

Andrea Aube, 23 years old from Calgary says.  The texture is a quite grainy. a little salty and sour but it taste amazing. But after she finish a whole bowl she asked me what the dish made from--- oh shit gross. LOL
 Hahahahahaha. Whatever they've said, This is the best stew for me and i'm gonna wait to eat this again