Chic-Boy's Fresh Lumpia

It was my first time to try Chic-Boy's Fresh Lumpia when we had lunch there a few weeks ago. I must say it was good, the only thing I noticed was the wrapper was too thick that you'll think it as "big" but the content was actually not that many.

I like the packaging when you order it for take out. I was worried that the sauce might leak when I bring it home but when I open the box, good thing the sauce was separated from the lumpia. Plus they give generous amount of sauce, in fairness.This costs around 50 pesos if I'm not mistaken and it's a good buy if you are looking a healthy food to eat at Chic-Boy.

You can check their website for branches near you so you can try them too!

Pork Teriyaki

This is the first time that I tried cooking Pork Teriyaki. Unfortunately, I cannot find sesame seed anywhere near my place so I decided to still cook it without it. Haha. It still taste the same though, I think.

Here's what you need:

1/2 kg pork, medium cut

1 sachet of Mama Sita's Barbecue marinade (good for 1/2 kg of meat)

2 cups of togue

knob of ginger, sliced thinly

1 medium carrot, sliced thinly

1 tbsp soy sauce

pinch of ground pepper

Here's how to prepare:

- Marinade pork with Mama Sita's Barbecue marinade for 20-30 minutes. Fry pork and then set aside.

- In a separate pan, saute ginger and carrots in oil. Add togue and stir. Add soy sauce and pepper to taste.

- You can definitely add toasted sesame seeds on top of pork if you want. 

Happy Cooking and Happy Eating!

Pork Stew

I was running out of recipe to cook my family and my husband was complaining that I cook the same dish every week haha. So I browsed over to one of my favorite food blog and found this yummy dish. This was supposed to be "Beef Stew" but since I don't have pressure cooker and it will take so much time for the beef to be tender, I used pork instead, hindi naman nagreklamo ang pork, in fairness. :)

Here's what you need:

1/2 kg pork, cut in cubes

3 tbsp. flour

cooking oil

1 white onion, quartered

2 beef cubes, dissolved in 1 cup of water

4 cups water

1 tbsp. worcestershire sauce

1 tbsp soy sauce

2 star anise

ground black pepper

10 small potatoes

2 large carrots, cut into large squares

2 celery sticks, cut in 1/2 inch

10 pcs baguio beans, cut into 2 inches

How to prepare:

- Coat pork with flour, then fry. Set aside.

- Combine all ingredients except for the veggies in a casserole. Simmer for 20-30 minutes or until pork is tender.

- Add the veggies and simmer for 5-10 more minutes.

I just love how the aroma of star anise makes my tummy hungry and how it makes the dish so yummy and flavorful. My husband said this is by far the most yummy dish I've ever cooked! Woohoo!

Sauteed Kangkong with Crunchy Chili Garlic

What you need:

2 bunches of kangkong
8 cloves of garlic, crushed
2 tbsp. oil
2 tbsp. soy sauce
pinch of pepper

How to Prepare:

- Remove the kangkong leaves from the branch and wash them carefully.
- In a pan, heat the oil and put it garlic, saute until brownish.
- Add kangkong and soy sauce and pepper. Mix well for 1 minute.
- Put the kangkong in a serving plate and sprinkle crunchy chili garlic on top.

This is best served with fried fish or meat and lots of rice. :) Enjoy!

Graciano's Kitchen

My sister invited me for dinner the other day with her friends to Graciano's Kitchen. It's a new dining place near our place (walking distance). It was a good thing it was a treat because I really wanted to try their food so I can blog it. Haha. Free food, happy tummy, right?

Here's what we ordered:

My sister ordered this 10" Graciano's Pizza for 218.00. We all agreed that it tasted different from the usual pizza served in other food places. They used a different cheese and I didn't get to taste the pizza sauce. Was there pizza sauce at all?

My sister's friend ordered this Garden Salad for 65.00. She said there was nothing special about the salad. I haven't tried it though.

My sister's other friend ordered this for 58.00 inclusive of Iced Tea. She didn't like the taste unfortunately.

This is what my sister ordered. It costs 84.00 inclusive of Iced Tea as well. She said the pork was tender and she like the mushroom and onion rings on top of the grilled pork.

This is what I ordered. Grilled Chicken costs 84.00 inclusive of Iced Tea as well. I personally love the taste of it and the gravy poured on the chicken. Chicken was tender and juicy. I love it for the price of less than 100 bucks.

This is the Iced Tea that comes along with the food we ordered, except for the pizza and garden salad. 

I will definitely go back here with my husband to taste their other food. Even if my sister's friends were not that satisfied with what they ordered, I think they deserve a second try. I'd like to try their pasta and other flavors of pizza. I actually got to taste their tacos here when I ordered there when they were newly opened. I had to wait for this moment before I have to blog it. :)

So expect another review of my "own" from this food store. You may also visit their branch along Naga Road, Pulang lupa Las Pinas City beside Infinitea and just within Petron Gas Station.

Pork Balls with Misua and Sayote

I'd like to share with you what I cooked last night for dinner. This is easy, healthy and yummy. This is the first time I cooked this and my husband loved the taste. :)

Here's what you need:

1/2 ground pork
1 beef cube
fish sauce
1 pack misua
3 cloves garlic, crushed
1 onion, minced
salt
magic sarap
1 egg, slightly beaten
1/4 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
6 cups water
oil
1 sayote, sliced thinly

Here's how to prepare:

- In a bowl, mix ground pork, magic sarap, black pepper, onion, flour and egg. Set aside.
- Heat the pan. Add oil.
- Saute garlic and then add beef cube. Add fish sauce.
- Pour water and let it simmer for 10 minutes.
- Scoop 1 tablespoon of the ground pork mixture and then form it to a ball shape. Drop this to the hot water. Do this with the rest of the mixture. Let it simmer for 15 minutes until pork balls are cooked.
- Add sayote and simmer it for another 2 minutes.
- Turn of the heat and put misua. Cover the pan until ready to serve.

Chicken Deli

Yesterday, my family had lunch to this newly opened Chicken Deli in Naga Road, Las Pinas City. They opened last August 15 and I was so eager to try out their food. I was so thrilled also because this is just a walking distance from our village so we don't have to ride a cab or jeep or tricycle, but sidecar is an option if you want.

Here's what we ordered:

This is what I ordered, Pork Sisig and this is for P99.00

This is what we ordered for my daughter, chicken bbq and rice for P59.00

They call this Bacolod Express. I must say this is tasty and I like the hot feeling of this. This costs P49.00

I super love ensaladang talong! The bagoong here is so tasty. This is for P39.00

This is what my husband ordered, Liempo with rice for P99.00

We also ordered Iced Tea, priced at P35.00 per large glass and we ordered Tropicana Juice for my daughter for P39.00. Overall, we were satisfied with the service and the food. The people here are attentive, especially when you are running out of rice! Haha. They do have unlimited rice, by the way for the meals they offer like what me and my husband ordered.

This are good deals they offer for family or groups who wants to eat here and try different food they offer.

Like the other Inasal food stores, they also offer free "sinigang" soup while you're waiting for your food.

Took photos of their menu posted on their cashier section.

We will definitely go back here because, one, it's so near to our place it's so accessible. Two, they have nice food selection and I have yet to try their merienda and panghimagas food which I will try on my next visit.

I am sure of the branches they have in Metro Manila but you can check their FB page for more information.

Chicken Deli

Naga Road, Pulanglupa Las Pinas City

(Between PNB and Petron}

Sauteed Pork and Baguio Beans

Since I am a fan of Del Monte, I tried one of their recipes I saw on their Facebook account, it's called Sauteed Pork and Baguio Beans.

What you need:

4 cloves garlic, crushed
1 pc medium onion, sliced
2 tbsp DEL MONTE Tomato Paste
150 grams pork kasim, sliced into strips
1 ½ tbsp patis
¼ kg Baguio beans, sliced

How to Prepare:

- Saute garlic, onion and DEL MONTE Tomato Paste in 2 tbsp oil. Add pork and cook until tender.

- Add patis, ¼ tsp pepper, ½ cup water and Baguio beans. Cook for 3 minutes or until Baguio beans are almost tender.

For some reason, what I cooked seems to lack patis on it so I suggest that you check the patis you will put to this dish. This is a very easy recipe and I hope you enjoy it!

Sauteed Sayote with crunchy pork bits

When I had my veggie week here, I cooked Sayote Guisado and I again, cooked sayote but with a little twist. This time, it tastes like the one I ate when I was at my brother's house. Finally was able to cook the exact taste, but mine's not a bit crunchy, but it's still somewhat crunchy. :)

What you need:

3 pcs medium size sayote, sliced into small strips
3 sachets of oyster sauce
1 medium size ginger, chopped
1 medium size onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, chopped
P40 pork, chopped in small bits
pepper
salt
1/2 cup water

How to prepare:

- In a pan, fry the pork. Do not put oil as oil will eventually come out from the pork. Fry it until crunchy. Set aside.
- In a separate pan, saute garlic, onion and ginger. Add sayote. Add water and let it simmer for 5 minutes.
- Add oyster sauce, pepper and salt.
- Add the crunchy pork bits. Simmer for 2 minutes.

Super easy, right? My husband loved this recipe! Yeay!

Red Sinigang

Since today is a rainy Wednesday, I tried cooking Red Sinigang of Del Monte recipes. I've been meaning to cook this because it is a must-cook in Facebook page. Finally, I get to taste this popular dish. It was so easy to do! 

You will need:

P80 pork, sinigang cut
5 pieces okra, sliced
1 medium radish, sliced
1 medium onion, sliced
200g pack Del Monte Tomato Sauce
1 sachet Knorr Original Sampalok mix
4 1/2 cups of water
2 bunches of kangkong 
1 tbsp of patis
2 pcs finger chilis (siling haba)

How to prepare:

- Combine pork, patis, onion, Del Monte Tomato sauce and water.
- Bring to boil until pork is tender.
- Add raddish and finger chilis. Allow to simmer.
- Add okra. Allow to simmer.
- Add sinigang mix and kangkong. Simmer for 2 minutes.
- Serve.

Pinakbet

I was not successful in my "Veggie Week" last week and I was so frustrated because I was only able to cook for three days. Oh well.

Here's the third dish, "Pinakbet".

Here's what you need:

50 pesos worth of pork, cut into strips
2 pcs eggplant, sliced
4 pieces okra, sliced
20 pesos worth of squash, cubed
5 pesos bagoong
1 medium size ampalaya, seeded and sliced
3 pcs tomatoes, cubed
1 Knorr pork cube
1 medium onion
4 cloves garlic
1 cup water

Here's how to prepare:

- Saute onion and garlic. Add pork, bagoong and tomatoes.
- Add okra, eggplant and ampalaya and squash.
- And pork cube and 1 cup water.
- Simmer for `5 to 20 minutes until veggies and pork are tender.

Ginisang Pechay (Sauteed Bok Choy)

Since it's veggty week (I started yesterday), here's another dish that I super love and cooked for lunch today.

Here's what you need:

4 bunch of pechay or bok choy, chopped
P50.00 worth of pork, chopped and thinly sliced
3 small size tomato, diced
1 medium size onion, chopped
4 cloves of garlic, minced
2 tbsp fish sauce
1 cup water
black pepper

How to prepare:

- Heat the pan and put in the cooking oil.
- Saute garlic, onion and tomatoes.
- Add pork and cook for 5 minutes
- Put in fish sauce and black pepper.
- Add water and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes
- When the pork is tender enough, put in pechay or bok choy. Cook for a few seconds, turn off the heat  and wait for 5 minutes before serving.

So far, this is the best veggies I ever tasted and this is in my opinion. Go try this :)

Sayote Guisado

This week is veggies week! I just learned that the Pinoy Food Recipes app I downloaded a couple of weeks ago had lots of easy recipes which my husband loves so much! Let me just remind you that most of these recipes have meat on them because I can't eat just veggies alone, there has to be meat on it. Forgive me, this is me. :)

I want to share with you first the recipe I made the yesterday, it's called Sayote Guisado. It was so easy to make but I was not able to make the meat super crispy like the one I tasted when I visited my brother last weekend. So let's start.

What you need:

2 large sayote, sliced thinly
P50 worth of pork, chopped into small pieces
1 Knorr Chicken cube dissolved in 1 cup water
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 medium onion, chopped
fish sauce
black pepper
oil

How to prepare:

- In a wok, add oil and fry pork pieces until golden brown and crispy. Remove pork and set aside.
- Add onion and garlic then stir fry until onion becomes soft.
- Add sayote and stir fry for one minute.
- Add dissolved Knorr cube and pork and bring to boil and simmer for five minutes or until sayote is tender.
- Season with fish sauce and black pepper.


Easy and yummy!!!

Crunchy Hotdog Menudo

The last post I made was Hotdog menudo and for some reason, I made a Crunchy Hotdog Menudo the other day. This is a little twist of the normal Hotdog Menudo that we usually cook. So let's start.

What you need:

8 pcs. regular hotdog, sliced
2 pcs. medium potatoes, diced
1 medium carrot, diced
1 medium onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 medium green bell pepper, diced
1 pouch 115g of Del Monte Tomato sauce or you can also use Del Monte Quick and Easy Menudo Sauce
dash of pepper
1 tsp of sugar
15 medium lumpia wrappers

How to prepare:

- Saute garlic and onion in pan with hot oil. Add carrots and potatoes. Saute for two minutes.
- Add hotdog and green bell pepper and continue to saute for 2 more minutes.
- Add Del Monte Tomato Sauce, mix and add pepper and sugar to taste.
- Set aside. Let it cool for 20 to 30 minutes.
- Once the hotdog and veggies are cool, scoop spoonful to lumpia wrapper and roll and seal with water. Do it with the rest until you are able to wrap the hotdog menudo.
- Fry until crispy. Serve.

Here are the photos of the process of the recipe.

This is while you saute all the ingredients.

This is how it looks when you put in the tomato sauce.

This is how it looks after you wrap the hotdog menudo.

Enjoy the crunchy hotdog menudo!

Goldilocks' Fresh Lumpia

I am a super fan of Goldilocks' Fresh Lumpia. I like the sauce especially and the veggies they put inside the wrap. It has ubod, carrots, tofu, meat slices and lettuce on it. The sauce has nuts on it too and it's sweet, a perfect sauce for a Fresh Lumpia. 

This was my dinner today here at the hospital as my husband is confined for surgery tomorrow morning.

I also bought their breads, they are so yummy too!

Goldilocks are located widely in SM Supermalls and other major locations.

Chopsuey ala Mama Sita's

Last week, my husband cooked Chopsuey with the ever famous Mama Sita's Chopsuey mix. The ingredients are somehow the same with the first Chopsuey recipe I posted here.

Here's what you need: 

2 medium carrots, sliced
15 pcs young corn, sliced in half
20 pcs snow peas
2 head of cauliflower
1 whole cabbage
2 pcs sayote, sliced
20 pcs baguio beans, sliced in half
1 medium size red bell pepper
1 large onion, sliced
6 cloves garlic, minced
2 packs Mama Sita's Chopsuey mix

How to prepare:

- Saute onion in and garlic in hot oil. Add sayote, carrots and cauli flower. 
- Add young corn, snowpeas, cabbage, abguio beans and read bell pepper.
- Add Mama Sita's Chopsuey mix. Add salt if needed.

Here is the photo of the Chopsuey mix. Enjoy!

Adobong Sitaw with Pork

My husband cooked this dish last night. As usual it tasted so good. :)

What you need:

3 bunches of sitaw, sliced

P70 worth of pork, chopped

1 medium onion, chopped

4 cloves garlic, minced

soy sauce

vinegar

sugar

water

pepper

How to prepare:

- Saute garlic and onion. Add pork. Saute until pork is brown.

- Add soy sauce, vinegar, sugar and water. ( you can just adjust it according to your taste)

- Add sitaw. Let it simmer until it is half cooked.

- Add pepper to taste.

Happy Eating! :)

Buttered Baby Potatoes

This dish has been my favorite for years and I always cook this on Christmas. We were doing our grocery last week and I saw baby potatoes for a cheap price so I decided to cook this one.

What you need:

20 pcs baby potatoes, boiled
1/4 butter (the more butter, the yummier!)
parsley, chopped
garlic, minced
salt and pepper

How to prepare:

- Once the potatoes are boiled, heat pan and put butter. 
- Put garlic until slightly brown.
- Add potatoes, stirring to make sure potatoes are covered with butter. 
- Add parsley, salt and pepper.
- Continue stirring for 2 minutes.
- Serve!

Verdict: When I ate the first potato, it reminded me of Christmas. It made my night! :)

Fried Cream Dory with Mixed Veggies

Recently did I learned that my hubby doesn't like Dory fish. :( I just learned about it when I cooked this and when I prepared him food to bring for work, he removed it. :(

Anyway, this is not the last time I'm cooking cream dory, but I will look for alternative ones. Anyway, let me share this to you. I got this recipe from a friend.

Here's what you need:

For the dory:
1/2 kg dory
1 pack chicken breading (I used Crispy Fry garlic)

For veggies:
10 pcs. baguio beans, cut into 2
1 medium size carrots, sliced
1 tbsp butter

For dressing:
1 pack mayonnaise
2 tsp pickle relish

How to prepare:

- Cut dory into small portion. Dip into chicken breading. Fry.
- For the veggies, saute veggies in 1 tbsp of butter. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- For the dressing, just mix pickle relish and mayonnaise.

Kare Kare

Whenever I cook a dish for the first time, I always get nervous of the outcome. As you know, my hubby knows how to cook and he's my number 1 critic when it comes to my cooking.

I was in a supermarket one day, and I saw Del Monte Kare Kare mix. I was looking at this recipe for quite a while but was hesitant because of the outcome. I picked up the mix and decided to pay for it and cook it. 

Verdict: My husband loved it! Yeay!!
So let me share the recipe and try it for yourself. I thought Kare Kare is hard to prepare, but I was wrong, it was so easy!

What you need:

1/2 kg pork, sinigang cut (this is what I did, you can choose your own cut)
1 Del Monte Kare Kare mix
2 bunches of pechay
2 pcs eggplant, sliced
2 bunches of sitaw
1 medium onion, sliced
3 cloves of garlic, minced
3 cups water
oil

How to prepare:

- Boil water (about 4 cups) and put the pork for 5 minutes.
- Drain and discard the water. Put 3 cups of water and boil for another 5 minutes.
- Set aside 2 cups of water, drain the rest of the water.
- Saute onion and garlic in oil. Add pork.
- Add 2 cups of broth and the kare kare mix.
- Simmer for 5 minutes, lowering the heat.
- Add sitaw and eggplant. Simmer for another 3 minutes.
- Add pechay. Simmer for 2 minutes.
- Serve with bagoong.

You can also add banana heart. Kare kare is best served when veggies are not overcooked.

Enjoy!!