My DIY Pizza

This morning, I had this crazy craving for pizza. No pizza brand in particular. I just wanted to eat pizza with cheese. So, an idea came in my mind. I remembered my housemate Joy telling me about the thin crust pizza that she made using pitas. So, I passed b the grocery on my work to work to buy the ingredients to my DIY pizza.

I bought the wholemeal Pita Pocket because I thought I can just stuff everything inside and eat it. But, it doesn't have a whole so I just made it really into a pizza. I love how the pita smelled and looked like. It's like one whole flat play dough.

I also brought in straight from our fridge the Tomato Basil sauce that I bought from QB. too bad I wasn't able to buy pepperoni slices. My pizza looked incomplete tuloy.

But I love how it tasted! Next time, I will complete my ingredients naman.

Enjoy!

Turbo Broiled Pork with Potatoes, Salmon and Tomato Soup and Bacon and Brocolli Wrap

I haven't uploaded any of my recent dishes yet. I don't know why but I was totally busy last week. Anyway, our lunch last Saturday was Turbo Broiled Pork with Potatoes and Onion.

I loved it! I couldn't believe my eyes when the pork strips were gurgling fat and oil while cooking. I usually see those stuff on TV and not in real life and me doing it.

There was nothing very particular about my pork recipe. I just marinated the liempo strips in light soy sauce, rice wine, sesame seed oil, starch, oyster sauce and grated ginger. Of course I sprinkled salt and pepper to my liempo too. For the potatoes and onion, I just added salt and pepper to taste and a little olive oil so it wont' dry. I loved it!

Next stop was my Salmon in Tomato Soup dish.

This was easy because this dish was just like sinigang but more! I started off with sauteing garlic, onion, ginger and tomatoes. Then, I added the salmon head and salmon fillet. I poured water and I let it simmer for 15 minutes. Then, I added basil. That's it! I liked how it tasted too but Doms wanted more patis in it.

My favorite among all our dishes this week was my Chili Crab and my Bacon and Asparagus Wrap.

Well, I wasn't able to take a picture of my Chili Crab because we ate it right away and this was all left. I will be sharing the steps next time.

With my chili crab I also cooked Bacon and Asparagus Wrap. I like this so much! I will be making this again even in Manila.

I just bought a pack of bacon then a of asparagus wrapped it and pan-grilled it! I love it!

Enjoy!

Banoffee Pie

I've been creating different types of desserts lately. My first creation was my own version of Banoffee Pie. Thanks to Yuan for helping me out crush the Graham Crackers using his plastic hammer, hehehe.

I wasn't very sure how it will turn out at first. But I still went through with it.

Banoffee Pie
Crushed Graham Crackers
Sliced Bananas
Butter
Sugar
Cream
and Whipped Cream for Topping

Steps
Mix the meted butter with the crushed Graham Crackers and add sugar. In a container, lay the graham-butter-sugar mixture like a base.

In a small sauce pan, mix sugar and cream and allow them to melt together. Make sure that you don't burn the mixture as well as don't under cook it too. Once the sugar is caramelized, pour it on top of the base. Then, arrange the sliced banana.

Put the banofee in the fredge than serve with whipped cream on top.

Enjoy!

Yummy Breakfast

Yesterday, I followed a Tumblr Blog called Healthy-Inspiration. Indeed, I was really inspired with all the healthy and yummy food suggestions shown in the site. This blog made me realize the value of a healthy meal everyday. So, for this morning before going to work, I passed by the grocery to buy my breakfast.

Pandesal with butter and starwberry jam topping. I love this breakfast! I also included in my daily aLive Yogurt fix for my digestion.

Chicken Chopsuey

I wanted to eat veggies for dinner last night so I searched for the chopsuey recipe. I want to say that I loved how my chopsuey turned out to be.





Ingredients
Chicken breast, seasoned with salt and pepper dredged in tapioca starch
Mushrooms, sliced
Garlic
Onion
Snow peas, washed and ends cut
Cauliflower, washed and cut to florets
Baby Corn, drained
Carrots, thinly sliced
Half chicken broth

For the sauce:
Chicken broth
Starch
Oyster sauce
Sesame seed oil
Sugar




Steps
Heat oil and fry chicken breasts until golden. Set aside. Mix all ingredients of the sauce.




In the pan where chicken was fried, heat oil again and saute garlic and onion. Then, drop carrots and cook until onion becomes clear.

Then drop cauliflower, mushrooms, then snow peas. Stir fry a bit then add half of the chicken broth. Boil until cauliflower are cooked. Drop baby corn and pour mixture if sauce. Mix until sauce is evenly distributed.

Enjoy!


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Pork with Eggplant and Sesame Sauce

Another saucy recipe that I think tasted very well. I'm begging to love Sesame Seed Oil.

What I loved about this recipe is the incorporation of eggplant to the sauce. I missed the taste of eggplant that's why I love this dish!




Pork with Eggplant and Sesame Sauce

Ingredients

Pork Shoulder cut into cubes
Light soy sauce
Tapioca Starch or Corn Starch
Pepper
Eggplant or taling cut into cubes
Carrots, thinly sliced
Onion
Garlic
Oil

For the sauce:
One cup water or broth
Oyster sauce
Sugar
Sesame seed oil
Starch

Steps
Marinate pork cubes in light soy sauce and pepper for 15 minutes.

In a pan, heat oil. When smoking hot, drop eggplants and fry until golden. Remove talong from pan. Drop pork cubes in the same pan and fry until starch forms from the side if the pork or until pork turns golden.

Add garlic and onion to the pan and mix well. Add the cartoys and the pre-cooked eggplant and stir fry.

Mix all the sauce ingredients in the a bowl and pour sauce in the pan. Continue boiling hntil sauce thickens.

Enjoy!

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Fish Fillet with Corn Sauce

Doms' loves corn! As in he loves it so much. He's an avid fan of the steamed corn with butter in hawker centers or food stalls. So, majority of the dishes that I'll be trying has corn in it.

Fish Fillet with Corn Sauce




Ingredients
Any white fleshy fish fillet
Salt and pepper
Tapioca starch
Olive oil

Corn kernels drained and det aside
Corn water
Butter
Tapioca starch
Salt
Dried oregano

Steps
Cut fish fillet according to the size you like. Me, I made it bite sized. Season with salt and pepper abd dust with starch. Deep fry in hot oil until golden brown.

For the sauce, melt butter then add starch. Make sure to stir it. Then add corn water abd cintinue stirring until sauce consistency becomes a little sticky.

Top corn sauce on fish fillets then add dried oregano for garnish.

Enjoy!

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Beef and Broccoli Stir Fry with Herb Loaded Fried Rice

Last night's dinner composed of beef sirloin stir-fried with broccoli with matching herb loaded rice. It's the 2nd time I will be cooking the herbed rice because Doms loved it!

Herbed Fried Rice

Cooked Rice

Butter

Garlic, minced

Basil Leaves

Oregano Leaves, dried

Spring Onions

Olive Oil

Salt

1. Separate the cooked rice.
2. Heat olive oil in a pan and add minced garlic.
3. Add the basil leaves and spring onions.
4. The oil will be slightly green, but that OK. Add the cooked rice and mix.
5. Add salt to taste
6. Add dried oregano leaves.

 Beef Broccoli Stir Fry

Beef Sirloin, season with salt, pepper, light soy sauce and drenched in corn starch
Broccoli Florets
Carrots
Garlic

Mix the following in a separate bowl:
Water
Corn Starch
Oyster Sauce
Sesame Seed Oil
Sugar

1. Heat Oil in a non stick pan. 
2. Add garlic then drop sirloin beef. 
3. Fry until beef changes color and the edges are crisp.
4. In a separate pan, boil water.
5. Drop carrots and broccoli in the boiling water.
6. After a few minutes, drain the water from the veggies then drench with cold water.
7. Drop carrots and broccoli in the beef and mix.
8. Pour mixed sauce and cook until sauce thickens.

Enjoy!

Garlic Adobo and Stir Fry Kang Kong

Since Doms loves Adobo, I made some "revisions" to the current style that I do when cooking adobo.

Garlic Adobo

Ingredients
Pork Liempo
Garlic
Salt and Pepper
Olive Oil
Mama Sita Adobo Mix --> Yes! Instant!
Bay Leaf

Procedure
1. Cut pork liempo into bite sized strips.
2. Sprinkle salt and pepper to pork
3. Disolve Mama Sita Adobo Mix in water then drop bay leaf.
4. Marinade pork in the mix for an hour.
5. Heat pan with olive oil then when the pan is hot, drop pork strips.
6. Cook pork until it changes color or when the sides become crispy.
7. Add marinade in the pan and let it simmer.
8. In a separate pan, heat olive oil then cook garlic pieces until fragrant.
9. Pour simmered pork in a serving dish then top adobo with the garlic.

Stir Fry Kang Kong

Ingredients
Kang Kong Leaves, washed and drained
Oyster Sauce
Sugar
Tapioca Flour
Chili Sauce
Salt and Pepper
Olive Oil
Garlic

Procedure
1. Heat olive oil in a pan.
2. Drop garlic and cook until fragrant.
3. Add Kang Kong and make sure that the oil glazes the leaves.
4. Add salt and Pepper.
5. In a bowl, mix water, oyster sauce, sugar, chili sauce and flour.
6. Pour sauce to the kang  kong.

Salmon Fillet with Lemon Butter Sauce

I'm really having a hard time creating a story before each recipe that I try. But I want to share it to everyone that is why I will just make it simple.

From now on, every time I post recipes here in my blog I will just put the picture then add the process and recipe. This way, I can share the food and the dishes that I make in a simple way.

Salmon Fillet with Lemon Butter Sauce

Ingredients
1 pack salmon fillet
salt and pepper
butter
olive oil
lemon zest and lemon juice
oregano leaves

Procedure
1. Cut the salmon fillet in 2.
2. Dust each side of the fillet with salt and pepper.
3. Heat the pan and add olive oil.
4. Make sure that the wok is hot then pan-fry the salmon.
5. Do not over cook the salmon. You will see that the texture of the salmon will become shredded, then you can turn it and fry the other side of the fish.It will only take around 3 to 5 minutes to fry each side of the salmon fillet.
6. Remove the salmon from the pan and leave the oil and fish extracts in the pan.
7. Squeeze in the lemon juices in the pan.
8. Add in the butter and melt it in the pan.
9. Sprinkle salt and pepper to taste.
10. Once done, pour the lemon butter sauce to the fried salmon.
11. top with Oregano leaves for garnishing.

My First Attemp of Cooking Carbonara

I was so happy when I saw a very simple recipe of Carbonara. I got all the ingredients listed and the procedure was very easy to follow.

Here it is:

250 grams of spaghetti
2 cups grated cheese. I used cheddar
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup full cream milk
1 pack of streaky bacon. fried until crispy
Dried Oregano
Salt
Pepper

1. cook the pasta spaghetti according to package instructions.
2. Drain noodles but do not wash.
3. In a separate sauce pan, heat full cream milk.
4. add grated cheddar cheese and beaten egg.
5. Stir constantly.
6. Once the sauce is thick and creamy, pour sauce in drained noodles and mix until the sauce covers the noodles.
7. Add fried bacon and mix well.
8. Top Carbonara with dried oregano leaves.


Best served with garlic bread.

I can say that relatively, my carbonara was quite successful. I was just bothered when the sauce became clumpy and the when the noodle started to absorb the sauce that left the past dry. Other than that, it tasted well.

Oh, don;t forget to season the sauce with salt and pepper. Enjoy!

Banana Nutella Snack

Here is simple snack that I tried yesterday afternoon. But instead of using ciabata bread, I just used white bread..

I really loved this snack! Look how inviting it looks!

This snack has the simplest ingredients.

White Bread
Banana, sliced
Nutella Spread
Butter

Use a non-stick pan and grill two sides of white bread. Make sure that you spread little butter on the bread so it won't stick on the pan. Once toasted, remove from the heat of the pan and spread on Nutella generously. Then, top with banana! Love it!

Enjoy!

Stir Fried Shrimp with Broccoli

Here is another recipe that I tried from one of sites that was recommended by my N@W friends. I wanted to try different dishes but I just want a simple dish that I can do. I also wanted a dish that has veggies. So, when I saw this dish I made sure that I will try it right away.

Of course in any dish that I recreate, I try to make it my own. I added other ingredients and I substituted some ingredients as well.

Credits to http://homecookingrocks.com/

Here it goes...

Large Shrimps
1 head broccoli, cut into florets
Garlic
Ginger
Canola Oil

In a separate bowl, mix the following ingredients for the sauce:
Water
Oyster Sauce
Chili Sauce
Salt
Sugar
Corn Starch

1. Boil water in a deep pan. Once it starts boiling, turn the heat off.
2. Drop the broccoli florets in the water and let it stay in the water.
3. After a while, drain the water and set aside.
4. In a separate pan, heat oil and drop garlic and ginger. Cook slowly and let the flavor come out.
5. Add the shrimps and stir fry until it changes color.
6. Add the broccoli and mix.
7. Pour the sauce and cook until the sauce thickens.

Here is the finished product!

Nilagang Spare Ribs

I was so inspired with all the cooking websites that my co-n@wies have recommended. So, I decided to try the meals that I think I can make.

I started off with the simplest recipe that I found. Doms' favorite Nilagang Buto2x.

I've had other versions of this meal before. There was time when I added corn, green beans and can you believe it, carrots!

Now that I have a pattern, I altered some ingrdients just the way Doms wanted it. Here it goes.

1/2 kilo pork spare ribs
5 cups water
4 potatoes peeled and cut into cubes and drenched in water
1/2 head cabbage washed and quartered
Salt
Fish sauce
Pepper
Onion
Calamansi

1. Wash pork spare ribs and place in a deep couldron.
2. Season with salt and add pepper.
3. Add water. Make sure that all the meat are submerged.
4. Boil the ribs in water for about 30 minutes. Make sure that you let both sides of the ribs are properly boiled.
5. Add the potatoes and boil for another 15 minutes.
6. Add calamansi and patis for taste.
7. Add cabbage and cover couldron.

Best served with steamed white rice.





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Dessert Making Addiction

I suddenly became addicted to make my own dessert. It started when I made a Peach Refrigerator Cake. I loved it and everybody who tasted it also loved it. Then, I tried making my own version of Semi-Sweet Dark Chocolate Truffle. I loved it so much to the point that I wasn't able to take pictures of it because it was eaten immediately. 

Now, I'm searching for another dessert to make. I'm kinda hoping it's a dessert that needs no baking because we still don't have our own oven.

I'm now looking at the No Bake Cheesecake recipe. It seems easy but I wonder if it's OK to use my hand in making the cream fluffy instead of a mixer?

Well, I guess I'll just get to know the answer when I try the recipe that I saw this weekend.