View the Video To my valuable readers and subscribers of Pinoy Food Blog (now reaching over 3,300 subscribers), I am honored to talk about you on Qtube. This blog is not just a recipes blog. How many of you have emailed me asking for that recipe that brought memories of home. You asked a lumpiaRead More
Sinigang Recipe
Sinigang is a Filipino soup dish with a tamarind base which is well known for its sour taste and the variety of ingredients that you can put in it. The dish often incorporates fish (bangus), pork, shrimp, or beef, along with vegetables like string beans, kangkong, okra, pepper, radish, and kamatis (tomato). Sinigang has alwaysRead More
Mechado
Mechado is a usual stew served in our dinner table. Traditionally, it is cooked with beef briskets, potatoes, pimiento (red bell peppers), and tomatoes. It is similar to a beef stew, with elements of Filipino ingredients such as patis. I don’t use patis so that’s out of the question. Here is the recipe: 1 kiloRead More
Kare-Kare
Before the ready-mix Kare-kare came into the market, I cooked kare-kare the old fashioned way. Of course, busy homemakers prefer that method. Wikipedia notes that the kare-kare is made from Oxtail, with the skin on and cut into 2-inch lengths, and ox tripe are boiled until tender. Sometimes pieces of ox feet or shins areRead More
Pancit Palabok
Ingredients 1 kilo ulo ng baboy or dila ng baboy, cut up 2 quartered onions 1 laurel leaf 1 tablespoon rock salt 1 tablespoon peppercorn 1/2 kilo shrimp 1/2 kilo squid (with ink sac removed) 1/2 cup achuete 1 cup minced onion hebe or dried shrimps 1/2 kilo ground beef 3/4 cups cornstarch 2 eggsRead More
Puto (from Whole Rice)
I have featured a Puto Recipe made from all-purpose flour for a quick and easy way to prepare puto. I am sure you also want to know the traditional and old-fashioned way of preparing puto. Here is one recipe that makes use of Galapong Bigas. Ingredients 6 cups Galapong Bigas (see method of preparing GalapongRead More