Ingredients : 2 lb. chicken, boned and skinned 1/2 lb. green beans 5 cups chicken stock 2 cups sliced water chestnuts 2 cups bamboo shoots 2 cups sliced mushrooms 2 medium carrots, sliced thinly 1/2 cup soy sauce (light or dark) 1/3 cup sugar salt and pepper, to taste 1/2 cup chopped green onion cooked rice Cooking Procedures : Cut the chicken into thin slices about 1 inch wide and 2 inches long. Wash green beans and remove the end tips. Blanch in boiling water until tender crisp. Rinse under cold water immediately to stop cooking. Set aside. In a big pot, […] Read more »
Chayote Guisado / Sayote Guisado (Sautéed Chayote)
Chayote Guisado or Sayote Guisado (Sautéed Chayote) is one of the Filipino recipes found in the recipe database that my family and me loves to eat. Here in Canada, you can find chayote in most Asian stores and sometimes to known grocery stores like No Frills and Price Choppers. At first, I thought I couldn’t find this chayote in our local community and getting one of it, take me an hour drive to have it. I was surprise to see chayote in the shelf of our local grocery. The funny thing was, when I’m about to pay this chayote, the […] Read more »
Easy Filipino Recipe
Tinolang Manok (Chicken Ginger Stew with Vegetables)
Tinolang Manok or Nilagang Manok (Chicken Ginger Stew with Vegetables) recipe is the filipino food dish that I was planning to cook when I arrived here in Canada. Tinolang manok recipe is a filipino food that is easy to cook but during that time, I don’t know where to buy filipino ingredients specially papaya, sayote, chili leaves or malunggay and I thought that I couldn’t cook filipino food dishes anymore. But as I got familiar to places here, I’ve notice that cooking in Canada is not that difficult, as I have taught before. We even travel for an hour from […] Read more »
Pinakbet or Pakbet (Meat Vegetable Stew with Shrimp Paste)
Pinakbet or Pakbet is one of the Filipino recipes that I love to cook and a dish that my hubby likes to eat. He’s very fond of eating any kind of food recipes that contain vegetables. No matter how it was prepared and cooked. It is very easy for him when it comes with vegetables. Growing up until college, I’m very picky when it comes with vegetables. I’m not fond of eating vegetables until I’ve met my hubby. He taught me how to eat and the benefit of eating this type of food. Slowly, I’ve learned to love and appreciate the taste […] Read more »
Filipino Cuisine
Munggo Guisado (Sautéed Mung Beans)
Munggo (mung beans) can be found in any Asian Store. It’s one of the staples in most Asian country. Guisado (sautéed) as what we Filipino are calling mostly of our food because of the way we cook it. In our household, I see to it that I have a variety of Filipino food in our table every week. My desire is to let my children continue to like and love to eat filipino food like we do back home. It is in a way of not to be homesick even with our food. And I’m thankful that they still do! […] Read more »