Beef always intimidates me. I’ve never tried cooking with it beyond grilling burger patties and using ground beef for meat sauce. I have this notion that it’s tough and requires a pressure cooker to make it tender, I’m scared to use the pressure cooker so I don’t bother with beef anymore and besides I [...]
Pork sinigang is my favorite filipino dish because not only it is delicious but it is also easy to cook. If you know how to boil water, you can cook sinigang, because it is basically that- boiling meat and vegetables. Sinigang loosely translated in English means pork boiled in tamarind broth, but sinigang [...]
The key to making this dish is to use fresh tomatoes and slow-cook it until the meat becomes tender, doing so releases the natural oil of tomatoes and meat…it’s simply delicious. This is one of my favorite dish to cook when tomatoes are in season and this is perfect when you are busy, you can [...]
My mother taught me and my sisters this recipe, we were in college and on our own in the city and she said that we better learn how to cook real food that she’s cooking for us so we wouldn’t miss home that much. If it were just up to us, we were fine [...]
I am a fan of quick and easy meals. As much as I want to cook, I don’t want to be tied up for long hours in the kitchen preparing a meal. I want a dish that is delicious, subtantial and takes a reasonable amount of time to prepare and this dish fits [...]
This is one of my favorite dish to cook for my family because it is fast, easy and yummy. The key here is marinating the meat. I do this the moment I come home from the supermarket and keep it in the fridge; now, tomorrow’s dinner is taken care of.
note: I don’t really [...]
I love coconut milk and whenever I see a recipe with coconut milk in it, I definitely give it a try. This one is from an old issue of Cooking Light magazine (July 2002); an east-west fusion and a trimmed down version of an old time favorite beef recipe.
Ingredients
Paste:
1/2 cup [...]
One of my favorite meat is pork tenderloin. I like this particular cut because it is tender and lean, tasty and most of all, it cooks fast; I can get dinner ready in no time. I usually substitute pork tenderloin for chicken breast fillet when I cook scaloppine because it has more flavor. The recipe [...]