Fiesta Maja

As I've said, something round!

Here's another round sweet thing :)

1 cup cooked red and green sago
1 can (234g) crushed pineapple, well drained
1/2 cup white sugar
1 cup coconut milk
6 tbsp cornstarch dissolved in 1/4 cup pineapple syrup
2 tbsp grated cheese (grate some extra cheese for the topping)

Combine all ingredients, except sago. Mix thoroughly until sugar is dissolved. Cook over medium heat for 2 minutes, stirring continuously until mixture thickens. Stir in sago. Pour over round pan, top with remaining grated cheese and chill.

Enjoy!

Note:
Something funny happened while I was making this. I was so engrossed on the New Year preparation that when I was mixing the cornstarch to the pineapple syrup I did not notice that I was holding the box of flour instead of cornstarch, What The!! hahahahaha......

Fruit Charlotte Crave

I've heard that to make your new year prosperous and fruitful, you need to prepare food that are round and it must me sweet, well, to make the year sweet as well :)...

Who doesn't want their New Year to be prosperous and sweet?

I decided to make something really sweet :)

Here goes:

1 cup sugar
2 sachet unflavored gelatin, dissolved in 1 1/2 tbsp water
1 big can fruit cocktail, drained (reserve syrup)
2 egg yolks
1 cup condense milk
1 can all purpose cream
14 pc broas

1. Boil 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup fruit cocktail syrup and 1 cup water for 10 minutes. Pour mixture into gelatin and stir to dissolve. Set aside.
2. Combine yolks and milk. Simmer while stirring over medium heat until mixture thickens or coats the spoon. Add fruit cocktail and gelatin mixture. Cook for 2 minutes.
3. Stir in cream. Pour in a round pan lined with broas. Cover and freeze until firm.

Enjoy!

Tuna Pina Toss

I decided to make this for a change!

After the feast, it's time to eat healthy. Well, except for the mayo :P

1 can (270g) pineapple tidbits, drained
1 can (184g) tuna chunks in brine, drained
1 cup whole kernel corn
2 pc bell peppers, diced
1/2 cup mayonnaise
3/4 tsp iodized fine salt
1/8 tsp pepper

1. Combine all ingredients. Toss lightly.
2. Chill until ready to serve.

:)

Spaghetti

It is a family tradition that every evening of the 24th of December we all gather in my father's house and eat dinner together. For this Christmas, my mother decided to give me the task of cooking Pork Curry since my nephew love it. Since I have written about my Pork Curry experience already I decided to write instead about my Spaghetti experience.

Every Christmas time, the school I'm working with will always give a bundle of groceries to us. One of it are the main ingredients for making a spaghetti. So, I decided not to waste it and tried to make this recipe.

Here goes:

1/4 cup butter
1 tsp oregano powder
1/4 kilo ground beef
1/4 kilo ground pork
6 pieces hotdogs, cubed
2 cups spaghetti sauce
3/4 cup grated cheese
Ajinomoto Ginisa All Purpose Seasoning Mix to taste
300 grams spaghetti, cooked accroding to package directions

1. Saute beef and pork in butter. When brown, add hotdogs and spaghetti sauce.
2. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix with spaghetti sauce.
3. Sprinkle cheese on top.

Enjoy!!

Super Easy Mango Float

It's Christmas! The happiest time of the year. :)

For the occasion, I decided to prepare the easiest dessert in the book.

Here goes:

1 kilo mango, peeled and sliced thinly
1 small can condensed milk
1 pack all-purpose cream
1 pack Grahams cracker

1. Combine all-purpose cream and milk. Mix.
2. In a container, arrange Grahams. Top with mango slices and cream mixture.
3. Repeat procedure until all ingredients are consumed.

That's it!

Enoy! :)

Fish Kilawin

My mother asked me to pay our water bill today. This will be my first visit to the city's water district building and I'm a little bit excited to compare its system in terms of paying bills to the electricity's snail-style way.
I was impressed when I reached there because the system is very fast. The only setback are the employees working there. It seems they are too tired of their jobs that they can't help but snapped at the slightest mistake. They can't even find time to smile and greet their costumers.
Well, to lighten the mood, I decided to go directly to the wet market after paying the bills and try to cook up something nice for today's lunch.
Here goes:

1 100g radish, pared and cubed
1/4 kilo lean fish (tarogho, cut into cubes
1/2 cup vinegar
1 medium red onion, chopped
2 siling haba, seeded and sliced
1 tbsp minced ginger
2 stalks green onions, chopped
1 red bell pepper, chopped
6 siling labuyo, minced

1. Rinse and squeeze radish. Set aside. Soak fish in 1/4 cup vinegar for 30 minutes. Drain.
2. Ass the remaining vinegar and the rest of the ingredients. Season with 1/4 tsp iodized salt and 1 tsp sugar. Mix thoroughly, then chill for 1 hour of until ready to serve.

Enjoy! :)

Pork Curry

Yesterday I bought carajay but was not able to eat it all so I decided to cook something wherein I can include this leftover. I so this recipe in one of my cookbooks and decided to try it.
Here goes:

1 tbsp cooking oil
1/4 kilo pork
1 tsp minced garlic
1 small onion, diced
1 pork broth cude
1 tbsp curry powder
1 medium eggplant, sliced into half-inch thick rounds
1 medium red bell pepper, cut into cubes
1 small can evap
1 tbsp chili sauce

1. Heat oil and saute pork with garlic and onions, pork broth cubes and curry.
2. Add eggplant and red bell pepper.
3. Pour in evap and season with chili sauce.

Enjoy!

chili corn carne with pork and beans and hotdogs

For this weekend I wanted to buy a new condiment to add to my collection. So I chose a recipe that includes condiments that I still don't have. So, I've decided to try this.

Trust me, it might look gross but the taste great.

Meaning, I need to work on my plating :)

Here goes:

2 tbsp butter

200 grams ground beef

2 tbsp kikoman soy sauce

2 tbsp hot and spicy ketchup

1/2 tsp cumin powder

salt and pepper for seasoning

1 big can pork and beans

6 jumbo hotdogs

1 medium onion, chopped

2 tbsp pickle relish

1. Melt butter in a pan. Add ground beef, soy sauce and ketchup. Stir fry until cooked.

2. Add cumin and season very well.

3. Pour pork and beans and hotdogs and simmer for 5 minutes.

Enjoy!

*Cumin smells like an armpit with bad smell* Hahahahaha... :D

Fiesta Potato Salad

Would you believe there are still a lot of fiesta leftover in the freezer? Wow, the fiesta is like so long ago :)

I decided to make salad instead since I am already fed up with the meat I've been consuming since the fiesta.

Let's go healthy today :D

Here goes:

1/2 kilo potatoes, cut into cubes

1/4 kilo baguio beans, each cut into 6

1 cup cooked green peas

1 each red and green bell peppers, cubed

439 g pineapple chunks, drained (reserve syrup)

Dressing:

200 g pouch mayonnaise

1 tbsp calamansi juice

1 tbsp pineapple chunks syrup

1 small red onion, chopped

Boil potatoes in 4 cups water with 1 tsp iodized salt until just tender. Add baguio beans and simmer for 2 minutes before adding green peas. Drain, pouring hot water on bell pepper to blanch. Combine with the rest of the ingredients. Chill.

Makes 8 servings.

Enjoy! :)