Homemade Spanish Style Sardines

I got this recipe from Yummy's September issue!

1/2 cup salt

3 1/2 cups water

1/2 kilo fish, cleaned, scaled, and with heads and tails cut off

1 carrot, sliced into rounds

1/2 of the 135 g bottle sliced pickles

1 bay leaf

1/2 tbsp peppercorns

pinch of salt

1/2 cup olive oil (add more if needed)

100 g tomato sauce

1 1/2 tbsp soy sauce

7 pcs siling labuyo

1. Combine salt and water. Soak cleaned fish for 10 to 15 minutes and drain.

2. Arrange fish in a pot. Add the rest of the ingredients.

3. The amount of liquid should be enough to cover the ingredients. Add more oil if necessary. Cook for 45 minutes to 1 hour until fish is tender.

Chicken Salpicao

No electricity today! Ugh! Frustrating.

Instead of feeling down due to frustration, I decided to cook this recipe instead. Well, mainly to keep myself busy and forget the heat!

480 g chicken fillet, cut into 1/2" chunks

3 large squares tokwa, cut into 1/2" chunks

1 pork bouillon cube, crumbled

1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

1 head garlic, crushed

a large onion, sliced

200 g tomato sauce

1. Marinate chicken and tokwa in 1 tsp calamansi juice, bouillon cube, Worcestershire sauce, 1 tbsp soy sauce, 1/8 tsp pepper, half of garlic, and tomato sauce for 10 minutes. Brown chicken and tokwa pieces in 1/4 cup oil. Set aside.

2. Saute remaining garlic and onion. Add marinade and 1/2 cup water. Cook for 2 minutes. Add chicken and tokwa.

Herbed Chicken Pasta

I got this recipe from Del Monte's cookbook. It's very delicious.

250 g spaghetti, cooked

10 cloves garlic, crushed

3 tbsp. butter

200 g chicken breast fillet, cut into cubes

1 pack 380 g spaghetti meat sauce

2 pcs laurel leaves

1 1/2 tbsp rice wine

1 pc red bell pepper. cut into cubes

1/3 tsp dried basil

1/4 cup grated cheese

1. Saute garlic in butter until brown. Reserve half. To the remaining half, saute chicken for 5 minutes. Add spaghetti sauce and remaining ingredients except basil and cheese. Simmer for 3 minutes.

2. Add basil. Allow to simmer. Mix with cooked spaghetti, cheese and reserved fried garlic.

Beef and Cheese Macaroni

200 g macaroni, cooked

4 cloves garlic, crushed

1 small onion, sliced

1/4 kg ground beef

1 pouch (250g) Sweet style spaghetti sauce

3/4 cup cheese spread

Saute garlic, onion and beef. Cook for 10 minutes. Add 1/2 tsp. iodized salt, 1/8 tsp. pepper and spaghetti sauce. Allow to simmer.

Mix with cooked macaroni. Pour cheese spread and mix while pasta is hot.

Tuna patties

I got this from Quickfire!

If there's something I love about Quickfire, it's the quickness of how you prepare each of their recipes.

Here goes:

2 small cans of tuna flakes in oil

2 pcs eggs

4 pcs spring onions

maggi magic sarap

breadcrumbs

Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Put a dash of dried basil leaves and cayenne pepper. Form into patties and fry.

That's all.

Enjoy!!

Avocado Slice

Today is July 31, the last day of the Nutrition Month. Almost all schools celebrated this event in every school year. Our school is not an exception. Two to three weeks ago, we had "Paunay" in school (this is selling of home grown products) and one of my students approached me after my class and asked me if I would like to buy some fruits. Well, I'm not a fruit lover, much more of a junk lover, so I asked what were the fruits they were selling. She named a list and my eyes picked the word "Avocado, 20 pesos per kilo." What? 20 pesos only? (Well, as I've said, I'm not a fruit lover and thus I thought this fruit is supposed to be expensive). So, I told her I'll buy one kilo.

Lunch time that day, I saw a plastic bag on my cubicle with my name on it plus the amount 20 pesos. Well, this must be it. (Mind you, I didn't pay for the avocado yet). When I touched the bag I discovered how hard the avocado is. Is this fruit supposed to be hard?? Then I found out it wasn't ripe yet. Frustrating but no complain, remember, I haven't paid it yet.

Three days passed and I forgot about the avocado. Finally, Thursday came and I noticed the bag was moist. I touched the avocado and (like magic!) it was ripe already, hahahaha... plastic bag are the most effective way to ripen the avocado, that I have discovered!!

I brought the fruits home and was very proud to show it to my mother. But, she said, "Avocado makes your cholesterol go up!" Meaning, she will not eat it!!

What am I supposed to do with it?

So, I grabbed my collection of recipes and searched for one that will get rid of these avocados. And, here it is:

Crust:

1 (200g) crushed Graham

1 225 g Buttercup Rich-Tasting Margarine, melted

Filling:

250 ml Alaska All-Purpose Cream

168 ml Alaska Condensada

3 avocados

pinch of salt

1. In a bowl, combine all ingredients for filling. Mix it well to fully combine. Set aside in the refrigerator to chill.

2. In a separate bowl, combine Graham and Buttercup Margarine until crumbly. Press into a dish using the back of a spoon.

3. Pour in prepared filling into the crust. Freeze for at least 1 hour before serving.

I guess I'm going to love this fruit after making this recipe :))

Lumpiang Isda

Today is Father's Day. Since I can't celebrate this day with my father (well, he's six feet under the ground), I might as well cook something that he would sure like.

Here goes:

1 tbsp oil

3 cloves garlic

2 small onions

1 can tuna flakes in brine, drained

1 medium carrot, chopped

25 pcs lumpia wrapper

1/2 tsp salt

1 pc egg

1/4 tsp black pepper

2 pcs chili pepper, chopped

1 cup oil for deep frying

1. Heat oil. Saute garlic and onions. Add tuna flakes.

2. In a bowl, mix sauteed tuna, carrots, salt, egg, pepper, and chili pepper.

3. Put a tbsp of fish filling on each wrapper. Roll and seal ends with water.

4. Deep fry. Put in paper lined platter to drain off excess oil.

Enjoy this with your father this father's day! :))