2-WAY PORK SINIGANG

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2-WAY PORK SINIGANG
During this “PANDEMIC” it’s notable you’ll have to dive into more technological way
of prepping your food for fam to enjoy.
Not just pork, you can happily work on it with beef, chicken and sea foods.
Very simple but extremely satisfying.
Okay…”Let’s DOH It”. (thank you & R.I.P. late former Senator Juan Flavier).

Prep time: 1 hour
Cook time: 30 minutes
Total time: 1.5 hours
Serves: 4
Prep and Cooking media: Just a deep casserole will do.
NOTE: After passing of my wife Pangs, I’d given ALL of my kitchen stuff, equipments & wares to my grandkids
and since it was “lockdown” I had to make do of what’s left in me. For this prep I used rice cooker pan.

INGREDIENTS:
MEAT-SAUTEING NEEDS-FLAVOR ENHANCERS:
Cubed/sliced pork (beef, chicken, tuna slices or bangus)
1 sliced white or red onion
6-8 cloves crashed-sliced fresh garlic
1 whole sliced fresh tomato
1 pack Knorr Sinigang Sa Sampaloc Mix
150-300 ml. palm oil/palm olein
20 ml Patis
2 grams ground black pepper
Water-as needed

VEGGIES:
Sliced sitaw (string beans)
Cubed labanos (white radish)
Cut kangkong (ipomoea aquatica/water spinach)
Sliced talong (eggplant)
6-8 pcs of okra
4-8 whole sili sigang (finger chilli or banana pepper)
“Sigarilyas” if you opt for it.

PROCEDURES:

In Hot, Oil Sauté Garlic, Onion, Tomatoes for 2 mins. ADD Pork, Half of Sinigang Mix-Continue Till Pork Is Brown.

Sauté Pork with Raddish.

Add Beans to Mustard. Continue Frying.

Add Little Water To Soften Pork. Boil 10-20 mins.

Add Enough Water, Other Half of Sinigang Mix & Patis. This is the FINAL BOILING.
Once pork is done to desired tenderness, OFF cooker, add in all remaining veggies. COVER PAN for 3 minutes.
READY TO BE SERVED.
Should you wish 2-way: separate meat & broth plus veggies in different containers.
If you like to make it 3-way: in 3 different containers, FILL 1 with meat-2 for veggies-3 for broth/soup.

DISCLAIMER: Above are test kitchen and household-produced dishes. All ingredients utilized are of food grade quality passing international and domestic sanitary standards. While we find the results highly acceptable, no guarantee nor explicit assurance is hereby issued when recipe is performed by readers. For one, although of similar breed, spices, herbs and other ingredients vary from country to country/region to region that possibility of affecting end taste, aroma & bite-feel is great. Further thereto, mentioned sensory evaluation (aroma, taste, mouth-feel) is subjective.

“OO-LEM SQUID”

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‘OO-LEM SQUID
(Greek Cuisine) 
Request from daughter Cha and hubby Anton,
a presentation of two(2) preps done in Singapore April repeated September, 2018.
Innovated to tempting aroma and penetrating taste
fitting of spice & herb-full marinade rendering total goodness to end bite.
Okay. Let’s do it.

Prep time: 45 minutes
Cook time: 15 minutes
Total time: 1 hour
Serves: 4
Prep and Cooking media: suitable stainless powder and liquid ingredients whisking-marinating bowls, frying pan or grilling medium with small slots .

INGREDIENTS:
2.5 kilos rib eye sliced ¾” to 1 inch thick

MARINADE (September 2018 Prep);
500 grams (1/2 kilo) fully cleaned, head, pen (that hard plastic-like thing at its
back) and inc sac (you don’t want this black matter anyway) removed. Sliced
to desired length.
3 grams fine salt
2 grams sugar
4 grams freshly crushed black pepper
8 cloves garlic cubed
5 grams oregano powder
4 grams powder cumin
3 grams chili powder
3 grams marjoram powder
1 small lemon de-seeded and fully juiced (set aside ¾ for marinade and ¼ for
drizzle to end dish before serving)
100 ml palm oil (or palm olein)
100 ml Olive Oil
OPTIONAL 2 grams fine MSG

April 2018 Preps

PROCEDURES (September 2018 Preps):

    1. In suitable mixing bowl mix and blend well all powder and liquid ingredients. Use only the ¾ lemon juice for marination.
    2. Constantly tumbling to have better flavor penetration, marinate sliced squid in this oil-based emulsion for minimum 1 hour before frying (or grilling should you wish).
    3. If frying, heat pan, pour in marinated squid plus little amount of used marinade. Fry to desired color and done-ness. Set aside left over marinade.
    If grilling, line up unto small-slotted griller (to prevent falling off of squid unto fire) and cook to desired done-ness. Use marinade to baste often.
    4. Transfer to desired serving plate, drizzle with used marinade and the ¼ lemon juice.
    5. Adorn to desired eye-catch appeal. Serve.

September 2018 Preps

PREP TIME

BOILED BABY POTATOES in HONEY-MAYO-MUSTARD

SALTED-PEPPERED-MSGed PAN GRILLED PORK CHOP

DISCLAIMER: Above are test kitchen and household-produced dishes. All ingredients utilized are of food grade quality passing international and domestic sanitary standards. While we find the results highly acceptable, no guarantee nor explicit assurance is hereby issued when recipe is performed by readers. For one, although of similar breed, spices, herbs and other ingredients vary from country to country/region to region that possibility of affecting end taste, aroma & bite-feel is great. Further thereto, mentioned sensory evaluation (aroma, taste, mouth-feel) is subjective.

“BRATWURST” KABOB

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“BRATWURST” KABOB
(Fusion of German Meat Pan Grilled with Mediterranean Baste)
Simply appetizing.
Smell, alone, while grilling will tickle your palate.
Serve this Greek style kebab with a different focus on utilized meat.

Prep time: 45 minutes
Cook time: 45 minutes
Total time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Serves: 8
Prep and Cooking media: 8 pieces bamboo skewers soaked in water, skewers, roasting pan, sauce bowl and oil brush

INGREDIENTS:
For Pan Grilling:
8 pieces bratwurst cut into 2
4 small tomatoes sliced into 2
2 small red onions quartered
8 slices of cucumber
4 slices of halloumi cheese (or any semi hard white cheese you wish)

For Basting Sauce
80 ml. olive oil
10 ml. lemon juice
30 grams yogurt (any or Greek one should you wish)
5 grams salt
3 grams ground oregano
2 grams ground black pepper
2 grams dried thyme leaves
2 grams ground garlic
2 grams ground coriander

PROCEDURES:
1. Boil bratwurst for 5 minutes. Set aside
2. In suitable bowl whisk well until fully dissolved all ingredients for basting.
Set aside.
3. Summon wet skewer and slip in tomato, bratwurst, cucumber, onion, bratwurst again then lastly cheese. Make batches in this order of skewing.
4. Heat pan. Before putting in enough number of skewers pan can hold, whisk again sauce, dip brush and baste all skewers thoroughly repeatedly. This will allow flavour to sip in. Baste constantly while grilling.
5. Pan grill to desired done-ness.
6. SERVE and witness your loved ones’ eyes go wide open saying…WOW!

DISCLAIMER: Above are test kitchen and household-produced dishes. All ingredients utilized are of food grade quality passing international and domestic sanitary standards. While we find the results highly acceptable, no guarantee nor explicit assurance is hereby issued when recipe is performed by readers. For one, although of similar breed, spices, herbs and other ingredients vary from country to country/region to region that possibility of affecting end taste, aroma & bite-feel is great. Further thereto, mentioned sensory evaluation (aroma, taste, mouth-feel) is subjective.

Taal Vista Lodge, Tagaytay City, Philippines

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Salad

Savor the best in center table offerings amidst shivery atmosphere,
crisp refreshing inhales of oxygen, atop views of world acclaimed Taal lake, greeneries
and hmmmmm re-invigorating breeze.
Join me as we delve into their “bragging rights”.
One sunday, was in my usual “alone again naturally” state,
my legs and driving acumen led me to, once more, dive into adventure and gear up to Tagaytay City,
the fave destination of many for food, sights and weather.
About 80-90 kms from Manila and 15-18 kms from my place.
Lunch time that was and found me seated by the buffet area.
Oh OK go for it…murmured to myself.

VERANDA

COFFEE SHOP & BAR

Create Your Own FIA Salad

Create Your Pinoy Salad

CEREALS & CAKES

HAM
Sisig Area

Dessert

First Batch

My second take post salad.

My 2nd batch

 …third

MY DESSERT

…dessert.
That’s about all. Am full. I am just the “tikim guy” anyway and shelled out Php1,300++ for such.
BTW, “tikim” means mainly savouring/taste test to find out whether outstanding
or should be delegated outside the mess hall for their ain’t appropriateness
…due to rancidity or blandness or toughness to wrong process utilization plus the other heck of criteria.
Seriously, for the food preps, I will rate Veranda 8 out of 10.
More so the overnight marination of grilled boneless chicken in honey, lots of honey,
soy sauce, brown sugar, ground black pepper, chili powder,
very subdued acidity of lemon (I think) or vinegar though gas grilled bit well done is a “must try”.
That prep caught my attention.
Did not show here the shot of roasted beef as some non-rare to mid-rare eater readers
might be horrified in sight of leaking off reddish-pink blood when sliced
…but they do welcome roasting further to medium-well to well-done.

Ham’s curved pork skin-brown seared to simulate “Hawaiian Style” was really tough.
Lean tasted sugar sweetened with hints of I don’t know. But “curing” is well attained.

The views worth staring at to re-charge:

BACK SIDE

BACK VIEW THRU THE GLASS SHOT OF LAKE

VIEW OF PENS

Rooms to stay-perfect site, function and event halls-ideal
and wide play ground awaits kids’ run and about.

Did not take shots of rooms and other facilities as I was not on pre-approved blog writing visit.
Anyway, here’s their link:
http://www.taalvistahotel.com/

Thumbs up.
Highly recommended to visit.

BACON INFUSED ROASTED POTATO

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Bacon Infused Roasted Potato

BACON INFUSED ROASTED POTATO
(Potato Wedged With Bacon Slices To Spread Flavor Thereof While Roasting)
Again, a different approach this time.
Instead of wrapping potatoes with bacon, slices of latter are infused/wedged in between slits to spread their smokey-salty flavor while potatoes are roasted.

Prep time: 30 minutes
Cook time: 45 minutes
Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Serves: 4
Cooking media: range oven, basting brush, roasting pan
INGREDIENTS:
8 pieces medium skin-on potatoes, fully cleaned, 3 X ¼ inch slits each-leaving about ¼ inch to the bottom
24 slices of round bacon (any brand)-each slice can easily be inserted unto slits
120 grams melted cheese blended with 20ml. full cream milk, 3 grams garlic powder and 10 ml. honey
30ml. EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil)
OPTIONAL 2 grams fine MSG
PROCEDURES:

  1. Pre heat oven to 320deg.F (160deg.C)
  2. Brush EVOO to all sides of potatoes, sprinkle with OPTIONAL MSG and pop-in unto mid section of oven. Roast for 5 minutes.
  3. Withdraw and let cool. Insert 3 bacon slices unto slits.
  4. Back to oven-roast for 8-10 more minutes. Time will depend on the type bacon you have. Play it by sight.
  5. Withdraw and drizzle with cheese-milk-honey-garlic solution.
  6. SERVE and witness your loved ones’ eyes go wide open saying…WOW! 

DISCLAIMER: Above are test kitchen and household-produced dishes. All ingredients utilized are of food grade quality passing international and domestic sanitary standards. While we find the results highly acceptable, no guarantee nor explicit assurance is hereby issued when recipe is performed by readers. For one, although of similar breed, spices, herbs and other ingredients vary from country to country/region to region that possibility of affecting end taste, aroma & bite-feel is great. Further thereto, mentioned sensory evaluation (aroma, taste, mouth-feel) is subjective.