Ipod for Father's Day

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Charter. All opinions are 100% mine.

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Do watch this video on this charter app here

Steam fish fillet with ginger sauce

This is hubz favorite lately,  for this week, I cooked this twice for him. Again I am sharing another easy recipe.

To make this very easy dish, you will need the following;

200 gram fish fillet (I used cream dory)

2 inches ginger cut into thin strips

3 tsbp olive oil

1 tsbs sesame oil

3 tbsp soy sauce, mix with a tbsp of brown sugar and and 1/4 tsp of sesame oil

Onion leeks cut into 2 inches

salt

fresh cracked pepper

When everything is ready...you will then...

Pat the fillet dry with paper towel. Season with little salt and fresh cracked pepper. Place the fish on a foil and  put few pieces of ginger on the fillet then wrap it up. Place into a steamer, set over several inches of gently boiling water, and cover. Gently steam for 10 to 12 minutes. When is ready, remove from the aluminum foil and place on a serving plate.

Then prepare the sauce.

Heat up a pan over high heat and add 3 tablespoons of olive oil, swirl around until it’s hot. Thrown in the remaining ginger. Stir it for a minute. Pour the hot oil with ginger over the steamed fish. Put the pan back onto the stove, add the soy sauce mixture and stir well. As soon as the sauce bubbles up and boils, pour the soy sauce over the fish. Topped with onion leeks. Serve the steamed fish immediately with white rice.

Mocha Cupcake with Marshmallow frosting

For the cupcake you will need;

1 cup all-purpose flour

3/4 cup baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

3/4 cup water

1/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature

1/2 cup water

1 sachet of 3 in 1 instant coffee

1/2 cup white sugar (I used caster sugar)

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven at 350F or 170C. Line a 12 cup muffin pan with liners.

Stift together flour, bakins soda and salt. Set aside.

Add the instant coffee to water. Stir until the coffee dissolves.

With an electric mixer, beat butter sugars and salt.  Do this until  its light and fluffy.

Then add egg and the vanilla. Beat well.

Lower the speed and add the flour mixture in 3 additions alternating the coffee mixture. Increase speed to medium until exverthing is incorporated.

Divide the mixture evenly on the muffin liners. Bake for 18-20 minutes of until toothpick inserted at the middle comes out clean (I bake mine for 18mins only) Cool on a wire rack.

Then make your marshamallow frosting.

To do this you will need;

1 cup sugar

1 tsp cream of tartar

2 eggs whites, unbeated

1/4 tsp salt

3 tsbp water

Then what you will do,

Combine the egg white, water , sugar, cream of tartar and salt in a heatprof bowl over a pan with simmering water. Whisk constantly until sugar is dissolves and mixture turns white.

Transfer mixture in an electric mixer with whisk attachment starting with low speed and gradually increasing to high, until the mixture becomes stiff, glossy peaks form about 7 to 10 minutes. Add vanilla and mix. Use immediately.

Tuna Pesto Pasta

For tonight's dinner we had Tuna Pesto Pasta. A vey simple pasta dish that I am sure you will surely love.

To make this, you need

200 grams Classic Pesto Sauce (I got mine from the supermarket)
2-3 tablespoon virgin olive oil
Tuna chunk100 ams tuna in water
500 grams Pasta, al dente ( I used Penne)
Freshly grated Parmesan for serving (optional)
Salt and Fresh ground pepper to taste

Then....
Heat the pan, drizzle voo. Stir in the pesto sauce then the tuna. Throw in the cooked pasta. Mix make sure the pasta is coated by the pesto sauce. Add salt and pepper to taste. Place in a serving platter. Drizzle with voo.
Serve with parmesan cheese on top.

Enjoy!

Caramelized Potatoes

I first tasted this side dish in a korean resto. I fell inlove with this dish on my first bite. It taste perfectly good. So one weekend since I got a bit bored doing nothing here at home, I decided to make my own caramelized potatoes.

To do this, you will need;

1 kg marble potatoes, cooked and peeled

1/2 cup granulated sugar

8 tablespoons (1 stick) melted unsalted butter

salt to taste

Parsley

Then you have to;

Melt sugar in a heavy skillet over low heat. Cook, stirring constantly, until the sugar turns light brown. Stir in melted butter. Add one layer of potatoes to pan; shake skillet to roll potatoes and coat all sides with caramel. Move potatoes to a heated platter and repeat procedure until all potatoes are coated. Sprinkle with salt. Garnish with parsley.

Serve and enjoy!!!

Its Friday once more. Enjoy the weekend!

Morning!

My usual brekky when I was in Sydney. English muffin, scarambled eggs with hotdogs. A hearty breakfast but I often had breakfast alone. Lungkot noh?

Buti na lang dito na ko Pinas!

Joining Food Friday again. Happy Foodie Friday!

Longanisa and Mushroom Pasta in creamy garlicky sauce

I added a twist to my regular creamy white sauce by adding longganisa in this pasta dish.Let me share this wonderful recipe that is a personal favorite. :)

you will need:

400g uncooked pasta (I used linguine)

2 tbsp olive oil

500 grams of garlicky (non-sweet) longganisa

250g fresh mushrooms, sliced

1 pack nestle cream

blue cheese, thumb size

1 tsp garlic powder

salt and pepper to taste

what you'll do;

1. Cook the pasta until al dente.

2. Fry the longanisa. When the half done, divide into small pieces with the use of the fying spatula. COntinue cooking the longanisa meat for a few minutes.

3. Throw in the mushrooms, saute 3 minutes longer.

4. Add the nestle cream, simmer for a minute

5. Then add the blue cheese. Keep stirring until it melts and the sauce thickens.

6. Add the garlic powder. You can add more if you want. This will add the nice garlicky flavor.

7. Season with salt and pepper.

8. Add the cooked pasta. Stir until the sauce covers the pasta.

9. Remove from pan. Serve and enjoy.

By the way, the longanisa I used in this recipe is homemade :)

Seafood Pasta

It's been a long time since I last update here. Hay was really lazy talaga. Anyway, let me start kicking by sharing another pasta recipe that I cooked when I was in Sydney. Pasta was a staple food for me whan I was there Why? Number one because its so easy to do, Number 2 because its my favorite. :)

Here's my recipe for seafood and tomato pasta.

You need...

Half kilo pasta. Cook as package direction

tomatoes cubed

few pieces of shrimp (peeled and deveined)

few pieces of calamari

few pieces of few fillets (cut in pices)

chili flakes (optional)

Olive oil

fresh basil

onions (chopped)

garlic (chopped)

salt and pepper to taste.

Then what you will do.

Saute onion then garlic. Then add the tomato, saute until wilted. Then throw in the shrimp, calamari then the fish fillet. Add chili flakes. Simmer for a minute (dont overcook ha). Then add the cooked pasta mix well then throw the basil in. Season with salt and pepper.

Served and enjoy Dali di ba?

Kimchi Jeon (Kimchi Pancake)

If you love kimchi, you will surely love this too. Had this as a appetizer for dinner with friend Ibyang at BBQ city last Monday. Yumm yumm! Its my favorite now! Happy Food Friday everyone!

Moron

The other week, my aunt from Samar visited us here in Manila. She brought us this suman with chocolate flavor called moron. Whenever someone from the province visits us here, I would always asked for this suman....yum yum!

It's end of the work week na pala, yehey!!!!
Happy Food Friday everyone!