Grilled Pork Chops

 Another easy recipe which you can enjoy with the family.

6 pork chops,
1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce
1/4 cup ketchup
1/4 teaspoon (or more) hot sauce (Tabasco, etc.)
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 cup water
salt and pepper to taste


Sprinkle pork chops with a little salt and pepper. Grill pork chops over medium coals for 35 minutes, turning once.
Meanwhile, make barbecue sauce. In small saucepan, combine tomato sauce, water, onion, ketchup, hot sauce, sugar, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, and salt. Bring sauce to a boil; reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes. Brush pork chops with sauce; grill 5 minutes. Turn, brush the other side, and gill 5 minutes longer.
 If you want, you can slice the porkchops in bite size pieces before serving,

Kimchi

Hubz went home with this pasalubong this evening.... 

Freshly made Kimchi,

He bought it from a korean store at Paseo at Sta. Rosa Laguna. I love kimchi. I could eat it alone like a salad. Yum yum

Few months ago,  I posted here the recipe for kimchi fried rice. The husband loves it and I think, I will be making this again this weekend. :)

If you want the recipe for Kimchi Fried Rice, you can have it here.

Happy weekend everyone and Happy Food Friday everyone!

Gising gising

I love spicy food and this is one of my favorite vegetable dish next to laing. Here is my recipe for gising gising.

You will need;

2 Tbsp. Cooking Oil

3 cloves of Garlic, chopped

1 medium onion, chopped

4 cups chopped Baguio beans

1/4 kilo lean ground pork

1 Tbsp. Fish Sauce

 

1 pack of Knorr gata mix

2 fresh chili peppers, minced

salt and pepper to taste

Then you have to;

Heat pan then saute onion and garlic using as little cooking oil as possible. Add ground pork and saute some more. Once the ground pork is already cooked, remove excess cooking oil . Throw in the baguio beans and add little water bring to a simmer.

In a bowl, add the coconut mix, salt, and pepper. Mix well before adding to the pan.

Add the chili pepper . Season with fish sauce. Simmer for 5 minutes. Until sauce thickens.

Serve with plain rice.

Easy lang di ba. :)

Happy food Friday everyone!

Easy Sweet and Sour Pork

For this you need:

half kilo pork. cut in serving pieces

1 pack breading mix bought at the supermarket (this save my time)

For the sauce you need:

2 tsp brown sugar

half cup pineapple chunks, set aside the syrup

half cup pineapple crushed, set aside the syrup

1-2 tsp of thai chili sauce

1/4 cup tomato sauce

1 bell pepper cut in squares

1 onion quartered

Now what you'll do;

Put the breading mix on a bowl and dredge in the pork pieces.making sure that the pork is well coated.

In a pan, heat enough oil. Then throw in the pork pieces in the hot oil. Cook until both sides are brown. Place on a paper towel to remove excess oil.

In a separate saucepan, dissolve sugar in pineapple syrup.  Simmer for a minute or two. Add in the onions, bell pepper, chunk and crushed pineapples, tomato sauce and the Thai chili sauce. Simmer again for a minute. Turn off the heat. Add the fried breaded pork pieces and mix until the pork is well coated with the sauce.
Serve and enjoy.

Marciano's Resto

Vegetable Salad

If my memory is right this dish is called Brad Shaw Pork Saltimocca with mashed potato

Last Tuesday, we had lunch at Marciano's at Greenbelt 3. The price was okay, food was okay too but nothing to rave about. According to reviews, their pizza is a must try, maybe I will try them soon. Oh well....

Happy Foodie Friday everyone.

Pancakes anyone?

I know...there are lots of premix pancakes available at the supermarket but just for fun, I made my own home made pancake last weekend.

You will need;
1 egg
1 cup milk
2 tbsp. melted butter
1 cup flour
1 tbsp. sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt

Then you have to;
Beat the egg and add remaining ingredients until stir until smooth. Butter preheated non stick pan. Be sure it’s fully hot before putting batter down.
Pour batter onto hot pan. Flip the  pancakes as as they are puffed and full of bubbles but before bubbles break to cook the other side.

Serve with butter and maple syrup or chocolate syrup.

Yehey...I did my first ever home made pancakes. :)

Hmmmm....was thinking of making home made ice cream soon...hahaha!

Maki Dream



After making my own gyoza, I wish I can make my own maki too. Kaya ko kaya? Keeping my fingers crossed,

Happy Food Friday!

Gyoza

Let me share you the recipe of one of my favorite japanese food. Yaki Gyoza!!!!yummm!

You will need;
1/2 pound ground pork
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp sugar
2 tsps soysauce
1 tsp grated fresh ginger
1 tsp grated garlic
1 fresh egg
1/3 cup chopped cabbage
2 Tbsp chopped green onion
20 gyoza wrappers (the round ones)
1 Tbsp sesame oil for cooking
salt and pepper to taste

So you will do

In a bowl, mix in the ground pork, soy sauce, sesame oil, fresh egg. When everything is incorporated add the chopped cabbage, grated ginger and spring onions . Set aside and cover the bowl with cling wrap. I did this to make sure that the taste of  pork and the vegetable blends well together.

Place a teaspoonful of filling in a gyoza wrapper and put water along the edge of the wrapper by fingers. Make a semicircle, gathering the front side of the wrapper and sealing the top.

Heat a tablespoon of sesame oil (or whatever cooking oil you have)

When the pan is hot, place the gyoza in the pan. Add a cup of water or enough just to cover the gyoza. When the water disappears, drizzle some oil (I used sesame oil) and fry  for 2 minutes or until the bottom side turn brown. Use a spatula to scoop the gyoza out.

Serve with dipping sauce which is one part soy sauce,one part rice vinegar and one part chili oil. If you don't have rice vinegar and chili oil it tastes great in just soy sauce too.

Itadakimasu!!!

Boiled Eggs anyone?

I love hard boiled eggs. The only thing is I do sometime experience difficulties in cooking it. Here's are some tips and tricks in cooking hard boiled eggs, that my friend thought me.

Place raw egg in saucepan.

Run cold water into the saucepan until the water is 1 inch above the egg.

Place pot on stove and cook over medium heat until it boils

Boil for 2-3 minutes for soft boiled eggs, 10-15 minutes for hard boiled.

When cook, drain the hot water and replace with cold water. Add some ice cubes to the water.

When peeling the boiled eggs..
You may want run the eggs under cool while doing that. This often helps separate it from the shell easier.

So there you go...perfect boiled eggs :)

Happy Food Friday

Beef Bulgogi

As promise, here is the recipe I used for making Beef Bulgogi.
 
What you will need;

1 1/2 cup soy sauce
3 tbsp Sugar
1 1/2 tbsp Mirin
3 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp Ginger, grated
2 tbsp Sesame seeds,toasted
1 onion sliced
Garlic, minced
1k Sirloin, sukiyaki cut
Cooking oil for frying

Then what you will do;

Mix all the ingredients thoroughly except the sliced beef.
Add the beef and marinate for about an 1 hour.
Heat some cooking oil in a large frying pan.
Fry the beef in high heat and take out as soon as there are no pink parts on the meat.
You can add the marinade slowly while cooking to that the bulgogi wont be dry.
You can add mongo sprout and diced carrots if you want.
Garnish with toasted sesame seed.

Serve and enjoy. I like eating this with Kimchi Fried Rice