Filipino Cuisine tagged posts

I’m always thinking of ways to incorporate the Wasabi Mayonnaise into a few dishes so I figured I’d add it to pork sisig with celery as well. See, I use wasabi mayonnaise as a dip for sushi and occasionally add it onto tuna sandwich filling. I’ve also used it in lamb kilawen which was inspired by the goat kilawen...

In some regions of the Philippines, coconut milk is one of the ingredients in the dish called ADOBO which happens to be one of my favorite Filipino Dishes. It’s either in pork or chicken. Pork is my pick any day. Anyhoooo, in my cooking years, I’ve never made adobo with coconut milk until a week ago. I finally opened my new Aroma digital rice cooker to cook rice, of course after not eating rice for almost 2 weeks. I decided to make pork adobo as well to go with the rice. In a spur of the moment I decided to add coconut milk in it and also add scallions cut in 3rds for a touch of green color. Let me just say that from now on I’ll be cooking my adobo with coconut milk. I’d probably skip the scallions in most days but definitely, coconut milk is now part of the adobo ingredients.

After braving the Farmer’s Market a few weeks ago, I stopped at the Filipino store on our way home and grabbed a few items for my Pinoy Goodies supplies. I also ended up grabbing fresh vegetables to make one of my favorite Filipino dishes which is Pinakbet. If you haven’t noticed, my pinakbet is missing a couple of key ingredients. These are okra and calabasa (squash). Well, I’m allergic to okra, and I forgot to grab a quarter of the calabasa at the store. I saw sitaw (long green beans), bitter melon, and eggplant and I forgot about the squash. Oh well. Good thing I didn’t forget the alamang. That’s the itty bitty pink fermented shrimp you see all around.

I grabbed a couple of bittermelons from my last trip to the Asian store over there in Raleigh. I actually almost forgot I had them until I found a plastic pushed all the way back in the fridge. Good thing I discovered them before they went bad. Whewww. I would hate myself knowing I just wasted perfectly good bittermelons (Ampalaya).  This vegetable happens to be my favorite Filipino vegetable. Even though it’s technically not just found in the Philippines. But I digress..

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