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I saw in our refrigerator that there are still 2 pieces of eggplant. So I cooked a very simple eggplant dish for my breakfast earlier.  That dish is Tortang Talong. [Read more…] about Tortang Talong

I tend to cook at least 1 soup dish every week and that is because I’m on soft food diet.  Since I was going on Korean route tonight, I cooked Kimchi Soup. [Read more…] about Kimchi Soup

Today, I decided to cook a different cuisine and that is Korean.  So earlier today, we got ourselves Kimchi from a nearby Korean grocery store.  Since making kimchi takes a lot of time with fermentation, I decided to buy a ready-made one.  Maybe in the future, I’ll try to make kimchi on my own.  For now, I used the ready-made kimchi in Kimchi Fried Rice. [Read more…] about Kimchi Fried Rice

Yesterday, I cooked Laing. So I decided to use some leftover rice and laing to make Laing Fried Rice! And boy, was it so good! This is a must-try dish if you cooked up some laing! [Read more…] about Laing Fried Rice

In my quest to find more recipes that uses ground meat as main ingredient, I stumbled upon Ground Pork in Tomato Sauce. I’m still having a hard time eating so for a couple of weeks, I will have to stick to ground meat and soft food.  Ground Pork in Tomato Sauce is super easy to cook and it does taste a bit like spaghetti sauce. Best eaten with steamed rice. [Read more…] about Ground Pork in Tomato Sauce

I discovered Corned Beef Sinigang when I had one of my meals in Sentro 177. I thought to myself, “oh this is good!”.  So one day I tried to search for recipes online. There are so many so I read through a couple and chose which one I think would suit my taste the best. [Read more…] about Corned Beef Sinigang

As soon as I woke up this morning, I immediately went to the kitchen to cook Laing.  Laing is a Bicolano spicy dish made of dried taro leaves that cooked in coconut milk.   [Read more…] about Laing

We still have a lot of leftovers from last week’s cook so I decided to just cook one dish today.  That dish is Bicol Express.  It’s basically spicy pork cooked in coconut milk & cream.  The reason why Bicol Express is famous in the Philippines is because of its yummy spicy taste.  However, we need to consume this in 1-3 days as food cooked in coconut milk easily spoil. [Read more…] about Bicol Express