Lechon Kawali Recipe (Pan-Roasted Pork)

Beef with mushroom and cauliflower stir-fry is one of my favorite Chinese food recipes that I usually cooked for my family. But, I would like to share something about the meat here in Canada.  I’ve noticed that all meat here in Canada particularly the beef is very tender.  I’ve learned that there are many ways of aging meats shortly after an animal is slaughtered.  [...]

Ingredients : 1 lb. ground beef 1 onion, chopped 1 green or red bell pepper, diced 1 can tomato sauce 1 bay leaf 1 tbsp. chili powder 1 (398 mL) can pork and beans salt and pepper, to taste Cooking Procedures : Brown beef in a pan over medium heat for about 4 to 6 minutes. Drain excess fat. Add onion and green (or red, if using) pepper. Stir-fry for 2 minutes. Pour in tomato sauc[...]

Ingredients : 1 pork pata (pork leg), wash well 1 cup soda pop (Sprite or 7-up) water, for boiling coarse sea salt 1 tsp. peppercorns 5 cloves garlic, crushed 2 bay leaves 1 tbsp. soy sauce 2 tsp. baking soda oil, for frying Cooking Procedures : Clean pork pata. Slit skin (3-5 slits on each side) without cutting the bone. Place pork pata in a big pot. Add soda pop and water enou[...]

Menudo is another type of Filipino recipe that is compose of a stew of pork meat and liver cubes with potatoes, carrots and tomato sauce. But we can also use Chicken meat instead of pork meat and add chickpeas (garbansos) in your vegetable mixture. This recipe reminds me of my husband story of how he learned to cook this Filipino menudo. He told us that he loves to cook this recip[...]

My family loves nilaga like this nilagang baboy. This type of recipe are soupy kind of food dish and if we have this recipe on our table, my kids quickly finish their meal and ready to go to their next activity, which is playing. I remember back then that we used to have this dish (we call it nilat-an in our bisayan dialect) during Sunday’s lunch together with my in-laws eve[...]