Beef Tapa

Chayote Guisado or Sayote Guisado (Sautéed Chayote) is another vegetable Filipino recipe that I love to cook. Here in Canada, finding a Chayote is not that difficult because they are now commonly sold in most known grocery stores like No Frills, Price Choppers and FreshCo. But few year back, I can’t find any chayote in our local community and I have to drive an hour drive just to have it. But recently, I was surprise t[...]

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.  The most common is Cryovac-aged.  In this pro[...]

Ingredients : 1/4 lb. ground pork 1/4 lb. ground beef 4 cloves garlic, minced 2 onions, chopped 1 tsp. oregano 1/4 cup sugar salt and pepper, to taste 2 to 4 hotdogs (wieners), sliced 1 can tomato sauce 1 can tomato paste 1 cup spaghetti water cornstarch, to thicken (optional) 1/2 lb. spaghetti grated cheese (of your choice), for toppings Cooking Procedures : Boil spaghetti according to package instructions. Reserve a cup of [...]

Ingredients : 1 lb. pork (pork belly or lean pork), cut thinly salt and pepper, to taste 1 to 2 cups Mama Sita’s Barbecue Marinade 1 tbsp. calamansi concentrate 1 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. pepper bamboo sticks, for skewer Cooking Procedures : Cut pork into thinly slices (or whatever suits to your liking). This makes the meat cook faster in lesser time. Place sliced meat in a bowl and season with salt and pepper. Let sits for 3[...]

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 recipe during his college days. He learned the reci[...]