Mechado II

Pinakbet or Pakbet is a vegetable Filipino recipe that my hubby loves to eat. He’s the type of person who likes to eat any kind of food recipes that contain vegetables. Growing up until I met my husband, I am very picky when it comes with vegetables in my diet. My husband encourage me to eat vegetables until I Slowly learned to appreciate and love the taste of vegetables like this filipino pinakb[...]

Tortang Talong is a healthy eggplant recipes that Filipino loves to cook because it’s budget friendly and very tasty. Yes, making this recipe needs little bit of patience because of the grilling or broiling, peeling then cooking it again… but the end result is very satisfying. Anyways, hope you like this traditional way of cooking tortang talong which is just a simple eggplant omelet. When [...]

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 sauce, add bay leaf and ch[...]

Ingredients : 2 tbsp. vegetable oil 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 onion, chopped 3 tomatoes, chopped 1 cup ground meat (pork or beef or mixed) 3 to 5 cups water 3 pcs. potatoes, peeled and diced salt and pepper, to taste Cooking Procedures : Heat oil in a pan over medium heat. Sauté garlic, onion and tomatoes until soft and wilted. Add ground meat and cook until lightly browned for about 3 minutes. Season[...]

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 d[...]