ALYN's COOKING: Pochero

When I was buying pork an old lady beside me bought pork for her pochero. Got curious what is the taste of pochero. So I decided to cook one. I asked my husband of how to cook it.

Ingredients:

1 strip of liempo (Bought at Monterey. forgot to look how many lbs)

5 cloves garlic, minced

1 red onion, chopped

2 medium tomatoes, diced

2 tbsp patis

1/2 tbsp pamintang buo

1 small pouch tomato sauce

4 saging na saba, sliced into 2

1 meduim sized potato, cubed

1/2 small cabbage, quartered

10 strings of green beans, cut into 3

1 bunch pechay

1 1/2 cup water

4 tbsp ccoking oil

1 small can of pork and beans

Procedure:

1. Boil pork for 20 minuutes or until tender.

2. Fry pork until light brown. Then set aside,

3. Saute garlic, onions and tomatoes.

4. Add pork then stir for 1 minute.

4. Put in 2 tbsp patis, 1/2 tbsp pamintang buo and 1 small pouch tomato sauce. Stir and leave for 1 minute.

5. Add 1 1/12 cup water (You can use your caldo. But on this one I didnt use mine because I will use it when I cook pancit).  and let it boil. 

6. Put-in saging na saba and plantain. Cook for 5 minutes.

7. Add cabbage and green beans. Cook for 7 minutes.

8. Place fire in very low heat and stir-in pechay cover the pot and let it for 3 minutes. Then turn off the heat.

9. Put small can of Pork and Beans. 

9.  Transfer to serving plate and enjoy eating.

ALYN's BAKING: Chocolate Chip Cookies

I am craving for sweets so I decided to make chocolate chip cookies and my mom is here with me. So we have something to eat during meryenda.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter

1/3 cup brown sugar

1/4 granulated sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

1 1/2 cup all purpose flour

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking soda

3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Procedure:

1. Preheat oven to 350F.

2. Mix together flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.

3. Beat granulated sugar, brown sugar, vanilla and butter until creamy.

4. Add egg and beat well.

5. Gradually add flour mixture, beat well.

6. Stir in chocolate chips.

7. Put spoonful of mixture into greased pan.

8. Bake for 12 minutes or until lightly brown.

9. Let it cool slightly then remove from cookie sheet and transfer to wire rack. Cool completely.

Serve with milk or chocolate. Yummy!

ALYN's COOKING: Simple Baby Potato Recipe

I am craving for potato so I just bought baby potatoes and decided to cook my fave and very simple recipe of baby potato.

Ingredients:

Baby potatoes
6 cloves garlic
2 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tsp fish sauce

Procedure:

1. Boil baby potatoes.
2. Saute garlic until golden brown.
3. Add baby potatoes and fish sauce.
4. Then add oyster sauce.
5. Serve hot.

So easy to prepare and so yummy for me.. =)

ALYN’s BAKING: Chocolatey Chocolate Cake

I am craving for something sweet but I am lazy going to Sta Rosa to buy baking ingredients so I just bought grocery ready cake mix – Maya Oven Toaster Cake Mix. I just decided I will put frosting for additional chocolateyness.

Ingredients:

For Maya Cake Mix:

1 200 g Maya Oven Toaster Cake Mix

1 egg

3 tbsp oil

½ cup water

For Frosting:

½ tbsp butter

125 ml condensada

1 tbsp cocoa powder

Procedure:

For Cake:

1.      Mix Maya cake mix powder, egg, oil and water well.

2.      Then pour into the baking pan you have. Cover with aluminom foil.

3.      Preheat oven at 117C.  Then bake the mix for 20mins or until done.

4.      Then let it cool to room temperature.

For Frosting.

1.      Mix butter, condensada and cocoa.

2.      Heat in low flame and stir continuously until all ingredients are all dissolve.

3.      Then let it cool in room temperature.

A.     After cooling I cut the cake into two then put it in layer. Then place it in a serving bowl with cover.

B.      Spread the frosting over the cake.

C.      Put in the fridge for 15 minutes before serving. (But my mom already get some before i put it in the fridge. She cant wait anymore. Hehehe)

Happy Eating...

ALYN’s BAKING: Pudding

We have lots of left over pandesal so I decided to bake it into a yummy tasty pudding. I don’t have complete ingredients so I just used what I have at the kitchen.

Ingredients:

5 cups of left over pandesal cut into cubed

9 tbsp milk powder (Bear Brand)

2 cups water

½ tsp baking powder

4 eggs (lightly beaten)

1 ½ tsp vanilla

Procedure:

1.      Combine Bear Brand into water. Dissolve milk completely.

2.      Soak the bread with milk for 10 minutes, then combine all the ingredients.

3.      Mix well with your hands and then pour in greases baking pan.

4.      Chill for 30 minutes before baking.

5.      Preheat the oven then bake the pudding mixture at 180C for 45 minutes or unil done.

6.      Serve with hot coffee or hot choco.

Enjoy eating.

ALYN'S COOKING: Pork Embutido

When I got pregnant I am craving for embutido with catsup. yummy.. So I went to Calamba fiesta because I wanted to eat embutido. We went to my Tita Siony's house. And of course I asked for the recipe of embutido because it is so yummy.

And here are the ingredients and I tried to cooked it.

Ingredients:

1/2 kilo giniling
5 spoons pickle relish
1/2 eden cheese, grated
1 small box raisins
1 small can liver spread (Reno)
2 pcs eggs
1 medium size carrots, chopped
1 medium size onion, chopped
pinch of salt
1 magic sarap
2 tbsp catsup
1 tsp fish sauce.

Procedure:

1. Just mixed everything well.
2. Fry 1 tbsp of the mixed ingredients for you if the taste is ok with you or somethings still lacking.
3. Wrap around aluminum foil.
4. Place on the steamer and let it cook.

No. of embutido made was 5 botchog embutido. =)

Not bad for first timer. Thanks Tita Siony for your recipe.

Happy Eating.

ALYN’s BAKING: Oatmeal Cookies

My mother went home surprisingly and she was asking if I will make an Oatmeal cookie.

So I double check if I still have remaining ingredients from the Ham and Cheese Empanada I made last week. Luckily I still have remaining ingredients.

This is not the first time I bake something. When I was still at Lagos Nigeria I baked Banana Muffin and my ever favorite Pudding. But here in the Philippines this is the first time I will bake something.

Ingredients:

1 ½ Quaker Oats, uncooked

¾ cup DD sugar

1 egg

½ tsp vanilla

¾ cups all purpose flour

¼ tsp salt

½ cup butter

½ cup raisins

Procedure:

1.      Heat oven.

2.      Combine flour and salt, mix well then set aside.

3.      Mix sugar and butter until creamy.

4.      On separate bowl, beat egg and vanilla well.

5.      Combine creamy sugar-butter and egg-vanilla mixture. Then add flour-salt mixture.

6.      Add uncooked oats and raisins.

7.      Drop by tablespoonfuls on the baking sheet. I flattened it that’s why it’s shapeless. I like it that way. =)

8.      Bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown.

9.      Cool on cookie sheet.

I created a big unshaped cookies and it taste good. But next time I will decrease my

sugar to lessen the sweetness.

Happy eating..

Cookies: 15 pieces 

ALYN's COOKING: Cheap Ulam – First try ng CHOPSUEY

I want to cook Pork Bistek supposedly but when I went to the market meat section were closed already because it was 12:30pm - lunch time, So I just roam around the market and decided to buy shredded vegetables that were already packed on a plastic composed of cabbage, carrots, sayote and few string beans worth Php15.00. ($0.33).  I am alone so I decided this will be enough for me for the whole day ulam.

I don’t know how to cook, I only knew how to fry, boil and sauté but real ulam I don't have any idea. But I have an application on my phone Pinoy Food Recipe so I used the procedure given but not the ingredients.

Chopsuey Ala Alyn

Ingredients:

1 supot shredded vegetables  (cabbage, carrots, sayote, string beans)

1 chicken wing (just took it from my tita’s ref. Im not fond of eating meat on my veg) 

3 cloves garlic 

1 onion

2 tbsp cornstarch dissolve on 1 cup water

1 sachet of oyster sauce (I bought at suking tindahan)

1 Cup of water

Salt to taste

1 Chicken Knorr Cube

Procedure:

1.      Saute garlic and onion.

2.      Add chicken and sauté for 2 minutes.

3.      Pour the water, add knorr cubes and salt and bring to a boil for 5 minutes.

4.      Add oyster sauce and simmer for 2 minutes.

5.      Put the shredded vegetables then simmer for 7 minutes or until vegetables are cooked.

6.      Pour cornstarch mixture and bring to a boil up to desired consistency.

7.      Serve hot.

Serving Size: 3

I apologize for the picture. I used my phone camera. But Hmmm yummy.. Happy eating. Not bad for a first timer. =)