Laing w/ Shrimps

Laing is a Filipino dish native to Bicol. It is a spicy and creamy dish of taro leaves (which give the dish a rough feeling), pork or shrimps, and chili peppers cooked in coconut milk.

Ingredients and cooking procedure after the jump.

Ingredients:

* 3 cups shredded Gabi leaves (Taro), dried under the sun

* 1 1/2 cups of coconut milk

* 1 piece of onion

* 1/2 clove of garlick

* Piece of Ginger

* 1/4 kilo of Shrimps

* 2 tbsp. of Bagoong (Shrimp Paste)

Cooking procedure:

1. In a saucepan, cook the garlic, ginger, onion, bagoong, gabi leaves, and coconut milk together. Add Sili if desired.

2. Allow to boil if the coconut milk is almost drying out, and looks oily.

3. Lower the heat, and when the coconut milk is creamy on top of the vegetables, remove from the fire and serve.

Tips: With coconut milk, if fresh coconut is not available, you can buy the coconut powder or coconut milk in can. But, fresh is still the best.

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Pork Kilawin

Other Filipinos think that when they heard Kilawin food, they think it's a raw fish cooked in vinegar (deboned fish soaked in vinegar). Kilawin is a Kapampangan recipe again that has pork and liver cooked in vinegar.

Ingredients and cooking procedure after the jump.

Ingredients:

* 1 Kilo of pork, sliced thinly into 1 inch long

* 1/2 kilo of pork liver, sliced thinly

* 1 cup of native vinegar

* Rock salt

* 2 pieces of big onions, sliced thinly

* 6 cloves of garlic, crushed

* 4 tbsp. of shortening

* 1/2 cup of water

Cooking procedure:

1. Soak pork and liver separately in a mixture of vinegar, salt, pepper and onions.

2. Saute' garlic in shortening until brown. Add pork mixture, pressing the pieces very well.

3. Cover and simmer until pork is tender.

4. Add liver mixture and water, boil and allow minxture to thicken.

5. You can also add chopped green chilli if you want it a bit hot.

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Pork Tocino

Tocino is one of the most popular processed Filipino foods in Pampanga. And many foreigners who have been introduced to this famous recipe have come to like it.

Tocino or tosino is a cured meat product native to the Philippines. It is usually made out of pork and is similar to ham and bacon although beef is also used. It is often reddish in color and has a sweetish taste. Its name is derived from the Spanish word tocino, which is used to describe bacon or cured meat.

Ingredients and cooking procedure after the jump.

Ingredients:

* 4 Kilos of pork round or shoulder butt (pigue or kasim)

* 4 teaspoons of phosphate

* 1 cup water

* 1/2 cup rock salt

* 2 teaspoons of curing salt

* 3 cups sugar

* 1/4 cup crushed garlic

* 1/2 cup anisado wine

* 1 cup pineapple juice

* red food color, optional

* 2 tablets ascorbic acid, crushed

Cooking Procedure:

1. Slice the pork across the grain, 1/4 inch thick pieces. Set aside in the refrigerator.

2. Dissolve phosphate in water.

3. In a non-reactive bowl, combine rock salt, curing salt and phosphate solution. Mix well. Add sliced portk and toss to coat meat completely.

4. Add the remaining six ingredients and mix until well blended.

5. Cure at room temperature for 8 to 10 hours or in the refrigerator for 1-2 days.

6. Pack in a polyethylene bags. Freeze until needed.

For this recipe, you can pack 10 packs of 1/2 kilo each.

You can sell this to earn extra money or keep it for your family. :)

Inihaw na Tilapya and Talong

Okay! This food makes me really hungry right now. In english, inihaw is grilled, talong is eggplant but I really don't know what Tilapya in english is. All I know it is a fish from a pond. But if my readers knows it, kindly leave a comment.

This dish is very simple to do, there's no special recipe to do this. All you need is charcoal and barbecue grill. And of course the following:

* Tilapya

* Eggplant or Talong

* salt to taste

* Tong to flip the fish and Eggplant

Pichi-Pichi (Steamed Cassava)

One of the traditional Filipino dessert is Pichi-Pichi. It is made with grated cassava or cassava flour, water and sugar. This is one of the easiest Filipino dessert to cook.

One of my favourites!

Ingredients:

* 2 cups of grated cassava or cassava flour

* 2 cups of brown sugar

* 2 cups of pandan water (boiled pandan leaves)

* 1 cup of grated coconut

Cooking procedure:

1. Mix cassava, pandan and brown sugartogether.

2. Stir well and pour into a heat proof bowl or an aluminum used for steaming.

3. Steam for 40 minutes.

4. The know if the steamed pichi-pichi is cooked, the better way is to taste it.

5. Let it cool and cut into serving size pieces. Roll each piece in grated coconut.

Note: If in your area you can't find Pandan Leaves, you can buy pandan extract from a supermarket. The equivalent is 2 cups of water and half tsp. of pandan extract.

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Pork Sinigang sa Bayabas (Bulanglang)

Bulanglang is what they call it in Pampanga, in Tagalog it's Sinigang sa Bayabas. A lot of people dislike the smell of this dish, but for others it's like a scent of invitation to eat.

Anyway, this is one of my favourite and I hope you like it too!

Recipe and cooking procedure after the jump.

Ingredients:

* 1/2 kilo of Pork Liempo
* 1/4 kilo of Guavas/bayabas
* 2 pieces of gabi
* i stalk of kangkong
* salt or patis (fish sauce) to taste

Cooking Procedure:

1. Boil pork until its tender.
2. Pour guavas and when its tender mash it with the soup.
3. Put gabi and kangkong.
4. Put salt or patis to taste.

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Adobong Tahong

Here is another way of cooking Tahong or Mussels.

Ingredients and cooking procedure after the jump.

Ingredients:

* 1 kilo of tahongm shelled

* 6 tbsp. of vinegar

* 7 cloves of garlic, crushed

* 2 tbsp. of salt

* corn oil

Cooking procedure:

1. Boil tahong in vinegar and a small amount of water.

2. Add salt and crushed garlic.

3. As soon as the liquid dries out, add cooking oil.

4. Cook for 5 minutes and remove from fire.

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