Spicy Cereal Fish Recipe

This is a variation of Cereal Prawn Recipe.

Ingredients:

4 fish fillets (cut into bite-sized pieces)
1 stalk of curry leaves
Potato starch
2-3 tablespoon butter
1 pack of ready mix cereal
1-2 minced chili padi

Season the fish with pepper only as the ready mix cereal is already salty.

Cover them with potato starch and then fry (double fry). Set aside.

Melt the butter in a pan.
Put in the curry leaves follow by the cereal mix and chili.
Once the cereal absorbed the butter, throw in the fish. Mix well until the fish are covered with cereal.

Enjoy.

Spicy Cereal Fish 

VERDICT
WILL: Missing the cereal prawn but Abbey have allergies with shrimps, to stop the craving, Abbey cooked cereal fish! 

The fish is crunchy and the cereal’s spiciness and aroma of curry leaves... mmm.. yummy! 

This is the great way to re-create your leftover fish. Happy dining! 

Caramel and Lotus Biscoff Cheesecake

This is a variation of the cheesecake recipe. A little tweak and a new version is born.

2 250g-block Philadelphia cream-cheese
1 cup sour cream
1 cup whipped cream
2-3 tsp vanilla
1-2 tsp lemon juice
5 tsp unflavored gelatin powder

25 pcs Lotus Biscoff caramelized biscuit (crushed)
1/2 block of butter (melted)

1 can of caramel

In a bowl, mix butter and Lotus Biscoffuntil the texture is like a wet sand. This will serve as your base. Put the mixture in a spring-form cake tin (20cm diameter). Compress it with the bottom of a glass. Place it on a freezer to harden. Then make the cake.

Soften the cheese by putting it out off the fridge until the it has the room temperature. Put it in the bowl and mix it with other ingredients; sour cream, whipped cream, lemon, vanilla, and gelatin powder. Continue to mix it (not whip) until the consistency is smooth.

Layer the pan with cake mixture and then caramel. And top it with caramel design like icing.
Place in freezer minimum of 6 hours (depends upon your freezer's power), preferably overnight.

Caramel and Lotus Biscoff Cheesecake 

VERDICT
WILL: Ate Sol send me off a can of caramel syrup. Sweet, literally! Haha. You can’t just throw the caramel into your mouth and Abbey made a good idea to turn it into more wonderful, Caramel and Lotus Biscoff Cheesecake.

This is the alertnative biscuit you can use other than oreo. Crunchiness is there. Then, their goes the caramel on layers! The sweetness of Lotus Biscoff biscuit fights to balance with salty cheese! Fantastic!

Til next cheesecake adventure!

Kale Pork Salad

Ingredients:

Pork

(1/2) Lemon Juice

Soy Sauce

Salt

Pepper

For Salad

Washed and stip the kale from its stem

2- Tomato sliced thinly

5 cloves - Fresly minced garlic

(1/2 fruit) - Lemon Juice

2 - Hard Boiled Egg

Chili Oil

Sprinkle salt and pepper on the pork meat. Mix lemon juice, soy sauce. Throw-in the pork and marinate overnight.

On low heat, fry the pork until for 5minutes each side.

Plate the kale, tomatoes, hard boild egg, minced garlic and drizzle lemon juice. Top it off with the fried pork. Put some chili oil to spice it up!

Enjoy your salad.

Kale Pork Salad

VERDICT
ABBEY: Upon arriving at home, I smell a savory aroma. It was the fried thin slices of pork.

We had kale pork salad.

I put kale, pork, egg, minced garlic and tomatoes in a bowl and drizzled it with lemon juice and chilli flakes.

It is delicious. The sourness of lemon masked the bitter taste of kale. All ingredients went together well.

Easy Cucuzza (UPO) Recipe

Ingredients:

Medium-sized cucuzza - cut to bitesize pieces

10 cherry tomatoes or 2 medium ones - cubed

1 medium onion - sliced

3-4 garlic cloves - minced
Fresh Basil 

Sauté onion then garlic. Mix in the tomatoes until it is soft. Lastly put the upo and fry for a couple of minutes. Put water and let the cucuzza cook until your preferred tenderness. Toss the fresh basil. Serve with rice. 

Easy Cucuzza (UPO) Recipe

VERDICT
WILL: We wanted to be healthy. And being healthy is 80% from the kitchen. That is why we are always trying to look for new recipes of vegetables that always readily available in the market. Hello to cucuzza!

Abbey cooked and made it tasted like a red sauce for pasta! Winner! Healthy and lycopene rich viand!

What will be the next? Hmmm?

Stir-Fried Chicken With Bell Peppers

Ingredients:

1/4 kilo boneless chicken breasts, cut into bite-sized pieces

2 teaspoons Maggi Savor

1/2 green bell pepper, diced

1/2 red bell pepper, diced

5 cloves of garlic, minced

1 onion, minced 

Salt and Pepper to Taste 

Directions:
In a bowl, marinate the chicken with the Maggi Savor overnight.
Saute the garlic and onion.
Stir fry the chicken for 5 minutes or until it turns white.
Add the bell peppers and saute up to desired crispiness. 
Salt, pepper or splash more Maggi Savor.

Stir-Fried Chicken With Bell Peppers

VERDICT
ABBEY : This is a simple sautéed dish. But don’t be fooled. The flavor is awesome. I didn’t know that bell peppers can bring lots of flavor and make a dish delicious. 

Serve with hot rice and you’re good to go.

Honey Garlic Sriracha Chicken Recipe

Ingredients:

8 chicken wings

1 cup all-purpose flour

salt and pepper

1/3 cup sriracha

1/3 cup honey

1 tbsp vinegar

Mix flour, salt and pepper.

Coat the chicken wings and deep fry them. Set aside.

In a pot, mix sriracha sauce, honey and vinegar. Put in low heat and stir for a couple of minutes until it thickens.

Add the chicken and stir until the wings are coated.

Serve with rice. Or beer :)

Honey Garlic Sriracha Chicken

VERDICT
WILL: Abbey and I saw a youtube channel that interviews people while eating chicken wings coated with chili sauce. 

Drooling on their every bite, I requested Abbey to do a Honey Garlic Sriracha Chicken for our dinner. 

The crispiness and spiciness is totally bombastic in our tastebuds! Lovely! Who will count on cholesterol if the chicken's skin will be the most important part! Haha! 

Next time, I think I can endure the next spiciness level! 

Gourmet Tuyo (Dried Herring) in Olive Oil

ABBEY: We happened to have a good amount of tuyo (herring) after our vacation. Thanks to our family and friends for the pasalubong. And recently we started to cook dishes with gourmet tuyo and it cost 300 to 500PHP per jar. We thought why buy it when we can try to make it.

10-15 pcs tuyo (fried then fillet)

1 cup olive oil

1 1/2 cup vinegar

1 bulb garlic (chopped)

2 medium chili padi

sugar

salt

In a pot, heat the oil and then sauté the garlic.

Put in tuyo and chili.

Add vinegar and simmer for a couple of minutes.

Put sugar and salt according to your preference.

Gourmet Tuyo (Dried Herring) in Olive Oil

WILL: A humble "tuyo" can be oh so glamorous and expensive. Haha! 

My father gave us 4 packs of dried herring and Abbey got an idea. Why will we buy an expensive gourmet tuyo if we can make it for ourselves. He dove on Youtube videos and te-ne-nen!!! Gourmet Tuyo!

It is not salty, it is not that spicy but the olive oil and vinegar gave a good taste! Manyaman! Eat with steaming hot rice. 

Oh! One more thing, for sure there will be oil leftovers. Go on and have an aglio olio pasta! 

Super Addictive Brownies - Dona's Recipe

ABBEY: This recipe was given to me by our friend Dona from the US of A. I was able to bake the cookies after a year :)

Follow the recipe specially when spacing the cookie dough on the baking sheet. The recipe will yield 30 chocolatey, delicious cookies.

Super Addictive Brownies - Dona's Recipe 

Super Addictive Brownies

WILL: Donna's cookies are so desirable. The aroma reminds me of chips ahoy on the 80's. The taste is not too sweet and the texture is chewy and perfect for any hot drinks. 

Abbey requested for the recipe and he baked it. Is it just the same? Well, it is ok. But the texture differs. Abbey's product is crumbly and the salt/sugar is not dissolved (which I love). 

Now I am waiting for next baking session of Abbey. 

Gourmet Tuyo Pasta

Ingredients:
1 garlic bulb, minced

1 8-ounce bottle dried herring in oil
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes

1 pack of cherry tomatoes 

Directions:
1. Cook the pasta according to package directions.
2. Heat the olive oil (from gourmet tuyo)in a sauté pan on medium-low heat. Add the garlic and for 2-3 minutes toss in the chili flakes. Raise the heat to high and add the cherry tomatoes. Simmer for 5 minutes.
4. Mix your cook pasta inside the pan. 

Gustazo's Gourmet Tuyo Pasta

VERDICT 
ABBEY: Wow, this is another version of Wilma’s pasta: cooked pasta with gourmet tuyo and cherry tomatoes. This is delicious and easy to cook. 

I always go for a second serving; carb-overload. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Budae Jjigae (Army Stew) - Easy Recipe

Ingredients:

The ingredients listed are the ones for our version. It will vary from the usual budae jjiage.

Kimchi

Bee hoon (you can use noodles) - soaked in cold water

Rice cakes

Mushroom (thin slices)

Chilli pepper paste (put according to your spice level)

Onions (sliced into strips)

Tofu (1/2 inch think squares)

Squid balls

Kimchi juice

Cheese for toppings

In a pot, place the onions first. Then place tofu, squid balls, rice cakes, mushroom, bee hoon in heaps.

Put water, kimchi juice and chilli pepper paste.

Let the boiling begin and scoop in bowls.

You can also add spam or luncheon meat, or slices of pork.

Budae Jjigae (Army Stew)

VERDICT
WILL: Abbey and I achieved another milestone financially and to celebrate that Abbey prepared Budae Jjigae as our dinner (because we miss the Budae Jjigae of Gangnam Wings). 

Abbey, made a simple and yet tummy-filling Korean Army Stew even the ingredients are not that much. 

The kimchi blended well with the soup and spiciness just gave another punch of flavour. Don't ever-ever skip rice cake on this meal! 

Happy eating.

Mushroom and Soy Sauce Pasta Recipe

1 bag shiitake mushrooms
3 tablespoons soy sauce
3 tablespoons butter
5 tablespoons olive oil
1 garlic finely chopped
pepper to taste
parsley leaves  

Cook the pasta al dente. 

In a large pan over high heat, add oil, 1 tbsp butter and finely chopped garlic. Add mushrooms and cook until water evaporates. Drain pasta and add to the pan of cooked mushrooms.

Turn the heat to high. Mix well and add soy sauce and olive as desired. Toss in the parsley before serving.  

Serve with fresh parmesan cheese

Budget Friendly Recipe
Mushroom and Soy Sauce Pasta 

VERDICT
ABBEY: This is another variation of Wilma’s pasta. It looks simple which it is but the flavor and taste is superb. 

The mushrooms are moist as they absorb the soy sauce. Good to have many alternative flavors for our pasta dinner.

South Indian Lemon Rice and Chicken Chop Recipe

Ingredients:
lemon Rice

2 cups basmati rice - cooked according to package instructions

2 chili padis (labuyo) - finely chopped

1/4 cup curry leaves

1 tablespoon mustard seeds

3 tablespoon instant lemon rice powder

3 tablespoon vegetable oil

Put oil in a pan and let it become hot. Saute mustard seeds until they crack.

The mix curry leaves and chili.

Make sure the kitchen has good ventilation. The fumes can make your breathing difficult.

Put the lemon rice powder until it become a paste and then the rice.

Mix until the rice become yellow in color.

Chicken chop

3-4 pieces boneless chicken thighs or breast (flattened)

Batter

1/3 cup potato starch

1/4 cup all-purpose flour

1/3 cup water with dissolved 1 chicken cube

1 egg

Mix all the ingredients for batter until smooth.

Cover the chicken pieces with flour and dip in batter.

Deep fry the pieces until golden brown.

South Indian Lemon Rice and Chicken Chop

VERDICT
WILL: Abbey is always telling me that I bring happiness in him. Eeee, sweet! He knew that one thing that makes me happy is a tasty and nutritious food. 

So here you go..Lemon Rice with Chicken Chop. 

Lemon Rice is not that sour as you think, it is just a hint of it. Add up the mustard seed and curry rice, whew, and it bombastic aroma and flavour. 

Abbey partnered this yummy Indian rice with boneless chicken chop. Crispy and the coating is savory. 

~ Are you aware that Abbey deboned the chicken meat himself? Yep! Talented husband! Haha ~

Binagoongang Baboy (Pork in Shrimp Paste)

Ingredients:

1/2 kilo pork

2-3 spoonfuls bagoong (depends on your preference)

1 medium onion (sliced)

3-5 cloves garlic (minced)

Cut the pork with your preferred serving size.

Sauté onion, garlic, pork, then bagoong. Let the pork absorb the flavor of shrimp paste.

Simmer until pork until tender. Reduce the liquid after.

Serve with rice.

Binagoongang Baboy (Pork in Shrimp Paste)

WILL: Papa RS brought us his famous bagoong (shrimp paste) and what such a good meal to do with it? Of course, BINAGOONGANG BABOY. 

First, be careful to put a right amount of shrimp paste or else it will end it to a disaster. Abbey found the perfect amount that make my appetite blast upward. I made three rounds of rice on this. Haha. 

Pork is tender and shrimp paste gives a bearable salty kick on it. Yum!

Easy Crispy Fried Calamari Recipe

Ingredients:

10 pcs dried squids

1/3 cup potato starch

1/4 cup all-purpose flour

1/3 cup squid water (check the steps below)

1egg

Cut the squids into strips and soak in water; minimum of 4 hours

Drain them but save the water as it is part of the ingredients.

Squid batter:

Mix potato starch, all-purpose flour, squid water and egg. Mix together until batter is smooth.

Sprinkle a generous amount of all-purpose flour to the squid so the batter will adhere to it better.

Heat oil and do a double fry. This will make the squid very crispy.

VERDICT
WILL: Abbey is on the mood for creating dishes he watched in Youtube channel of Maangchi. Thanks again idol Maangchi! 

He requested dried squid from Papa Ros and it became an instant hit for us! Again, the double fry works very well with this. 

Crispy and succulent! Great with rice or a substitute for your pica-pica on your alcoholic session with friends. 

This is amazing. Fry it.