Pickled Milkfish (Daing na Bangus)

Pickled Milkfish or Daing na Bangus is one Filipino’s favorite dish. When I was in Philippines, my mother always made it during our fishpond’s harvest time, she pickled it first for several hours and then put it under the sun for not more than an hour, then we fried it in the evening. She did [...]

Besugo Fish Soup

Besugo is very common in Philippines and it is one of our favorite fish, my father always bought it whenever he saw it in the fish market and asked my mother to cook it immediately while it was still very fresh. We usually broiled it or boiled it with some vegetables. It has a very [...]

Real Cream of Chicken and Asparagus Soup

Cream of asparagus, my father’s favorite cream soup and he usually bought ready to cook soup powder ever since he tried it. I never tried cooking fresh asparagus cream soup before, whenever we had fresh one, I will cook it different way, not a soup base. We still had some fresh asparagus left in the [...]

Jackfruit with Shrimp Salad

Since we tasted the canned jackfruit in the Jackfruit Salad that I made last week, my husband bought again the other day, it seemed that he was starting to like the canned jackfruit now, tasted almost the same with the fresh one, that was he said. Now I add shrimp and cucumber to taste different [...]

Spaghetti Guisado

Here’s my another style of cooking spaghetti:

Ingredients:
250 gram spaghetti, cooked according to package instructions
1 cup ground beef
2 pcs. chicken franks, sliced thinly
1 medium carrot, julienned
1/4 head of cabbage, sliced thinly
1/3 cup black fungus, soaked in water and sliced
1 large onion, sliced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 bell pepper, sliced into strips
2 1/2 cups broth
1 cup spaghetti sauce, [...]