Fish Paksiw

I so love fish paksiw or fish cooked in vinegar and some vegetables. I spotted a packed of Trout fish at Costco the other day. I so love fish so a thought came to mind, I would cooked fish paksiw then. When I cooked fish or any meat and has a lot of vinegar I see to it I cooked it with my glasswares. I feel safe in glasswares than other cooking ware..here goes my photos of my fish paksiw.

Fish cut in serving sizes with minced garlic

String beans, okra, eggplants

Here is my pyrex glass pan I cook in here a lot

Vegetables cut and put in the pan, put the vinegar just covering the fish

Cook cooked in vinegar fish served with rice!

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Sardines, Misua & Kalabasang Puti

                                   Here is my version of misua with white squash. I remember this viand too well becasuse this is my favorite dish to cook when I get too lazy to prepare anything. I mixed it with sardines the one that you can buy in any oriental store that is why the color is red because of the tomato sauce from sardines.

Saute onion, garlic then tomatoes

Put the sardines 

Here is the white sqaush chopped in big cubes

Put the white squash put a little water then let it boil

When the squash is tender put the misua noodles and let it simmer seasoned it with salt and pepper

My sardines with misua and  white squash

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Beef Stir Fry

This is my version of beef stir fry. I do shunned from too much oil good thing this recipe is not that oily for stir fry. I prepare garlic and onion minced, then small carrots, water chestnuts and pineapple chunk. When everything is cook I put flour mix in water continue stirring cover and let it simmer for a little bit. Then you are done with hot rice my dinner is good!

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Popcorn shrimp

Since I  bought this popcorn shrimp on sale at our grocery store I already watch it everytime I go shopping. The other day they sale almost all of their seafood item and there I was grabbing two of this popcorn shrimp and so the mussels. Here is what I come out with my popcorn shrimp..lettuce, tomatoes and balsamic venaigrette.

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Banana/Strawberry Shake

This morning I prepare our breakfast. When I was done doing my  thing in the kitchen I called hubby and he was amazed how little the food was on the table hahahahaha, I told him this is only around 300 calories maybe and if we want to lose weight naturally we have to do this, lol! But then I told him do not worry  I am going to cook lunch too with just less than another 300 calories hehehe.  Here is my first breakfast that I think it is healthy.

                                                                     The ingredients

                                                                 The Breakfast

                                                         
                                                   Banana/Strawberry shake

Procedure/Ingredients

*Berry/ Banana shake
*1 muffin cut in half
* 1 tbsp cream cheese
* 1 cup coffee or tea ( hubby drink it already)
* Banana (frozen or fresh)
*

Strawberry/ Banana smoothie
* 1 banana, peeled, cut up and frozen ( fresh)
* 1/4 cup fresh or frozen strawberry ( or any berries you have)
* 1 cup Silk mango/peach juice
* 3 tbsp low fat yogurt
sliced fresh strawberries (optional) for garnishing

     In a blender container combine the frozen banana pieces, desired berries, juice, and yogurt. Cover and blend till smooth. To serve, pour into tall glasses. If desired, garnish each drink with fresh strawberries. Makes 2. If you want more just double the ingredients you can't be wrong with smoothies! Have fun!!

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Binagoong na Baboy with Shrimp Paste

The other day I crave for binagoongan na baboy with shrimp paste. I look at the pantry and there it is my ingredients are complete.

                      I fry first the pork to let out the fat oil. Then when it is all brown I put the onions.

                                       After the onions are translucent I put the garlic/minced.

                      Then I put at least two spoonful of Shrimp paste cooked it then put the tomatoes

                                              Binagoongan na baboy with shrimp paste!

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Bake Trout

I discover this dish when I was at my friends house. We had a get together and she cook this one. She cooked many different food but this one in particular is my most favorite. So I asked her what she did. First, she told me she bought the fish at Costco. She clean the fish and bake it for 45 minutes for 350F. You know it is done because the meat is flaky. When it is done take it out from the oven. While baking the fish prepare a pan, saute onions, garlic, ginger, bokchoy and bell pepper when it is done put it to the fish dish. Then put back the fish into the oven while it is hot covered the dish in foil. When you are ready to eat you can take it out oh by the way do not forget to season it with salt  and pepper. Eat hot!

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Giniling Baka (Ground Beef)

I remember this dish because this is always my favorite to order everytime I eat in a Carenderia (fast food eatery). My mother used to cook this too and until now I know that this dish needs tomatoes and tomato paste. I tried cooking this before with out tomatoes and paste it taste different this time I got it.

                                                           I diced the carrots and potatoes

                                                        I saute the onions then the garlic. After they are all translucent in color put the ground beef and stir.

                When it is brown put the diced tomatoes and tomato paste.  I also seasoned it with fish sauce. I also mixed a little of raisins and green peas.

This is hot and done still inside the wok. A very easy dish.

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Home cooking

I am starting to harvest some of my vegetables. Yesterday I picked some of it and thought of cooking it home cooking style so here it is.

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Mango Tea

It feels a different this year. Usually by the end of August we started to get cold but not this year the month of July has some days that are cold but mostly we have a pretty warm day and that is when I decided to make this kind of juice or tea. I noticed that in summer hubby tend to drink more pop than water or coffee so this juice/tea does make him not drink too much of pop.

Easy thing to do here:

      

                               This are the ingredients. Mango juice, one orange and four tea bags

              I open the mango juice and slice the oranges mix them together in this pyrex glass.

                          Then I prepare water let it boil in a tea pot. put the tea bags. Let it cool.

           Take the tea bags put the tea inside a water pitcher then the mango juice and the slices orange.

                                                              Let it cool it taste so good!!

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Collard Greens

I always crave for green leafy vegetables. Back in the Philippines where I grow up we always have vegetables on the table every meal. When I got here in the US I have a hard time figuring out how to cook there green leafy vegetables here. I have eaten a lot of lettuces but would like to try cooking the other green leafy vegetables. So this year I decided to plant one green vegetable and it is called collard greens. I checked out google and look for recipes and found one that is easy and so yummy.

I cut the collard greens leaving the hard part in the middle.

                                           I then boil it for 8 minutes. Then I drain it.
   

 In a wol I saute onion first until it will be translucent then I added the minched garlic. While stirring you can mix the collard greens at this time. But if you have a left over fish meat, shrimp, ham or pork slice it and mix it with the collard greens. Put a little vinegar on it I used rice vinegar then season with salt and pepper. Eat it hot.

                         My simple collard green dish. I am very glad I found this recipe and this vegetable.
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Barbeque Time

Here in the US when summer hits the calendar people are so eager to cook outside their house and do some barbeque. Everytime the weather is good and no rain in the early evening hubby and I will go outside and cook. The other day I went to an Oriental store and saw pre made pork barbeque. I thought why not grab two packs and enjoy the barbeque later. That day it rained so I took my George Foreman grill and grill the barbeque inside the house. Nothing could stop me from eating pork barbeque hehehe.

                                 Imagine this with hot rice and vinegar for dipping, yummy!      

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Zucchini and Cod fish

After a long day of cleaning the house I was exhausted but leaving here in America is different from the country I came from Philippines. In the Philippines you can hire an "angel" to help you with the household chores and here in America you do not have that luxury. So after cleaning and my back aching I drove to the local greenhouse and buy more herbs then to the grocery store. I saw zucchini and thought of cooking it. So here goes our diiner yesterday.

                                                                      Hubby's plate

                         My plate it is pretty obvious I am Asian I have to have rice lol!!!

This is pretty easy dish. I fry the cod fish. The zucchini's I saute it with garlic and onions. Then I put the sliced zucchini and when it was tender I put the diced tomatoes. Done!!

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Salmon with sriracha mayo

My husband's son in law gave us fillet salmon from his fishing trip last week. Hubby and I are not fun of salmon (but love the salmon belly) so I look at online what I can come up with it. I found one recipe that is workable to me the ingredients is not hard to find and most of the ingredients I already have in my pantry. So I decided to cook it.

Ingredients:
Salmon fillet
soy sauce
water
 toasted sesame oil
ginger paste ( I don't have fresh ginger but I have ginger paste which has the same freshness of a fresh ginger)
minced garlic
white sugar
 rice wine
mayonnaise
sriracha hot sauce

Procedure:
1. Whisk together the soy sauce, water, sesame oil, minced garlic, white sugar, ginger.
2. Place the salmon fillet inside ziploc bag. Pour the marinade sauce on top of the fillet. Remove air as much as possible seal it and refrigerate for at least an hour.
3. In a wok or pan heat the oil in  medium/high heat. When it is hot, add the salmon fillet. Do not burn the fish. When it is flaky it is cooked.
4. In a small bowl, mix together the sriracha sauce and the mayonnaise. If you want it to be chilly go for more sriracha sauce.
5. When the fish is done put it on top of vegetable or rice and put the sriracha mayo on top of the fish. Done!

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