Deep Fried Shrimp
Mood:  hungry
Topic: Shrimps
Here's one of my hubby's favorite recipe "Deep Fried Shrimp", he called it Breadcrumbs, since the shrimps were coated with bread crumbs, lol! Whenever we bought medium-size shrimps, he always suggested "Hon breadcrumbs"! The most interesting fact when I cooked this recipe is my hubby counted the shrimps and devided it to us "equally"(?) and he always got more compared to us.

Ingredients:
1 pound uncooked medium shrimp in shells
Vegetable oil
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 large eggs, slightly beaten
3/4 cup dry bread crumbs

Directions:

1. Peel shrimp, leaving tails on. Make a shallow cut lengthwise down back of each shrimp; wash out vein.

2. Heat oil (2 to 3 inches) in deep fryer.

3. Mix flour, salt and pepper. Coat shrimp with flour mixture. Dip shrimp into eggs, then coat with bread crumbs.

4. Fry 4 or 5 shrimp at a time in oil about 1 minute, turning once, until golden brown. Drain on paper towels.

Seafoods Sinigang
Topic: Mixed Seafoods
Sinigang is a famous Filipno dish with variety of ingredients. It is typically sour and is often stewed fish, shrimp or meat. It is usually prepared with tamarinds. Other vegetables would include okra, spinach, radish, and string beans, etc. It does not use vinegar, even though it needs to be sour. Another variety is prepared with guava and is less sour than those with tamarind. Raw mango can also be utilized.

My hubby likes sour foods so much and I always warned him for eating such foods because he has an ulcer. That's why whenever I cooked sinigang, I always minimized the sour ingredients.

Ingredients:
250 g shrimp
300 g large fish head (lapu-lapu is the best)
1 big onion diced
1 big tomato quartered
2 pcs. long green pepper
6 pcs tamarind (substitute with ready made sinigang mix if you cannot find tamarind)
4 cups ricewash or water
Vegetables of your choice
salt and fish sauce to taste
Crushed ginger, thumb-sized (optional)

Directions:
1. Boil Tamarind in rice wash or water to soften. Pound and extract all juices and set aside.
2. In a casserole, boil rice wash or water, Tamarind juice (or sinigang mix), onions and tomatoes. Add crushed ginger if you like.
3. Add in the shrimps, fish and green pepper simmer for 5 minutes.
4. Add the vegetables, fish sauce and salt and cook until the vegetables are done. Serve hot.

Spaghetti ala Pancit
Topic: Pasta
I named this recipe as Spaghetti ala Pancit, because as you see in the picture below, it looks like a pancit canton, guisado or whatever you call it but actually that's a spaghetti. We have many spaghetti sticks in our kitchen cabinets that's why I tried to cook it in many different ways. Here's one:

Ingredients:
250 g spaghetti stick, cooked
1 medium chicken breast, sliced
1 large carrot, sliced into strips
1 large bell pepper, sliced
1 can 150 g sliced mushroom, drained
2 cups chicken broth
1/3 cup oyster sauce
1/3 cup soy sauce
1 large onions, chopped
1 tbsp. finely minced garlic
4 tbsp. cooking oil
1 tsp. sugar
1 tbsp. cornstarch
2 tbsp. cold water
1 tsp. sesame seed oil
salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
1. Heat the cooking oil in a pan. When smoking, add the chicken and stir fry over high heat until lightly brown.
2. Add the garlic and onions. Stir for about 2 minutes.
3. Add the carrots and mushrooms and cook for 3-4 minutes.
4. Pour in the broth, add the soy sauce and salt. Bring to a boil.
5. Blend the cornstarch and cold water.
6. Stir in the cooked spaghetti and bell pepper. Mix well.
7. Add the cornstarch mixture and oyster sauce. Stir until the sauce thickens and clears.
8. Turn off the heat. Add salt and pepper if desired, then stir in the sesame seed oil. Serve.

Pineapple Pancake
Topic: Breakfast Recipes
Using pineapple adds a wonderful tropical taste to a milky pancakes. Serve these hot with your favorite drinks.

Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 can 160 ml evaporated milk
1 egg
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 cup pineapple juice
butter cooking spray
pineapple jam

Directions:
1. In a mixing bowl, combine the flour and baking powder, make a well in the center and add the egg and milk.
2. Gradually incorporate the flour to make a smooth batter, beat in the juice.
3. Heat a griddle or skillet sprayed with the butter cooking spray, for each pancake, pour about 1/4 cup batter onto the hot griddle. Spread batter into a circle about 4 inches in diameter.
4. Cook over medium heat until pancakes are golden brown, turning to cook second sides when pancake edges are slightly dry.
5. Continue to cook in batches.
6. Top each pancake with the pineappple jam. Serve while hot.

Mix Seafoods with Vegetable Stir Fry
Topic: Mixed Seafoods
One of my hubby's favorite seafoods is shrimp, he always mentioned that he missed our native shrimp (from Philippine Fishpond)so much because it really taste different compared to the shrimps here in Kuwait. He likes any recipe with shrimp. Here's one of the recipes that I cooked with shrimp.

Ingredients:
350 g shrimps peeled and deveined
350 g calamare cute into 5 cm sqaures
1 red pepper, large size, cut into strips
2 red chili pepper, chopped
1 onion, medium size cut into wedges
3 green onions, sliced
2 garlic cloves
100 g baby corn, cut into halves, lengthwise
2 tbsp black beans, canned, drained
2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tsp ginger, fresh, grated
3 tsp corn flour
1 tsp sugar
3 tsp soy sauce


Directions:
1. In a plastic bowl put black beans and mash using a fork. Add chili pepper, garlic, ginger, soy sauce and sugar and stir to mix well.

2. In a small bowl dissolve corn flour in ? cup water then pour over beans mixture and stir until well combined.

3. In a wok heat and stir oil and onion for 1 minutes then add red pepper and baby corn and stir for another 2 minutes.

4. Add shrimps and calamare and cook until it curls. Add sauce and simmer stirring constantly until sauce thickens. Add green onion and serve immediately.

Makes 4 servings