Citrus Chicken Adobo
Topic: Chicken
Adobo is a common Filipino dish typically made from meat or chicken, the basic ingredients added are soy sauce, vinegar, crushed garlic, bay leaf, and black peppercorns. It is very simple and requires just a handful of ingredients. A good tasting adobo depends upon the delicate balance of all the ingredients, like other dishes there are many variations in the combination of ingredients as well as the cooking process. If you are adventurous, you can add some ingredients to add more taste to the basic.

Ingredients:
500 g chicken, sliced
juice of 2 lemons
1 small can pineapple sliced with syrup
4 tbsp. soy sauce
1 tbsp. oyster sauce
1 tsp. white sugar
1 bay leaf
1 tsp. whole peppercorns
3 cloves garlic, minced
3 tbsp. melted butter
1/2 cup chicken broth
8 pcs. quail eggs, boiled and peeled

Directions:
1. Heat butter in a skillet, stir fry the chicken until brown then add garlic, stir.
2. Add pineapple syrup and chicken broth. Simmer for 5 minutes then add peppercorns, bay leaf, soy sauce and lemon juice. Allow to boil.
3. Add the white sugar, oyster sauce, pineapple sliced and the quail eggs. Simmer for 2 minutes. Turn off heat and serve.

Shrimp with Soy Bean Sprouts
Topic: Shrimps
This is a Thai dish which requires very short time to prepare and cook, better to cook it during meal time. When I made it last night, I prepared all the ingredients first, put it all inside the fridge and did some other things since we were not going to take dinner yet, my hubby was out, he's processing the car's insurance.
When it's already time for dinner, when other foods and everything were placed in the dining table, then that's the best time to cook this recipe.

Ingredients:
400 g shrimps, peeled
300 g soy bean sprouts
300 g mushrooms, sliced
4 cloves garlic, chopped
2 tbsp. soy sauce
2 tbsp. oyster sauce
1 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tsp. sugar
2 tbsp. cooking oil.

Directions:
1. Combine shrimps and garlic.
2. Heat oil in pan and stir fry the soy bean, add soy sauce. Take out of the pan, set aside.
3. In the same pan, stir fry the shrimps and mushroom over a high heat until the shrimps are cooked.
4. Add fish sauce, oyster sauce and sugar. Stir in the soy bean sprouts, cook for 10 seconds. Serve immediately.

Banana Cake
Topic: Snacks
There were ripe bananas left when we ate this afternoon and my husband requested me to make it a cake but I was little bit busy last night so I asked my sister Jong to make it, I taught her few months ago how to make one and this is the one she baked last night. We did not able to eat it all so we brought some slices in the office this morning.

Ingredients:
2 pcs. ripe banana, mashed
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 eggyolk, beaten
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vinegar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/3 cup raisins

Directions:
1. Combine flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
2. Cream sugar and butter, add eggs,milk and vinegar. Add the flour mixture and mix together using hand mixer until well blended.
3. Add vanilla and raisins. Mix.
5. Transfer the mixture into buttered and floured cake pan. Bake in a preheated 200 degree oven for 40 minutes or until done.

Coconut Muffins
Topic: Snacks
I made this recipe as an experiment, this is almost similar to the Puto Cheese, the only big difference was the method of cooking, this was baked while the Puto Cheese was steamed. My first plan was to make Bibingka, my brother Zul said he miss eating Bibingka a lot but we don't know how to make it. I know the ingredients but I am not sure about the measurement. I said I will try to experiment using all-purpose flour instead of rice flour, the result, it turned into a muffins! Now, I called it Coconut Muffins. LOL!

Ingredients:
3 cups flour
2 cups thick coconut milk
1 1/4 cup white sugar
4 eggyolks
5 tbsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
grated cheese
Margarine

Directions:
1. In a bowl, combine all ingredients except cheese and margarine. Mix all together until well blended.
2. Place enough amount of batter in a paperlined moulder, sprinkle grated cheese on top and bake for 20 minutes in a preheated 375 degree oven.
3. Take out from oven and rub margarine to the surface.
4. Serve warm.

Lettuce Wraps
Topic: Appetizers
This recipe is one kind of Dim Sum meals and good as appetizers but sometimes considered as main dish. This recipe is design to be eaten as taco-style, with the lettuce/mixture folded into a package but as you see in the picture, the mixtures were not folded all since I ran out of lettuce last night, I cooked the mixture first without checking the fridge if we still have enough lettuce, only to find out that we had only few leaves left. Never mind, I still put some of the remaining mixtures to the plate. See!

Ingredients:
1 head of lettuce leaves
300 g ground beef or chicken flakes
1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 tablespoons oyster sauce
1 tsp.sugar
1 tbsp. shredded ginger
1 cloved garlic, minced
2 stalk green onions, chopped
1/2 cup mixed vegetables (carrots,green peas and corn kernels)
1 egg, beaten
2 cups shredded cabbage
salt and pepper to taste
1 tbsp. cooking oil

Directions:
1. Wash the lettuce, dry, and cut the leaves. Set aside.
2. Heat oil in a skillet, add the garlic, ginger, and green onions and fry until the garlic and ginger are aromatic.
3. Add the beef or chicken and cook until done. Add soy sauce, oyster sauce and sugar. Stir. Add the cabbage and mixed vegetable, cook for 3 minutes then add the beaten egg, stir well until the egg is cooked.
4. Season with salt and pepper. Turn of heat.
5. Lay out a lettuce leaf and scoop 1 tbsp. out of the meat/chicken mixture and place it in the middle of the leaf. Fold to cover the mixture. Continue with the remaining mixture and lettue leaves until done. Serve.