Chicken with Pineapple
Topic: Chicken
Pineapple is one of my favorite ingredients for any dish that I cooked like rice, fish, chicken, etc. While I was preparing the Milkfish Kinilaw yesterday for our lunch, I didn't able to used all the pineapples on it so I let my sister Jong used the remaining slices on the chicken that she is about to cooked also that time.

Ingredients:
700 g chicken, sliced into serving portions
juice of 1 lemon
1 medium onion, sliced thinly
1 ripe tomato, slice thinly
2 tbsp. grated ginger
1 cup pineappne chunks
1/3 cup chicken broth
1 cup milk
3 tbsp. cooking oil
salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
1. Combine chicken slices and lemon juice. Mix well.
2. Heat oil in a pan, stir fry the chicken until slighlty brown.
3. Add onion, tomato and ginger, stir well and cook for 2 minutes.
4. Add pineapple slices and chicken broth, cook until the liquids are reduced.
5. Add milk, cook for few minutes. Remove from heat and serve.

See also:
Fried Rice with Pineapple
Fish in Sweet n Spicy Sauce
Fish Teriyaki
Citrus Chicken Adobo

Milkfish Kinilaw
Topic: Fish
While we were still in bed with my hubby yesterday morning, I was surprised when he said “how he wished that there will be kinilaw because he miss to eat it already”. So after we ate our breakfast I checked what’s in the fridge to make for kinilaw, what I found was a milkfish only, hence that was what I made. For those who doesn’t know what Kinilaw is, well, it is one of the popular Filipino cuisine usually seafoods which is sour-cooked in vinegar or other souring agents like lemon juice, green mango, etc. It is combination of raw and cooked foods. The kinilaw’s texture is somewhat like the firm softness of the raw but reach the state of being cooked.

Actually I did not know how to make a good kinilaw because this is not one of my favorites, what I made was an experimentation only with the help of my sister Jong, a kinilaw lover.

Ingredients:
1 whole medium milkfish, deboned and cut into small cubes
2/3 cup white vinegar
juice of 3-4 lemons or to taste
1 onion, sliced thinly
2 thum-sized ginger, cut into strips
1 stalk green onions, chopped
1/3 cup evaporated milk
2/3 cup pineapple chunks with light syrup
chopped red pepper
salt to taste

Directions:
1. Combine fish cubes and vinegar, mix thoroughly. Let stand for few minutes or until the color changes and reach the state of being sour-cooked. Drain.
2. Add the lemon juice to the fish. Mix well.
3. Add the rest of the ingredients. Season with salt and pepper. Serve.

Bitter Melon with Beef
Topic: Vegetables
I just wanted to experiment how to make a bitter melon less bitter because my hubby hates its strong bitter taste that's why I cooked this recipe and the result was very impressive.

Ingredients:
1 medium bitter melon, sliced thinly
1 cup thinly sliced baguio beans
1/2 cup ground beef
1/2 cup frozen corn kernels
1 medium onion, sliced thinly
1 ripe tomato, sliced thinly
1 thumb-sized ginger, sliced into strips
2 tbsp. light soy sauce
3 tbsp. tomato sauce
2 tbsp. oyster sauce
1/2 tsp. sugar
3 tbsp. cooking oil

Directions:
1. Sprinkle about 1 tbsp. salt to the bitter melon, mix well, squeeze to extract the bitter taste. Rinse with cold water, drain and set aside.
2. Heat oil in a pan, saute onions, tomato and ginger until tender.
3. Add ground beef, stir and separate the lumps. Stir until the meat are cooked.
4. Add the vegetables, stir well.
5. Add the light soy sauce, tomato sauce and sugar as well. Cook for 2 minutes or until vegetables are done. Then stir in the oyster sauce. Cook for few seconds. Turn off the heat and serve.

See also:
Bitter Melon and Carrots
Spicy Ground Beef Pinakbet

Vegetable Fried Rice
Topic: Rice
I was out of mood to cook last night since I was not quite feeling well, hence I just plainly broiled the fishes. And since we have lots of rice leftovers, I fried it with lots of vegetables so that I cannot cook vegetbales anymore. I thought it will not go well with the broiled fish but I was wrong. This is really good for vegetarian.

Ingredients:
4 cups cold cooked rice
1 medium onion, sliced thinly
1 medium ripe tomato, sliced thinly
1/2 cup baguio beans, thinly sliced
1/2 cup carrot, sliced into small cubes
1/2 cup frozen corn kernels
1/2 cup brocolli, cut into small florets
1 cup shredded cabbage
light soy sauce, to taste
3 tbsp. cooking oil
1 egg, beaten
1 stalk green onions, cut into 1 inch length

Directions:
1. Heat few amount of oil in a wok. Add and cook the beaten egg until lightly brown. Flip to cook the opposite side. Transfer into a flat dish or chopping board, roll and cut thinly. Set aside.
2. Heat the remaining oil in a wok, saute the onions and tomato until tender.
3. Add all the vegetables and stir to mix well. Season with light soy sauce. Cook for about 2-3 minutes.
4. Add rice to the mixture, stir until the rice is heated through.
5. Turn off the heat. Transfer to a platter and garnish with the green onions and the cooked egg.

See also:
Tips in Cooking Fried Rice
Fried Rice with Pineapple
Yang Chow Fried Rice

Leche Flan with Strawberry and Cream
Topic: Desserts
Actually, my original plan was to make Leche Flan only but when I inverted the first cooked leche flan into a platter, some part of it sticked to the molder, so the outside texture was a little bit rough, it doesn't look good, lol! I don't want to serve it to my hubby since he is very particular with the food's look. According to him, when the food looks good, then definitely it tastes good too. I am different because I will taste the food first before I judge (but sometimes I was also like him, lol). So back to the topic, since the surface was not so smooth, I decided to cover it with the all-purpose cream and strawberries, hmm sounds good, so that's what I made. I cut the strawberries into 4, then microwave it for 5 seconds to make it soft and easy to bite, then I placed it over the cream. My hubby is not fond of very sweet foods but when I served it to him late at night while we were watching movie, he ate all the one you saw in the picture below and he asked me on the next day if we still have it, lol!

Ingredients:
6 egg yolks
1 whole egg
1 1/3 cup condensed milk
3/4 cup evaporated milk
1 tbsp.vanilla
1 c. brown sugar
Fresh strawberries, sliced into 4
All-purpose cream

Directions:
1. Put all the first 5 ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.
2. Caramilezed sugar on the molded tin
until its golden brown.
3. Pour the mixtures on it and steam for 40 minutes.
4. Invert the lechen flan in a plate and refrigerate until cold.
5. Cover the wbole surface with all-purpose cream.
6. Microwave the sliced strawberries for 5 seconds.
7. Top the cream surface with the strawberries and serve.