I don’t know the secret ingredient to this, but it was really yummy! Unlike other common pancit recipes, pancit Cabagan is is not dry and the ingredients blend together really well with the well-cooked noodles. Up to now, whenever I think of pancit Cabagan, I always think that the secret to its delicious taste lies in that sauce.

After having my first pancit Cabagan in Nueva Vizcaya, I bought box of the famous G&B Buko Pie. This is the best buko pie I have tasted so far!

Located along Maharlika Highway Brgy. Tuao Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya, this yummy Proudly Vizcayano buko pie has a distinctive taste that once you take a bite, it melts in your mouth immediately. Their secret ingredient? Nope. Can’t tell, I don’t know either. But based on my expert taste buds, the secret to this buko pie is…

%%Pancit Cabagan and G&B Buko Pie%% is a post from: Patay Gutom

HOW TO MAKE DUMPLINGS

Ingredients:

• spring onions
• garlic
• Ginger
• white pepper
• salt
• Sake, sherry, or rice wine
• Sesame Oil
• Light Soy Sauce
• 2 cups flour
• 1 egg
• Ground Pork

Instructions

1.Mince the spring onions, garlic, and ginger and set them aside for later use.

2.Mix the ground pork well with the spring onions, garlic and ginger.

3.Add the Sake, Light Soy sauce, Iodized salt, white pepper and Sesame oil until a pleasant aroma is produced.. (if you can’t smell anything then either you have colds or your not doing it right *wink*)

4.Set aside the meat mixture and start mixing the flour with egg. Mix and knead well until a sticky lumpy mixture forms. Add more flour until it gets dry. Mix well until no more cracks or wet portions form.

5.Flatten the mixture with a rolling pin and go as thin as possible.

6.Use a circle cutter to cut the skins.

7.Put one scoop of meat mixture on the skin and close the skin into a half-moon shape then seal it with water and in the shape of frills.

8.Dip the dumplings in boiling water and let it boil for 10 minutes

9.Eat them with Silver Swan Soy sauce and calamansi for best result

10.Go to the gym to burn off what you ate

%%Dumplings 101 with Photoblogger%% is a post from: Patay Gutom

And oh, here’s a picture of the two basic ingredients used in this recipe:

How to cook Fish Adobo ala Jehzlau:
1. Pour a small amount of cooking oil in your frying pan
2. Add at least half teaspoon of powdered garlic and onion in your frying pan
3. Once the powdered garlic, onion and cooking oil is thoroughly mixed, add your fish cubes
4. Wait for 10 to 12 minutes until your fish cubes is cooked
5. Cut the string beans by 2 inches then pour it in your frying pan
6. Add a fair amount of vinegar, soy sauce, and water
7. Mix all the ingredients together and add at least 5 table spoons of Oyster Sauce
8. Add 1/4 teaspoon of McCormick All Spice (Continue Mixing)
9. Add Bay Leaves and Black Pepper
10. Mix all together and wait for 5 minutes
11. Check if your fish cubes and string beans are cooked enough
12. Taste it, and if you think that it’s already cooked and good to eat, then stop cooking! Yay!

That’s all for the instructions. Forgive me if I’m not that “GOOD” in creating food recipes.

Here’s the output of the experiment! Weee!

Here’s a macro shot of Fish Adobo ala Jehzlau!

That’s all for today, I hope you like it!

%%Fish Adobo ala Jehzlau%% is a post from: Patay Gutom

If there’s one thing I love about cooking, it’s the endless possibilities of combining ingredients to achieve a unique flavor. I was browsing the contents of our refrigerator this afternoon and I found a couple of “cookables”. I decided to make my own Macaroni Meat Sauce.

Ingredients for Macaroni Meat Sauce ala Yagit:

• Del Monte Macaroni
• Left over tomato sauce from last night’s dinner
• Minced Garlic
• McCormick Powdered White Pepper
• McCormick Granulated Garlic
• White Onion
• Ground beef
• Lots of Cheddar Cheese
• Parmesan Cheese
• Flaked Chilis

How to cook:

1. Cook the macaroni for 15 minutes in a hot boiling water with 1 teaspoon of rock salt.
2. After cooking the pasta, drain the water using a strainer and set aside.
3. Saute garlic and chopped onions in a sauce pan.
4. Add the garlic beef and simmer until cook.
5. Add last night’s leftover tomato sauce. *This part makes the sauce “ala Yagit”.
6. Mix last night’s leftover tomato sauce with the beef.
7. Add some grated cheddar or Parmesan cheese.
8. Simmer for 5 minutes or until the cheese has melted.
9. Pour the meat sauce on top of the pasta.
10. Top with grated Parmesan cheese.
11. [optional] Add some flaked chilis for extra spice.

%%Macaroni Meat Sauce ala Yagit%% is a post from: Patay Gutom

Ingredients:
1. Mama Sita’s Oyster Sauce
2. McCormick Minced Garlic
3. McCormick Powdered Garlic
4. McCormick Powdered Onion
5. Century Tuna Flakes in Oil
6. McCormick All Spice
7. Sliced Brocolli

How to cook this awesome recipe:
1. Add a small amount of cooking oil just enough to mix the spices
2. Wait until your cooking oil is hot enough then add your spices
3. Add at least 1 table spoon of powdered garlic, powdered onion and all spice
4. Mix all your spices until you are satisfied
5. Separate the oil from your Tuna Flakes.
6. Add the Tuna Flakes without Oil in your frying pan
7. After 5 seconds, add your sliced brocolli then mix it
8. Mix, mix, and mix until you are tired of mixing
9. After 1 minute of mixing and stir frying your brocolli and tuna, add at least 5 table spoons of Oyster Sauce.
10. Mix all together for 15 seconds, then add at least 5 table spoons of clean water (preferably mineral water, yay!)
11. After you have added and mixed all of the it and you are 100% sure that your brocolli is ready to eat (well-done, medium rare, rare, or just-the-way-you-want), then stop stir frying and transfer your Tuna Brocolli ala Jehzlau to your plate!

That’s it! This will be the final outcome of your oh-so-yummy Tuna Brocolli ala Jehzlau. Cooked just the way you want it!

%%Tuna Brocolli ala Jehzlau%% is a post from: Patay Gutom

I’ll just enumerate the ingredients then tell you how to cook it. Actually, I just stir fried it until it was well-done.

Ingredients:
1. A1 Steak Sauce
2. McCormick Minced Garlic
3. McCormick Powdered Garlic
4. McCormick Powdered Onion
5. 1/4 Kilo Tuna Cubes
6. Cooking Oil (Of course)

How to cook this awesome recipe:
0. Turn on your stove
1. Add cooking oil in your frying pan and wait for 5 minutes
2. If the cooking oil is hot enough and you can’t wait to put your 1/4 Kilo Tuna Cubes, then don’t hesitate to put it in your frying pan
3. Fry your tuna until it’s semi-cooked
4. Add at least 3 table spoons of McCormick Powdered Garlic
5. Add at least 10 table spoons of A1 Steak Sauce
6. Add at least 3 table spoons of McCormick Powdered Onion
7. Now add 5 table spoons of McCormick Minced Garlic
8. Mix Mix and Mix all your spices, sauce and your 1/4 Kilo Tuna
9. While you are mixing, slice your tuna in your frying pan
10. Mix all of your ingredients and wait for 10 minutes while mixing
11. After 10 minutes, check if your fried tuna is properly fried.
12. If you think your tuna is well-done, sprinkle some minced garlic onto it until you are satisfied of how your Garlic Fish Steak ala Jehzlau looks like. Yay!

Once done, your Garlic Fish Steak ala Jehzlau should look like this:

Soon, I will create a video version of this recipe to make my cooking technique more detailed. So watch out for it!

That’s it! Was that easy? Cook your own Garlic Fish Steak ala Jehzlau now!

%%Garlic Fish Steak ala Jehzlau%% is a post from: Patay Gutom