Ginisang Giniling or Ground Beef with Bell Pepper recipe is very easy to prepare and best served during breakfast in my opinion. In Cuba, Spain, Philippines and Peru, this recipe is used in their famous food set! Just like Arroz a la Cubana, the Spanish dish which consists of fried rice, sunny side up egg or scrambled, fried sliced bananas and ground beef with bell pepper. Ginisang Ginilig or Ground Beef with Bell Pepper Recipe Ingredients: 1/4 lean ground beef 1 small carrot diced 1 small potato diced 1 small Red bell pepper 1 small red onions you can use white if you want 4 cloves of chopped...

Its really hard to think of what to eat especially when you wake up in the morning, especially when you’re on your mid life and no house help nor someone to cook for you during breakfast. Oftentimes, people living like my lifestyle tend to buy instant or procesed food for breakfast and dine out for lunch. I just can’t imagine how unhealthy our diet is. Anyway, its really part of my daily routine to hunt for what to cook and eat inside my kitchen and I think it’s really part of life to survive. I found some excess chorizo that I kept from my pansit last week, extra cheese as well. I...

I really don’t know how to properly cook beef to make it tender, especially for the Mechado recipe. So I decided to use a crock pot or a slow cooker to make sure the beef comes out tender. It makes me wonder if I just feel too excited to eat all the time that most of my beef recipes are poorly cooked in terms of beef tenderness. This time, I used a crock pot to avoid further disappointments. Here’s my mom’s version of beef mechado cooked in crock pot or slow cooker. Ingredients: 1/4 beef sirloin cubed to 1″ 5 clove of garlic minced 1 medium head white onion quartered 1 native...

I’m really new in preparing Bechamel sauce and it’s a good thing that I was able to attend a Greek cooking demonstration by CYMA at the Maya Kitchen in Makati. The Maya Kitchen Culinary Center regularly holds these cooking demos every Tuesday to Saturday at 8th floor Liberty Building, 835 A. Arnaiz Avenue, Makati City. You can call then at 8921185 or 5011 local 108 to know their schedule. One of the dishes I saw during that day was the Moussaka, a Greek recipe that includes Bechamel sauce. Moussaka is kinda similar to Lasagna but the difference here is, instead of using pasta, it uses...

Longganisang Lucban is a famous sausage from Lucban, Quezon. It is typically garlicky and slightly sour in taste. A piece of the sausage is all you need for a cup of rice as it is so tasty. You can still smell this when you burp. Hehehe! The Lucban Longganisa is typically paired with garlic rice, sunny side-up eggs and tomatoes on the side or atchara (pickled garnish famous in the Philippines), a native vinegar with garlic and pepper can be prepared as complementary condiment. But I’ve decided to make something different. I wanted to try the processed meat of longganisang lucban for my pasta...

One stormy lazy afternoon, a friend blogger Aileen Apolo de Jesus of  Mabuhay ang Bagong Kasal Blog was experimenting on a new recipe called The French Beef Stew.I was really excited to read the outcome of the recipe she’s making. Her blog about the French Beef Stew came up and I excitedly listed the ingredients and headed that evening to a nearby grocery and bought the missing ingredients that I need. The following day, I was chatting with her for the last minute preparation just in case I missed or misinterpreted some of the recipe’s details. Then, another friend, Ria Jose of Kusina ni...