macaroons

ingredients needed

dessicated coconut

eggs
condensed milk

note: usually, in one dessicated coconut pack, add 6 eggs
 
mix all ingredients well. once good consistency is achieved, place in macaroon cups and molders. place in pre-heated oven until top is brown.
 

macaroni salad

we will need:

macaroni salad
fruit cocktail
kaong
nata de coco
cheese
raisins
mayonnaise
condensed milk
nestle cream
sugar

note: for 1 kilo of pasta, add 1 nestle cream

cook pasta as directed. drain pasta, kaong, nata de coco, fruit cocktail. cube cheese. mix all to desired taste.

Chicken Adobo

My first attempt at cooking chicken adobo was almost a failure. I followed Mama's intructions to the letter however, everytime I added sugar (i like my sauce sweeter), the taste got weirder and weirder. So I added more liquid ingredients but it was still weird. Until I realized that what I was putting in was not sugar but salt! To remedy it, I had to throw away the liquid again and start all over with the vinegar, soy sauce and water. The only good thing about cooking the chicken that long was it became more tender that the meat just easily fell right off the bones.

Chicken Adobo

Cut chicken in desirable size. Put in a pot, mix in garlic, black pepper, soy sauce and vinegar. Add just enough water so that you won't dilute the soy sauce and vinegar. Boil until meat is tender. When there is just enough sauce to your own liking, cook in slow fire to remove the excess oil in the meat (remember, it adds to the taste). Put in laurel for added taste and smell. Serve.

Binagoongang Baboy

Of course, I would have to learn how to cook my favorite dishes first. With the need to cook now to save on extra expenses when dining out, I bought the ingredients for Binagoongang Baboy and asked my Mom how to prepare it in the most simplest of way -- which of course, it is.

Binagoongang Baboy

Slice meat in your desired size (I prefer bite-size, of course!). It is better if you cut meat with a bit of fat with it. Cook in water until it is tender, or when the meat is brown. Let a little of the fat's excess oil be removed by cooking (it adds to the taste, I'm sure!). When brown, add onion and garlic. Lastly, put in the alamang (fish paste). Just make sure that you add little by little so it won't be too salty.

After this, you're done cooking!


 

two recipes

the two simple recipes that started this all --

Emperor's Delight


Boil three bars of gelatin. 1 bar is to 3 cups of water. Put sugar to taste. Boil until gelatin is ready na para tumigas (shet, hirap i-translate!). Put in a molder hanggang firm na sya. Tapos kung matigas na ang gelatin, arrange mo ang drained fruit cocktail sa ibabaw ng gelatin. In a separate container, mix 2 pouches of nestle cream and one condensed milk. Mix it well then pour above the gelatin with fruits. Chill and serve.

Maja Blanca

In a half kilo cornstarch, mix it with 16 cups of coconut milk then put sugar, alpine evap milk, one condensed milk and sweet corn creamstyle (not the whole kernel; probably Del Monte brand). Mix all with the coconut milk. The sugar is added according to your taste.Cook in slow fire with constant stirring. See to it that the consistency is not too "matigas". Put in molder. Serve.

Vamos a Comer!

Bienvenidos! Vamos a comer!

I am creating this blog to honor my mother who is the greatest cook in the whole world (i know every child says that about their mothers but for me, my mom is the greatest cook!). What created this blog is my email to my friend who was asking for my mom's recipes of Maja Blanca and Broken Cathedral. It was like I was struck by a bolt of lightning, thinking that this blog will be the solution to my long time dream of putting into paper, a book actually, of my mama's recipes. This blog is one "healthy" way of starting that goal. Mind though that all that will be written here are not my mom's originally. As a simple wife with a family to raise (yes, including my dad), she had to resort to copying recipes from her friends and on books or magazines when we were young. Today, I buy her books. I am not actually sure though if she cooks from them. All I know is that my mom loves to cook and she prepares it with much gusto. She may not be the world's best renowned chef, but she is my mom, and she is Our Cook!

Welcome and enjoy!