The Lucky Cook: Filipino recipes of a househusband

Salmon head sinigang with miso

My wife and I can eat Sinigang daily or even a week. Sinigang is a Filipino stew characterized by its sour flavor most often associated with tamarind as its base. This dish is perfect for the rainy season to keep our body warm and active. There are many varieties of soup base for Sinigang, you can use guava, kamias, calamansi or any sour fruit and vegetable that you want as your base. It usually comes with vegetables like kangkong (water spinach), radish and sitaw (long bean). You can...

Bibimbap or mixed rice with vegetables and meat are one of the first Korean dishes that I've tasted. It's like a Mongolian bowl but the ingredients are cooked separately. This one is a complete healthy meal, rice for carbohydrates, meat and egg for protein, vegetables for vitamins and minerals. The main highlight of this dish is the chili pepper paste but in this one I used garlic chili paste. Korean food are now popular in many countries together with their music and tv series/drama. Maybe...

Did you know that pork is the most widely consumed meat in the world? I've eaten a lot of pork dishes using different style of cooking and for me "Lechon" is the best. According to Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, the best pig in the world is here in the Philippines which is "Lechon Cebu" (roasted pork) . It captured the heart of the American chef, author and television personality who loves to eat pork. There are many ways and style on how to cook pork. Just like chicken, most parts of...

"Itadakimasu", "Kampai", "Irasshaimase", "Domo Arigato", "Gochiso-sama". I know everyone heard this traditional phrases when you dine in Japanese restaurants. Meals in japan begins with the phrase "itadakimasu" ( let's eat) and ends with "Gochiso-sama" (it was a feast). Japanese cuisine is very popular and well renowned worldwide. Most of us can easily identify dishes that are distinctively Japanese like sushi, maki, sashimi, tempura and ramen. This Kani Bacon that I've prepared has been...

Seafood is abundant here in the Philippines because of its land structure. The islands is covered with seawater that has great amount of fresh seafood. This crab was bought for about $8 a kilo at the supermarket. At home the usual way to prepare crab is to steam and then you dip it to a mixture of soy sauce, calamansi and lots of chili's. Since I wanted to give it a twist I've come up to add some spice to make this dish scrumptious. Ingredients 4-5 pcs medium size crab 1/4...

This time the dish that I will share was courtesy of my friend "JP" (Janna Patricia). She brought this one during one of our putlock session at our office. This dish was a hit to all of us and we requested that she must bring another batch the next day. I asked JP on how she prepared this one and I "Just got Lucky" that she shared the recipe on how to create this tasty dish. Same dish was serve by different food chains here in manila like "Bon Chon" and "Manang's Chicken". You can try this...

"Chicken!" most of us love chicken, right? and the most popular one "FRIED CHICKEN".. haha. Most parts of the chicken here in the Philippines are being utilize for cooking. Nearly all the parts of the chicken can be used for food. Thigh for frying, breast for fillet, buffalo wings, isaw (grilled intestines), isot (grilled chicken butt), helmet (grilled chicken head), adidas (grilled chicken feet), liver and gizzard. There are so many recipes that can be found on how to cook certain parts of...

Tofu is one of our favorite food specially the heart clogging "tokwa't baboy". There are a lot of recipes that you can choose from to cook tofu. This dish that I've made was only from left over ingredients that I've gathered from our fridge. Spicy foods are always welcome for both of us, it has been viewed as aphrodisiacs which is good for a newly wed couple. You can cook this dish in just 10 to 15 minutes, quick and easy. Ingredients 1 block Tofu 1 small tetra pack tomato sauce...

"My wife loves to eat shrimp".. Shrimp tempura, buttered-garlic shrimp, drunken shrimp (nilasing na hipon), steamed or raw, name it and she will eat her heart out. Last January 2011 when we dine in a buffet dinner in Boracay the only food that she ate was steamed shrimp. I've prepared this pasta dish last Christmas, this is one of the dish that my wife requested for our Noche Buena. Ingredients 1/2 - kilo Fettuccine pasta 250 grams raw Shrimp ( deviened ) 1 250 ml...