Pork Spareribs Adobo Delight

Pork Spareribs Adobo Delight

 

Hi! It's nice to be back after a long long time :) I honestly feels so happy to be back :)
Maybe this time, I can have more time to post more recipes here :), hope so...

Lately, my life was just like a roller coaster :( 
Space may not be enough to tell the whole story why, but I am moving forward one at a time, thinking what will be my next step to face tomorrow :).

While I'm at home, I am playing the role of a full time Mother to my two (2) "super kulit" girls. Then few hours ago before dinner time comes, they both requested me to cook some food to be serve later once their Papa arrived at home from work. 

When I asked them what they want, they both replied "Mama, puede po Adobong Spareribs, for sure madami po kami makakain". I really felt the excitement on their face and so I just replied them with a smile.

While cooking, I realized how time really runs so fast, I might have few hours to spent with them in the past since I am working and used to manage My Little Angels Online Shop after work. 

But the coming days might be different from what we used to do. God permits us to be together all day long. An opportunity to guide them in doing housing chores, watching television while exchanging views and sharing stories of anything under the sun. I want to enjoy each moment with them while they both at summer vacation. 

Ingredients:

1 kg pork spareribs and/or liempo
5 cloves of garlic pounded 
1/2 cup soy sauce
1 1/2 cups water
1/4 cup vinegar
1 tsp ground pepper 
2 tbsp Mama Sita's barbecue marinade
1 sachet Maggi Magic Sarap
2 tbsp cooking oil 
2 tbsp butter
2 pieces hard-boiled eggs

Cooking Procedure:

1. In a container, combine pork, garlic, vinegar, ground pepper, maggi magic sarap and soy sauce.
2. Marinade for at least 1-2 hours.
3. In a pan, transfer the marinated pork, cook for few minutes at medium heat.
4. Let it simmer, remove all dark bubbles on top.
5. Add cooking oil and water. 
6. Let it simmer, stir once in a while until becomes medium cook.
7. Add barbecue marinade and butter then stir to make it saucy adobo.
8. When done, move out pan from heat.
9. Serve with hard boiled egg on side and hot plain/fried rice. 
10. Share and enjoy!

During our meal time, I thanked God for the foods present at our table and how my kids appreciated them. Much more than that, I thanked Him for my kids who keeps on cheering me up, when everything seems so wrong and helpless.

For my kids, thank you so much for making me feel perfect despite my imperfection; 

loving me completely even on times that I feel empty;

In my heart, both of you will always be My Little Angels forever :)

In times, I might felt lost and had no purpose at all in life.
Then later realized, I have so much more to do, so much more to share to others and so much more to learn from others who will comes on my way :)
I just need to continue DREAM BIG & WORK HARD to make them all possible.

So from this day onward, I promise to challenge myself for all positive opportunities ahead rather than to feel pity about time spent for yester-years.


Thanks a lot for viewing and reading :)
May you keep on coming back for future post, hehehe...
God bless us all always, take care :)

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Special Pork Adobo with Mushroom

Special Pork Adobo with Mushroom

I want to share with you my new kitchen experiments that was made a week ago when thinking of what to cook for our dinnertime based on what foods were available at home.

Finding out some pork at our refrigerator, the first dish came out of my mind was to cook Pork Adobo. Maybe because its so easy to cook, short cooking time and so simple to prepare. With this dish, I just added mushroom, onions and 7-up soda to make it more delicious than the usual.

Adobo is an all-time Filipino's favorite dish, it becomes much more delicious when preserved for some days at refrigerator then re-heat for few minutes before serving.

Ingredients:

1/2 kilo pork, cut into pieces

1/2 cup vinegar

1 cup 7-up, may use Sprite if not available

5-6 tbsp oyster sauce

3 tbsp catsup

4 tbsp Knorr Seasoning Original

1 can whole mushroom, sliced

 1/4 cup garlic, minced

1/4 cup onion rings

2 tbsp butter

salt and pepper

Procedures:

1.  In a cooking pan, put pork cut pieces, garlic, vinegar and water.
2. Let it simmer, remove unnecessary pork residue when boiling.
3. Add oyster sauce, knorr seasoning and pepper.
4. Stir occasionally until medium cook.
5. Add catsup and oil, season to taste.
6. Cook until pork are cooked and sauce thicken.
7. Set aside
8. Heat butter in a pan over medium fire.
9. Saute onion rings until becomes translucent
10. Add mushroom and pinch of salt.
11. Add cooked pork adobo, stir well until becomes even.
12. Let it simmer for 1-2 minutes, then remove from fire
13. Serve hot with rice.

Chicken Adobo

My Saucy Chicken Adobo

Ingredients:

1/2 kilo chicken, cut into pieces

1/2 liver and gizzards, cleaned

6-8 cloves garlic, minced

1 cup vinegar

3-4 tablespoon Mama Sita's Oyster sauce

2 tablespoon Original Knorr Seasoning
3-4 tablespoon catsup
1-2 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoon cooking oil

Preparation:

1. In a saucepan, combine chicken pieces, liver, gizzards, vinegar, garlic, oyster sauce and pepper. 
2. Let boil until medium cook, stir occasionally.
3. Add knorr seasoning, pepper and catsup to taste.
4. May add water if needed.
5. Cook until chicken, liver and gizzards are tender. 
6. When sauce thicken, add cooking oil then stir.
7. May add hard boiled egg when served with hot rice.

Chicken Curry with Mushroom

 I already saw and tasted my Mother and other closed relatives preparing this menu during fiesta and family occassion, but I never tried to cook by myself.

Until one day, when watching Kris Aquino's latest morning show named Kris TV, she did cooking demo of this meal. I just noticed that she added button mushroom and used canned coconut cream in her dish. It's something unusual that what I usually saw with the others. The finished product really looks so yummy and I started to crave for its tastes.

Since my kids loves to eat foods with mushroom, I really got the interest to try it by myself. Looking forward for sometime to be free to do so. 

As a working Mom, it's always been my heart's desire to try new recipes for my family and kids especially during weekend. I have more time to spend in our kitchen, where I don't need to be in a hurry, unlike during week days. 

In one way or another, this is just my simple way of showing them how I really wanted to spend more quality time with them.

Finally, last Saturday we had no work and found some time to tried it. The taste of curry powder and coconut milk complements with each other. It's creamy and yummy. Better to try it for yourself to find out.

After all the efforts to make it as delicious as possible, well I truly glad that my kids liked it and mentioned "Sana po lagi na lang nasa bahay si Mama, para po masarap ang kain namin! Ang sarap, sarap po talaga!"

Ingredients:

1 kilo chicken, cut into pieces

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp ground black pepper

1-2 cup carrots, cut into cubes

1-2 cup potatoes, cut into cubes

1 /2 cup red bell pepper, cut into cubes

1 can whole mushroom, sliced 

1 piece onion, sliced

3 pieces garlic, minced

1/2 cup cooking coil

2 tbsp butter

1/2 -1 tsp curry powder

2 cup thick coconut milk

Preparations:

1. Clean cut chicken, drain well

2. Season chicken with salt and pepper.

3. Heat cooking oil in a skillet. Add chicken and butter. Cook over medium heat.

4. Cook chicken until done, then set aside

5. Using the same skillet, pan fry potatoes and carrots. Set aside when cooked

6. Get around 2 tablespoon of cooking oil on oil used for frying chicken and heat this in a saucepot.

7. Saute' garlic and onion until transparent.

8. Add cooked chicken, potatoes and carrots

9. Add mushroom and bell pepper.

10. Add coconut milk, season with salt and pepper.

11. Simmer the chicken in the coconut milk until the sauce is thick and almost dry.

12. Serve hot

 Thank you for spending your time in viewing this post. May your family likes it taste the same as time. God Bless us all.