Ox tripe Callos Ver 0.01B

Time to use the remaining tripe from Ox tripe Callos Ver 0.01A.

Recipe from

http://www.myfilipinorecipes.com/meat/filipino-callos-beef-tripe-recipe.html

Ingredients

1 300ish g Hunt's Pork & Beans
4 cloves garlic
1 small onion
potato, diced
carrots, diced
5 tbsp soy sauce
Butter

Steps

1. Saute garlic and onions in butter.
2. Add the tripe. Stir fry to your heart's content. 3ish minutes.
3. Add the soy sauce. Add the potato and carrots.
4. Cover and let simmer until potato and carrots soften.
5. Add the can of beans. Simmer for 3ish minutes

Comments

Good but first recipe tasted better
Mas nalalasahan mo iyong pork and beans.
Mas madali/mabilis gawin.

For next time

Hmmm... actually ok na siya. Not much to expect since base sauce is from the canned beans.

Personal Rating: ★★★★
Yup, I have a personal star system now.


★             - not fit for human consumption
★★          - ang importante ay may nakukuha kang nutrition
★★★       - ok na sana kaso parang may kulang
★★★★    - pwede nang for regular rotation sa meal plan
★★★★★ - i should sell this 

Ox tripe Callos Ver 0.01A

I bought 1.89 kilos of ox tripe from snr. I intend to cook another dish with my slow cooker. And the internet advice I remember is that the cheapest meat cuts are best matched with slow cooking. Ox tripe at Php160/kilo.

I thought I bought too much so I decided to try two callos stew recipes. This is the first one.


Recipe source

http://panlasangpinoy.com/2010/02/24/ox-tripe-stew-callos-recipe/

Ingredients bought

For slow cooking:
1.89k Ox tripe
1 small onion
0.5 thumbsize ginger
1 beef broth cube, disolved in 2 cups of water

Rest of the cast:

1 225g Sevilla Garbanzos
1 250g Del Monte Original Style Tomato sauce 1 strip bacon
1 King Sue chorizo bilbao
1 potato, diced
3 small carrots, diced
0.5 of a red bell pepper, cut into strips

Procedure

1. Put the tripe, broth, ginger, onions, pepper into the slow cooker. 12-ish hours.
2. Sleep.
3. Wake up.
4. Remove tripe from pot. Drain. Set aside two cups of the liquid. Use half of the softend trip for this recipe. Set aside the other half.
5. Fry bacon. Cut, set aside.
6. Fry chorizo bilbao in bacon grease. Cut, set aside.
7. Pour in tomato sauce into the pan mixing with all the grease in the pan.
8. Low heat, let sauce boil.
9. Add tripe, bacon, chorizo, tripe broth and mix. Simmer for 10 minutes.
10. Add carrots and potatoes. Simmer for 3 minutes
11. Add garbanzos and bell pepper. Simmer until carrots/potatoes soften. 10ish minutes.
12. Salt and pepper to taste.

Comments

Tasted good.
Prep time over 1hr. Kapuy.
The tripe smelt like papaitan-ish.

For next time

Try more ginger.
I should take pictures.

Personal Rating: ★★★★
Yup, I have a personal star system now.


★             - not fit for human consumption
★★          - ang importante ay may nakukuha kang nutrition
★★★       - ok na sana kaso parang may kulang
★★★★    - pwede nang for regular rotation sa meal plan
★★★★★ - i should sell this

French (Old) Onions Soup ver 0.01

Simula ngayon, lagyan ko naman ng backstory kung bakit ito ang niluto ko...

Isang araw, nagutom ako dahil sa sobrang kakafacebook.

Tumingin ako sa ref at dahil sa nakita kong laman (or lack of thereof), naalala kong di pa pala ako nakapag-grocery.

Let see what we have here inside the ref's vegetable drawer; six old onions, two old sweet potatoes, a shriveled ginger. I have other things inside the ref of course, but for this story's sake , there is nothing else in there.

Google, what can I make with onions, sweet potatoes and a ginger?

"Sweet potato and ginger soup." google immediately replied.

Thank you google, and so french onion soup it is.

End backstory.

Ingredients

4 red onions (out of the 6, 2 looked a bit dehydrated so they had to be taken cared of)
2 tbsp butter
2 tsp McCormick minced garlic
1 Knorr beef broth cube
1 tbsp muscovado sugar

Procedure

1. Chop the onions. The internet recommends cutting the onions lengthwise from root to stem but I read this too late. I cut the onions in rings.

2. Into the cast iron pan, melt the butter over medium heat.

3. Cast the onions into the flames! I mean, over the melted butter inside the pan.

4. Stir them onions around for 25mins. I had to lower the heat when some of the onions looked burnt.

5. Add the muscovado. Stir some more, 5min-ish. (The internet recipe said white sugar but this is what I have right now. Muscovado sticks to the skillet so I had to scrape it off every now and then. The sugar supposedly helps the caramelization of the onions.)

6. Add the garlic. (Again, the internet recipe called for fresh chopped garlic but again this is what I get for not grocery-ing.)

7. Chop the broth cube and then put into the pan. (I could have used my rice cooker to prepare the broth but I have rice in it)

8. Add 4 cups water.

9. Mix. Add salt and pepper to taste.

10. Serve with roasted chicken. (Important step, makes the onion soup tastes so good!)

Comments

Tastes onion-ishly sweet.
I brought leftovers to work and people said it tasted good. Well, they are good friends so they had to say it tasted good or else fb-unfriending will commence (yes, I'm that sensitive and shallow).

For next time

Use fresh garlic. Less sugar perhaps?
Prepare the broth separately.

Personal Rating: ★★★ 
Yup, I have a personal star system now.


★             - not fit for human consumption
★★          - ang importante ay may nakukuha kang nutrition
★★★       - ok na sana kaso parang may kulang
★★★★    - pwede nang for regular rotation sa meal plan
★★★★★ - i should sell this

Slow cooked pulled pork v1.01

Input Parameters

1.3 kg Pork pigue
2 packs 50g Mama Sita's Barbecue Marinade Mix
278.37ml Coke
3 tbsp catsup
3 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp lea&perrins worcestershire sauce
2 tbsp sriracha sauce


Algorithm

1) Put pork in slow cooker. Use half pack marinade on the pork.
2) Massage the marinade into the pork. Leave for 1 hour.
3) Pour the coke in.
4) Slow cook on low. 10ish hours.
5) Drain liquid into bowl, shred the pork; using two forks would be ideal.
6) Mix the rest of the ingredients into a pot, add 5 ladleful of the liquid
7) Put pot over slow fire, stir.
8) Put shredded meat back into the slow cooker, pour the sauce over. Mix.
9) Additional 1hr on high

Output

Matabang, parang may kulang.
Di barbecue ang lasa, tastes more like asado.
Good as a sandwich filling.
Tastes good when eaten with a salad-ish side.
Salad of apple, carrot, cucumber, onion.

Comment

Try to use a liquid based sauce or maybe use more?

Lotto Fever

Last monday was the day the my life almost changed.

It's the day I almost won the 230M lotto draw! I was just like ... uhm... you know... five numbers off.

A little bit of reality rewind might be in order.

It was almost years ago since I bet on lotto. Last monday was more of an impulse. I was my way home and as I pass by the usually busy lotto outlet, the outlet was unusually unbusy and vacant even with a modest streamer saying "239M Draw Tonight."

Coincidentally, at that exact moment, I got my left hand holding on to my P140 change from the banana stand. The exact amount needed for the 7 number bet. (You pay P140 for 7 numbers of your choice and if the lotto draw hits any 6 of them, you still win the jackpot)

It may sound stupid right now, and it was back then, but I was thinking, is this the cosmos' way of saying, that this is it Ron, your time to win.

Pffft, probably not. But whatever, let's give this luck-one-in-a-billion-odds thing another try.

I went the sentimental route of choosing my numbers. (The other route would be the statistical way of choosing the 6 numbers that least came up during the previous draws.) The other route needs time and effort to compute, so sentimental route it is. Numbers that are important to me are, birth date, 12 and 1, check. Significant other's birth date, 11 and 25, check. Age I got circumcised, 21 ehrm.. I mean 7, check. Century I was born, 1900 = 19, check. Age right now, 24, check.

Well, you know how it ended. (See 2nd paragraph if you already forgot)

But, chance, there is still. None won and another draw is up tonight.

I already bought tickets in the am. This time I went the f*ck-this-i'll-let-the-system-choose-random-numbers-for-me route. Six squiggly lines later, 5 tickets, 6 random numbers each.

Well, this got me thinking, how could I increase my chances of winning the Lotto? After much sleeping, internetting and watching tv, I came up with this list.

Five ways to win the Lotto

1.)  Get a statistics major friend compute the 6 least occurring number based on the previous lotto draws. Chances say that all the 49 lotto numbers should equally be drawn in time. (I don't really know if this is statistically sound but hey, no need for factual information on this blog)

2.) Pray to your god. Let your god know that you deserve this since you've been treated unfairly almost all your life. Say what you'll do in case you win. (In my case, theoretically, I would be willing to split the pot 200-30, 200 for me, 39 for you. I like round numbers.)
       2.1) Pray to all your gods. For polytheists, pray to all of them. Customize your plea to fit their moods. You don't pray for world peace to the war god do you?
       2.2) For monotheists, secretly get another monotheist god or two. How you keep this secret from an omniscient god is beyond me, but if you pull this off, let me know. (Remember the numerous they are, the numerous powers that be, the more chances of winning)

3.) Draft your resignation letter, ready to click send. You got to let the cosmos know your f*cking serious about this.

4.) ???!?
    4.1) This probably the most important step, missing this step would be catastrophic to your chances of winning. Until somebody figures this out, sigh, we can go on hoping.

5.) Buy a ticket.

P.S.

I just got on twitter as blognironald, (yeah, I'm such a late adopter). If you're on it, let me know and if I stalkerishly like you so much, I'd probably follow you!

-update- 2/30 1143h

No one one the jackpot: 01 - 22 - 35 - 36 - 41 - 42

the good: i still have a chance to win over 300M on sunday
the bad: i didn't win 288M last night
the ugly: i have already planned out what to do w/ 288M up 'til the last centavo. Sigh, i now have to redo it for 300M.

i should have still gone the sentimental route of choosing the numbers the 2nd time around. the winning numbers have very significant meaning in my life:
  1 - my birth day
  22 - pairs of socks i own
  35 - number of days in the month of december + 4
  36 - 6 times 6, 36. 6 times 6, 36 (there's even a song for this number!!)
  41 - my target life expectancy divided by 2
  42 - my target life expectancy divided by 2, then add 1

dammit!