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?

ronald's food column #1 - beta

According to what I've read somewhere, professional bloggers or at least serious bloggers identified as people who blogs regularly, blog in hopes of getting an offer to write a column for a published media. Writing for a publication may be enticing, but according to TFA (the f*cking article), blogging are for opinionated people. People who needs to share their thoughts to other people. While this may sound like a typical definition for a person with attention-deficit disorder, KSP in the local dialect, I have no idea why I mentioned this thought...

BUT!!, even though I'm no serious blogger (I'm more of a non-serious one), if ever I'll be snatched from the blogosphere to write in a weekly column for a magazine, I would like to write about my newly acquired self proclaimed imagined cooking skills which was necessitated by poverty. In short, in order to save money, I've been cooking my meals for sometime now.

A bit of background: I've been living away from home (home being Davao) for almost a year now. This means that my Yaya and/or Mom has not been cooking for me for that long, sad but true...

So here is my first easy-to-prepare, geared-towards-the-lazy-person, relatively affordable recipe for this 'column.'

Tantatanan!!

Ronald's version of a Tuna Spread. (Bows).

Ingredients:

1 Can (optional) Cheapest Tuna Flakes in Brine/Oil you can find ~P14
1 380ml (optional) Flavored Mayonnaise in Foil (a.k.a. mayo-based sandwich spread) ~P35
1 480g (optional) Wheat Bread Fortified with Fiber ~P50

Notes:
Every ingredient is optional - What I'm trying to say here is that you have an option of not making this tuna spread. (You have been warned.)

Bread with Fiber. Let's fight the battle against constipation!

Instructions:

1.) Drain oil/brine into bowl. (Keep this as I might change my mind and have to let you know that this _might_ still be useful)
2.) Put tuna flakes in the container you want your tuna spread to be in.
3.) Get Fork.
4.) Locate container that contains tuna flakes devoid of oil.
5.) Using the fork you hold on your right hand, lightly mash tuna flakes so that they would be exactly how you want them to be, lightly mashed and separated.
6.) Afterwards, let go of fork. Be sure to put it in an easily accessible location. (hint: beside the bowl of tuna flakes)
7.) Carefully add the sandwich spread. I usually add just enough to cover every strand of tuna flake with precisely 0.0011mm of mayo. I do not want a very soggy tuna spread. You may have a different preference.
8.) Grab the fork you let go of on #6. Mix.
9.) Buy Soda. (Important!)
10.) Spread the spread on Bread. (Hey, that ryhmes!)
11.) ???
12.) Enjoy while occasionally sipping your soda.

There you go. Enjoy the ridiculously easy to prepare Ronald's version of tuna spread.

Instruction #11 was intentionally left out as this is the most imporant step to get to #12:Enjoying your newly created spread. Non-enjoyment of you tuna spread is due to your not following the 11th instruction.