Recipe: Fish Cake

Lazy Fish Cake

Ultra Lazy Fish Cake Recipe. Another option to enjoy your canned tuna ^_^

Ingredients:

1 canned tuna

1 beaten egg

1/2 red onion - chopped

salt

pepper

3 tbsp cooking oil

Directions:

mix canned tuna and egg in bowl

add onions and salt & pepper to taste

heat oil on the pan and fry spoon full of tuna. Flattening them a bit while frying.

serve

Read more: http://cookeatshare.com/recipes/lazy-fish-cake-661141#ixzz2Lkhiai3U

Recipe: Tonkatsu

Basic Tonkatsu Recipe

super easy tonkatsu recipe. I just used the Bull-dog instant tonkatsu sauce for dip. I boiled the pork first but normally you could skip this. I just thought of incorporating the Filipino way of cooking Lechon Kawali :) Pair this with basic cabbage salad

Ingredients:

4 pork chops (in my case I used pork steaks..I like the fat thin and distributed ^.^)

salt

pepper

flour

1 beaten egg

bread crumbs

cooking oil

cabbage

mayonnaise (preferably Kewpie brand)

ketchup

Directions:

beat pork with a meat tenderizer (or the back of the knife will do)

boil pork on a pot until tender

drain water and let the pork cool down

season pork with salt and pepper

coat in flour, then egg, then bread crumbs.

fry until brown

-- for the cabbage salad --

chop cabbage finely

make salad dressing by combining equal amounts of mayonnaise and ketchup then season with salt and pepper

Read more: http://cookeatshare.com/recipes/basic-tonkatsu-660702#ixzz2LkYa3ZJ5

Chinese White Chicken

Sorry my picture doesn't look appetizing...it even looks scary actually but trust me I nailed this recipe...hope you'll give it a try :)

Gong xi fa cai! or Gong hey fat choy! to all my Chinese friends! (I hope I didn't butcher the greetings) I hope everyone had a blast celebrating last week. Chinese cuisine is definitely our family's favorite and White Chicken is one of our "default orders" every time we dine in Chinese resto. Hope you'll enjoy this basic white chicken recipe with ginger sauce ^_^


Ingredients

4 Chicken quarters (you can use whole chicken if you like)

8 cloves garlic crushed

1 medium sized ginger peeled

salt

1 tsp wansuy leaves (or scallion) chopped finely

1 cup vegetable oil

Directions

1. rub salt all over chicken. (it's ok to go crazy on this ^.~)
2. chop off about 1/4 of your ginger. cut it to 4pcs and crush.
3. put chicken, garlic and ginger on a pot. Add water til all chicken is submerged. Bring to boil.
4. Let it boil for another 30mins. You can prepare ginger sauce while waiting
5. heat oil on a separate pan. Grate ginger with the finest grater you got.(put it in a container that can withstand high heat like a stainless or fiberglass bowl)
6. add wansoy to ginger and pinch of salt.
7. add the heated oil to ginger (BE CAREFUL!)
8. plate your chicken and serve ^_^

Read more: http://cookeatshare.com/recipes/chinese-white-chicken-660005#ixzz2L4pw2kC2

LaPetite Camille - a patient man's coffee, lols

Everytime hubby and I goes out to eat, it's always Japanese, Italian, Filipino or the usual sandwich/burgers and fries. Vietnamese cuisine isn't something we usually crave for but since our palettes are feeling kinda adventurous we decided to try out LaPetite Camille ^_^

So the title of this post says something about COFFEE but let me get to that later and let's start with the food first, shall we? :)

Fresh Vegetarian Rolls Php190

It's like our lumpiang sariwa only you got noodles instead of ubod as main filling. Then you have lettuce, carrots, cucumber and mushroom. The sauce is kind of similar with our lumpiang sariwa as well. Garlic-y and nutty.

Beef Look Luck Php350

As you can see, it is loaded with black and white pepper. I don't like pepper actually but I manage to eat this somehow :) I only wish they made the beef a little more tender and also clean up the sides of the plate before  serving :P

Special Rice in Claypot Php265

Rice with shrimp, chicken and some vegetables. Honestly there's nothing really special about this dish but it's also not that bad either :)

Overall the food are OK but in my opinion, not great. Like I said Vietnamese cuisine isn't something I am very familiar with so I can't tell if these are authentic. The ambiance is very nice and clean. The staff are helpful and polite as well.

OK. so now for the coffee. I may not be a fan of the food but I have long been interested with Vietnamese coffee eventhough I'm not much of a coffee person, hubby is one big coffee monster so I'm also excited trying this out with him ^.^

Each table have this instruction card on how to enjoy a cup of Vietnamese coffee....

So how this works is you pour hot water on the "steel drainer(?)" with coffee and you wait until all the water drips to your cup. So it's just like any brewed coffee actually only you use condensed milk instead of creamer or regular milk. Hubby loved it and so did I :)

La Petite Camille is located at 2nd level Greenbelt 5, Ayala Center Makati.

Check out their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Petite-Camille-Philippines/

-Rhen

Buttered Shrimp

Buttered Shrimp

1/2 kg shrimp
1 bulb galic - minced
100g butter
1cup clear soda (7-Up)
40g grated cheese
1 tbsp olive oil
salt
pepper


1. Melt butter on a heated olive oil. Add garlic. DO NOT BROWN the garlic, just when it releases it's aroma, add the shrimp.

2. Season with salt and pepper. Cook shrimp until it changes color.

3. Add soda. This will add sweetness to the shrimp. You may want to add gradually if you don't like it too sweet.

4. Add grated cheese. Simmer for 3 minutes or until cheese melts if you use "quickmelt" type cheese.

5. serve and enjoy ^.^

Shinjuku Ramen House

I love Japan! I've never been there but definitely I will! And when I'm there I'll definitely won't miss walking around Shinjuku...

BUT...for now this post will be about Shinjuku here in the Manila....Shinjuku the restaurant ^_^

Manten Ramen (Small) - Php310

This is like eaten almost halfway already before we took the picture so it doesn't look appetizing but trust me it's sooo delish!

4pcs Tempura - Php340

Mix Tepanyaki - Php465

This is my fave among the bunch! super yummeh! seafood is well cooked yet tender. Excellent.

Overall I love love Shinjuku. The place looks terrific. I visited the one in Makati and even the restroom is great. Has bidet cause you'll never know..you try to be adventurous only to find out something you tried is not in real good terms with your stomach..lols. I will definitely come back to try out some of my all time fave Japanese dishes like Sukiyaki and Curry. Oh just thinking about it excites my tastebuds hehe.

I tried looking for a website or facebook page but it seems like they don't have one. I'm kind of lazy to google every location but I know they have 2 in Makati (Chino Roces & Makati Ave) and a friend said they also have one in West Ave.

xoxo,

becca

Rise of the Guardians

Rise of the Guardians

Directed by: Peter Ramsey
Voiced by: Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law, Isla Fisher and Hugh Jackman
Rating: 9

I'm not a mom yet but for sure I will be one of those moms who will not encourage her child believing in Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy, Boogie Man, Tikbalang, Manananggal..etc.... This movie is all about that (leaving out Tikbalang and Manananggal of course). But even if that's the case I still enjoyed this a lot. Watched it with my pretty 2 nieces who seems to be getting fond with Tagalog comedies and love stories lately. Nothing against those ha, it's just that I think they're too young to be even watching those. Back to RotG. It's action packed and funny. I highly recommend watching this is 3D. It's the best I've seen probably since J. Cameron's Avatar. I could've given this a perfect 10 if it weren't only on the Santa, Fairies, Easter Bunny believing story line but overall I must say it is a family MUST WATCH film. It just went to theaters last Nov 28 still a lot of time to catch it if you haven't seen it yet.

Meanwhile enjoy the trailer:



photo from Google
clip from Youtube

xoxo,

becca