Stuffed Paprikas with a twist

"What's for dinner?" hubby asked me when he saw me cooking.

I said "Stuffed paprikas with a twist"

"With a twist?" he asked

"Yeah" I answered with a smile.

Stuffed paprika with a twist (as what i call it). Usually they are cooking stuffed paprikas only with ground meat. My twist is ground meat cooked with green peas, carrots and corns (in a can) but you can use fresh ones too if you want.

So if you want to try this, here's my recipe.

Ingredients:

3 Paprikas (seeds out)

a pound of ground meat

a can of mixed green peas, corns and carrots - or fresh ones

1 onion

2 cloves garlic

a tablespoon oyster sauce

salt and pepper to taste

sliced parsley

What to do:

Saute the onion and garlic on the pan, then add the ground meat, flavour it with oyster sauce, parsley, salt and pepper. When the meat turns brown, add the vegies and your stuff is ready.

Put it inside the paprika. Put it in the oven for 40 minutes on 180 degrees.

Hope you''ll enjoy my recipe for stuffed paprika.

Eet smakelijk!

Real Pinoy TASTE

I am browsing some old pictures and this picture got my attention, made me salivate and crave for this food. Hmmm.. Boiled green banana's (unripe) with bagoong sauce (preserved salty fish) then with cola.. ohh HEAVEN!

Last December-January of 2010-2011 we had our vacation in Philippines and had this food.

I can't wait to have them again, hopefully sooooon!!!

Peanuts

A friend of mine had a vacation last month in Bohol (her hometown). When she got back, she brought me some pasalubongs and some of them are raw peanuts. I was so happy because I miss peanuts a lot, I used to eat them a lot when I was on my higher school. I was so excited to cook it, I made a boiled ones and fried ones (while writing these, im munching the fried ones). My baby loves the boiled ones while hubby loves the fried ones. My baby said "hmmm yummy erwten (green peas)" (hahaha!)

Peanuts have many uses. They are used in recipes, cooking, medicines, textile materials, made into oils, make ups, peanut butter and etc. Peanuts provides 30 essential nutrients. Amazing!

Peanut's nutritional values:

Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
Energy	2,385 kJ (570 kcal)
Carbohydrates	21 g
- Sugars	0.0 g
- Dietary fiber	9 g
Fat	48 g
- saturated	7 g
- monounsaturated	24 g
- polyunsaturated	16 g
Protein	25 g
- Tryptophan	0.2445 g
- Threonine	0.859 g
- Isoleucine	0.882 g
- Leucine	1.627 g
- Lysine	0.901 g
- Methionine	0.308 g
- Cystine	0.322 g
- Phenylalanine	1.300 g
- Tyrosine	1.020 g
- Valine	1.052 g
- Arginine	3.001 g
- Histidine	0.634 g
- Alanine	0.997 g
- Aspartic acid	3.060 g
- Glutamic acid	5.243 g
- Glycine	1.512 g
- Proline	1.107 g
- Serine	1.236 g
Water	4.26 g
Thiamine (Vit. B1)	0.6 mg (52%)
Riboflavin (Vit. B2)	0.3 mg (25%)
Niacin (Vit. B3)	12.9 mg (86%)
Pantothenic acid (B5)	1.8 mg (36%)
Vitamin B6	0.3 mg (23%)
Folate (Vit. B9)	246 μg (62%)
Vitamin C	0.0 mg (0%)
Calcium	62 mg (6%)
Iron	2 mg (15%)
Magnesium	184 mg (52%)
Phosphorus	336 mg (48%)
Potassium	332 mg (7%)
Zinc	3.3 mg (35%)

Who want's to have some? :)

Fish Sinigang - Fish Sour soup

Sinigang is a filipino soup with a sour flavour. Most Filipino people are using tamarinds on making it sour but you can use guava, green mangoes and etc.

Sinigang is one of my favourite filipino dish, so as my dutch husband. Making sinigang is so easy, you can use any meat or seafood you want. This time, I made a Salmon Sinigang.

all you need:

a pound of fresh Salmon (you can use any fish or seafoods you want)

1 Pechay (Chinesse Cabbage) or Water spinach (Kangkong)

1 Radish (cut - depending the size you want)

Spring onions

tomato

thumbsize ginger (peeled and sliced)

1 liter water

salt

Tamarind powder (since I can't find fresh tamarinds here)

Procedure:

In a soup pan, put the water, add the ginger, spring onions and tomatoes and let it boil, when it's boiling, add the fish, tamarind powder (the sourness depends on you- we like it so sour :D) and radish, simmer for about 3 mins. or until the fish is cook then add the green leafy vegetables and simmer for a minutes and enjoy!

Kinilaw

Kinilaw or filipino style fresh fish salad is a famous dish in Philippines. The fish you should use is a very fresh one. Choosing fresh fish can be very tricky, you have to be very skiptical. I grew up in one of the province in Philippines that is near the sea area, so I know how to look if the fish is fresh or not.

Fresh fish should be:

*The gills are very red (old fishes' gills looks like faded red)

*The eyes of the fish should be very clear (if the eyes has discoloration, that means that's not that freash anymore)

*The meat of the fish should be looking clean and metallic. If you are allowed to press the fish, then press it, if your pressing appears then don't buy it.

So how to make this KINILAW, here it is:

a pound of fresh fish (cut it in cubes) (preferably Tuna)

a thumbsize ginger (sliced)

1 meduim size red onions (sliced)

fresh red chilis (depending on your level of spiciness)

1 cup of vinegar

cucumber (sliced thinly)

2 teaspoons salt

Procedure:

Get a bowl, put the fish, put the half of the vinegar and about a teaspoon of salt and mix it. Get an another clean bowl. Get a handful of fish and squeeze it gently. Not too hard. Put the squeezed fish into the new bowl. Put the rest of the ingredients into the bowl. Mix well and enjoy!

Food

Food is a substance that we consume everyday to supply all the nutrients we need for our body. One of the many important things we do.

If we talk about food, we think of the yummiest meals we had and will crave for another one.

This blog will talk about my love of food and my passion to cook.

Hope you'll enjoy and learn some of my recipes.