Instant Pot: Bistek

Preparing home-cooked meal for our family is the highlight of my everyday life. I make sure we have something we love and enjoy in the table during mealtime and one of these is the Pork Bistek.

So I wanted to share with you guys how I cooked it using the very convenient and reliable Instant Pot. At first, I find it very intimidating to use (just because I am so lazy to read the instructions! ✌) but after watching a bunch of Youtube tutorials, this has become my most favorite thing in my kitchen (followed by my airfryer😘)

I didn't include my measurements in the video because I want to leave it all up to you guys according on how you would want it to taste like.

If you have more Instant Pot recipes, please feel free to comment it below and I would love to try them.

Xoxo

🎼 If I Had A Chicken by Kevin MacLeod
🎬 Video edited through Vlogit

Bicol Express

     Hello everyone! Here's another cooking post lol!.. Looks like my page is turning out to be a recipe blog 😊. Anyway, few days ago I watched Michelle Dy's Youtube vlog and she featured herself cooking this Filipino dish called The Bicol Express and I had the craving for this dish and checked my pantry and voila! I got all the ingredients. You know how it feels when you want to cook something and you got all the ingredients on hand? Woah! Heaven! Lol

So here are the ingredients and how I cooked it. Enjoy!

     Minced garlic, ginger, diced onion, serrano pepper
                          
             2lbs pork belly cut into desired serving size

                                         Coconut milk

Not in the picture: shrimp paste, cooking oil and lemon grass

Instructions:

Sautee pork in medium heat with oil, onion, garlic and ginger. Then cover the pan and let it simmer until pork becomes brown in color.

Add serrano pepper and shrimp paste. Stir, cover the pan and let it simmer for 3mins.

Add coconut milk and lemon grass. Stir and bring to boil. To adjust the spiciness, you can add white sugar, more coconut milk or use less serrano peppers.

Once the sauce becomes creamy and pork is kinda toasted (which I prefer), turn off the heat and serve.

Yema Cake

As a wife and a fulltime mom, I am a fan of quick, easy and delicious recipes to prepare for my loveys. And ofcourse, my ultimate cookbook is-- the internet. Google and Youtube tutorials.

Aside from cooking Filipino dishes, I also like to bake. But sometimes baking doesn't like me :c Btw, today I got the energy (yes! Energy it is because my current pregnancy would always put me to bed. Very opposite with my first born) to make a Yema Cake for everybody here at home. So here's how I made it and I hope you will have a good one if ever you want to give this a try.

The ingredients:

Yup! Cake mix is the key! I told you im into quick and easy ones lol! (You can use any brand of your choice)

Instructions:
1. Preheat oven in 350F. In a mixing bowl, put rice mix, 1cup water, 3eggs and 1/3 cup melted and unsalted butter together and mix together until everything is combined. You can use an electric mixer or a wire wisk  will do the trick.

2. After you get the desired consistency of the cake batter, pour it in a round springform cake pan like this.

Size depends on your desired servings. But before pouring the batter, cover the entire bottom part of the pan with an aluminum foil. This will prevent the bottom of the cake to get overcooked and avoid spills from pan.

3. Put the round pan on top of a large rectangular pan and get ready to pop it inside the oven at 375F for 25-30mins.

While baking.. On a separate pan, (for the Yema Frosting)
1. Turn on the stove in a medium heat. In a sauce pan, pour 1can of condensed milk, 3egg yolks, 1/3cup softened butter and bring to boil. Give it a stir while waiting to boil so that all ingredients will be combined well and once the mixture becomes to thickened or a little bit creamy and sticky like the Yema/custard, turn of the heat and let it cool.

Final instruction:
1. Once the cake is done, let it out from the oven and cool it down a bit. Once its cooled, pour the yema mixture on top of the cake. Add grated cheese (ooops! I forgot to put this on the ingredients list) on top for added flavor and also as a garnish lol!

2. Store in the fridge for like about 3-5mins depends on your preference. You can take off the round panel of the pan and serve it either cold or warm over a hot coffee and im sure you will surely love it!

Cauliflower Fried Rice with Turkey Chorizo

So since this recipe has been circulating in Facebook and I started my diet to loose some weight brought by the holidays, I told myself to give this a try and it was sure a fire hit!. It is healthy, a great substitute for rice aside from Quinoa and so easy to prepare and lastly, it is tasty and my daughter even loves it and I guess for picky eaters, they would not even notice that its ground cauliflower-- unless you will really take a closer look at it lol!. So let me share it with you how I made it.

Ingredients:
Cooking oil
Onions (diced)
Carrots (diced or cut into tidbits)
Cauliflower (cut into tidbits) --I used a food processor though for faster result
Soysauce/salt and ground black pepper to taste

Optional:
Luckily, we still have some leftover homemade Turkey Chorizo made by my MIL so I used that as extra ingredients or you can use ham, shredded chicken, pork etc. Or you can just leave it as it is.

How to cook:
Sautee onions in cooking oil over a medium heat.
Once onions are tender, add your optional ingredients (ham, chicken, pork etc)
Once its cooked, add the cauliflower and carrots, mix everything in the pan and cover for 3 minutes.
Add soysauce/salt and pepper to taste and mix again
Transfer to serving plate and enjoy

I noticed that after eating, since it is not rice, i really dont feel heavily full (know what I mean?). It is just right and i feel lighter and energized to do more stuff. Unlike when you eat a lot of rice, you will feel heavy and sleepy haha. So there you go guys, this is worth giving a try and let me know in your comments how it works for you.

Ciao,
Anne

Oxtail Stew (slow cooker recipe)

I just want to share my video on how I cooked the Oxtail Stew in a slow cooker which I filmed a couple of months ago I think. I love to learn different ways of cooking. Before, I would only cook through frying, sauteeing and boiling lol!.. But since now I got more cooking stuff, I was able to make dishes cooked out of the slow cooker, oven baked, grilled and pressure cooker. Im so glad I got the Kapampangan genes ü.. More of cooking videos as we get along here on my blog.

If you want to get more details abouf this recipe, feel free to comment below. Thanks!

Much l❤ve,
Anne