My Cravings

I am 15 weeks pregnant and the Filipino food makes me very very happy. I remember staying back in the Philippines for 2 months when I was pregnant with my 1st child, that was year 2004. I didn't know how to cook Filipino food that time and I was very desperate to eat some. I was even going to bring my Aunty Carmen to Bangkok, Thailand where we lived during that time. The cravings came back now, luckily I have learned how to cook most of the Filipino food. Below are some of the food I cooked for my satisfaction;

Tortang Talong

"Tortang talong" is an eggplant cooked with beaten eggs, salt and oil.

Tsamporado with dried fish

Tsamporado is cooked with cocoa, glutinous rice, water and sugar. I eat this delicious tsamporado with a fried dried fish. There are different sorts of dried fish but the ones on the photo is my Mum's favorite dried fish and it became my favorite as well. Remember the saying "like mother, like daughter"? 

Pork Adobo

I refuse to eat chicken nowadays. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth but I so wanted to have 'adobo'. Adobo is a very popular dish in the Philippines. It is marinated in garlic, peppercorn, bay leaves, vinegar and soy sauce. After 30 minutes or so, heat the oil in the pan and fry pork or chicken. I always like to add the marinated sauce when the meat is cooked. Cook it for another 2 minutes or until the sauce is reduce.

Pancit

Pancit is simply noodles. You can use vermicelli noodles or a yellow noodles. We combine both sometimes but I only have vermicelli in the pantry. I know I said I refuse to eat chicken nowadays but then I had a bowl of left over in the fridge. My husband had chicken but he left for Queensland the following day and I felt bad throwing it away. So I decided to add it in my pancit with snow peas, broccoli, carrots, garlic, onions, oil, water, beef stock, soy sauce, oyster sauce and pepper. I had to put the chicken on the side though when I had my pancit ;) .