My Cravings Continuous

I am now 5 months pregnant, hurray! I was hoping I can eat anything now but it seems like I still avoid some food including chicken. I tried a small piece of chicken 2 days ago, it was alright but I wasn't really crazy over it.

Ginisang Sardinas

Ginasang sardinas is cooked in olive oil, garlic, tomato, onion, a little bit of water and a can of sardines in tomato sauce.

Chicken Macaroni Soup

I know I said I was avoiding chicken but my husband left a big piece of chicken before he went to Melbourne. I felt bad throwing it away so I added it in the soup. I didn't eat the chicken though. This was cooked the same way as "Chicken with Quinoa Pasta soup" recipe that I posted almost 3 years ago.  http://myloveforfood.blogspot.com/2007/10/chicken-with-quinoa-pasta-soup.html

May's Sauteed Prawn

This blog serves as my recipe book as well. There are some recipes here that I don't have in my cooking book so I come back here to check how it is cooked http://myloveforfood.blogspot.com/2008/10/mays-sauteed-prawn.html .



Kamote Cue. This is sweet potato fried in oil with sugar.

Ginataan is a famous snack in the Philippines. This is cooked with coconut milk, coconut cream, sweet potato, purple yam, banana, bilo-bilo (glutinous ground rice and water) and sugar.

Scone with Cream and Strawberry jam

A favorite of mine when I am at the shopping centre and hungry.

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 ;) .