Pork Adobo with Pineapple

I wanted a twist to my pork adobo thus I decided to add some pineapple chunks.  It turned out really tasty and very delicious.

Ingredients:
Pork cubes
Soy sauce
Salt
Peppercorns
Laurel
Garlic
Onion
Pineapple chunks (juice included)

Directions:

• Brown pork.  Remove extra lard. Set aside
• Sautee garlic and onion.  Add pork.  Season with soysauce, salt, pepper, laurel leaves.
• Simmer until pork is tender.
• Add pineapple.  Simmer more.
• When most of the liquid has evaporated, it is then ready to serve.

Cooking with Stubb's

Baked BBQ Porkchop

I seriously love Stubb's BBQ Sauce. For hubby's dinner last night I made him one of his favorites - Baked BBQ Porkchop. I usually grill them but since hubby came home late, I just decided to baked it in the oven.

Ingredients:
2 porkchops
Stubbs Pork spice rub
Stubbs Original BBQ Sauce

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 400F
• Wash porkchops and pat dry.
• Season with spice rub
• Baked for 15 minutes
• Coat/brush with bbq sauce and bake another 7 minutes
• Coa/brush the other side with bbq sauce and bake for another 7 minutes
• Take it out and spread more bbq sauce.
• Serve

Fried Pork Adobo

Love it! A combination of fats and lean pork. Cooked in spices and soy sauce then fried to perfection!

Paired with rice and dipped in spice vinegar.... yummy!

Garlic and Herb Roast Pork

This is the first time that I cooked this and it turned out to be really good. I love the taste of herbs in it.

Crispy Pork Belly

This is one of the best. Crispy and yummy. Dipped in a mixture of soy sauce and vinegar and served with rice. This is a perfect Filipino food that most of us who now resides in foreign land craves at all times.

I guess I am lucky to have access to this anytime I want!

Grilled Pork

This is very yummy. The secret to a yummy grilled pork is marinating it before grilling.

Pork Tenderloin in Hoisin Sauce

I cooked this the other night and it was really good. Pork tenderloin with hoisin sauce glaze.

Ingredients:
Pork tenderloin
hoisin sauce

Direction:

• Place tenderloin in shallow pan and bake for 1 hour in 350F
• Remove and place in a new pan lined with foil
• Glaze with hoisin sauce and put the oven in broil
• Glaze some more after 3 minutes
• Cool off. Slice. Serve
  

Roasted and Grilled Pork Roast

This is one of my yummy cooking. I will cook this again this week. I already bought pork roast when we did our grocery shopping yesterday. This is very tender, moist and so yummy.

Ingredients:
Pork roast
garlic salt
pepper
greek seasoning
barbecue sauce

Directions:

• Wash pork roast and pat dry with paper towel
• Season with garlic salt, pepper and greek seasoning.
• Bake (covered) for 2 hours in 350F
• Removed and brush with barbecue sauce
• Grilled each side until the roast is charred
• Slice and serve
  

Pork Menudo

Pork menudo is a Filipino dish that often served in parties. This can also be your day to day dish. Pork menudo recipe varies from places to places. Each recipe has added ingredients. What is common to all the variations is the fact that it all uses tomato sauce. So, whatever extra ingredients it has, menudo has always the distinct taste of veggies and pork in tomato sauce.

For this menudo, I just made it simple and easy.

Ingredients:
Pork (cut in small cubes)
potatoes and carrots, peeled and cut in small cubes then fried
onion, diced
tomato, diced
small can tomato sauce
red bell pepper, diced
green bell pepper, diced
garlic, minced
soy sauce
cooking oil or olive oil
1 cup water or 1 cup pork or chicken stock
salt and pepper

Directions:

• Saute garlic and onion.
  
• Add the pork, tomatoes, soy sauce, tomato sauce, and water or stock. Season with salt and pepper.
• Cover and bring to a boil. Simmer for 20 minutes or until pork is tender.
  
• Add the potatoes, carrots and bell peppers. Boil for another 2 minutes.
  
• Add some more salt and pepper to taste.
• Serve
  

Grilled PorkChop

Who can resist the smell of a grilled meat? Not me! Since we have a new grill, we are in a grilling frenzy.... every night we grilled something for our dinner. We tried grilled porkchop and it was really good.

Ingredients:
Porkchops

Marinate:
soy sauce
lemon
black pepper
garlic
greek seasoning

Directions:

1. Marinade pork for at least an hour
2. Grill and baste with the remaining marinade
3. Serve hot!

Simple... very easy... delicious!

Pineapple Glazed Pork Roast

I saw this recipe in the magazine and knowing that its pineapple glazed I was pretty sure that hubby will like this so I decided to make it.

Ingredients:
Pork Loin
Garlic Salt
Pepper

Glaze:
6oz pineapple juice
1/2 tsp five spice
1/4 cup hoisin sauce

Directions:

• Season pork roast with garlic salt and pepper
• Bake at 350 for 1 hour.
• While roasting the pork, mix juice and five spice in a pan. Boil in a medium heat until it is only 1/4 left.
• Mix it with hoisin sauce. Reserve.
• Continue cooking roast for 20 minutes. Brush the pineapple glaze to the roast at least 3 times.
• Let it stand for 10 minutes.
  
• Sliced and garnish with pineapple slices.

Note: If there is left of the pineapple glaze, you can use it as the dipping sauce.

Menudo

Menudo is one of my favorite Filipino dish but I can't make the ones that my brother Frony always cook for me. His is just so perfect and I couldn't get that perfection.

Anyway, this is my version:

Ingredients:
Pork (diced)
Potatoes (diced)
Carrots (diced)
Onion (diced)
Garlic (minced)
Tomato (diced)
Black Pepper
Sweet Peas (1 can)
water ( a little water)
soy sauce
oil
salt to taste

Directions:

• Sautee garlic and onion. Add tomatoes.
• Add pork. Season with soysauce and pepper. Cook for 10 minutes.
• Add potato and carrots. Add water and bring to boil. Cook until done.
  
• Add sweet peas. Bring to boil.
• Serve while hot
  

Roasted Pork Loin and Vegetables

This is a very simple yet delicious and nutritious meal. We had this the other night as our dinner. What I like about this dish is already complete. I don't need to prepare anything else because it already has meat and vegetables.

Ingredients:
Boneless pork loin
garlic salt
pepper
dried parsley
dried thyme
potatoes
carrots
olive oil

Directions:

• Season pork loin with garlic salt, pepper, dried thyme and sizzle with olive oil.
• Put in a roasting pan and baked for 45 minutes at 350F
• While roasting the pork loin, bring the carrots and potatoes to boil until half cook.
• Drain. Season with garlic salt, pepper, dried parsley and sizzle with olive oil.
• Add the seasoned vegetables to the pork loin. Bake until veggies and pork loin is done.
• Serve

Food Trip Friday #13

Happy Friday everyone! Let's feast our eyes again this week. Join me and other food trippers as we discover different food this week as submitted by Food Trip Friday participants.

GRILLED LIEMPO

I miss eating grilled liempo with soysauce/kalamansi/onion/ginger/ sawsawan. Anyway, when I visited my cousin in Bergen, New Jersey they served us with plenty of grilled liempo. Of course, I was so happy to finally have some grilled liempo in America.

Pork and Salted Shrimp Fry

I love the bagoong alamang or Salted Shrimp Fry. Although it smells awful for my hubby, he doesn't stop me from cooking it...

Ingredients:
pork (sliced in small strips)
1tbsp salted shrimp fry
garlic
onion
tomato
black pepper
oil

Directions:

• Heat oil in wok. Add pork. Brown the pork. Set aside.
• Sautee garlic, onion and tomato.
  
• Add pork and salted shrimp fry.
• Season with black pepper. Cook for two minutes.
• Serve

Food Trip Friday #12

Happy Friday Food Trippers!

I am encouraging all my visitors to check Food Trip Friday and to feast your eyes with all the yummy entries this week. You can also join us every Friday.

For this week, my entry is about pork and vegetables. I always love to eat vegetables so this entry is not just yummy but healthy.

PORK with MIXED VEGETABLES

Ingredients:
Pork (sliced thinly)
carrots
green bell pepper
young corn
broccoli
mushroom
bokchoy
bamboo shoots
snow peas
garlic
onion
pepper
soy sauce
cornstarch (dissolved in water)

Directions:

• Marinade pork with soy sauce, pepper, and garlic
• Sautee onion, add marinaded pork and cook for 3 minutes.
• Add carrots, young corn, bamboo shoots and mushroom. Cook for 1 minute
• Add the rest of the vegetables (broccoli, pepper and snow peas)
• Cook until desired tenderness or crispiness of veggies is attained.
• Seasoned with salt and more pepper if needed.
  
• Add dissolved cornstarch. Stir until sauce becomes thick.
• Serve immediately.
  

Pork Adobo

It is Labor Day. A day where all working Americans are off! What a better way to spend a day than to have a good meal. Why not serve pork adobo and rice in the dining table?

By the way, we went fishing today... so I needed energy and the pork adobo and rice was just perfect....


Who can resist a pork adobo with a lots of fats in it?????

Smoked Pork Loin Chops

I have used a trick to have a taste of something smoked without the use of smoker. Well it works! It tastes good.

Ingredients:
2 pcs pork loin chops
2 pcs cedar grilling papers
garlic
pepper
blackening seasoning

Directions:

• Soak grilling papers in water for 10 minutes
• Wash pork thoroughly. Season with garlic, pepper and blackening seasoning in both sides.
• Put the pork loin chops in between two grilling papers.
• Bake for 45 minutes in a preheated oven at 400F.
• Serve.

Dad's Pork Roast

If you visited my main blog, I have an entry there about spending our weekend at Dad's in Killen, Alabama. He served us a good pork roast last night and I decided to post it here. He told me how he did it and I got pictures of it too. His pork roast was very very good. I know I can cook a good pork roast, but his is different.

Ingredients:
Boston Butt Pork Roast
Butt Rub
Barbeque Sauce

Directions:

• Wash the pork thoroughly and dry it with paper towel.
• Put barbecue sauce all over it and sprinkle the rub

• Cover and bake it at 275 for 1 1/2 hours.
• Take it out of the oven and turn and bake for another 1 1/2 hours
• Cook longer if it is not yet tender
• Remove from the oven
• Put barbecue sauce again and grill over charcoal fire enough to make it brown.
• Serve.

Bicol Express

I have been craving for Bicol Express for sometime now. I just didn't know how to cook it. I remember when I was working in Manila, Bicol Express is an everyday menu in the carenderia near our office. It has been so long ago since I have eaten bicol express that is why I decided to cook my own version of bicol express.

Ingredients:
1lb pork ( the more fats the better)
1 small can coconut milk
2tbsp salted shrimp fry (bagoong alamang)
jalapeno peppers (sliced)
garlic
onion
pepper

Directions:
Heat the skillet and add the pork. Cook until lightly brown and the fats come out. Remove some of the oil from the fats. Set aside the pork. Sautee garlic and onion and mix together. Add jalapeno and coconut milk. Add salted shrimp fry and seasoned with pepper. Bring to boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Serve with rice...