This was what I planned to cook lately. It was apparently a food trip. I craved for it, then I got it! *wink* Okay, the title speaks for itself, the name of my dish lately. Actually, I cooked for two meals so I still have one for dinner with hubby's outside order tilapia fish later. It was an intention to have a "soupy" one though usually folks cook it otherwise unless it is intended for soup purposes. It is my choice since I like to eat with soup on it even it is a sauteed type.

Yours truly had the fun cooking at it. It turned out what I wanted to, not half-cook or overcooked but in between. A fully cooked one though I did something in the sink as I simmer it, thankfully it did not turned overcooked. I put beef flavor bouillon (this time the one on the bottle not the usual bar type, it is of the same taste though) on it. Bouillon is my cooking close ingredient when I do not like to cut any meat. Ha! :-) Though bouillon has already the ingredients needed, I still brown garlic, onion and two colors of bell peppers with vegetable oil.

You may not like it but it is more than I like, as in I love eating vegetables! Am not a vegetarian since I also eat meat. It is just that I was brought up eating vegetables, it is his/her (blind item to protect the person) taste, or whatever which trigger his/her something when eating such. Just like mixed vegetables with coconut milk "ginataang-gulay" cuisine. Some told as vegetables are just only for cows, carabao or any other animal eating grass. As I heard someone said it (actually close relative but was not brought-up eating vegetables), it hurt at first but then I heads up! Yes, I just said unto myself "I don't care!". Ha ha ha! Well, folks are different that is why we are unique in our own way. Though it is taught in the school that eating this would make us healthy but still some folks won't like it. Hem. Whatever! Kiver (expression)! Ha ha ha.

Usual foods together with this cuisine is salty foods as in fried, dried and salted fishes, or any kind of meat. With what I ate last week was with dried fish. I broiled it so no oil as coconut milk has oil with it, naturally from coconut. Sometimes folks I also like eating it with fried dried fish. Then paired with juice drink or any soft drinks like sprite, seven-up, coke or alike.

It's eating time!

What I did was that I (1) get the leaves of the sweet potato after it were washed. Then (2) boil a water, once it boiled I put the fresh raw sweet potato leaves. I then (3) put it on its vinaigrette. Yum-mm! And done. Oops how to make its vinaigrette? I just put the spices, namely: tomato, scallions, onion, bell pepper (in lieu of ginger, I was out of ginger so I put fresh bell pepper instead of it). Then have a dash of salt and vinegar. That's it! As easy as 1-2-3! Yum-mm!

You may be a little crack of this food long name, the salad by the way is named "Cranberry, Apple Walnut Grilled Chicken Salad" and the drink at its side in an image is called "Banana Chocolate Chip Hand-scooped Ice Cream Malt". Have you been gasping your breathe reading such a foodie name? LOL.. yep, it is quite long but I don't know why Carl's Jr. fast food chain make it that long. Hmmmm.. but on the other hand, it is yummy as can be.. heheheh.. I am not that fond of eating fresh salad, actually I do not eat fresh salad. What it got on my eyes because it has grilled chicken on it. :-) By the way, the salad consists of fresh spinach, grilled chicken, cheese, onion and an area of bacon that looks like a corned beef to me but to my surprise, it is bacon. Eeeee... :( Then the salad comes with raspberry vinaigrette, glazed walnuts in a pack and a dried cranberries. I eat all of the salad's stuffs excluding fresh spinach and the bacon. It just that my taste didn't go with the bacon and unfortunately with the green fresh vegetable. I won't close my taste bud of fresh salads especially that pizza is now one of my favorite food. To tell, I really2x don't like to eat pizza before, even its smell makes me awe. :( But it became now as one of my fave. :) And ola! I so like the drink. It has a thin strips of black chocolate and others to which I enumerated above. :-) That's my food after went from my doctor last week - check up of my reddish pink small round stuff on my right cheek. DH and I got some food through drive-thru and because such food chain don't have heavy meal, I just get such or else I will be forced to eat burger and fries (I don't like its french fries by the way, sorry to say). That's it, this is my food trip of this day for Food Trip Friday!

Happy 1st Anniversary Food Trip Friday (FTF)!

Can you see the difference than other sweet potato? Yep, a purple color that is. It is uncommon in my place, apparently it seldom appears in the market. The taste is also sweet and yummy! To tell you, that is my first taste of purple yam on my own kitchen. I steamed it like any other sweet potatoes I got though there are many other delectable tasty recipes you can get out of purple yum potatoes. As judging from my words, you can tell this is still a family of potato. I got it as long ones and I do not know if there are different sizes of this kind of potato because potatoes usually can have many sizes and some are big and others are small oblong. Also you can see the colors of the left two yams are darker than the other four, that is because I cut the big one into two before putting it in the pot and let it steamed. It is big and once its big, it does cook longer so if you want it to cook in normal way, you may like to cut such. And the end result is the potato meat turn darker the ones that haven't.

Have you taste a sweet potato like this before? Is it common in your place? Whatever it is, have fun eating... :-)

I know typical Americans or some part of the world do not like inner body part of meat as their food but most Filipinos do (am a Filipino). People of any areas have differences and I understand that. I even read some not-so-good comments on other blogs but I do not care, it is their business so I respect them. Anyhoo, speaking of adobo(pork adobo) it is very well-known as it is Filipinos signature food, I guess. What about gizzard adobo? Male pinoys like this a lot. I remember, my late grandfather and other male relatives in an island, loves this so much to which I was curious of tasting it. The way it is cook makes a difference. I like it a lot and now, I somewhat get used to it. :-) An image above is what I cooked more than two weeks ago (the date tells), it was my first time cooked of this as I do not like cooking when I was still single and besides I haven't seen this before in the place where I am now, so definitely my first time. I planned to cooked it as fried because I am not that good in adobo as to pork adobo --- I cannot perfect it as to what the typical adobo taste but fortunately, it turned into adobo without my knowledge.. :-) I utilized the spices I had to which those are: garlic, onion and three colors of fresh bell peppers (green, orange and red) with olive oil, soy sauce and a pinch of salt then a touch of water. My mind planned only to fried it but to my surprise I was gathering some spices which you do not need when frying, then I just then continued because I had it already in my hand. hehehe.. what a coincidence. :-) So the adobo recipe went. I used a lot of spices (half to soak it and half on the final touched) to get the smell of chicken. And to my surprise, I did it good to what I didn't expect but the taste that I adored when someone good at adobo does. Whew! It is really good when it's just only a little sauce it has or let it soak for minutes with its sauce leaving it a bit. Just not a lot of salt but more soy sauce and a touch of water so the sauce is not dark, and also be sure the oil is not much and not less --- just enough that you could see the oil when it is already cook. Boiling the gizzard before the adobo process is the important step.

this is the side view of the yellow sweet potatoes I cooked

A soup is good for cold times especially the season is winter. Today, my food trip for Friday is pork soup fresh from the pot and from my stove. :-) I was not able to take a pic on the bowl because I was drooling to ate it! Ha! :-) That is pork with chayote then spices like tomato, fresh bell peppers, pork bouillon, ginger, red round onion, scallions or onion leaves (green), and a bit of salt. The recipe is so simple to which I think most wives or peeps who are assigned for the kitchen knew. To those who don't, I boiled two cups of water with the spices on it (excluding onion leaves, fresh bell peppers, salt and pork bouillon). As it was already boiled, I put the pork (1/4 pound) and a dash of salt and let it boiled again. Once it was reboiled, I put the pork bouillon and let it dissolved through pinching it on a ladle and mix it all-together with the other stuffs in the pot. Then I put the bell peppers and onion leaves. When it was about to boiled, I turned-off the stove and done! Eating time.. :-)

Hello folks, how everyone doing? I hope you all the best on this day and onwards. Today is already Friday in Philippines and beyond (as well as other countries that is advance five hours advance from Eastern Time (ET) or eight hours advance here in Pacific Standard Time (PST). We all know that 12:01 AM is already another day, so welcome Friday! That is also mean that weekend is coming... For now, let us have some food tripping this Friday. This time, my food trip is my own version of beef steak. I actually do not plan to cook beef steak as of cooking the image below days ago but to my surprise, I have seen that is already a beef steak (but my own version)! (LOL).. I can still remember a cousin of mine who is good in making her special beef steak that she has to put force through paddling the steak over the beef to make it soft and as she said deliciously-taste. Then she has to marinade it overnight with lemons and all that marinade stuffs. What I did was simple but I made it to the point that it is savory because I did not marinade it overnight. I just steam it a couple of minutes to soak with the flavor and spices.

my own version of beef steak