Share some Filipino Recipes!

[Messybrownhair 251]

Hi everyone

I am leaving for the US soon and unfortunately I am not a very good cook. I know for sure that I will miss Filipino food and so I want to practice cooking it! I know I cannot survive on just pizza, burger, mashed potato and pasta, I need my rice and meats! Fortunately, my fiance also likes Filipino food (especially chicken dishes like adobo, afritada) but he wasn't a fan of sinigang which he found too sour, and also he doesn't eat cheese!

I was hoping we could use this thread to post tried and tested recipes, I know there are many online but I would to try a recipe that people can vouch for. And also, what filipino food does your USC husband enjoy?

Thanks in advance!

[frostysoftyeaton 6]

Hi everyone

I am leaving for the US soon and unfortunately I am not a very good cook. I know for sure that I will miss Filipino food and so I want to practice cooking it! I know I cannot survive on just pizza, burger, mashed potato and pasta, I need my rice and meats! Fortunately, my fiance also likes Filipino food (especially chicken dishes like adobo, afritada) but he wasn't a fan of sinigang which he found too sour, and also he doesn't eat cheese!

I was hoping we could use this thread to post tried and tested recipes, I know there are many online but I would to try a recipe that people can vouch for. And also, what filipino food does your USC husband enjoy?

Thanks in advance!

Hubby loves lumpia, pancit bihon, bistek tagalog, fried rice, pork barbeque and pancit canton..lol..He never get sick and tired of this stuff. Like your hubby my husband loves Filipino food too. When I don't cook we normally go to a Chinese buffet and pretty much eating there is like dinning in the Philippines

[Markieboy 104]

I was hoping we could use this thread to post tried and tested recipes, I know there are many online but I would to try a recipe that people can vouch for. And also, what filipino food does your USC husband enjoy?

He doesn't like sinigang??? That's just blasphemy! Just kidding.

I'm the USC husband, and I'm also half Filipino. So I suppose my answers will be biased. But here are a few that I find delicious:

1) Adobo (pork or chicken...or both) - Most everyone seems to love adobo.

2) Sinigang - I still can't believe he doesn't like this!

3) Kare-kare - You can use boneless beef, if he doesn't want to try oxtail.

4) Pinakbet - Definitely one of my favorite recipes! If he is a fan of veggies, this should be the winner.

5) Lumpia - Another excellent dish. More of an appetizer though, IMO.

6) Giniling - A basic dish of ground pork, diced potatoes, carrots, and some crushed garlic.

7) Inihaw na liempo - One of my favorites! Hard to beat Andok's, though.

8) Kaldareta - Traditionally made with goat. But I would stick with beef or even lamb. Goat has a very gamey smell that may turn him off to trying.

9) Bicol express - a sweet and spicy dish. Shrimp is very good, but ground/diced pork is great, too!

These are more exotic recipes that, hopefully, he would try:

1) Dinuguan aka chocolate meat - Excellent, excellent dish. Easily a top five dish, in my book! Hopefully, you have access to fresh ingredients.

2) Sisig - Born in Pampanga, Philippines. One of the best polutan dishes ever! Best served with some alcohol.

Well, this is my $0.02. I sure hope he finds at least one he likes. My wife and I also cannot survive on fast foods here. She and I both grew up eating rice daily.

Good luck with cooking here in the States. The ingredients may be, at times, challenging to find. But it is very do-able. All the best!

[marriedtomrg 141]

Rick's favorite Filipino food is sinigang na hipon (shrimp sinigang), hands down. He will eat it everyday if he could. (There is a lovely Asian seafood store here in Tallahassee called Mike's so I get my Filipino condiments and shrimp there). He also likes tocino. The easiest way to make it is to buy pork belly or pork butt (with a little fat in in if you can find it), and then marinate it with Mama Sita's Tocino Mix an hour (covered in saran wrap) before you cook it. Not quite Pampanga's Best, but out here, it's pretty darn good. He does enjoy nilagang baka (beef nilaga) now and then. The veggies are easy to find here...I can't put in cabbage though, he doesn't eat it. He likes pork barbecue but I can't put a lot of ground peppercorns in it (he dislikes pepper with a passion lol but loves jalapenos and Louisiana hot sauce...go figure).

I do know how to make other Filipino food, but most of the dishes I know how to make have soy sauce in it (like adobo, mechado, menudo, afritada, callos, etc.), and he cannot eat a lot of it, unfortunately (makes him ill).

[one...two...tree 2,762]

He doesn't like sinigang??? That's just blasphemy! Just kidding.

I'm the USC husband, and I'm also half Filipino. So I suppose my answers will be biased. But here are a few that I find delicious:

1) Adobo (pork or chicken...or both) - Most everyone seems to love adobo.

2) Sinigang - I still can't believe he doesn't like this!

3) Kare-kare - You can use boneless beef, if he doesn't want to try oxtail.

4) Pinakbet - Definitely one of my favorite recipes! If he is a fan of veggies, this should be the winner.

5) Lumpia - Another excellent dish. More of an appetizer though, IMO.

6) Giniling - A basic dish of ground pork, diced potatoes, carrots, and some crushed garlic.

7) Inihaw na liempo - One of my favorites! Hard to beat Andok's, though.

8) Kaldareta - Traditionally made with goat. But I would stick with beef or even lamb. Goat has a very gamey smell that may turn him off to trying.

9) Bicol express - a sweet and spicy dish. Shrimp is very good, but ground/diced pork is great, too!

These are more exotic recipes that, hopefully, he would try:

1) Dinuguan aka chocolate meat - Excellent, excellent dish. Easily a top five dish, in my book! Hopefully, you have access to fresh ingredients.

2) Sisig - Born in Pampanga, Philippines. One of the best polutan dishes ever! Best served with some alcohol.

Well, this is my $0.02. I sure hope he finds at least one he likes. My wife and I also cannot survive on fast foods here. She and I both grew up eating rice daily.

Good luck with cooking here in the States. The ingredients may be, at times, challenging to find. But it is very do-able. All the best!

I love giniling with lots of ketchup (banana or tomato). My wife now dreads making it because she insists on chopping the carrots and potatoes by hand, which takes a lot of time.

There aren't too many Filipino dishes that I've tried that I didn't like - the food is just so dang tasty (perhaps all the MSG).

Sinigang - love the eggplant and other vegetables.

Pancit - so many variations, but my favorite is the thinner noodles with the strips of fungus

Biko (sp) - the sticky rice dessert

Hoomba (sp) - chunks of flavored pork

Sotanghon (sp) - the glass noodles in a soup base ...perfect on a cold day.

and probably my favorite, Kangkong (sp) - I love the contrast between the crunchy stalks of the water spinach with the mushiness of its sauteed leaves.

[jrmejia 31]

All that food sounds good as long that you don't care about your health. Most of the mentioned are so oily or fried stuff. That is okay, i am not worried about that when she comes. She can cook whatever she wants for her and her kid. I'll cook the things I consider good for my body

I like chicken adobo thought. I tried it and it was pretty good.

Edited January 22, 2011 by jrmejia

[april082010 3]

Hi everyone

I am leaving for the US soon and unfortunately I am not a very good cook. I know for sure that I will miss Filipino food and so I want to practice cooking it! I know I cannot survive on just pizza, burger, mashed potato and pasta, I need my rice and meats! Fortunately, my fiance also likes Filipino food (especially chicken dishes like adobo, afritada) but he wasn't a fan of sinigang which he found too sour, and also he doesn't eat cheese!

I was hoping we could use this thread to post tried and tested recipes, I know there are many online but I would to try a recipe that people can vouch for. And also, what filipino food does your USC husband enjoy?

Thanks in advance!

http://panlasangpinoy.com/

[damulag 26]

Go to the National Bookstore and pick up some cookbooks before you leave, much cheaper than finding some in the US.

[SuperDuper! 230]

Sisig with Pig Ears, Yum!

[Mariye & Ky 172]

Hey how come nobody put Balut? LOL .... ach honest I can't eat this either but here in case you don't know what it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(egg)

I love to make:

Sinigang

Lumpia

Dinuguan aka chocolate meat ( I never could understand that concept of it's aka aside the colour).

Chicken Adobo

Kare-Kare

Pinakbet

Talapia

I sent this link to one of my neices as she just got married and wanted to learn. http://www.filipinoeasyrecipes.com/

Don't forget the 50 lb bag of RICE with every meal! lol

[SuperDuper! 230]

Hey how come nobody put Balut? LOL ....

You are SO right. How can we forget about Balut!

[Mariye & Ky 172]

You are SO right. How can we forget about Balut!

"... In JAPAN?????" LOL ... LOL.... NOT! lol those are not Japanese on that video .... lol ..... they Flips!

We can give the balut over though if they want.

[SuperDuper! 230]

"... In JAPAN?????" LOL ... LOL.... NOT! lol those are not Japanese on that video .... lol ..... they Flips!

We can give the balut over though if they want.

Look at it again. The intro is not saying the people are Japanese (you can see the Jeepney in the background, even). It is simply saying in other words, "Hey, for Westerners this Balut in the Philippines has extreme Japanese food beat."

"Japan ain't got nothin' on the Philippines for extreme foods" IOW.

Edited January 22, 2011 by Boing!

[Mariye & Ky 172]

Look at it again. The intro is not saying the people are Japanese (you can see the Jeepney in the background, even). It is simply saying in other words, "Hey, for Westerners this Balut in the Philippines has extreme Japanese food beat."

"Japan ain't got nothin' on the Philippines for extreme foods" IOW.

LOL ... Kanam mo sino ka?! Sa`an mo kudo`ton ti ulok!! lol i'm giong to "kidel" your arm now! LOL LOL

[SuperDuper! 230]

LOL ... Kanam mo sino ka?! Sa`an mo kudo`ton ti ulok!! lol i'm giong to "kidel" your arm now! LOL LOL

Haha, well, ako lang ang isang Kano dito umiibig sa kaniyang Pinay, ngunit hindi ng sa amin kumain ng Balut, kaya ang lahat ng higit pa para sa iyo, hehe!