Food Hauz

Me, me, me…I can hear myself fighting for my right to take a bite of this yummylicious Filipino-style sweetened cured meat. Pork tocino plus rice with egg is my favorite breakfast accompanied with a hot cup of coffee. Perfect, ain’t it?

We once hopped into an Oriental store and found a ready-to-cook tocino made in the Philippines. Despite my craving, its price tag hindered me to throw it in our basket. I search for recipes online and found them easy. However, remembering Country Bob’s all-purpose sauce, my experimental self decided to make her own tocino recipe.

I will be sharing the recipe here but please know that I am never accurate with measuring ingredients. I always trust on my instincts and fortunately, my recipes always came out good if not perfect. *WINK* *WINK*

My tocino ingredients include:

Garlic

Pepper

Apple cider vinegar

Soy sauce

Brown sugar

Country bob’s all-purpose sauce

Pork chops or loin

Procedure is not complicated at all. First is to cut meat into about ¼ inch thick. Mix all other ingredients then marinate meat. I keep the marinade refrigerated for at least 3 days before cooking.

When cooking, I heat skillet then place meat on it. I don’t add water since the meat will produce its own juice eventually. In the case where you want your tocino to have a little sauce, you can pour some more of the marinade sauce on it when cooking. I never timed how long it gets cook. I just make sure it’s on medium heat and watch close til it looks like it’s done.

Thanks to country bob’s all-purpose sauce and looking forward to try out the recipes they sent with the sauce…

In this scorging heat, I crave for Halo-Halo. And my favorite is Chowking Halo Fiesta with 1 ice cream scoop.

Oh, where’s the ice cream scoop, I thought I ordered one. Nahhh..I think I forgot to tell the waiter I want an ice cream.

I sooo love buko pandan! And one of my favorites is of Max’s Fried Chicken. My meal in Max ’s is not complete without the buko pandan. And not to mention the ice cream on top of it that will surely enhance the taste.

To those who influenced me with this, I owe you one. Actually, I can still remember the first time I ate this during one of our dinner dates of my girlfriends… it was love at first taste! hahaha!

Other than Max’s, in Cebu I’ve tasted buko pandan on these restaurants: AAs BBQ, Cafe Laguna, NeoNeo and Gudagud and the one from Gudagud did not pass my standard taste of buko pandan. Hehehe.

My next assignment: learn to make buko pandan