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…

Had an omu-rice meal in Hong Kong. This is the yummiest meal I had during my stay there.

From Wikipedia:

Omurice, sometimes spelled “omu-rice” , is a contemporary Japanese dish consisting of an omelet made with fried rice. Its name is a wasei-eigo (Japanese portmanteau) of the French word omelette and the English word rice. It is a popular dish both commonly cooked at home and can be found at many western style diners and izakaya restaurants in Japan. It is also a popular dish in many restaurants in South Korea and Taiwan.[1]

The dish typically consists of chicken rice (rice pan-fried with ketchup and chicken) wrapped in a thin sheet of fried egg. The ingredients that flavor the rice vary. Often, the rice is fried with various meats (but typically chicken) and/or vegetables, and can be flavored with beef stock, ketchup, demi-glace white sauce or just salt and pepper. Sometimes, the rice is replaced with fried noodles, yakisoba, instead of fried rice, to make omusoba.

Everytime I eat at Dessert Factory (Ayala, Cebu) , I already know what to order even before seeing the menu. Their “Kinamatisang Kawali” is the best.

Yumyum!!! Try it at Dessert Factory!

 ”Burger Murder”— my friend ordered this, and said it’s yummy too

Seasoning is the process of adding or improving flavor of food. Seasonings include herbs, spices, and all other condiments (which may themselves be referred to as “seasonings”). — wikipedia

So, what seasoning comes with this for you?

This?

But for me, nothing beats this.

Toyo + vinegar + spices

In Bohol, a celebration is not complete without lechon baboy. See the pictures below during the birthday celebration of my niece… And get hungry.