Early Morning

3am

That’s how early I wake up nowadays. Jovy and Josef went to the market this early to buy food for our dogs. They usually buy chicken breasts and chicken liver and a variety of vegetables which they mix with the diced chicken and a little of dog pellets.

5am

Oh to smell the intoxicating scents of our blooming  Kamuning and Camia, with our Aspin dogs following around and Max needing a belly rub.

6am

The sun has shown its face. What a blue, blue sky with not a cloud to mar it. It’s like summer days  but the wind bites.

7am

Time to prepare breakfast. I simply love this season of Amihan with nothing to worry about rains, typhoons and storm. The day is something to look forward to.🌝☀️🌞

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Our Top Three Favorite Meals

What are your family’s top 3 favorite meals?

These three are all culled from my earlier posts here at WordPress. I call them our comfort food  and they occasionally appear on the dining table and always present during birthdays and some special occasions.

ADOBO is a very popular Filipino dish and cooking process in Philippine cuisine. It is usually made with chicken, pork or a combination of both. It is marinated in vinegar, soy sauce, garlic and other spices. It is slowly cooked until it becomes tender and flavourful. I like it a little dry like this with lots of fried garlic.

LUMPIANG SHANGHAI or what we usually call spring rolls. The filling maybe of ground pork or ground chicken  breast mixed with onion, carrots, seasonings, eggs and other spices then wrapped in a thin crepe called lumpia wrapper. I also make lumpia veggies out of thin strips of cabbage, diced sweet potato, carrots and a can of tuna or ground pork. Same procedure as that of lumpiang shanghai.

PANCIT BATO – one of the various traditional noodle dishes in Filipino cuisine. We have pancit canton, miki, pancit Malabon and  pancit bihon the most popular of which is the pancit bihon which I cook at least once or twice a month. It is mixed with pork, diced chicken meat and veggies like cabbage, carrots, chickpeas, Baguio beans and red bell pepper.

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