Breakfast for Dinner

Last week, my Man requested something light for dinner - so light that he just want me to buy his favorite delifrance fuit tart. But I find it too easy to prepare so I disagree and told him - "just come home at 8:00pm Baby, will prepare your super light meal don't worry". Wink!




I prepared breakfast set consist of:
3 lightly toasted bread
egg-mayonaisse sandwich spread
steamed chicken sausage
mr. bean unsweetened cold soyamilk

Very simple and light... still i force my Man to finished everything, including the soyamilk. Hehe... He already told me what he wants on our next home dinner - prawn! So Baby, ready for cereal prawns? Haha! Just kidding, don't get scared. =)



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Mee Goreng

I have extra carrots and cabbage as excess on my last creamy chicken macaroni soup ingredients so I decided to cook mee goreng.

Ingredients:
Garlic
Onions
Diced carrots
Beansprout
Shredded cabbage
Instant mee goreng (I used indomie brand)



Procedure:
1. Cook noodles as package instruction. Set aside.
2. Heat oil and saute garlic, onions, cabbage and carrots.
3. Add the pre-cooked noodels and the instant me goreng soysauce and seasoning.
4. Pour the beansprout and keep stirring until seasoning is evenly spread.
5. Serve with omellet and/or buttered toasted bread.

Ampalaya con Itlog (Bittergourd with Egg)

I still have bittergourd left, excess on my yesterday sauted green mung beans ingredients. So I decided to cook ampalaya con itlog (or bittergourd with egg in english).

Ingredients:

Diced bittergourd

Beaten eggs

Salt

Prodecure:

1. Saute garlic, onions and bittergourd. Add beaten eggs and continue stirring until cooked. Add salt accorfing to taste.

Some put tomatoes on it and you can substitute pork with egg if you want. We Filipinos normally eat this with rice. Enjoy!

Sinigang na Baboy (Phil. Pork Tomyum)

Like adobo, Sinigang can be considered as one of Filipino's all-time favorite viand. It is the Philippines counterpart for Thailand's famous tomyum. You can make sinigang out of pork, beef, shirmp or even chicken. It is basically meat in sour soup. Either you use tamarind, green lime, raw mangoes or guavas, it doesn't matter as long as the soup is sour. But as a beginner in the kitchen, instant powder mixes will always do the trick. =)



Ingredients:
Onion
Kangkong leaves
White raddish
Long beans
Pork cubes
Sinigang instant mix (i used ajinomoto brand)
Salt to taste

the sinigang instant mix i used

Procedure:
1. Boil 1liter water together with onions and pork cubes.
2. Once meat is tender, pour the sinigang instant mix and all the vegetables.
3. Add salt to taste and simmer for another 5 minutes before serving.


I'm happy with the result. My sinigang really taste sinigang. Haha! Only problem is I put alot of water (common error everytime I cook). So what ot do with the extra sour soup?

Sopas (Creamy Chicken Macaroni Soup)

Conversation with my Mom awhile ago:
Me: ma, what to do with leftover penne & roasted chicken?
Mama: recycle it. make sopas.
Me: wow! nice idea. will do, but how? hehe...

Creamy Chicken Macaroni Soup or Sopas in tagalog is an anytime-anyday meal.

Ingredients:
Garlic
Onions
Elbow Macaroni (or any preffered noodle/pasta - i used penne)
Flaked roasted chicken meat
Chicken broth (or normal water will do)
Cubed carrots
Shredded cabagge
Evaporated milk
Salt/ pepper


Procedure:
1. Cook the elbow macaroni according to package instruction.
2. Saute garlic & onions then add flaked roasted chicken.
3. Put 1liter chicken broth (or normal water) and bring to boil.
4. Pour evaporated milk and the pre-cooked elbow macaroni.
5. Add the cubed carrots and shredded cabagge.
6. Put salt and pepper to taste.
7. Simmer for another 5minutes before serving.

Munggo Guisado (Sauted Green Mung Beans)

This dish is one of my mom's specialty. Green Mung Beans paired with cruncy deep fried fish - perfect! Miss my mother's home-cooked food so I tried to prepare one myself.

Ingredients:
Garlic
Onions
Ginger
Green mung beans
Bittergourd
Pork strips



Procedure:
1. Saute garlic, onions and ginger.
2. Add pork strips.
3. Put 1liter water when meat is already tender.
4. Let it boil then put the green mung beans.
5. Once beans are cook, add bittergourd.
6. Put salt according to taste and simmer for another 5 minutes.

Green Mussel Soup

Green mussel or tahong in tagalong is one of my all-time favorite seafood. It's been a long time since I last ate this. So I decided to prepare a hassle-free Green Mussel Soup (so famous easy dish that even kids can cook it).

Ingredients:
Fresh green mussel
Ginger



Procedure:
1. Heat 1liter water with crushed ginger. Put green mussel once ginger broth is boiling. Sprinkle with salt according to taste. Remove from heat once mussel shell opens