What is your food specialty?
By eileenleyva
@eileenleyva (27555)
Philippines
October 15, 2017 8:34pm CST
I was awake cooking all night because of my ref malfunction. I discovered I can cook tasty food, actually. Perhaps I never did give it a thought if my cooking is good or superb, but one thing I know, my cooking is edible and luscious. Ha ha
One of the viands is the bangus belly sinigang. It is a native dish with the milkfish simmered in sampaloc soup, or tamarind, with tomatoes, long pepper, radish, and kangkong leaves, or spinach. I add a little Thai fish sauce, or patis, to taste.
Have you any specialty that you prepare at least weekly?
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
16 Oct 17
I can make good tasty salads as I am mostly vegetarian.
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
16 Oct 17
@eileenleyva Sure! Here are all the ingredients for a great salad. And you can add anything to it to make it a more substantial meal like, beans, pasta, fish or meat. If you don't like it sweet, you can leave the apples out. To make it taste great, you can season it with some apple cider vinegar and salt and spices.
@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
16 Oct 17
Fresh garden salad is offered in almost every restaurant in Metro Manila today. Could you give me a recipe?
I could prepare macaroni salad, and have been commended for it in the past.
Oh yes, we have many vegetarian restos, too. A few years back, my good friend was stricken with cancer, and she couldn't eat meat. We went vegetarian and discovered that there are many restaurants that offer vegetarian food only.
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@runningthegalaxies (324)
• United States
16 Oct 17
I am not one for cooking. I mean I can cook simple scrambled eggs or boil pasta. That's it. But I love eating that so it works out for me. I live with my parents and my mom always cooks for the family and she's the best cook around.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
16 Oct 17
Surprise your mom one morning with a cheese omelet. Beat some eggs and mix with cheese. You can use cheddar, quick melt, edam. mozarella, or parmesan. Fry in olive oil. or butter. Eat with bread, or rice.
Moms love to have prepared breakfasts every now and then.
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@runningthegalaxies (324)
• United States
16 Oct 17
@eileenleyva That is a very good idea. I am definitely gonna surprise my mom with a meal I can make. I usually surprise her by doing suffer around the house, like the dishes or the floor.
@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
17 Oct 17
I love eating as well. The cooking came as a necessity. I had daughters to feed. Ha ha. The kitchen activity never stopped, morning, noon and night time.So, I did learn the basics and eventually, I did get to concoct my own viands.
Come Christmas time, I do my best to get Yuletide viands set on Christmas feast.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
16 Oct 17
Any specific food taste? Like pasta, for the Italians? Japanese ramen, Korean jjampong, Chinese chowmein?
Filipinos pride in the chicken/pork adobo. It is laden with garlic, vinegar, pepper, and soy sauce. Adobo has infiltrated New York cuisine. So they say.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
16 Oct 17
Seafood has become the preferred dish. Buttered salmon with lemon, love it, sweet and sour fish fillet, any time. Ha ha. I love grilled fish, too, Steamed mayamaya is super.
The Philippines is rich in fish and other sea food.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
16 Oct 17
@nangayo You know what, I live in the outskirts of the metro, Fish is available in the grocery or supermarket. Fish is very expensive, too.
When one goes to the beaches, especially in the south of the archipelago, one can purchase a bucket of good fish for ten pesos only. Where I reside, that would be more than a thousand pesos.
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@nangayo (2290)
• Nairobi, Kenya
16 Oct 17
@eileenleyva Fish is expensive here but we try to afford it. I wish i ere there in the Philippines.
@averagejane (448)
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16 Oct 17
i cant cook anything fancy, I can cook sinigang but it's nothing to right home about. :) I just love to eat.
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@neildc (17238)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
16 Oct 17
I do not cook all the time and my always do. I do, but only once in a while. Any sour soup menu is my favorite and my favorite to cook too. Milk fish, pork or beef will do as long as there is plenty of vegetables like radish, okra and kangkong leaves too. I also love kare-kare...
@eagletrek2 (5514)
• Kingston, New York
19 Oct 17
My specialty is Jewish style chicken
Chop liver.my grandma recipe
@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
19 Oct 17
Care to share the recipe? And how the Jewish chicken is cooked? Old family recipes are actually exciting. The dishes just transport one to sweet family gatherings. My grandmother was one lady who invited relatives for an annual reunion. The food is the center of festivities, Ha ha. No one argues on a full stomach.
@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
16 Oct 17
I think my specialty is cooking the ilocano dish we call imbaliktad-- a kind of broth beef dish. Then other dish the ginataan.
@rubyriaz007 (4187)
• India
16 Oct 17
I prepare chicken chilly and chicken Manchurian at least weekly. My family enjoy having it. Sometimes we order from restaurant also. Its the favorite dish of everyone at home. It goes well with rice and bread.
@chloeamber (718)
• Philippines
16 Oct 17
i know a lot of philipino dishes but my my family loves it when i cook pancit malabon on any occasion 
