Chinese BBQ Ribs

This recipe very, very easy and very, very tasty. I got it from the internet and just modified it a little. You just need the ff:
1. Pork Spareribs
2. Water
3. Chinese BBQ sauce
4. Garlic 3-4 cloves
5. 1-2 inch worth of ginger, sliced
6. Chili flakes/tobasco sauce (how much depends on how spicy you like it)
7. Salt & Pepper

Directions:

1. Boil the ribs with ginger and some salt until soft
2. Discard water and ginger (or you can use the broth for some other soup; up to you)
3. Saute garlic and then brown the ribs' sides
4. Take out ribs
5. In the same pan, add Chinese BBQ sauce (enough to coat ribs), chili flakes/tobasco sauce and mix with the garlic
6. When it simmers, put back the ribs and use a tong to rotate them so that they will be coated with the sauce (you can use a brush too, but I warn you Chinese BBQ sauce is very sticky, so that may be a little difficult)
7. Simmer for about 10 minutes when ribs have absorbed the sauce
8. Serve with hot rice! :)

Sweet and Sour Fish

Sweet and Sour Fish is very, very easy. You just need to fry a fish which has been seasoned with salt and pepper. When it's done, set it aside, and prepare the sauce. I don't know how to make sweet and sour sauce from scratch, so I just used a ready made one (our household uses Mama Sita) --the one you mix with water. Instead of water though, pour in the contents of a pineapple cocktail can. Mix it and simmer with the pineapple bits, sliced carrots, sliced onions, and red bell pepper. When it's a little thick (after about 10mins or so), pour over the fish and tada!

Upcoming!!!

So how'd you all like the kansi? I got so many hits after posting that recipe and I'd like to thank you! Hopefully you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Tonight for dinner I learned how to make sweet and sour fish and vegetable spring rolls. I'll be posting the recipes soon enough!

In the meanwhile, I'm planning on making Sticky Chinese BBQ Pork Ribs and Bonchon in the days to come! I'm doing some research now, and it doesn't seem so difficult to make afterall! :)

Kansi

Hi, guys! I know I haven't updated for a while; I've been quite busy. I hope this one can make it up to all of you though, it's a very worthy first post for 2010.

This is a dish I first tasted when I lived with my cousin in Virginia. Her husband is a Filipino from Bacolod and his relative, Carmel, who is also from Bacolod made some Kansi for us during one of our parties. Kansi is an Ilonggo recipe that is sort of like a cross between Bulalo (beef bone marrow and vegetables soup) and Sinigang (sour pork soup). Carmel was kind enough to share the ingredients with me, and tonight for dinner, I finally got around to try and put it together. Here's how:

Ingredients
1.Beef Bones (3-5lbs) and/or Beef Shank (3-5lbs)
2.Lemon grass (2 stalk)
3.onion (1 medium)
4.Fresh ginger (1/2 cup, sliced)
5. 1 long hot pepper
6.Atchuete powder(1 Tablespoon)
7.sinigang mix (2 Tablespoon or to taste)
8.Canned Green Jackfruit (1 can)
9.salt & pepper (to taste)
*I also added some garlic to the recipe and tomatoes, and used fresh green jackfruit (sliced) instead.

Directions
1. Saute garlic and onions
2. Add beef and ginger into the pot and pour just enough water to cover most of the meat
3. Leave it to boil for about an hour, thirty to two hours
4. Lower heat to simmer, add more water into the pot until meat is completely submerged
5. Mix in sinigang mix, salt, and pepper (I used about half of the pack of sinigang mix since I liked it more sour)
6. Mix in pepper (add more if you want it to be spicier)
7. Put in sliced green jackfruit
8. Leave to simmer until jackfruit is cooked and beef is very soft
9. When it's almost done, put in lemongrass (tie it into a knot) and atchuete for color
10. Simmer for about 10 minutes and serve with hot rice.

I'm not sure if my version was as good or as authentic tasting, since it's still up to the cook to blend proportions up to his/her liking, but I loved it when I ate it, so you might too!

Bacon-wrapped Ribs

This is one of the easiest yet tastiest (and also probably unhealthiest) dishes I have ever made. And this I'm proud to say is something I came up with all on my own. I was just thinking, bacon and ribs - how can you go wrong right?

Ingredients

1. Emeril's rib rub
2. Ground pepper
3. Vegetable oil
4. Hot sauce
5. Pork Ribs
6. Bacon
7. Baking/cooking Foil

Directions

1. Wrap bacon around each pork rib and lay in a glass baking container (leave some space between pork ribs)
2. Brush ribs with a little vegetable oil
3. Smother each rib with Emeril's rib rub, ground pepper, and hot sauce
4. Cover container with foil, and marinate for 1-2 hours
5. Bake in oven at 350F for 1hr 45 mins up to 2 hours
6. In the last 15 mins before it gets done, take the foil off the container
7. Take out the oven, let it cool for a bit
   
8. Serve with lots of rice, mashed potatoes, and maybe even some roasted veggies!
   
9. ENJOY!!! :)

Fresh Salsa

Goes great with chips, fish, and even steak! Also very, very easy to make.

Ingredients
3 Fresh tomatoes - diced
1-2 red onion - diced/chopped coarsely
1 half lemon slice
1 jalapeno(sliced)/1 tbsp chili flakes/any chili you like
1 bunch fresh cilantro, chopped

Directions
Mixe together in a bowl, cover with cling-wrap, leave in fridge for atleast an hour (or a day if you want the flavors to blend together better), ENJOY!

Nilagang Baka (Boiled beef soup)

This nilagang baka recipe is a mix of my Tagalog and Cebuano heritage. I hope you like it!

Ingredients
1/2 kg Beef ribs or beef cut into 1 inch cubes. If they are attached to bone, better.
2 potatoes, quartered
Bokchoy
String beans
Carrots (optional)
3 inch long ginger cut into pieces
1 Knorr beef bouillon (sp?) cube
Black pepper
Salt
"Patis" (Fish sauce)
2 whole onions chopped
4-5 cloves garlic crushed

Directions

1. Boil meat, ginger, garlic, and onions together for about 45 minutes on medium high heat.
2. Lower heat a little and then crush and dissolve beef cube into the soup
3. Add dash of salt and pepper (salt less than pepper)
   
4. Add about 1/4 cup of Fish sauce (more if you like it a little saltier)
5. Add carrots and potatoes
6. Boil for 30-45 minutes
7. Add in bokchoy and stringbeans
8. Simmer for 15-20 minutes (more if you want your veggies soggy, less if you want them a little crisp)

Perfect for a cold day! Enjoy! :D