Pandesal

In the Philippines, waking up to the smell of coffee and pandesal is heaven. 

You can actually pair pandesal with different dishes like fried or scrambled eggs, omelette or even with sausages or ham, and many others.

That's scrambled eggs with tomatoes and potatoes.

This one is sautéed minced beef with 2 kinds of cabbage. 

But the best thing we did to our pandesal is put cheese in between, and bake it for 10 minutes in the oven toaster. You can feel the crunch and the melted cheese slide through your mouth.. Haha. As I am doing now..

Enjoy Pandesal warm and it'll be bliss... 

Here in Mandalay, we get our Pandesal from SweetD's Pagkaing Pinoy, which is owned by a Burmese and Filipino couple. I will feature them in one of my posts soon.

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Nilagang Baboy Saturday

We've been craving for Nilaga and today's trip to the grocery we found what we've been longing for. So not wasting any minute, we cooked Nilaga, or in my dialect we call this Lauya. Lauyang Baboy to be exact.

To cook this here is the procedure:

Rub the meat thoroughly with salt, then wash with running water, and boil to remove all the scum in every boil.

After three boils, remove the meat from the broth, then, wash the meat again and transfer to a slow cooker.

Add boiled water, garlic, onions, ginger slices, and salt. You can also add pepper if you like.

Add potato slices and cook until meat is tender. Add Cabbage slices, and simmer for another 10 minutes. Add fish sauce or Patis for added flavour.

Serve warm to enjoy a hearty Nilaga.

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