Escapades

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Here’s one of my my mom’s well-loved recipes. It’s a family favorite and my cousin’s fave too. Excuse the crappy photo but I can assure that this is delicious.

1 pork front leg (1.3 kg)
1 pc. ginger, thinly sliced
1/4 cup cooking oil
1/4 cup white sugar
1/4 cup vinegar
1/4 cup soy sauce
8 stalks Pechay Baguio (alternatives: Chinese cabbage or Bok Choi)
2 pcs. dried mushrooms, sliced
3 tbsps. rice wine
5 cups broth or water
2 pcs. Sanque (Star Anise)
2 tbsps. cornstarch for thickening

Marinade:
2 tbsp. Chinese soy sauce
1 tsp. ground pepper
1/4 tsp. garlic, minced
1 tsp. white sugar
2 tsp. leeks, minced

Marinate pork for at least an hour.
Remove pork from marinade.
Heat pan, pour oil, add ginger then fry pork until golden brown.
Transfer the pork in a pressure cooker, add the marinade then set aside.
Heat pan, caramelized sugar, add water when brown.
When boiling, add vinegar, soy sauce, rice wine and Star Anise.
Pour the mixture over the pork leg in the pressure cooker.
Cook for 30 minutes or until pork is very tender then transfer the pork to a serving platter.
Heat pan, pour oil (from pork), stir fry dried mushroom and Pechay then add the sauce from the pressure cooker.
Thicken sauce with cornstarch dispersed in water, pour over pork then serve.

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For me, this is the best taco ever! I could eat only this every day! My mom has this recipe for as long as I can remember. Sorry but I can’t share the recipe because it’s a secret. I just want to brag about it… my mom makes mean tacos!!! Yeah baby!

Here’s a hint… it contais at least 5 different kinds of spices. Haha! Anyway, my nephew and I attempted to cook this one time when my mom was in the US for a vacation. It wasn’t the same. It tasted almost the same but it was too dry. But still, it made other tacos taste bland.

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I was going through my CDs and found these photos and thought I’d share them here.

These are photos from our trip to Canyon Cove in Nasugbu, Batangas way back 2007, April 27-28 to be exact. My whole family and my cousins went there and we rented this big flat where we all stayed. The flat has two bedrooms with bath, kitchen, dining area, living room and a small patio.

The place is very kid friendly. They built a breakwater so there are almost no waves entering the shore. The sand isn’t as white and as fine like in Boracay but it’s nice enough to build sandcastles with and they don’t hurt the feet when you go barefoot. And the water is clean and there’s still sea life so it’s suitable for snorkeling.

They were renovating the place when we were there, including the pool area and we had no TV also so, we were stuck with the beach. But that’s fine because it was still fun. Anyway, we’ll be going back there next month and hopefully we’ll be able to use the pool this time.

I can’t wait to go back there and I’m sure the kids will be pretty excited too if they find out about it.