Typical Philippine main food---- tapsilog

When you are looking for a 24 hours food house, you can go to the 24 hours tapsilogan house just near Vito Cruz station just near the LRT station. When I am late for dinner and nothing to eat in my apartment, I buy my favorite philippine easy to prepare food which is tapsilog. It is a contraction from the word TAPa(braised beef) SInangag ( fried rice) and itLOG (sunnyside-up egg). It is the most convenient food I could buy at the food house when I go home at 1 oclock in the morning after all day's work and long travel to taxi. I like it very much when there is a little tabasco on it. I think every Filipinos in the rural and urban areas knows tapsilog and all enjoys well the superb taste.

philippine main food-- cassava

Cassava is an essential part of the diet of more than half a billion people particularly the Filipinos. Most of the philippine areas are remote and the people use to plant cassava , camote , bananas, coconut and other agricultural products. Cassava as main food is food for the poor. It is a rich in carbohydrate food which can be boiled and eaten plainly. I have seen some ethnics and poor people in the mountains who eat this. But cassava can be cooked into a good food and which can be appreciated in the whole Philippines.






I can tell you how to cook cassava cake. Here is how.


2 Lbs Grated Cassava
1 14 oz. Can Sweetened Condensed Milk (Reserve 1/3 cup for Topping)
1 12 oz. Can Evaporated Milk
1 14 oz. Can Coconut Milk (Reserve 1/3 cup for Topping)
1 13 oz. Can Coconut Cream (Reserve 1/3 cup for Topping)
2/3 Cup Sugar
3 Eggs plus 3 Egg Whites
1 Cup Grated Coconut

Topping
3 Egg Yolks
1/3 Cup Reserved Sweetened Condensed Milk
1/3 Cup Reserved Coconut Milk
1/3 Cup Reserved Coconut Cream

Directions
Preheat oven to 325° f. In large mixing bowl combine cake ingredients. Mix well. Pour equally into two large greased rectangular pans. Bake until top is no longer liquid (approximately 30 minutes). Mix topping ingredients well and spread evenly on the two cakes. Bake an additional 20 to 30 minutes. Cool cakes completely. Slice each cake into 24 equal squares.

I just wished the ethnics and the people in the mountains could learn how to cook cassava in a different way. i just wish so.

typical philippine main food--bread-- monay

I love philippine bread especially monay. It originated from the philipines. When it is served hot it is soft bread but when it is not, it will be hard but unlike as a rock. I love it one piece cost only 5php compared to the soft pandesal which is 1php in the Fryer's bakeshop. For those who want a soft monay here is a technique. To make soft monay proof molded dough for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours after molding. Slice dough at the center along the oval shape up to 1/2 inch from the bottom to produce the monay shape. giving the dough enough time to relax will produce a soft monay with no cracks.

For those who want to try to make it by yourself. Here is the ingredient:

1 kg bread flour
10 g instant yeast
4 g bread improver
40 g skim milk
180 g white sugar
10-15 g iodized salt
150 g eggs
50 g butter
400 g water

mix all ingredients for about 4-5 minute
Run dough until smooth.
Scale to about 80 grams each then mold to oval shape.
Put into prepared grease pan.
Rest dough not more than 20 minute after shaping.
Bake in pre-heated oven 400 F for 20 to 25 minute or until golden brown.

typical philippine main food---kamote or sweet potato

Do you know sweet potato or better-known as kamote? It is a typical philippine rootcrop and most grown in the provinces.Only a few people in Manila would eat these rootcrop because they would have choose bread other than these. Kamote or sweet potato can be eaten fried, boiled, sweetened, ginataan , or can be cooked as basic ingredient in preparing viands.

Candied sweet potatoes are a side dish consisting mainly of sweet potatoes prepared with sugar, marshmallows, maple syrup, molasses, or other sweet ingredients. Often served on American Thanksgiving, it represents traditional American cooking and indigenous food.

Sweet potato pie is also a traditional favorite dish in southern U.S. cuisine.

Baked sweet potatoes are sometimes offered in restaurants as an alternative to baked potatoes. They are often topped with brown sugar and butter.

Boiled sweet potato leaves are a common side dish in Taiwanese cuisine, often boiled with garlic and vegetable oil and dashed with salt before serving. They are commonly found at biàndāng restaurants, as well as dishes featuring the sweet potato root.

Steamed/Boiled chunks, for a simple and healthy snack, chunks of sweet potato may be boiled in water or cooked in the microwave.

Sweet potato chips, they can be sliced, fried, and eaten just like potato chips or french fries like at the Taiwan chain of T.K.K. Fried Chicken International restaurants.[citation needed]

Shōchū' is a Japanese alcohol made from rice and sweet potato.

In some parts of the country , camote is given to pigs and other animals for their food.

Suman sa IBUS

Our rice-farming ancestors taught us that it is better to fill the stomach with rice grown and tended by one's own sacrifice and work. Even it is simple boiled rice, rice gruel or rice cake it is prepared carefully in showing appreciation of the farmers' hard work. In Bicol where my province is, it is still a good sight to see women gathered around a basin of soaked rice talking with each othere as they wrapped suman. And if the different ways a suman is wrapped is any sign that depicts the artistry, skill and ingenuity of these women.

SUMAN sa IBUS
3 cups malagkit rice
2 teaspoons salt
2 cups thick coconut milk
>> Soak malagkit in water for an hour or
until grains are swollen. Drain. Add salt
and coconut milk. Mix well. Prepare ibus
then fill with rice mixture. Seal tubes and
tie with strips of the ibus.
>> Arrange the suman in a big saucepan
and cover with water. Cover the pot and
boil for 2 hours or until cooked. Serve with
sugar or ripe mango.

HOW TO WRAP SUMAN SA IBUS
1. Fold the end of the buri leaf by 1 ½ inches.
2. Fold the bottom edge into a triangle.
3. Start rolling up the buri leaf in an
overlapping manner.
4. Roll up the buri to make a tube.
5. Attach a small piece of wooden pick
to secure the tube.
6. Fill the tube with malagkit.
7. Seal the ibus tube.
8. Tie with strips of buri.

philippine main food---- chocolate cake by goldilocks bakeshop

Whenever I went back to my hometown, I always bring my family something to eat. One of the favorites I always bring is chocolate cake from Goldilock's which I bought in SM Manila. I always buy the longer one for the whole family and smaller ones for relatives.


During the graduation of my little cousin in elementary school, he gave away these kinds of cakes to her teachers as gift for their sacrifices for enduring service to them. You know cakes are symbols of sweetness to friends , families and relatives. It brings much closeness and happiness when given wholeheartedly. Moreover, many people loves cakes so much.

philippine food-- sinangag or fried rice

Sinangag or fried rice is one of my favorite during my breakfast. Sinangag would compliment a dried fish or tuyo or daing in the morning. In Bicol where I grew up, I know very well when my mother cooked it because of the aroma of the garlic sauteed in hot cooking oil. Here in Manila, i usually crave for it and i always go to some fast food shops offering this sinangag rice style.

Last time i saw some cooking lessons in tv, sponsored by Ginisa flavor mix. The chef advises to put Ginisa flavor mix in the rice when preparing for sinangag. This would turn the sinangag into a great taste and would provide an exciting flavor to the mouth. I guess he was right, i myself cooked it and turn the plain white rice into an exciting flavor .