Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Bokchoy and Chayote with Fried Fish Strips Soup

12:05 AM | Posted by Cacai M. | | Edit Post

I don't know if you're familiar with bokchoy vegetable, it has a green leaves and white stems. And so I missed having a soup like this. I had this picture way, way back then. I don't know how many months ago but it's not that a year yet. Ha ha!

Cooking this soup is easy-peasy. I usually had soups with a fried fish strips. Yes, as in I stripped a fried fish into tiny pieces, and I called it fish little strips. :-)

Okay, you wanna know the ingredients? Simply are: chayote squash, bokchoy, fried fish turned into tiny strips, spices (bell pepper, garlic, onion), a tablespoon cooking oil, water, pepper and salt to taste. I think you know already how to make a soup with a cooking oil. If not then, here it is:

Procedure:

1. Assuming you already done cutting the chayote squash and bokchoy vegetables into length-wise then then wash and set aside. Also strip-off the fried fish into tiny little pieces. Hit up a tablespoon of cooking oil in a pan then put the pieces of garlic and onion then 15-30 seconds after, put the bell pepper together with the garlic and onion heated-up, let it brown.
2. Then put  three (3) cups of water.
3. Once boiled, put the vegetables. Then let it reboil.
4. Put then the fried fish tiny strips. 

And done! Time to eat! :-)

Labels: Soups , Vegetable and Meat Foods , Vegetable Foodies | 0 comments

Monday, September 30, 2013

Typical Filipino Foodies

9:09 PM | Posted by Cacai M. | | Edit Post

This picture (below) was taken way back year 2011 in the month of May, with my three friends in the city (one is nearby where this picture or the place where her house was taken). That was already  more than two years ago. We Filipino "Pinoy/Pinay" mommies, living legally here in USA with an American husband) had our friends bonding that time. It was fun. We can just remember our birth country, the foods we used to eat. Ooh well. Isn't that awesome that we can still access to these foods even of thousand miles away? That's how lucky we are that we live here in California than any other states, when it comes to such foods, as they say.


Do you recognize these foods? Those are little fish omelet (tortang-isda), two different kind of fried dried fish, sauteed bamboo shoot with malunggay "moringa" soup, boiled ripe banana plantain, rice and sweetened root crops with bilo-bilo (or commonly called as "bilo-bilo" or "binignit" ) for the dessert and soft drinks.

What do you think of it? How do you like it? Oops! I am already hungry right now, seeing this. I gotta go. Thanks for dropping-by! Come on let's have some bite. :-)

Labels: Filipino Foods , Vegetable and Meat Foods | 2 comments

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Jumbo Fresh Shrimps Soup

2:21 AM | Posted by Cacai M. | | Edit Post

I am into shrimps nowadays. I can remember how I love to eat jumbo shrimps in the buffet with my friends in my favorite buffet restaurant here in my place. Then I realize it has been long time that I haven't made a shrimps soup, one of my favorite soup, of jumbo shrimps with cabbage on it or bokchoy. Below is with cabbage. As you can see, it is still fresh from the stove, with all the steam coming out from the pot.

I like to make vegetable and meat soup whenever my tummy calls for " no oil " foods. " No oil " means, I don't have to use cooking oil to cook it. And so above is made with jumbo shrimps, cabbage, lemongrass, bell pepper, tomato and salt to taste. And hooray! --- time for bites! Yummm! :)

How about you, do you love eating vegetables and meat soup? If so, how do you like cooking it? How do you like eating it? Have you tried this shrimps soup yet?

Labels: Cooked Jumbo Shrimps , Cooking at Home , Home-Made , Vegetable and Meat Foods | 11 comments