Siomai Dumplings

I've been craving for dumplings. So, as I requested, me and Mom cooked steamed siomai dumplings yesterday.

Here are the Ingredients:

1 kg ground pork
3/4 cup chopped carrots
2 tbsp or 4 cloves minced garlic
2 medium/1 large minced onion(s)
spring onions
1 egg
1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1 teaspoon salt
seasonings
siomai wrapper

Instructions:

1. Combine all the ingredients for the filling in a bowl.

2. Wrap about 1 tsp of meat in each wrapper until nothing is left unfilled.

4. Boil water and brush steamer with oil and when the water gets to boil, arrange the siomai in the steamer and let stand for 15-20 minutes, longer for larger pieces.

For the Chilli Sauce:

Chillies (Siling Labuyo)
3 tablespoons cooking oil
2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced

***Sautee garlic and chopped chillies

Voila!!!!


I prefer fried siomai with soy sauce, calamansi and chilli sauce.

Last Christmas was a special one for me. After 6 years, I was able to spent the holidays here in my hometown with my family. From Manila to my hometown was an annoying and uncomfortable trip. I was restless for the whole 16 hour cutting trip. I arrived home on the 21th of December and we immediately plan for our noche buena and medya noche.

We prepared a simple and easy to prepare food for the holidays. Wine and macaroni salad is always on our list. We don't cooked spaghetti, we had sotanghon noodles instead.

My parents avoid lots of foods especially those that are high in cholesterol. My Mom is really good in baking. I requested for a rice cake but she decided to bake this marble chiffon cake. It is so good!

           I think noche buena won't be complete without a ham on the table together with a red wine.

Bicol Express for a cold rainy Sunday

Just last weekend I keep on ranting about heavy dark rain clouds that just stayed up in the sky and it won't pour a drop of rain... Now, we have plenty of rain! And in fact, I am, grabbing a cup of something hot to heat up my cold rainy Sunday. Even if its wet and messy to walk outside, I think I still have to thank the rain. See, the water dams are in critical state, it's drying up so quickly. It would not enough to supply the whole city, good thing it's raining again.

And speaking of raining, I have something to share with you. In my provice--Bicol, we frequently visited by typhoons and it always rains in that part of the country. So Bicolanos adopted the cold wet place by eating spicy foods. You know, spicy foods can make us feel warm. And rainy as it is today, I have a delicious Bicol specialty called Bicol Express.



It is made of pork, long chilies, coconut milk, shrimp paste or stockfish, onion, pork, and garlic. And I must tell you, we Bicolanos prefer this dish extra spicy. For its recipe you can check this link: Filipino Recipes and you can try making this sometime.

By the way, that photo above was taken when we went to Bicol (Caramoan Peninsula) last month. I promised to post about some great island foods, so this is one of the Bicol specialty that we enjoyed eating in the island. I feel like I'm home when I was there.

So, have a rainy, spicy Sunday!