Beef
Pepper Steak
Betty Crocker’s New Cookbook: Kitchen Library Containing Good and Easy Cookbook and New Cookbook (Everything You Need to Know to Cook) This is another dish I’ve never cooked before. It’s from Betty Crocker’s New Cookbook again. There are still so many recipes there waiting to see the light of my kitchen. I have no idea [...]
Feta Burgers
Do you have those regular burger cravings that won’t be satisfied by a quick trip to McDonald’s or Carl’s Jr.? I do. Before I got married, those cravings were easily satisfied by a quick trip to McDonald’s, Jollibee and even Tropical Hut. Then Spouse had to introduce me to homemade American burgers that I once [...]
Corned Beef
St. Patrick’s Day will be here in a few days. But I couldn’t wait wait to have Corned Beef with Cabbage before it came, so here it is. This dish reminded me of Nilagang Baka and I always cooked it the Filipino-way, boiling it with onion and black peppercorn till it was falling apart. Then [...]
Cincinnati Chili
This is not your usual chili. For one, it’s served “on top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese”. This one in the photo is known as a five-way. It’s served with the chili or meat sauce, beans, cheese (I used provolone so you can hardly see it in the photo) and chopped raw onions [...]
Everyday Filipino: Beef Sinigang
Sinigang refers to the dish you cook using the “sigang” method. Cooking sigang style is to cook with broth and other condiments according to the online Tagalog dictionary. I always thought the term meant sauteing without oil. Sorry about the picture, I guess the steam rose and fogged up the camera lens. Sinigang is a [...]
Osso Buco
I’ve been cooking a lot of heavy dishes the past few days. ‘Tis the season for all those rich recipes to come out and Osso Buco served over plain-boiled polenta sounds perfect for another cold, snowy day in Colorado…. Yesterday morning, Spouse and I went up to Denver and drove through the beautiful and cold [...]
Indonesian Oxtail Soup
Sop Buntut is one of those favorite Indonesian dishes of mine, which I have never tried to cook before. Now that I have this blog, I thought it would be a good idea to to try cooking Indonesian dishes. I lived for a very short time in Jakarta years ago and experienced real culture shock [...]
Steak Dinner
This was the Steak Dinner we had last night, with a few of the ingredients I used to prepare the meal. I have to admit, the steak was not perfectly medium the way I planned it….more medium-well, which is not all that perfect for a piece of good steak. I used a little under a [...]
Mrs. Johnson’s Beef BBQ ala Bessie
Okay, this dish really doesn’t have a name…Bessie, my mom, just called it “Mrs. Johnson” and the name stuck. Mrs. Johnson is actually the former American first lady, Lady Bird Johnson. My mom found this recipe in some American magazine in the 60′s and turned it into her own. It has very few ingredients, is [...]
Mock Beef Caldereta
Here’s a sorry attempt at plating a dish of beef caldereta. Do you think I overdid it? I really wasn’t going to post about this but decided I would at the last minute because of the attractively-colored vegetables. This caldereta is missing a few key ingredients (which I’ll include in the recipe anyway) which [...]
Bistek Tagalog with Veggies
This is another beef dish that’s pretty common in the Philippines. We call it Bistek, a play on the Western ”beef steak”. The Philippine version uses thin sirloin cuts of beef if your monthly budget permits but you can use the cheaper cuts, pounded to make it more tender. The marinating will tenderize the meat considerably. [...]
Meatloaf
I’ve tried several recipes of meatloaf but was always taken by the one Cracker Barrel serves (on Tuesdays if I’m not mistaken). I did a search on the internet some years back and found a recipe based on that. My recipe has evolved from that however…I made a few changes that suited our tastes more. [...]