My Favorite Month with Our Favorite Food

Here are some yummy goodness on our table for the month of January. Some oldies but goodies and a few experiments along the way.

First dish is Beef Mechado, it is simply beef stew cooked in tomato sauce. In my case, I used canned tomatoes, bay leaf, soy sauce, lemon juice and one secret ingredient :)

Mechado

Next is pork hocks cooked in vinegar and soy sauce. To make it kinda melt in your mouth, I transferred it to the slow cooker after an hour of boiling in the pot. Yummy with fish sauce of course!

Paksiw na Pata

Good thing I saw a bag of dried taro leaves at the Asian supermarket. I have been craving for Laing (taro leaves cooked in coconut milk) and fried fish. Absolutely yummy!

Laing

fried galunggong

It was Lance's 8th birthday on the 15th. I decided to make marble cupcakes for my boy to bring to school. I didn't get to taste them but he said they are more delicious than the cupcakes his classmate brought the next day haha!

Lance's birthday cupcakes

My hubby was pestering me the other day to taste the bleu cheese. I couldn't since I couldn't get past the smell. I don't think he liked it that much so he asked me to find another use for the cheese so I googled recipes. Found one, tweaked the recipe and it turned out soooo GOOD!

chicken breast wrapped in bacon stuffed with bleu cheese and bacon bits

Lastly, I tried this Baked Sweet & Sour Chicken recipe. This is my surprise for hubby since he did put up a lot this weekend. I hope he likes it, it really looks good and it smells divine as well.

baked sweet and sour chicken

Hopefully I will feel a lot better in the next days or so. I can't wait to start cooking both new and old recipes again! :D