KINILAW NA BARILES

Kinilaw is a local dish that is prepared almost all occasions. It is because it is easy to prepare and budget wise also. Kinilaw is a good appetizer and said to be a good pulutan in every drinking sessions or at a night out. Well, my mouth is already full of saliva and hungry for the dish. Here are the ingredients of kinilaw na bariles.

1/4 kilo bariles or tuna, chop into cubes
1 tablespoon salt
1/2 tablespoon pepper
2 radish
2 cucumber
ginger, chopped in fine
vetsin (optional)
onion
lemon
vinegar
Procedure:

What I like about this dish is that you cannot miss anything.

Place the bariles or tuna in a deep bowl. Add ginger, salt, pepper, onions, radish, cucumber and vinegar all together. Mix well to make the fish blend with the other ingredients. Preparation for this dish is only about 20 minutes. Add the lemon as the finale of the dish. It is also best to add some spice on it to make the dish more attractive and more delightful to the stomach.

APPLE CAKE RECIPE

The ingredients

5 slices apple, peeled and cored
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
2-1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup raisin
3/4 cup butter
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp allspice
3/4 cup nuts

Baking procedure:

Chop apple into cubes. Add 1 cup sugar and set aside.

In mixer, beat egg and half sugar until fluffy.

Add remaining ingredients. Fold in apple.

Bake at 75C oven for 20 minutes or until cooked.

POTATO CROQUETTE

Ingredients

potato, cooked, peeled and mashed
cheese spread
egg, beaten
breadcrumbs
oil for frying

Procedure:

Make palm size balls of mashed potato. make a hole in potato balls with using your thumb. scoop a teaspoon of cheese and pour into the hole. Seal the hole. Roll potato ball in egg then dredge in breadcrumbs until fully coated. Deep-fry.

CLASSIC RECIPE BOOK IN THE AUCTION

Most chefs collect their own recipe books and I am counted as well. After culinary school, my quest for having the most recipe books started. Maybe I am already a recipe book collector and a big fan of cooking after all. I was just passing along the cooking boulevard here in our city when I noticed a crowd gathered. I was told that it was a auction day for a book store that is about to close because of poor sales. All the books are in for auction and when there are books, there must be recipe books that are for auction.

I thought I was never gonna hear a recipe book for auction when suddenly the auction master announced that the next book has a single copy and it was a recipe book. I immediately signed up for the list of participants or what they call interested parties in the auction. The recipe book that about to be auctioned was an American recipe book. Based on my research, the recipe book has a limited edition because the chef that wrote all the recipe in the book was suspended because of some cooking terms that were not practiced inside the recipe book. The culinary school has a copy of this recipe book and I guess I will soon have one after the auction.

There were few people interested in the recipe book. When the price was set, nobody bid except for me. Immediately the book was sold to me, no contest at all. The recipe book contains around 100 recipes inside it and a DVD of the cooking procedure of the chef that wrote the recipe book. Based on my partial reading, the recipes that were listed inside were quite easy to prepare and I did not see any malpractice inside it. Maybe I am just to early to say that. I guess I needed to read more about the recipe book.

IT IS A SUNDAY CLEANING EVENT IN MY KITCHEN

My house help is having her day-off today and that means I have to do the cleaning in my kitchen. I already prepared all the things needed for the cleaning proper to commence. The scratch pad, laundry soap, pail and water are all with me. based on my observation the part that need most attention will be the gas range because I noticed there were some stains left and that needs cleaning immediately. I make wonderful dishes and prepare foods in the kitchen and I cannot afford to have a dirty gas range to start the cooking process.

Actually the my kitchen is clean because everyday my house help see to it that everything is clean because I don't want to start cooking with a dirty environment. Aside from that, chefs really practice cleanliness in the kitchen where we cook. May be a 20 minute cleaning will be okay before I prepare the dinner meals for tonight. Maybe cleaning really can do magic in the kitchen because when I started brushing, I found the lighter of my oven. This was missing for about 2 weeks already and now I found it.

I also instructed the attendants in my restaurant to clean up the kitchen there before they leave after tonight's operation. I was not the entire day to day because I was cleaning the kitchen. The cooking in the restaurant will all be completed after 7 pm. By that time all the dishes and foods will all be prepared and served one by one in the dining area. Operation will only be at 8 pm and they have to finish cleaning after that hour.