Bulalo Recipe

My family always prepare Bulalo for Christmas and New Year. It's a must on the table, it's perfect served hot along with other dishes. I love the rich taste of beef in this recipe and I'm sharing it with you.  


Bulalo

Ingredients:
1 kilo Beef, meat
1 kilo special cut beef marrow
2 onions, cut into halves
Onion leeks, thinly sliced
salt
pepper
msg (optional)

Directions:

1. Boil beef meat and marrow till tender with lots of water.

(Option: Refrigerate overnight or less after it cools down and when the fat settles on top, scrape it off. Less cholesterol hehe. Heat it up).

2. Add salt, msg, onions, onion leeks and pepper.

3. Serve hot.

Julie and Julia

At 4pm today while I was trying to figure out what to do with the rest of the day, I switched the channel and landed on HBO. The movie was starting and I had no idea what it was. But I had exactly on the start so I said to myself, maybe this is worth watching.


The setting of the movie was in Paris. Oh I love Paris! I wish I could go there. Then the cast of characters rolled on with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. Meryl Streep was Julia Child who lived in Paris (but she lived in different places because of her husband's job) and Amy Adams was set in New York. Omg! New York. Queens, New York to be exact, above a pizzeria.

Meryl Streep and her husband, Stanley Tucci were dining at a lovely french restaurant with the waiter deboning the fish. As Meryl Streep tastes the fish, she was in such awe and told her husband that it tastes so good.

I told myself... OK this is going somewhere. This movie is about food. So I googled the title "Julie and Julia" and landed on Wikipedia. It's definitely about food! Yayy!!

The movie is about Julie Powell finding something else to do to get away with the stress of her daily job, which she and her husband figured out that it was cooking. She decided to write a blog about cooking, well, about Julia Child's french cooking. Her mission was 524 recipes in 365 days.

She had her success, she also had meltdowns which included almost losing her husband. She figured that she and Julia Child has a lot in common. Like having a secretarial job in a government agency, having a great husband that supports and loves her and finally, cooking as a getaway.

I actually share the same feeling. Like having a job that I don't wanna do for the rest of my life, and cooking as a getaway, well only I could do cooking during weekends and holidays. If I have another chance, you know, I'll go and enrol in a culinary school, get a diploma and start cooking just anywhere!

Oh! I hope I could get that chance, the chance where I could just begin again and start a new career. It's not too late. Julia Child began her passion for cooking when she was 40+. And Julie Powell began hers while she was busy doing her daily job. I will begin mine soon.. I will with the help of God. :)


Love lots,
UmbRela

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Pork Kare-Kare

Kare Kare :)

Ingredients:
1 kilo pork
4 cloves garlic
1 medium onion
1 medium bottle peanut butter
4 medium eggplants
1 string yardlong or string beans
4 tablespoons dried annatto seeds (for coloring)
salt

Cooking Directions:
1. Boil pork in a pot until tender.
2. Add the vegetables. Simmer for 10 minutes or until slightly tender.
3. In a separate pot, saute garlic till light brown and onion till translucent.
4. Pour in the pork with its stock. Leave it to a boil. Using a strainer, soak the annatto seeds into the pot until desired color is achieved (refer to the image above).
5. Add the peanut butter and mix it in with the stock. The sauce should be slightly sticky with no lumps.
6. Add salt to taste.

This recipe is one of the many Filipino favorites. Happy cooking!

Love love,
UmbRela