adobo!
July 24, 2008We (G and I) recently realized that we have been spending a lot on food lately so we decided to eat out less, translation, I should cook more! The thought of cooking actually put me in a lot of pressure since I haven’t cooked anything aside from pasta in a long time. Also, we’ve always been guests to one of our colleagues, who I must say is the best cook I’ve ever met in my entire life. Phew!
G actually asked me to cook a Filipino dish and the first thing that came to my mind is adobo. Aside from loving and missing this dish, I thought it was really easy to assemble — all I need is good old Silver Swan Soy Sauce and Datu Puti vinegar.
So we went to the Filipino section of the Marketplace and I was surprised not to find all the Filipino goodies in the same section! I thought I was gonna cry but when we were looking around, we found it moved to a different and bigger area of the store. Yay! So I was able to buy my toyo and suka and I can’t resist getting a can of Purefoods chunkee corned beef as well as a bag of dried mangoes (which I ate right after paying).
I really miss all the Filipino food! I think next time I’ll be cooking pancit canton both instant and not!
Going back to my adobo, I googled recipes of adobo at work and I was surprised to find different versions of it! Some put more vinegar than soy sauce while others do it the other way around. There are also some sites recommending putting only 2 teaspoons of each. I was confused! So I ended up just doing it the way I know, which is “tanchometer” (Thanks Kim for the term!). I also put some Sprite in it to make it a little sweeter and make the meat more tender.
After an hour or so of prep, my adobo finally came out of the stove over rice and G loved it! Yay! It is his first time ever to taste Filipino food and I’m so glad he liked it! We also ate the leftover after 2 days and he agreed that the longer it sits in the fridge and the more times it is reheated, the better it tastes.
Oh, and just to compare prices here’s how much I spent on the ingredients here in Bermuda (all in USD):
- Silver Swan soy sauce - 5.19
- Datu Puti Sukang Puti - 4.39
- Pork - 5.80
- Purefoods Chunkee Corned Beef - 5.49
- Dried Mangoes - 2.99
Syet! E magkano lang ang toyo at suka sa Pinas?!
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Halos magka-price lang ang baboy sa suka??? Grabe! Ako I can cook quite a lot of dishes, pero itong adobo ang di ko talaga magawa ng maayos. Congrats sa good tasting adobo!
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Posted by JennWasHere at July 29, 2008, 9:40 am