Pinoy Food Experiment

When I cook adobong manok I sometimes end up with too tender pieces of meat it's almost unrecognizable.  So I decided to try out something different.  I placed the chicken (thighs and drumsticks) overnight with the adobo flavorings: soy sauce, vinegar, lemon juice, black peppercorns, bay leaves and a secret ingredient (which my mother used).  Oh, and I added red pepper flakes as a personal version.  Then I roasted the chicken in the oven, as I let the marinade simmer, and pour some sauce over the roasted chicken.

It worked!  Or at least B thinks so.

Cooking For One

Cooking meals during my weekends of rounding isn't part of my routine.  (Except if B is around).  When I moved to my condo, I had loved experimenting on my own kitchen, especially when I got my cooking gadgets.  But I don't like doing that on my weekends to round.  There was this frozen shumai that I often buy to always be available in weekends like this -- but the brand I liked isn't available in the Asian store nearby (*I miss Chicago*).  There was also a time that I would whip up the packaged pancit bihon or pancit palabok -- but I stopped buying those when I learned how to make bihon (I leave the palabok making to the experts).

The last three nights I have been eating peanut butter and jelly (errr, orange marmalade) sandwiches.  OK, it isn't even a sandwich because I don't have tinapay in the house - so I used flour tortillas instead.  So when I got home today, I decided it would be pathetic to have the same for four consecutive dinners that I looked in the pantry to check what can I make.

I looked into my pantry.  There's pasta: spaghetti, fusilli, capellini, macaroni, penne.  Rice.  Canned tuna.  Condensed milk.  Rice flour.  Pad Thai sauce.  Pineapple chunks.  Chocolates!

Pasta it is.  But I promised myself that if I was to eat pasta, I have to have veggies too (and so I had made it a point there's veggies in the fridge).    Hence the pasta alfredo with roasted broccoli.  Nom nom nom.

And now I have lunch for work the entire week!