Filipino Veggies

There are really times that i get sick and tired eating meats, since that's the only thing that i can quickly get here in the grocery store aside from their vegetables that i seldom cook and eat. Anyway, i am glad that i got the chance to go to the Asian store last week and bought some Filipino vegetables that i really love to have.

And i had a very delicious dinner last night and also a good lunch today eating my leftovers. I am vegetable lover, i sometimes would prefer eating veggies rather than eating meat, which i think my kids got it from me, they don't eat meat that much and can hardly chew on it, especially the beef, so gewey and tender.

Can't Think Of Anything

Did you ever feel sometimes that you wanted to eat something that you can't never have because you don't have it and you cannot just easily buy it on the regular grocery store? Well, i do. I was raised to eat a total different kind of food compare to what i eat here in America now. I am so sure that fellow filipinas who is living abroad like me can fully understand and relate to what i am saying. I am just getting tired eating these frozen dinners that they have here. I cook too but it's just too much for me to eat meat almost everyday, whether steak, chicken, or pork every other day. I wanted to eat fish but all they have here is frozen since you cannot find an ocean nearby here. We are located in the middle of norther America which we only have lakes and ponds.

Eating the same food almost everyday can make my stomach upset. I really can't eat meat one month in a row. Well, yeah we do eat vegetables as well but i am looking for the food that i used to eat there in Philippines. Do i sound like i am craving? Yes, i am craving for those food and wishing i have those food in my plate right now. I so miss the fresh fish with soup (tinolang isda) and some other food that i have not eaten here. Soon as i go back there, i have to make sure that i eat all the food that i cannot just simply eat here and find it in the grocery store or to any seafood restaurants...

Puto Espesyal Recipe

Alright, i received a lot of comments to my post below about my success Puto Espesyal. And i can tell that i am not the only one living abroad who is craving for it. It is indeed sometimes hard to live here abroad because you will miss all the food that you been eating back home. Good thing that my family loves to cook and so am i. So we were able to share the recipes, tips and secret on how to cook the food even more delicious.

Well, anyway, since a lot of my co-blogger friends who wanna know the recipe of my Puto Espesyal, i will share here now the recipe of it. I just want to thank you to all my loyal readers here who commented on my previous post, thank you so much and if you want to learn on how to make the Puto Espesyal, here's how:

INGREDIENTS:
1 lb. sifted cake flour
6 egg whites (separate the egg whites from the yolk)
3 teaspoon baking powder
4 cups white sugar
1 and half cup of milk
1 cup of water
Vanilla essence
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
Cheese cut into strips


PROCEDURES:
Mix the sifted flour, 2 cups of white sugar, and 3 teaspoon of baking powder. Mix it thoroughly and then mix the liquids, the 1 and half cup milk and the 1 cup of water. Stir it in one direction and set aside when it's totally mixed.

Mix the 1 teaspoon cream of tartar into the egg whites. Prepare the 2 cups white sugar. Beat the egg white until it starts to bubble then slowly pour the 2 cups white sugar into it. Keep beating it until it becomes fluffy. When it's done, slowly pour the mixed flour into the beaten egg whites and stir it until it will totally mixed. You can choose whatever muffin molds you like for your puto espesyal. Then put the cheese strips on top of the muffin molds with uncooked puto espesyal, then load it into the steamer for 15 minutes or so and taste it to see if it is done.

So that's it! Not very complicated and very easy to do! I hope you will enjoy cooking and let me know if you cook some so i can take a look at it how delicious your cooking is!

And oh by the way, you can cook the egg yolk whatever you like, maybe you want to make some omelet or scramble eggs, that will be best. You cannot mix the egg yolk in the the Puto Espesyal.

Success!!! I Did It!!!

I have been craving the puto espesyal of my brother back in Philippines. He makes puto espesyal so delicious and no one can't just simply resist to grab one, two, three or even more! In fact, every time we have an occasion back home, Puto espesyal of his is always present as a dessert. And now that i craved for it, i decided to make some. Actually, i made some long time ago when i just barely got here in America, but it didn't turned out so good like what i expected it because i used wrong ingredients to it. I had no cream of tartar to mix it with the egg white and also the flour i used was just an all purpose flour. The result, gewy, and wet! I so hated it and ate some, hubby ate some of it too but i threw the rest because i was so disappointed about my cooking, it's failed!

So, when i was able to chat with my sister who is the master of the Puto Espesyal, who also taught our younger brother on how to make it, she told me not to use the all purpose flour. I've got to use the cake flour and i've got to have the cream of tartar for the egg white. So i did! Hubby bought all the ingredients i need and couldn't wait until tomorrow to cook it to see if it will turn out good this second time around, and of course i am bragging about it now because it is indeed a success! Just take a look at this photo i shared below! I had different kinds of shapes because i used different muffin molds for it. Actually, since i really don't have muffin molds that are meant for Puto Espesyal, i was so clever to use the ice tray, isn't that sounds funny? But it turned out so good though! Take a look at it! Yummy yum yum!!!