I dig sisig!

I arrive home from work usually at 7pm and easy to prepare meals are so important to me. Although I prepare cooked meals on weekends that we store in the fridge and re-heat once in a while, sometimes, I get tired of the usual ulam that I cook. Especially now that I'm just starting to learn how to cook and there's not a lot of recipes that I know yet. Today, I will show you how I cook one of our favorites, the monterey sisig.

De lata no more!

What you need to prepare:

onions chopped
crushed chicharon (optional)
1 egg
Estimated cooking time: 20 minutes

How to cook:

Pour in the thawed sisig on a heated pan with no oil. Let it simmer for 10-15 minutes. While simmering, you will notice that the sisig will release some oil. What I do is I remove the excess oil from the sisig. 

I remove the excess oil while simmering

Mix in the chopped onions and let the onion cook. After a few minutes, add the egg.

You can also add in chopped siling haba (the green one) to add a bit of color and spice. Unfortunately I didn't have one in the house.

Package insert says to add 1 medium sized chopped onion, but I put in 2 medium sized onions.

  Top the dish with crushed chicharon to have a crunchy texture, and it is ready to eat.

Yummy sisig! This can serve up to 3-4 persons.

Try it now!

Amazing (?) Aloha

When I was a kid, I always had 'pasalubong' from my dad everytime he goes home from work. Yes, I'm a -what you would call- a daddy's girl. He always spoils me with pasalubongs. Anyway, there were two things that I would always request for: 1) jolly hotdog or 2) amazing aloha. Either one of these should be coupled with a peach mango pie. Which I remember at that time, is half as big as its current size.

Unfortunately, amazing aloha did not stay long on the menu unlike the jolly hotdog and the peach mango pie. It was removed from the market at that time, returned after a few years (with Sam Milby as the endorser), and again, it was gone.

And now, it is making a huuuge comeback, literally! It's now made even bigger with two patties! Now this, I gotta try.

It's back! The all new amazing aloha, priced at Php99.00 solo and Php135.00 value meal. Burger bought at Jollibee Centris

 As advertised, the burger has two beef patties sandwiched between Jollibee's signature soft buns.

Looking inside though,  I was disappointed when I saw that the pineapple was rather pale. In addition, the honey mustard sauce was scanty. What used to be bacon strips were now replaced with bacon "bits".

Where's the bacon, honey?

The factors mentioned above made a big impact to the aloha's taste. The ingredients did not blend in well together, probably because there ain't too much dressing. I did not even feel the presence of the bacon. Unlike before, when the smoked flavor of the bacon was still lingering even after I finished the burger. The pale pineapple did not have much flavor to it.

The pineapple gave the burger an interesting texture, but it did not add much to the flavor.

In conclusion, I would have preferred the old and original recipe, made with a more flavorful pineapple and bacon strips. After all, these are what makes it "amazing aloha" right?


Ciao for now,

Miss speaks