This Saturday’s Signature dish is an easy-to-cook meal that is very much common among Filipinos. This may be because it is likely that the ingredients are conveniently available as they are staple in every Asian kitchen, particularly soy sauce.
Ingredients:
250g beef sirloin, cut in 6 slices
1 tbsp kalamansi or lemon juice
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp ground black pepper
3 tbsps oil
1 onion, sliced into rings
Directions:
1. Marinate the beef in kalamansi or lemon juice, soy sauce and pepper.
2. Heat the oil and pan-fry the beef until medium-rare. Transfer to a plate. In the remaining oil, saute the onion until tender. Garnish the beef …read more

Bistek, for “beef steak”, is a favorite Filipino dish. It is typically made using tender steak cuts, sliced thinly and marinated in soy sauce and kalamansi, then fried briefly as to maintain tenderness, and served with onions (and sometimes, potatoes) — also fried — along with its marinade, reduced to a syrupy salty sauce. There are several recipes available online, so instead of giving you another one, I’ll give you some pointers instead:

Quick cooking means the best cuts would be steak cuts, such as tenderloin or sirloin or rib eye. Rib eye can easily be found at …read more

Do you know what happens to a chicken in a Filipino household? Filipinos are known for their frugality, so no part of the chicken goes to waste. Here’s a sampling of what can be made out of one 3-4 pound fryer:
The 5-yo is nursing a bad cold and cough, so the back bones, wing tips, bones from the breast, and the neck, all went into a mini-tinola. I call it mini-tinola because it’s not really a DISH as much as it is a flavorful, rich broth, perfect for making a sick child feel better. I use …read more