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This, ladies and gentlemen is what my family calls Chinese Adobo. Filipino adobo has vinegar to it, making it a bit sour and salty. This tasty dish is more sweet and savory. The keynote flavor here is star anise, giving the dish a distinct flavor.

I start by coating the bottom of my wok with some oil (i prefer olive oil as it has great health benefits, but you can use vegetable or canola oil if you're in a pinch).  I then add a tablespoon of sugar and let it caramelize, you have to work fast or else it turns into rock candy. Once the sugar caramelizes, add your pork and coat it with the sugar oil mixture. I then add some garlic (to your liking) and wait until the meat is no longer pink. Add about two ladles of soy sauce,  a couple shakes of oyster sauce, add your star anise and water or 7up which ever you have handy and let simmer until meat is tender (starts to shred).

I pre-boiled my eggs in a separate pot and then added into the chinese adobo once the meat was tender. Enjoy with a hot steaming bowl of rice :)

The first snickerdoodle attempt (with the children's christmas cookie recipe)

Ever since I found this recipe on Allrecipes.com I couldn't stop making them. It pained me to purchase crisco... Never in my life I thought I would purchase crisco, but boy do they make this cookie for sure! After my disastrous snickerdoodle attempt christmas of 2010 at my aunt's house, I had to find a different recipe than the one I had used that day.  The original recipe I had used was from a children's christmas cookies recipe book. . .  no bueno. It was flat, dry and just not good whatsoever. So I figured there had to be one and of course, I found this :

Best Snickerdoodles you'll ever had in your life!!!!

Go ahead, try it yourself! don't skip the crisco or who knows what cookie you'll end up baking... enjoy!


***On a side note, I don't have a picture of my finished Mrs. Sigg's Snickerdoodles because once I take them out of the oven they disappear!!!!!

This is my beef stir fry creation that I made this evening. I got the recipe on allrecipies. com: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/steak-stir-fry-2/detail.aspx

The only thing I did different than the recipe is I added more ginger to my liking and I did a frozen veggie blend of carrots, broccoli and cauliflower. Threw in some peas and a few shakes of oyster sauce and voila! I love these types of recipes because you can add whatever you want, just as long as you stick to your original recipe. I've eaten my fair share of asian food to figure out what can and cannot go together. That's the beauty of cooking, can't really do that with baking, unless it's add-ins like nuts or chocolate etc...

I'm going to start posting and writing about the foods I make or try at restaurants. I love talking about food and sharing my experiences with other people so that they too can be inspired to get out of their comfort zone and try something new.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Hello! I'm still gathering all the stuff I'd like to write. Bare with me as I correlate as many of my past cooking/baking products! :)