Mom Violy told me she wanted to order the Paella Negra from Dean & Deluca. Carmina suggested we dine in since we’d never really tried their main courses, always just getting takeout with the cream puffs . Mom Violy agreed, and we arrived about thirty minutes before the lunch rush began. The service was very slow, even though we had ordered ahead of time. They mistakenly brought out the Paella Valenciana , despite Mom Violy repeating the order three times to the person who took it. It turned out the cook on duty made the error, even though it was written down clearly. We know Paella Negra takes a long time to prepare, which is why Mom Violy had requested it to be cooked beforehand. She wanted it as her main meal, but because of the mix-up and feeling hungry, she took a piece of Carmina’s Turkey Club Sandwich and asked for the bacon on the side. I didn’t expect the turkey to be just one piece, and the bread was toasted so hard that it removed one layer of the sandwich. Since ...
There is a saying for the Filipino when it is your birthday you need to eat noodles to have long life. The popular dish for Filipino is cooking pancit on that occasion.
There are three types of noodles cooked for pancit:
There are three types of noodles cooked for pancit:
- Pancit Canton Noodles made of egg noodles
- Pancit Bihon (Vermicelli) made of rice noodles
- Pancit Miki made of thick egg noodles
In each dish for 1, 2 and 3 both uses the same ingredient as follow:
Note:
You can choose if you want to use chicken, pork or shrimp on your ingredient of the pancit.
Ingredient:
- 3 Pieces chicken parts such as breast meat or thigh parts
- 1/2 Kilo fresh shrimp remove head, skin and devein (optional)
- 1-pound lean pork chopped (optional)
- 1 Onion chopped
- 2 Cloves garlic
- 2 Carrot sliced into thinly match box sticks
- 1/2 cabbage chopped
- 1 Knorr chicken or pork cubes (depend on which meat you will have decided to use)
- Squid ball sliced (optional)
- 1 Chayote - peel and chopped (optional)
- 3 to 4 cup water
- Fish Sauce (Patis)
- Black Pepper
- String Beans sliced thinly
- Chinese chorizo sliced (optional)
Step 1:
- Boil the chicken/pork in a pot with water and slice onion.
- Once cooked set aside
- Keep the liquid can be used as your chicken/pork broth for the pancit.
Step 2:
- Shred the chicken meat and remove the bones.
- Set aside
Step 3:
- Soak the pancit bihon in a bowl of water
- Set aside
- In a new pot place a little amount of cooking oil
- Sauté garlic, onion, Chinese chorizo (optional), shrimp (optional)
- Add the fish sauce
- Add the carrot, cabbage, chayote and string beans
- Add the chicken or pork and squid ball (optional)
- Add the chicken or pork broth and chicken or pork cubes
- Simmer and cook for 10 minutes
Step 5:
- Strain out the pancit bihon
- Add to Step 4
- Optional you can combine pancit bihon and pancit canton together
Step 6:
- Season with black pepper (to your taste)
- Mix well
Special Pancit:
Note:
Some people prefer boiling hardboiled egg and place on top of their pancit.
Other people squeeze calamansi or lemon juice on their pancit.
They serve pancit with toast bread with melted butter.
Other people combine and eat it with pork barbecue or fried chicken.
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