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When Mom Violy spotted Crisostomo’s handwritten menu, something in her chest lit up: home-style lumpia, sinigang steaming in clay pots—could this be the comfort food she’d been missing?

Carmina informed Mom Violy that she would visit her home on Saturday, November 8, 2025. She asked if Mom Violy wanted to go out for lunch and mentioned needing to do some grocery shopping due to an upcoming big storm. Mom Violy suggested trying Crisostomo, a Filipino restaurant inside Robinsons Magnolia. Carmina forwarded the menu for her to choose what she wanted to eat, while Carmina already knew her order. I chose pork barbeque served in a set of three pieces with a vinegar dipping sauce. I skipped rice and opted for lumpiang hubad, fresh lumpia without a wrapper, topped with peanut sauce.  Mom Violy initially craved the classic Pinoy paella, but when it wasn’t available, she decided on sinigang na baboy with an extra serving of rice. A family member chose sisig with garlic rice. Carmina enjoyed her meal with Mom Violy and particularly liked the  lumpiang hubad , though she kept wondering why it had no wrapper. I explained that it’s called "naked" because it’s served witho...
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Manang V's Beef Ribs Kaldereta Recipe


Manang V is sharing you her Kaldereta Recipe the way she cooks in our home. Being a cook she feeds a lot of people. 

Carmina has the opportunity to write down and ask Manang V what are her recipes each day a way we have a journal of what recipes each person has on their own.

Manang V said normally there is pineapple to the dish since we have nothing in stock it wasn't included in our dish today.

Manang V's Beef Ribs Kaldereta Recipe

Ingredients:

2 Kilo - Beef Ribs

2 - Small Packs Del Monte Tomato Sauce

2 - Tbsp. Vinegar

1 - Onion (chopped)

1 - Whole Garlic (minced)

1 - Potato (sliced in 1 inch)

1 - Carrot (sliced in 1 inch)

2 - Bell Pepper (sliced thinly)

1 - Can Green Peas

1 - Reno Liver Spread

Patis (Fish Sauce) to taste

1 - Can of Sliced Pineapple (strain juice)

Cooking Instructions:

  1. In a large pot you will add small amount of cooking oil when hot add garlic, onion sauté by adding the beef ribs, vinegar and water until meat is soft and tender.
  2. Add potato, carrot, bell pepper, peas until cook for thirty minutes 
  3. Add reno liver spread, patis and pineapple ready to serve with rice.

They say eating in a small plate makes you eat only a small portion of your food each day.

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