At last, I will be able to post the second part of my earlier post. Here it goes…

My parents and youngest sister visited us three weeks ago. So I prepared a lunch for them. Since my parents are not allowed to eat foods high in cholesterol, we just had grilled squids and barbequed liempo (pork belly). They love squids and my husband is a carnivore hehe. For the squids, I just put salt and pepper, and about 2 tsps of kalamansi before grilling.

What makes a good barbeque is the marinade. For about 1 kilo of barbequed liempo, I marinated the pork with ¾ cups of soy sauce, juice from 10 pcs kalamansi, 1 cup of Sprite, lots of garlic, and added some salt and pepper. Sprite is a clear soda, lemon-lime flavored, caffeine free soft drink, produced by the Coca-Cola Company. This makes the barbeque sweet, instead of using sugar. It’s best if you marinated it overnight. For the sauce, I used the marinade and added some catsup and cooking oil and used it for brushing the pork while grilling.

For our dinner, I made pork dumplings and pasta with spicy curried chicken sauce. I have tasted this pasta from Oodys when I had dinner with my officemates one Friday night. Inspired by that dish, I gave it a try. I looked in the Internet for the recipe, and did not found the exact recipe for this dish. Instead, I used two recipes and combined them. Well, the result wasn’t bad, I liked it but still needs some improvement. According to my husband, it tastes good naman, but he didn’t enjoy it that much because he likes his spaghetti with red sauce. For the pork dumplings, I used ground lean pork, grated carrots, finely chopped onions, kinchay, salt and pepper, and added some sesame oil. I wrapped it using dumpling wrapper and deep fried it. It was my first time to cook dumplings, and I thought that the wrapper used in making it is the same wrapper used with siomai. But, I was wrong. I saw this dumpling wrapper in the grocery and bought it. I discovered that it’s different from the wanton wrapper because the shape of wanton wrapper is square, while the dumpling wrapper is circle. It tasted like lumpiang shanghai and my husband loved it because he’s a fan of lumpiang shanghai. I used toyo-mansi with red chili and fried garlic for the sauce.

Cheers!