When it comes to cooking skills I admit, my husband is better than me big time! I learned my cooking skills which is limited to frying, sauteeing, and boiling (lol) from my father(RIP) which was a great cook too. At an early age, I began helping him in the kitchen, his specialty of course are Ilocano dishes like Papaitan (cow's internal organs), Igado, Dinuguan, and Diningding, I know how to cook all of this, but the question is, will my husband likes these dishes? Big NO.
Now, here comes one of the challenges of inter-cultural marriage. We differ in tastes. He's American, I'm a Filipina. As a wife, its really an everyday struggle on what to prepare for dinner. Our first months of living together, he usually do the cooking and I clean up. I still remember the time that we eat out almost everyday for 1 month. Since I'm new in the area, he takes me to almost all the restaurants in Dubuque. He enjoyed my every reactions to the food they served, how amazed I am with the serving size of the orders, American style. It's really big portion. My tastes buds slowly becoming Americanized, lol. I came to realized that Filipino foods are more complicated to prepare than American dishes. Just microve it, bake it, grill it, roast it stuffs..presto, you'll have dinner in minutes. And slowcooker too!
Speaking of slowcooker, there's a lot of recipes that we can cook in here that tastes like Filipino. And if your a busy working mom and wife, and have limited time to cook, here's the recipe for you, the meals are hot and deliciously done by the time you get home. The taste is so Filipino(the melt-in-your-mouth-tenderness of the meat I compared to Lechon) and my husband really loves this.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxEaePork Roast
First, prepare your pork meat (I chose shoulder blade, with fat, although Jon doesn't like fat but it makes the roast yummier with this).
Now, here comes one of the challenges of inter-cultural marriage. We differ in tastes. He's American, I'm a Filipina. As a wife, its really an everyday struggle on what to prepare for dinner. Our first months of living together, he usually do the cooking and I clean up. I still remember the time that we eat out almost everyday for 1 month. Since I'm new in the area, he takes me to almost all the restaurants in Dubuque. He enjoyed my every reactions to the food they served, how amazed I am with the serving size of the orders, American style. It's really big portion. My tastes buds slowly becoming Americanized, lol. I came to realized that Filipino foods are more complicated to prepare than American dishes. Just microve it, bake it, grill it, roast it stuffs..presto, you'll have dinner in minutes. And slowcooker too!
Speaking of slowcooker, there's a lot of recipes that we can cook in here that tastes like Filipino. And if your a busy working mom and wife, and have limited time to cook, here's the recipe for you, the meals are hot and deliciously done by the time you get home. The taste is so Filipino(the melt-in-your-mouth-tenderness of the meat I compared to Lechon) and my husband really loves this.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxEaePork Roast
First, prepare your pork meat (I chose shoulder blade, with fat, although Jon doesn't like fat but it makes the roast yummier with this).
Next, is the seasonings..... garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper, seasoned salt or salt.
Sprinkle all the above seasonings evenly on the entire meat. You can poke some holes too if you want so that the seasonings will penetrate inside the meat.
Then its, ready to cook. That's so simple.
Put the meat in your slowcooker. Set it to LOW. Then you can leave, go to work, shopping, watch movies, by the time you get home, you will smell the aroma of the flavor, its savory and nutritious. Cooking time is 6-8 hours or longer depends on how tender you want. I want the meat falling-apart from the bone.
