Did you know there is a difference in mixed vegetables in the Philippines?  Dinengdeng and laswa came from Ilocos Law-oy came from Visayas and Mindanao Bulanglang came from Batangas Do you wonder what the difference on each four mixed vegetables? Dinenegdeng uses fried or grilled fish Laswa uses shrimp instead of fish. Bulanglang uses fried fish, tuna or bagoong The difference in Bulanglang is the vegetables are steamed along with patoloa, malunggay, okra, eggplant, amplaya, kalabasa, string beans and tomato. Bulanglang na Gulay ng Batangas Recipe Ingredients: 1 1/2 Cup - Malunggay leaves 10 Pieces -  String beans (sliced) 3 Pieces - Eggplant (cut in half and sliced) 5 Pieces - Okra (cut the top and slice in the middle) 1 - Patola (sliced) 2 - Cups Kalabasa - squash (cubed) 2 - Ripe Tomato (wedged) 4 - Cloves Garlic (minced) 2 - Tbsp - Ginger (sliced) 1 - Knorr Cube (any flavor) 4 - Cup Water Patis (fish sauce) to taste Cooking Instructions: Step 1: Sauté garlic, onion and gin...

This is my favorite pasta from  Yellow Cab Pizza called Charlie Chan Chicken made with chicken, shitake mushroom, roasted peanuts in a spicy oriental sauce. It reminds me of pad thai but in a different way. When you crave for pasta why not adds pizza to your order the first one is New York Classic Pepperoni and Mahattan Meatlovers is all meat pizza with ham, pepperoni, Italian sausage, ground beef, salami and bacon. Your choice of pizza is from 9 inches, 12 inches and 15 inches all has different price value.

Kamote que is one of my favorite merienda that we cook in our home and each day this is a common food that Filipinos love to eat. Kamote is known as a sweet potato. Kamote que is brown sugar coated on the kamote that has been fried up. This is a common street food you will see when you walk around outside that has three pieces on a barbecue stick. Homemade Kamote Cue Recipe: Ingredients: 4 Pieces Kamote (sweet potato) - sliced 2 Cup - Brown Sugar Cooking Oil Bamboo Stick Cooking Instructions: In a pan you will add enough cooking oil and heat it up once it starts to boil add the brown sugar until it turns brown. Add the kamote fry for 10 minutes and flip both sides to be cooked once the sugar has stuck on the kamote remove the kamote. Add three pieces on the kamote slices in a bamboo stick. My favorite is adding cinnamon powder on my kamote cue to add more flavor this is optional.

We love eating French fries and when you have potatoes in your home, and you are craving for something to snack on I would make time to make my own that will almost taste like in any other fast food restaurant the only difference it is the healthy way. You have two choices to peel the potato or to keep the skin it all depends on your preference. Homemade French Fries Ingredients: 1 Kilo - Potato Salt Cooking Oil Preparing: Clean the potato.  Cut each potato long way in half, cut 1/2-inch slices to make it look like matchsticks. Method before Frying the Potato: Soak in a bowl prevention that the potato doesn't stick to each other when you fry it. The starch on the potato will be removed rinse it well in cold water and strain. Dry potato on a rack For Crispy French Fries: Soak in hot water.  Frying: Heat up the oil in a pot. Cook the fries. Strain it and season with salt.  You can add flavoring to your French fries you can refer to my Flavored Fries for the recipe and instr...

I am a cook, baker and everything else that kids in your family want you to become when their friend's comes over to hang out at you r home. Create Your Own Personal Pizza Recipe Ingredients : Del Monte Original Tomato Sauce or any brand Shredded Mozzarella cheese (any cheese) Frozen Pizza Crust or bread Topping: Choose what topping you would like to add to your homemade pizza : 1.     Any type of meat 2.     Any type of vegetable There are two brands of frozen pizza crust in the Philippines: I prefer using the mini pizza crust it is easier to use and your family can eat their own individual pizza in case you have family members who prefer different toppings on their pizza.  You can also use bread that is about to expire or bread you feel you can no longer want to make a sandwich out of it.   I don't have an oven in our home. I will be using an air fryer that we have in our kitchen. I know it may sound strange a person not havin...

Anyone who loves vegetables will surely enjoy this dish made from home with assorted vegetables eaten with fried fish, chicken or pork chop is something match up when we have another dish with our meals. Mixed Vegetable Recipe: Ingredients: 2 - Pieces Chayote (chopped) 10 – Pieces String Beans (sliced thinly) ½ Kilo – Chicharo/ sweet peas (removed sides) 1 - Onion (chopped) 2 -  Pieces Garlic (minced) 5 - Pieces Shrimp (peel, remove head and chopped) 5 - Shrimp Head  Water Patis 2 Tbsp - Cooking oil Mortar and Pestle Strainer with handle Step 1: (Shrimp water) Use mortar and pestle and place 5 pieces shrimp head smash it Add 1/2 cup water Place the shrimp head and water in the strainer having a bowl below it Set aside Step 2: In a pan add cooking oil on low heat sauté garlic and onion Add shrimp or pork  Add chayote, string beans and sweet peas Add fish sauce and shrimp water mix together Cook u...

My family loves to eat shrimp tempura but when you have shrimp in your home why not make it cooked in your own kitchen although it can be time consuming but when you feel appreciated by who you cook for you gain some inspiration to cook for them. Shrimp Tempura Recipe : Ingredient : I kilo fresh medium size shrimp 1 package Tempura breadcrumbs 2 pieces Large Egg Salt (depend on your taste) Black Pepper (depend on your taste) Cooking oil Fry pot or deep fryer Strainer Step 1 : 1.     Remove the head with a knife, peel off the skin from the shrimp and tail 2.     Slice the shrimp in the middle where the body of the shrimp curve and remove the excess dark black intestinal. Step 2 :  In a big bowl you will crack the egg whip it, add the salt, black pepper and mix well. Add the shrimp and let it stay inside until the egg has stuck to the shrimp.   Step 3 :  In a flat tray or plate pour enough tempura breadcrumbs spread evenly...

The Filipino Traditional Kare kare is made of peanut butter sauce cooked with ox tail, ox tripe, eggplant, string beans, bok choy and banana blossom. The modern kare kare is made with chicken, beef ribs, seafood or vegetable. No matter how you want to make your kare kare it will always have the traditional sauce in order to make it taste how it is supposed to be the Filipino way. Main Ingredients: 10 pcs - String beans (cut into 2 inch) 1 Small Banana Blossom (sliced) 1 - Bunch Baby Bok Choy 1 - Medium Eggplant (sliced) 1 - Medium Onion (chopped) 3 - Cloves Garlic (minced) 5 Tbs - Peanut Butter (Skippy or Lady's Choice) 1 1/2 - Tbs Annatto Powder (dilute with 3 Tbs water) or 3/4 Cup - Annato Water (1/2 cup annatto seeds soaked in 3/4 cups water) 2 Tbs - Patis (fish sauce) 1 - Knorr Pork Cube Cooking Oil 1 1/2 Cup Water 1/4 Cup - Cornstarch 1/2 Cup - Sauteed Shrimp Paste Ox Tail Kare Kare Ingredients: 1 Kilo Oxtail Ox Tail Kare Kare Ingredients: 1 - Kilo Beef Tripe (sliced) Beef S...

Chicharo is known for sweet peas in another country and is cooked in our home adodo style along with pork. Adobo Chicharo Recipe: Ingredients: 1/3 cup - Soy Sauce 3 - Cloves Garlic (minced) 1 - Medium Onion (chopped) 3 Tbs - Vinegar 2 - Tbs Cooking Oil 1/4 Kilo Pork (chopped) 1/2 Kilo Chicharo/Sweet Pea (remove the sides) 1/2 Tsp - Black Pepper 1/2 Cup - Water Cooking Instructions: Step 1: Cook in a large pan in medium heat add cooking oil add garlic and onion saute  Add pork cook for two minutes  Add soy sauce, vinegar and water until sauce begins to boil Step 2: Add chicharo/sweet pea mix together cook for 10 minutes season with black pepper. Ready to eat!    

Hito is known to be called Catfish for people who don't recognize the name this fish is something I cannot eat but my family can, and this is their favorite dish they like to eat once in a while. Adobo Hito Recipe: Ingredients: 4 tbsp. - Ground Garlic 3 cup - Soy Sauce 1 cup - Distilled vinegar 2 tbsp. - Peppercorn crushed 8 big - Bay leaves 4 Tsp Maggi Sauce 1 Tbsp. Lemon Juice Calamansi or Lemon Cleaning Instructions: To clean the hito/catfish squeeze calamansi or lemon and drizzle juice inside the fish's cavity. Rub the calamansi or lemon with salt and rub all over the hito/catfish. Let t stand until salt has evaporated to the hito/catfish. Rinse well  Cut hito/catfish 2 inch thickness. Marinate Hito/Catfish: Step 1: In a bowl add hito/catfish add soy sauce, peppercorn, Maggi sauce and garlic for one hour set aside. Drain sauce Set aside the sauce when you cook the fish on the last step. Frying Hito/Catfish: Step 1: Heat oil on pan place the hito/catfish cook until slightly ...

We learn for reason and we learn when we make mistakes to change a way we want something to look or base on our experience. When I started posting video and pictures I didn’t know there we’re rules and guidelines to follow and obey as we learn by our mistakes we need to redo and edit things that need to be change. Who knows maybe you have notice the new changes added in each video to state the ownership of the video sometimes we don’t realize other people can download your video and sell to someone else to make money out of it. In order to protect what belongs to you there is something you need to do in order to have it protected that is the reason you see my website Carmina Lifestyle  in each video you have seen. You have probably notice each video has a watermark identify who the maker is and it was created by Carmina Lifestyle. Later you realized you need to make a thumbnail that allows all your audience to recognized who you every time they see who you are they can remem...

There are two ways to eat this the naked way or wrapped up in what they call it vegetable lumpia. Vegetable Lumpia Recipe: Ingredients: 2 Cups - Bean sprouts 1/2 Cup - Small Shrimps (clean, remove head and shell) 4 Cloves - Garlic (chopped) 1 Medium - Onion (chopped) 1 Cup - Carrots (peel and shredded) 1 Cup - String beans (sliced thinly) 1 Cup - Sweet Potatoe (peel and shredded) - optional 1 Cup - Jicama (cubed) - optional 3 Tbs - Patis Salt to taste Black Pepper to taste Lumpia Wrapper Cooking Oil Vinegar - Dipping Sauce Cooking Instructions: Step 1: In a pot heat cooking oil add garlic, onion and saute. Add the carrot, string beans, sweet potatoe, jicama and bean sprouts. Season with patis, salt and black pepper. Mix together. You plan to eat it naked it is ready to eat but if you plan to wrap it up in a lumpia wrapper you will set it aside. Wrapping Lumpia Instructions: Step 1: Place one piece of lumpia wrapper on a plate scoop 2 tablespoon of the vegetable filling wrapped it up an...

There are so many types of adobo cooked in the Philippines from seafood, fish, chicken and pork anything possible when you are cooking a dish in the Philippines and can be cooked somewhere else in your own home. Adobo Pusit Recipe Ingredients: 1 Kilo Small Fresh Pusit (squid) – (cleaned keep the ink) 1 – Onion (chopped) ½ Cup Vinegar ½ Cup Soy Sauce 3 Bay Leaves 1 Cup Water 8 Cloves Garlic (minced) Salt to taste Ground Black Pepper to taste Cooking Oil Cleaning Instructions: Clean squids by removing eyes, innards and transparent backbone keep the ink sac intact. Rinse and drain well. Set aside Cooking Instructions: Step 1: Heat oil in small pan set in medium heat. Add onion, garlic sauté for 2 minutes Add garlic, vinegar, soy sauce, bay leaves bring to a boil Add squid cook for 3 minutes until the color of the squid change color. Ready to eat!   NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and...

This is simple dish and can be made in all sorts of ways sometimes we eat this soup without noodles and it becomes a clear soup by adding other ingredients such as green onion or by adding egg and it becomes an egg drop soup.   There are a lot of possibilities to make one clear soup by adding additional ingredients into one dish by using our own creativity the main ingredient in this dish is the following: 4 Cups - Chicken stock or 2 Pcs - Knorr Chicken Cubes 2 - Leeks Green onion (chopped) The ingredients you may want to add to your clear soup: Miki Noodles Egg (beaten) Tofu (sliced into cubes) Fishball Crabmeat Cooking Instructions: Step 1: Boil chicken broth or 4 cups of water add chicken cubes until it begins to boil. Add green onion leaks Add optional ingredients Ready to serve! NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

I am sure a lot has change where we live and there are issue we need to accept in the country you live in and how to accept it becomes a big factor in our life. When someone cannot accept the world turning apart and when you feel helpless but scared inside you come to a point we reach the pit of the bottom those moment in time we need to list down those feeling and how it can be solve slowly. There are some people who have a hard time dealing with the facts of what is going beyond our limits. There are people who are scared but don’t want to talk about it to their parents but find it easier to talk to it with their friends who may be going through the same thing. There are people who need help by counseling or professional help. There are people who need to accept it and when they put a wall barrier around them it is not a good sign. How does someone reach them if they don’t want to say how they feel but say it through social media to get their words get out from strangers?...

Long time ago when I was still living in California and I would love to bake at home to try something new because I felt I wanted to try a new recipe and to play with it as from all my baking I was able to practice and share it with my friends when we use to go bowling. This is something my close friends who always request even if they are on a diet or no diet them wanted something sweet to eat as we shared stories together. Smores Brownie Recipe: Ingredients: 1 - Baker Square unsweetened chocolate bar 1 - Box Graham Crackers 1 - Package Marshmallow 1 - Cup All Purpose Flour 1 - Tsp Vanilla Extract 3 - Large Eggs 2 - Cup Sugar ¾ -  Cup Butter 1 - Flat Casserole or Aluminum pan Cooking Instructions: Step 1: In a microwaveable bowl add butter and unsweetened chocolate bar to cook for 2 minutes in the microwave Mix well until chocolate is completed melted. Step 2: Preheat oven 350 F Add all purpose flour, vanilla extract, eggs, sugar mix together using a hand mixer. Pour int...

This is my favorite scramble egg when I will be eating it with a Filipino dish called longganisa, tocino or tapa it can be eaten during your breakfast or when you feel like eating it. Some people put it inside their pandesal or eat it with rice as for me since I stop eating rice for a long time I prefer to eat it alone with my main meal. Scrambled Egg with Tomato Recipe: Ingredients: 1 - Egg (beaten) 1 - Ripe Tomato (chopped) 1/2 - Onion (chopped) - Optional Salt to your taste Cooking Instructions: In a frying pan heat oil add onion and egg Stir while cooking and add salt  Note: Taste best when not over cooked on the scramble egg. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you.

Kalabasa is a squash which I love to eat in any way we can make it into a dish to be cooked at our home. This soup is easy to make it at home and you can use the same ingredients by using a different vegetable because in any dish it will be different with its texture cooked based on how you puree it in the blender. Main Ingredient: 1 - Nestle Cream or 1 cup of any cream 1 - Knorr Cubes any flavor 4 - Cups Water  1 - Onion (chopped) 1 - Kilo Kalabasa - squash (peel and cut into cubes) or any vegetable 1/2 - Tsp Black Pepper 1/4 - Cup Bacon (cooked and chopped) - Optional Blender Cooking Instructions: Step 1: In a saucepan add water let it boil  Add onion and kalabasa cook until soft Step 2: Blender: Place Step 1 in the blender until texture is smooth transfer back in the saucepan. Step 3: Add nestle cream, until pot begins to boil add Knorr cube, bacon and season with black pepper. Ready to eat! Note: You can add croutons to your soup to add more flavor to you soup. NOT SPONSOR...