Food: Tips - SkyFlakes crackers can be a substitute for cornstarch

There are so many uses of cornstarch in food preparation, it is usually used as thickening agent in liquid-based foods such as soup, sauces, gravies, etc. It can also be used on adobo, sauté, chop suey, and many more. However, if you don't have a cornstarch you may use a substitute SkyFlakes crackers or any other flour-based crackers that you can avail in your place.

Materials/Equipment:

SkyFlakes crackers

Grouding bowl

Hot (optional) water

Procedure:

1. Place the crackers into the grounding bowl and powderize it.

2. Turn the powder into a syrup by adding (hot) water and mixing them.

3. After mixing well the powder and water, the mixture is now ready to be used.

 

Application:

Sautee broccoli with cornstarch dressing.

Chicken feet adobo with Skyflakes cracker sauce dressing.

Food: Meat - Dinakdakan

Ingredients:

1 kl pork meat from the head (optional: ears and brain)
8 calamansi or 1 big lemon (extract the juice)
3 table spoons of black pepper
1/3 cup of minced onion
1/4 cup of minced ginger
3 pcs of green pepper (thinly sliced)
Mayonnaise
Salt

Materials:

Cooking container
Knife and Chopping board
Big bowl


Procedure:

1. Boil and cook the pork using the cooking container, if you've got the brain boil it for 2 minutes and then set aside.

2. When cooked, let it simmer before slicing it in 1 inch by 1 centimeter by 1 centimeter.
3. Put the sliced meat into the big bowl, then respectively the black pepper, minced and sliced ingredients, calamansi/lemon juice and the salt.

4. Mix them well, taste if the salt is enough.
5. (Optional) Mash the brain and mix it to the mixture.
6. Add mayonnaise dressing and mix the dinakdakan well until the sliced meat is completely dressed with mayonnaise.
7. Serve. It can be consumed with rice or as a wine dish.

Food: Soup - Mussel Soup

Ingredients:

1 kl mussels
3 liters water
1/4 kl tomatoes
1/4 kl onion
1/4 kl ginger
salt
vegetable oil
other seasonings (optional)

Materials:

knife
frying pan
cooking container/casserole

Procedure:

1. Wash the mussels
2. Peel the ginger and slice into thin chips
3. Slice each tomato into 8 cuts
4. Slice each onion into 8 cuts
5. Heat the frying pan and place oil, then put all the main ingredients into it.

6. Cook the mussels and the ingredients for 15 minutes using the frying pan, stir it from time to time and add little water if needed.
7. Put the the cooked food into the cooking container or casserole and boil it with the 3 liters of water.
8. While boiling, add some salt and all the prepared seasonings
9. When cooked, serve on bowls.









It can be eaten during meal with rice.