Garden Chef's Needle and Pen

Hello everyone! Been quite busy with office works the past few weeks and that has kept me from posting my articles. I have several unfinished in my files. My last post was about the Gisinggising recipe I posted in Just-a-Pinch Recipe Club (click here to view post).  I just couldn't let this day (errr...night) or week pass without posting anything. So I suddenly decided to share that Garden Chef has been added in Petitchef.com .    More than a week ago, my Gisinggising blog post got a comment saying:  "We bumped into your blog and we really liked it - great recipes YUM YUM. We would like to add it to the Petitchef.com. We would be delighted if you could add your blog to Petitchef so that our users can, as us, enjoy your recipes." Petichef is a French-based cooking recipes portal where several hundred blogs are already members.    Well, who wouldn't be elated to get such an invitation? A newbie blogger like me wouldn't pass up t...

  I discovered this dish recently from our hospital's cafeteria. I was so intrigued at the name, Gisinggising, so I searched for it and found this recipe from Foodipino . I like the recipe, it's very simple and easy to follow. As usual, I made some modifications from the original recipe. I cooked my version without the meat and instead of just using water spinach or water cabbage (kangkong), I added string beans (sitaw) and winged beans (sigarillas). I also cut on the amount of coconut milk. Here's my own version which I posted in Just-a-Pinch Recipe Club . Click here to view recipe. . Actually, if you take a closer look at the pictures, you will notice that I added some left-over dried shrimps from my stocks to enhance the "shrimpy" flavor.  I also tried another version using baguio beans instead of water spinach (kangkong), but my friends like the combination of kangkong and sigarillas better. So there, y...