cooking with gata for the first time

food musings, Filipino dishes, home cooking

I really have a very limited kitchen knowledge and most of the dishes I can cook involves very simple food preparation: saute and fry. I was feeling rather inspired during our last trip to the grocers and grabbed one of these coconut milk cans with the hope of cooking something with it soon. I love dishes that has gata and back in the days, these were the dishes that I look forward to the most whenever my mama cooked. And I really miss eating those dishes, so mustering enough guts, I added a few vegetables that would go well with gata onto my grocery cart. I got a medium-sized squash and a bunch of string beans and decided to cook ginataang sitaw at kalabasa.

food musings, Filipino dishes, home cooking

I cooked the dish a few days ago and I must say it wasn’t so bad for a start, even my sister liked it. I just need to add in a dash of salt to taste next time around. What do you think?

Hopefully I would be able to cook more vegetables in my kitchen and I also hope I can get the little man to try them, too! I shall be looking for more interesting vegetable and gata dishes online as soon as I am done reading this interesting post about a carpenter’s toolbox and a gripper. 🙂

Be The GoldiBest in Class!

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The great inventor Thomas Edison once said that success is “10 percent inspiration, and 90 percent perspiration.” Indeed, reward comes as much with effort as it does with achievement. The taste of success is always sweeter when it is gained through hard work.

The ripe Filipino mango, with its golden sheen and hearty flavor, is a good equivalent to the sweet taste of success. Celebrate the triumph of your graduate today by getting them the new Mango Chantilly Cake from Goldilocks, a well-deserved treat comprisingtwo stacked layers of mango and vanilla chiffon, filled with creamy Italian butter icingand succulent mango jam,and decorated with sweet mango marshmallows. As an added nod to the graduating class of 2013, the country’s number one bakeshop likewise offers delectable Mango Tarts and the return of its famous Mango Mousse Singles – the perfect snacks for post-graduation barkada outings.

Get these mango-inspired delights at your nearest Goldilocks branch, or call 888-1-999 Goldilocks Go-Delivery to celebrate this once in a lifetime milestone.