In honor of Filipino American History Month, I am making my version of Beef Mechado, which is a Filipino beef stew braised in tomato sauce. It is hearty and delicious. Ingredients:2 lbs of beef brisket, round, or chuck2 thin slices of pork belly (without skin)salt, pepper, garlic powderAP Flour1 onion sliced4 cloves of garlic minced1
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Beef gyudon is one of the popular beef bowl dish from Japan. I thinly sliced rib eye steak and simmered it in a delicious sauce mix. I served the beef over a bowl of freshly steamed white rice, and topped it off with a hard boiled egg, green onions, and Japanese chili flakes. This dish
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Tapa is a Filipino dish which is cured beef. This dish is usually served for breakfast with fried rice, and egg, and tomato (tapsilog). Tap- tapa, si-sinangag (garlic fried rice), log- itlog (egg). Since this is a hearty dish, you can also serve this for lunch or dinner. I like to pair this with tomato
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An old coworker of mine wanted me to make Carne Asada, San Diego style, so since it was Cinco de Mayo and I love steak, so I decided to make carne asada. This may not be a traditional recipe, but I love it. You can enjoy this with my Spanish rice and guacamole recipe as
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Shaking beef aka Bo luc lac is a quick Vietnamese stir fry recipe. This may not be the authentic way of making this dish, but this is my way. This is a quick dish that you can whip up- marinate the meat for at least 30 minutes (or longer) and stir fry until your liking.
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If you’ve been to San Diego’s OB Noodle House and had their Special House Fried Rice, this is my version of their dish. . It doesn’t taste exactly like theirs, but it’s close to it, and I am happy to say I experimented with my measurements the first time and it came out perfect! I hope
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It was date night at my place tonight. My boyfriend loves steak so I wanted to treat him to a fancy steak house dinner at home.  I wanted to make prime rib, however I did not want to be left with tons of left overs, so the butcher recommended this delmonico steak.  There was about two
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Japchae is one of my favorite Korean dishes. It is Korea’s version of the Filipino Pancit(video that I posted prior to this). Japchae is a stir-fried dish. In this dish I use sweet potato noodles and various vegetables. You can make this with chicken, pork, shrimp, or beef. You can also leave the meat out
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Today on Ivy’s Kitchen, I make this rich traditional decadent Italian recipe using veal shanks. I used a low and slow braise cooking method and cooked the shanks with vegetables, herbs, chicken stock and wine. The marrow in the bone gives this the sauce a very rich flavor. To brighten up this dish, I topped
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Today I am taking you to the islands of Hawaii.  In this episode of Ivy’s Kitchen I will show you how to make Loco Moco, my way. Loco Moco is a Hawaiian dish.  It is white rice topped with a hamburger patty steak, fried egg, and smothered in gravy. I didn’t put my gravy on
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