Tocino or tosino is a cured meat product usually made out of pork and is similar to ham and bacon although beef is also used. It is often reddish in color and has a sweetish taste. Its name is derived from the Spanish word tocino, which is used to describe bacon or cured meat.
Tocino is usually fried in oil or boiled in water, depending on how moist it is desired.
Our dad is cooking Pine Chicken Afritada right now for our lunch and it smells sooo yummy! Oooh, can’t wait to eat! Dad got the recipe from Del Monte kitchenomics. Doesn’t it look delish?
YOU WILL NEED
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1 pc medium onion, chopped
400 g chicken, cut-up
1 can (234 g) DEL MONTE Fresh Cut Pineapple Chunks, drained (reserve syrup)
2 pc small potatoes, cut into chunks
1 pc small carrot, cut into chunks
1/3 cup cooked/frozen green peas
100 g Baguio beans, sliced
1 pc small red bell pepper, cut into strips
1 pouch (200 g) DEL MONTE Original Style Tomato Sauce
HERE’S HOW
1. SAUTÉ garlic, onion and chicken. Add pineapple syrup, 1 tsp iodized fine salt (or 1 tbsp iodized rock salt) and 1/4 tsp pepper. Simmer for 15 minutes or until meat is tender.
2. ADD potatoes and carrot. Cook for 10 minutes. Add green peas, Baguio beans, bell pepper, DEL MONTE Fresh Cut Pineapple Chunks and DEL MONTE Tomato Sauce. Cook for another 5 minutes.
Serves 6
When my mom was still alive, she would cook one big meal for lunch and the leftover will serve as our dinner. That’s how it was always. But, of course, we had a say as to what we would like to eat for lunch so that we’d still like to eat it at night. This saved us not only of electricity costs but also made sure my mom had time for other chores at home while we’re still in school.
I don’t know if your mom does this as well. Worked for my family. And gave us more time with her at night, to talk about the day, to help us with school work and so on.
My sister who teaches at a Chinese school here in the city brought home tons of chocolates given to her by her students on Valentine’s Day. Now we have so many of it leftover that we try to eat slowly hehe
Of course, I took the big Ferrero Rocher chocolate box. There are more in our refrigerator and some were given away to cousins already. But this one is mine! Yay!
