Kare-Kare (Stewed Oxtail with Vegetable in Peanut Sauce)

Kare-kare or (Ox tail stew) Commonly beef boiled or oxtail cooked with peanut butter and vegetables. Garnish with shrimp paste (bagoong alamang) on the side.

Ingredients:

• 2 lbs. Ox tail Or Tripe (optional)
• 1 Sm. Banana Heart (quartered)
•  1 bundle Pechay or Bokchoy
•  2 eggplant sliced thinly
•  1/4 cup or more peanut butter
•  1/4 cup Shrimp paste (bagoong alamang guisado)
•  1 mall onion diced
•  1/2 bundle string beans or green beans
•   4 tbsp. atswete (dissolved in water)
•  1/4 cup powdered toasted rice or dissolved cornstarch alternative
•  1/2 liter of water

Kare-Kare Cooking Instructions:

Boil water in a big pot and place in meat or ox tripe. Simmer over low heat until tender. Strain and keep the stock. Set aside the boiled oxtail/ ox tripe.

Blanch vegetables in batches into the pot of stock. Set aside.

In separate pan, heat cooking oil. Saute garlic and onion until fragrant. Add in oxtail or ox tripe and saute for a few minutes.

Pour in broth from boiled oxtail and bring to a boil. Add in peanut butter and stir until dissolved. Allow to boil.

Pour in atsuete juice, and stir well. Add in dissolved corn starch, salt to taste. Stir until desired thickness.

Soak in blanched vegetables for a few minutes or serve them separately. Turn off heat.
   
Serve with shrimp paste (bagoong alamang).

Perfect Mobile Phone for My Niece

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Our New Microwave Oven

After a year and a half, our microwave oven gave up on us. I don't understand why. It was brand new when we bought our newly built house. How could that be? Maybe it is because they have placed a cheap one. To think that we upgraded the standard one into a better one, yet it was broken in less than two year. What a disappointment, sigh :-(. I couldn't live without it, so I asked hubby the next day that we need to go shop for microwave oven. He did some research online first before we went shopping. Good thing he did that otherwise we would have traveled to IKEA for 2 hours just to get that oven he wanted. We went to Lowes and got ourselves a new microwave oven for only $200. That was a deal! Now. we are all happy :-).

Here is our new GE microwave oven...we love it!

Moving Around

Author: Joseph Sandoval

We recently moved to a small town in Texas. We were looking up energy rates and came across Amigo Energy Rates in Webster Texas. I have to say that once we figure out all the providers and bills, life will be so much easier. I have never been a fan of moving. We did it a few times when I was a kid and every single time it took me a while to get used to the changes. I think that is natural to some extent, but I was hoping I would not have to put my own kids through it. This is the second time my husband and I have moved. The first time, we did not have kids yet. Right now, our two daughters are probably too young to even remember that we lived somewhere else before. I just worry that we will have to move again with my husband’s new job. The packing and all is just stressful with two little runs running around and then going crazy in the back seat when we made the drive. I know my husband sees I am stressed so the sooner we can get through all the moving duties, the better.

Understanding Chemical Investment Banking

They say that money makes the world go round. While we may not always acknowledge that fact, we still can’t deny that it is right in some point. We cannot survive in this world if we didn’t have money. Indeed, finance and financial matters are things we concern ourselves with, primarily because we need money in order to function and live.

There are many aspects of the financial world. If you try to research and analyze further, you’d find out that there are specific groups that specializes in almost all fields of finance and investments. In fact, some of these fields are least known by most people probably because they don’t even have an idea of its existence.

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