Pumpkin Recipes

The month of October is the start of the delivering of different sizes of pumpkins into the metropolis from the farms in Northern and Central Luzon. These orange-fleshed vegetables will be carved into Halloween’s most famous symbol, the jack-o-lantern. Squash will be peeled, cut, and cooked in hundreds of ways. In the 16th century, the Spanish colonizers brought the pumpkin to our shores aboard a galleon. At present, we call them by their Filipinized Spanish term “Kalabasa”. Bicolanos love to cook them with chili and coconut cream while the Ilocanos steam their young leaves, flowers, and stems with bitter gourd (ampalaya) and salted fish and call it "bulanglang". The Tagalogs cook kalabasa sauted with garlic, onions, and tomatoes.

Mixed Veggies

It's a very simple recipe that I find easy to prepare and my kids loved to eat. =)

Youll need:

• 2 tbsp. cooking oil
• 1 1/2 cup singkamas
• 1 cup carrots
• 1 1/2 cup sayote
• 1/2 cup cooked green peas
• 3/4 cups water
• 1.7 g chicken mix flavor equivalent to
• 1 chicken cube

Procedure: In a pan, put the oil, then fry "singkamas", "sayote" and carrots until crisp. Pour the water and let it boil. Put green peas and chicken mix flavor or chicken cube together. Simmer for 5 minutes and ready to serve.