What’s your comfort food?
This is mine:
Sinigang na Baboy
Whenever I’d come home from a trip abroad, this would be one of my immediate requests. “Mama, I want Sinigang when I come home ha.” Or when I’m feeling really down at work, I’d rush over to the food court and get myself a bowl of Sinigang. I’d feel significantly better afterwards.
I like the kick of Sinigang. A warm bowl of Sinigang comforts me heart and soul, then kicks my senses up a wee bit with that delicate sourness. I love munching on the kangkong, tomatoes and onions, feeling little bits of gabi melt in my mouth, nibbling on the pork ribs, mixing a bit of rice in my soup and being delighted with this hearty spoonful… ah, Sinigang na Baboy is one of the best Pinoy dishes ever.
I finally learned to cook the dish last weekend. I did cook Sinigang na Hipon before but iba pa rin ang Sinigang na Baboy. It’s a fairly easy dish to prepare that yields magnificent results. Here’s what I did:
1. I simmered the pork meat/ribs in pork broth for about an hour and a half. You can simmer the meat in plain water but the broth makes the dish even more flavorful.
2. When the meat is tender, slide in the chunks of gabi, sliced onions and sliced tomatoes.
3. Stir in a packet of Sinigang mix. I used (and recommend) Knorr Sinigang sa Sampaloc with Gabi.
4. 5 minutes before serving, slide in the sliced kangkong.
Serve steaming hot with rice.
Sinigang is best enjoyed with family and good conversations as I did last weekend. I enjoyed watching my family sip on the soup and give their approval. H was the proudest of them all. “Marunong na magluto asawa ko!” (My wife now knows how to cook!”) Uh… I wanted to tell him about all the other dishes I’ve cooked in the past but realized that apparently, his standard for me knowing how to cook was cooking a good Sinigang. Hahaha!
Kain na!
June 16th, 2005 at 12:05 pm
hmmm kakagutom hehehe
June 16th, 2005 at 4:05 pm
hmmm, nangangasim tuloy ako…. makapagluto nga!
June 16th, 2005 at 4:12 pm
ayeza: Hehehe!
ruth: Pahingi! Hehe.
June 16th, 2005 at 4:34 pm
Bea and Simon’s favourite filipino dish is SINIGANG. As in they loooovvveee it! I love it too. Whenever I come home for a visit, my bilin to my Mom is NO MEAT pls — just seafoods! haha
Hey toni, hope we can meet up when I visit ha
June 16th, 2005 at 4:41 pm
Uy congrats on cooking sinigang! Thumbs up pa from your family and especially your hubby!
I prefer sinigang na hipon though! Yummy!
June 16th, 2005 at 5:49 pm
my god. how can you manage a dish as complicated as sinigang? I burn even the popcorn I make!!!
toni, let’s meet up! Please! I’ll email you the dates Julien and I will be in Manila (because I’m surprising my friends and they read my blog hehe, so I don’t want to write the dates down). Anyway Julien and I will definitely be passing by Makati, so let’s have a drink somewhere, what do you say? Pinayhekmi’s arriving too in July I think. I’m so excited! I hope to meet you!
-Kala
June 17th, 2005 at 2:08 am
i love sinigang. lalo na pag-maasim!!!
my fave though is sinigang na bangus with miso and mustasa. i want to go home na. hehe
June 17th, 2005 at 3:37 am
next to kare kare, sinigang is my favorite!!! with tortang talong! hahaha!
June 17th, 2005 at 3:44 am
i love sinigang kaya i had to learn how to cook it…specially now na nasa abroad ako, atleast pag nangasim ako i can eat my fave food.
in my case, when i go to manila, normally i go and request almost always, kinilaw na mangga…you know this binabad sa vinegar and other stuff thing.
June 17th, 2005 at 3:46 am
I LOVE pork sinigang! I especially love it when my mom cooks it (though I can cook it as well with the help of the mix)! i love it extra sour. i also put patis with sili on each spoonful i shove in my mouth (i know, not healthy, but oh well!).
damn..so hungry right now! i read your blog right after batjay’s and you both talked about food!
June 17th, 2005 at 8:00 am
one of my ultimate favorites… sinigang!:)
June 17th, 2005 at 8:14 am
Ang sarap naman. Mahilig din kami ni hubby sa sinigang.
What I do with our sinigang, I mashed the boiled gabi to make the sabaw a little bit flavorful. grabe parang gusto ko mag luto nyan tonight but Im scheduled to prepare tinolang manok, hmmmm sa Sunday na lang cguro
June 17th, 2005 at 12:09 pm
sinigang is one of my faves, apart from nilagang baka. naku, nagutom ako sa post mo! hehe.
June 17th, 2005 at 10:04 pm
Ok na sana, pero parang kulang sa asim, eh. Hehehe.
Am happy for you, Toni. Lahat na yata ng masasarap na ulam at dessert ay alam mong ihanda na talagang sobra ang sarap! Kainggit ka! Mamarazzi does not know how to cook but she is an excellent food taster.
June 21st, 2005 at 5:42 am
Uyyy!!! Nagluto ng sinigang si Toni! Like you, the maasim it is, the better. Pork sinigang is also the best! I mean, yung buong pakete gagamitin - hindi kalahati. kasi I’ve seen that done before (by my mother in law) and I swear, kulang talaga, gusto kong budburan ng kalamansi or tamarind or kahit na ano basta umasim lang siya.
I’m happy for you Toni. thanks for the recipe… ita-try ko yan, kahit ako lang ang kakain (everybody thinks pag maasim ang soup, it’s funny - at my house… inis ‘noh?).
June 22nd, 2005 at 10:43 am
CG: Sinigang na Hipon is also terrific! Yum! And yes, let’s meet up when you come to Manila.
Daphne : Hubby prefers Sinigang na Hipon also but I prefer Baboy naman!
Kala: Sinigang’s one of the easiest dishes! And I’m no expert in cooking so trust me!
denden : Sinigang na Bangus with Miso and Mustasa sounds so delicious. I think I’ll have that for lunch… hopefully it’s available in our food court. Haha!
anna: That’s a great combo!
justice : I haven’t tried kinilaw na mangga yet. Masubukan nga!
Kat : Wow sarap! I like my Sinigang a bit spicy too!
jey: Mine too!
Jeanny : Magandang idea yan — mash the boiled gabi! Thanks for that tip!
Tin : Nilagang Baka di ko pa nata-try gawin. Next project ko naman yan!
Paparazzi : I’m trying to learn how to cook the basic Pinoy dishes! Wala naman ibang magluluto sa little household namin kung hindi ako hehe. I’m having fun experimenting with all the dishes! And hmmm… why don’t YOU cook for Mamarazzi?
manangjoy : Best friend wavelength talaga tayo. Hehehe. Buong pack din ginamit ko. Bitin sobra pag kalahati lang!
June 23rd, 2005 at 3:35 pm
Same here. A hot steaming bowl of sinigang, in whatever form, is my post potatoes-and-steak-from-foreign-travel solution. I have something extra though. It must be shared with a certain T. since without a blow by blow account of my most recent escapade, homecoming would be incomplete.
Finally, I’m no longer an alien to your blog. Hugs!
June 23rd, 2005 at 4:15 pm
Erik: My best friend finally visits my blog. Haha! Yipee! And you know what, I don’t think we’ve had Sinigang na Baboy together.
June 28th, 2005 at 10:21 pm
that’s my comfort food as well. plus pork adobo. sarap
June 30th, 2005 at 12:31 pm
dexie: yum! nagutom tuloy ako.
December 15th, 2005 at 11:22 am
[...] I wrote before that: “A warm bowl of Sinigang comforts me heart and soul, then kicks my senses up a wee bit with that delicate sourness. I love munching on the kangkong, tomatoes and onions, feeling little bits of gabi melt in my mouth, nibbling on the pork ribs, mixing a bit of rice in my soup and being delighted with this hearty spoonful… ah, Sinigang na Baboy is one of the best Pinoy dishes ever.” [...]
February 16th, 2007 at 6:44 am
i LOVE sinigung
my mom makes it all the time at the best part is that it taste so good and its healthy for you
she didnt learn how to cook it from you but i love that sruff
its my favorite food ever!
my mom is filapino so she learned from her mom
September 16th, 2007 at 10:36 am
hay bango. add nyo ko ha richard_talde@yahoo.com / hi rufa love you