2 Stories and 1 Question
Serendipity. This is defined as “making fortunate discoveries by accident.” November’s topic for Blogkadahan was on this beautiful word (and it’s my favorite word too!). This is my entry. And ooh trivia. Wanna know where the word serendipity came from? Check this out.
Caldereta. Coming from my entry for Lasang Pinoy 4, my Mom and I decided to cook Caldereta together for the first time yesterday (Family Sunday!). So with our magic powers combined and with my younger sister J’s expertise in peeling potatoes, we were able to prepare a sumptuous dish. It turned out great! I just tweaked Wowo’s recipe a bit. Because I put too much tomato sauce, I added a teaspoon of sugar.
Some cooks like putting grated cheese into the caldereta to give it a rounded taste. I haven’t tried it myself but if you’d like to experiment with your caldereta, do give this a try!
Fishballs. J cooks fishballs as well as any street vendor does. What we didn’t have yesterday was the recipe for the sweet gooey sauce that all fishballs vendors have.
While we did feast on the fishballs with Sweet Chili Sauce, we’d like to make the experience more authentic by having that sweet sauce. Does anyone have the recipe for that? If you do, I hope you can share it with me!
November 28th, 2005 at 4:15 pm
the caldereta looks really good, toni! i miss fishballs, too. the secret is in the sauce talaga. pa-share ng recipe ha.
November 28th, 2005 at 4:24 pm
tin: Thanks sweetie! Yes when I get the recipe I’ll email ya!
November 28th, 2005 at 7:36 pm
evil girl ka toni! ginutom mo ako waaah!
November 28th, 2005 at 10:00 pm
justice: hehehe kain na!
November 29th, 2005 at 3:51 am
This on top of a steaming bowl of rice, we’re in heaven! I love that the movie Serendipity has given people the open door for fate and destiny.
November 29th, 2005 at 6:37 am
i loved your “serendipity” entry! so sweet, concise, and makes a powerful statement!
also loved the pic of your kaldereta! it’s making me drool right now!!
November 29th, 2005 at 7:21 am
kakalaway naman…
** going to read you serendipity entry now
November 29th, 2005 at 10:20 am
mare: Exactly! The movie helped some people believe in the magic of love and fate again! It’s one of my favorites. It also helped that I loveJohn Cusack and Kate Beckinsale! Put ‘em both together and boom! A great film!
kat: You’re back from Italy?! Gotta read your blog now!
dexie: Heyyy you’re a whiz cook! Do you have the recipe for that sweeet sauce for fishballs? The type that’s sold by the fishball vendors? Can’t find a recipe. Then again I haven’t searched the net yet!
November 29th, 2005 at 1:10 pm
your serendipity post made my eyes watery.
November 29th, 2005 at 2:01 pm
My inlaws visited us yesterday and I made caldereta for dinner. I’ll try your wowo’s recipe soon. Mine kasi is with gata naman (which I’ll post the recipe this week.):D
About the fishball sauce, I have tried a recipe a long time ago. One time kasi there was this vendor selling at our area. I got curious with his sauce so I asked him. His sauce was consist of..
4 tablespoons cornstarch
1/3 cup brown or white sugar
1/4 cup soy sauce
1-1/2 cups water
minced garlic, chili
just mix everything and boil in low heat with continuous stirring. It’s ready when the sauce is gooey.
November 29th, 2005 at 9:05 pm
my dear, pag malapit na ako sa manila…may utang ka pa sa aking ‘luto’ hehe
November 29th, 2005 at 9:14 pm
that’s one of my favorite words too!
November 30th, 2005 at 12:10 am
ang sarap ng caldereta! miss ko na yan!!!
may narinig ako dati na hinahaluan daw ng konting liver yung fishball sauce, i don’t know how true hehe!
November 30th, 2005 at 1:31 am
posted comment at blogkadahan another sweet piece of toni’s sweet life…
November 30th, 2005 at 2:09 am
I MISS FISHBALLS!!!
Dati I asked around for the recipe of the sweet sauce, sabi saken, ‘No matter how closely you follow the recipe, you’ll never get it. E kasi you don’t have the tulo of the pawis under the sweltering sun on the sauce, the alikabok and smog from the street and the hundreds of people making sawsaw their fishballs together with their laway on the sauce.’ hahahaha!!!
Naku, I just remembered… the kare-kare recipe! Tell you what, let’s swap recipes. Give me your caldereta and I’ll give you the karekare. Deal?
November 30th, 2005 at 7:02 am
For fishball sauce this is what I do:
1/4 c soy sauce
1/4 c vinegar
cornstarch
sugar
Just heat slowly in pan until it thickens. I like my fishball sauce to be a little on the vinegar-y side.
November 30th, 2005 at 2:12 pm
hi toni — i add grated cheese on my caldereta and it’s super yum! i miss fish balls!!!!
November 30th, 2005 at 2:29 pm
jey : Awww thanks. *hugs*
Jeanny : Great! Thanks for the sauce recipe!!! I’ve shared it w/ my sister na.
husticia: Oo nga! Grabe! I owe you pa a dish!
Rowie: Yey!
eye : Yikes liver sa fhsball sauce? Parang masarap din yun ha. Pampalapot din!
sha : Hey thanks! I’ll hop on over to the site to read it na.
Jet : Hahahaha kailangan ng pawis at laway ba? Eeew! Parang parehas na principle ng dirty ice cream ‘no!? And ok, I’ll email you na my kaldereta recipe!
jen : Fantastic!!! Thank you!
CG: Masubukan nga yang grated cheese next time! How much do you put?
December 1st, 2005 at 12:49 am
#$@^$@!, ginutom na naman ako…
i may not be able to swap any recipes with you. but i can surely swap my appetite for these….bawal na ata sa akin yang mga yan….why ? product of old age, hehee
December 1st, 2005 at 8:30 am
Junnie: I see you being in your early 30s. Old age na ba yun?
December 1st, 2005 at 10:19 am
Looks so yummy. But I confess I don’t like the Pinoy habit of adding sugar in many sauces (especially in tomato sauce!).
Sweet spaghetti…
December 1st, 2005 at 10:24 am
Sidney: Oh yeah! We Pinoys have a thing for sweet stuff. I try not to add too much sugar too but sometimes I just can’t help it!
December 1st, 2005 at 4:18 pm
i asked a friend if she wants to come this weekend and we will test a kaldereta recipe.. she said ok, hayan ka naman test ng test hehehe..
is this the kind of sweet sauce used in sweet sour? wala pisbol dito eh
December 1st, 2005 at 4:22 pm
sha: Testing testing 123! Hehehe hope your kaldereta experiment turns out well. Not sure if the sweet sauce is the same as the one in sweet-sour… di ko sure!!!
December 3rd, 2005 at 8:06 am
hi Toni,
I got here through Sha’s site and like everyone else, i too love your kaldereta. Where can i find the recipe please???
I love your site.
Mae
December 3rd, 2005 at 5:01 pm
Mae: Hi there! Check out the entry around two posts back.
I emailed the link to you too!
January 26th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
yummm…huhuhuhuhu..i love fishballs. pwede ba pong makahingi ng recipe nyo?
thank you…:)
yung pic ng fishballs pwedeng i-frame hihi.
gb
January 28th, 2006 at 7:37 pm
gin: Hi! We just bought our fishballs frozen from the grocery. Then we thawed them and then deep-fried them!
April 12th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
hi, i have been looking for the street vendor fishball recipe forever and i must say i stumbled on your site and saw that you had the picture there but no recipe. would you happen to have it and like to share it with me? please???? i’m so craving and other fishballs are not the smae fromt he markets
thanks so much
rose
April 20th, 2006 at 1:09 am
hi..pa email naman ng caldereta recipe mu..tnx!:)
April 20th, 2006 at 1:10 am
eto pla email ko: aidz_15@yahoo.com
July 22nd, 2006 at 4:56 pm
hmmm i am craving those fishballs even more now that i see the picture here! does anyone have the recipe on how to make ‘those’ fishballs.. i mean not he ones you can buy at the markets but the kind that you find just like in the picture on here..
pllllllllease email me thanks
August 9th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
pls teach me how to cook kare2x maawa kau
September 13th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
sweet sauce for fishballs:
hope that helps!
4T cornstarch, 1.5c water, 1/4c soy sauce, 1/3c brown sugar
combine everything over low heat, stirring constantly to prevent lumps. some add garlic and chillis, but the sauce is as good without them.
ps
i love that picture of caldereta too! can you email me the recipe that you used? my grandma used to add cheese to her recipe, sadly she passed away without any of us knowing how she made it. thanks.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:33 am
For street vendor sweet fishball sauce:
Disolve sugar in boiling water
Disolve cornstartch in water then pour in sugar mixture
Add MSG, salt and Mang Tomas sauce
And sili labuyo to make spicy