Ingredients:
250 grams ground beef
1 big eggplant, sliced
3 cloves of garlic, minced
cooking oil or butter
1 tablespoon chicken stock
1 tablespoon tomato ketchup
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 cup of water
salt and seasoning granules

Preparation:
Saute the garlic in cooking oil or butter in a pan.
Brown the ground beef (about 5 minutes).
Stir in the eggplant.
Mix the chicken stock, ketchup, and soy sauce with the water and pour into the pan.
Add salt and seasoning granules to taste (about a teaspoon of each should be fine).
Stir for about 3 minutes.

Recipe: Barbeque

Ingredients:

1 kg of meat

1 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup ketchup
1/2 cup Sprite or any clear cola
1/4 cup calamansi (lime) juice

Preparation:
Mix all the liquid ingredients.
Immerse the meat in the marinade for at least 30 minutes.
Cook the meat over a grill.

Recipe: Pork and Bean Sprouts

Ingredients:

250 grams ground pork

300 grams bean sprouts

3 cloves of garlic, minced

cooking oil or butter

salt and seasoning granules

Preparation:

Saute the garlic in cooking oil or butter in a pan.

Brown the ground pork (about 5 minutes).

Toss the bean sprouts into the pan.

Add salt and seasoning granules to taste (about a teaspoon of each should be fine).

Stir for about 3 minutes.

Recipe: Buttered Garlic Mushrooms

Ingredients:

a twist of butter, or just enough to cover the pan when it's melted

6 cloves of garlic, finely minced
a big can of button mushrooms, sliced
a dash of Maggi Sarap seasoning granules

Preparation:
Melt the butter in a pan.
Saute the garlic.
Saute the mushrooms.
Add a dash of seasoning granules.
Stir constantly for about 3 minutes, then serve warm.

Recipe: Pork Potapples

Ingredients:

a twist of butter, or just enough to cover the pan when it's melted

3 cloves of garlic, diced

500g of pork sirloin, cut into bite size pieces

1 big red onion, peeled, root end trimmed but left intact, halved through the root, then each half cut into 6 wedges through the root (to help hold them together)

1 medium sized red apple, cored and chopped into wedges

1 big potato, chopped into wedges

3 spoonfuls of concentrated chicken stock mixed with two cups of water

Preparation:

Melt the butter in a pan.

Saute the garlic and a wedge of onion.

Lightly fry the pork for about 5 minutes.

Drop in the potatoes, apples and the rest of the onions. Pour in the stock mixture. Let it simmer and stir occasionally, adding salt according to taste.

Turn off the heat after about 5 minutes.