It may have been the cold weather or it may have been just one of those days where you crave for something, even if it was a simple dish I use to eat back in the days. While taking an inventory of sort in our pantry, the fridge and freezer, I saw some items that was needed to make this dish. It's actually a Filipino dish which is very simple but probably very good as it requires mung beans (very small green beans) aka Monggo. It think this belongs to the lentil family. So I started gathering all the ingredients and although some recipe calls for pork, I decided to use shrimp instead. I believe the original recipe also calls for something green like spinach and some Chicharon (pork rind). For some reason, I didn't have to look for the ingredients or how to make it. But this time, instead of waiting for a long time to boil the beans to soften, I cook it last night in my mini crock pot and it was soft and ready after 3 hours. The other craving that I had is the Chinese sausage which I found at the Superstore. After slicing them diagonally, I cooked all of them in a pan with some water and wait for the water to dry. The sausage makes its's own oil which is the final stage of cooking the sausage. Unfortunately, I think I ate too much because I was not hungry for dinner. It was all worth it and probably I won't have this again until another year.
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| Chinese sausage (pork and chicken style) |
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| Ginisang Monggo ( Sauteed mung beans with shrimp and spinach) |
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| Chocolate Banana Foster Cake |
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