There are probably 500 ways to cook adobo but the one that is most familiar to the children is the adobo with vinegar and soy sauce. I call it my classic adobo recipe because I also cook white adobo. Here is my usual adobo recipe. Ingredients 1 kilo pork shoulder or loin cut in 1/2 inch cubes (variation: use half chicken and half pork) 1/3 cup vinegar 2...

There are as many recipes for adobo as there are Philippine islands. My two favorite recipes are the white adobo and the adobo cooked in coconut milk. Food memories at my dorm in UP consisted of adobo that mom cooked for us. See in the dorm, we were not allowed to cook our meals. Mom’s adobo did not contain any soy sauce and I often wondered how she cooked...

I am the only one in the family who loves dishes cooked in coconut milk. It isn’t often that I cook this but I like variety in our weekly set of dishes. I’ve shared Chicken Adobo with Coconut Cream that I often ate as a little girl in my hometown Cebu. I thought it was a Cebuano dish. What I didn’t know was that the Tagalog Chicken and Pork Adobo...

My husband is fond of buying me recipe books or any books about food. One such book is The Adobo Book (Traditional & Jazzed Up Recipes) by Reynaldo Gamboa Alejandro and Nancy Reyes-Lumen. Not only do you get recipes of various authors but trivia and essays on adobo. The Personal Styles reflect the cook’s preferences. You should read the more than 100...

My sister who is based in San Francisco shares this adobo recipe with a twist of Jalapeno chiles. I love it. 1 cup organic apple cider vinegar (preferably aged in wood) 1 tablespoon soy sauce 3 small bay leaves 1 or 2 large jalapeno chiles, left whole 1 side of baby back ribs (about 2 pounds), cut up into individual or 2-rib portions 2 teaspoons rock salt 6 garlic...

American wrestler and model Travis Kraft teaches us how to cook Adobo. In Filipino. Oh my, his accent is just delightful. Oh wow. How hilarious. Adobong manak. Funny naman. I think Travis did this video in a deliberate American accent just to be funny. Travis adoptive mother is a Filipina from Bataan. It was she who encouraged Travis to come and visit the...