Grilled Pork Belly

Oven Grilled Pork Belly

 

I’ve always loved grilled food but lack of space for a charcoal grill stops me from enjoying one of my favorite cooking methods! :) But the way Reyes Barbecue grills their food using an electric oven inspired me. So mimicking their method, I was able to grill to my hearts content!

Ingredients:

• Pork Belly (at least half inch thick)
• Banana Catsup
• Soy Sauce
• Garlic
• Onion
• Black Pepper
• 7up
• Sugar
• Peanut Butter

Marinate

Marinate the cut pork belly with 3/4 Cups Soy Sauce, 1/2 cup Banana Catsup, 1/2  cup 7up, crushed garlic and diced onions, and half ground black pepper. Let it soak for at least 30minutes but preferably marinated overnight.

Pan Grill

Using a cast iron pan, you can grill the pork belly on medium heat until both sides are cooked. If oil accumulates, make sure to discard before adding the next batch. While doing this, you can pre heat the oven at the highest temperature.

Oven Grill

With the left over marinade, baste both sides of the pork belly before putting in the oven and let it brown to your desired doneness.

Dipping Sauce

Mix together the soy sauce, catsup, peanut butter and sugar to make the dipping sauce. I cannot give the exact measurements since I just mixed it all up but it’s about 2 parts soy sauce for every 1 part catsup. So let’s say 1/2 cup soy sauce for 1/4 cup catsup and 2-3 spoons sugar. Add to that 1 tablespoon of peanut butter melted in the microwave (low power) with 3 tablespoons of water. This should give you a sauce almost like the one you would get in Aristocrat or Reyes Barbecue.

Care to share your recipe?

Enable Yahoo Messenger Video Call in U.A.E.

Follow these steps to re-enable video calling on your Yahoo Messenger.

Since yahoo messenger underwent maintenance on June 2010, many YM users in Dubai found that their video call options were not working. The icon was greyed out and people began looking for alternatives like Skype. Since many of my contacts are fond of using Yahoo Messenger, it’s hard to migrate to another messenger service. So if you still want to use Yahoo Messenger for your video call, you can do so by following the steps below:

Set up your proxy settings 

1. Open up the options page of your web browser and look for the network connection settings

2. Add proxy1.emirates.net.ae as your proxy server and port 8080 (this is etisalat’s proxy)

3. Save the settings and make sure you are able to browse websites

Set up Yahoo Messenger to connect using the proxy

1. Open up connection preferences and select connect using a proxy (no need to add any other info as it will use the settings from you web browser)

Please note that this method has been tested to work using Etisalat as the service provider, IE9 as the primary browser, and YM10 as the messenger application.

Remote Access

In this day and age, rare do you find a person using only one “computer.” We use one at work, we have one at home, our mobile cellular phones and mobile entertainment devices serve many functions that used to be found only on computers. And among all this devices we have our files. Movies, music, spreadsheets, letters, photos are stored on this devices and at times need to be accessed on the other. This need has been addressed by different means using various applications but for me the most easy to use would be LogMeIn. You just need to create an account, install their program on the device you want to remotely access and you’re good to go. Best part is, you can use it for free. They do have premium accounts wherein you can do file transfer and other stuff but the most basic is enough for you to remotely access your computer. You can view the screen, control the keyboard and mouse and do whatever you want as if you are sitting directly in front of it. The only catch is it is only as responsive as your internet connection speed (host and target device). There are other good programs out there such as TeamViewer but personally, LogMeIn is better.

Reboot

When I made this blog, I was a HR practitioner for a small BPO firm and was hooked to MMOs like Ragnarok and then Perfect World which should explain the topic of my posts. I took a break during my wedding preparation (and put up our wedding blog) and never returned as we tried our luck in Dubai, UAE. So after two years, I am still in a field related to HR more specifically dealing with work permits for expats like me. Yes, I am now an OFW cheered as a hero but treated like a bastard (more stories about that in the future). I am now a husband to a loving and caring wife and a father to a pretty little girl who is now the center of our lives. These new experiences gave me new goggles on my views and interest which I want to share with you thru this blog. We’ll see if we can get even one soul to have a peek with me on my ego patting drive.

Resu pls!

Let’s resurrect this baby… (can you resurrect something that didn’t die nor lived anyway?)