No-Bake Tahong

Baked Tahong (baked mussels) is Angelina's favorite food even though she doesn't like eating fish and seafoods. Since we do not have an oven, I made up this quick-no-bake-mouth-watering recipe that any damsel in distress can handle.

Ingredients:

1 caltex* of tahong or mussels (approx. 1/2 kilo)
1 cup kakang gata (coconut milk)
minced garlic
1 small onions
2 tbs oil/butter/margarine
grated cheese

Procedure:
1. Wash and clean the tahong by scraping the shells from any foreign object. I saw Martha Stewart cleaning tahongs by shaking them on a basin of water with cornstarch. The tahongs open up their shells and thus expel impurities.

2. Heat frying pan (but not too hot or the butter will burn). Add oil, butter or margarine.

3. Saute garlic and onions until aromatic.

4. Add tahong and mix well.

5. Cover the tahong for 3 mins or until shells open.

6. Pour in the coconut milk, grated cheese and stir. Sometimes, I cannot find coconut milk so I dissolve powdered milk in water hehehe. Cook until cheese melts.

Get your family and feast on the creamy and cheesy tahong you made!

*Caltex is an improvised dipper cut from used or empty Caltex galoon. And even if it's an empty Shell or whatever oil company container it is, we still call it "caltex". Tahongs and other commodities like salt are sometimes sold by "caltex" not by kilo (onli in da Philippines!).