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DH Banana Cake with Caramel Sauce
I can’t believe it’s been years now since a blogging friend sent me the Donna Hay Modern Classics Book 2 cook book. While I have never been much of a baker, I found this book to be inspirational and has been a great motivator to get me baking. We love making banana bread muffins from over ripe bananas but this banana cake recipe from the Donna Hay cook book looked interesting so I decided to try it. Plus, who can resist caramel sauce, right?
This turned out to be simply fantastic. It was gone in no time and surprisingly, it was good even without the caramel sauce which was the selling point for me to begin with!
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Mama Sita’s Spicy Chicken Caldereta
If you’re wondering who Mama Sita is, she’s not related to me. Mama Sita is a brand of mixes and sauces used to create Filipino dishes. They can be bought at most Asian markets that sell Philippine made products.
When I was in Los Angeles last January for my grandmother’s funeral, my sister ordered a knock out dish of Kalderetang Kambing (stewed goat meat). I wanted to recreate the dish when I got home since I now know where to get some goat meat, thanks to the local Latino markets. Anyway, I didn’t ever get around to buying some goat meat since I am the only one excited at the idea of it. So I figure I might as well use the Mama Sita mix I got to spice up the usual chicken. Surprisingly, everyone loved it! Now I’ll have to learn how to make this from scratch rather than from the packaged mix.
I followed the recipe pretty closely from what was suggested at the back of the package, just using what vegetables I already had in the refrigerator.
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Cornish Hens with Blueberry Citrus Glaze
You know how some dads specialize in grilling and manly types of cooking? My husband’s specialty are his cakes (pound cake and chocolate cake) and these Cornish hens. He would make these for us on special occasions like on Easter when we didn’t feel like the usual baked ham, he made these.
This last batch, I made myself with a bit of coaching from him. In my usual fashion, I again used what I had on hand like the orange, lemon and lime that needed to be used up and the blueberries that were leftover from pancakes the previous day. Here’s my version which comes pretty close to my husband’s famed Cornish hens. Even the girls said it comes a close second 
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