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Fried Tilapia with Pasta and Asparagus
Being a working mom, I love fast and easy meals. I love them even more when they are also delicious and healthy to boot. This is one of them. It is tried and tested, and this is really a 30-minute meal. It’s true. I timed it. Several shortcuts were used, but that is ok. That is why they are called short cuts, they cut short the time spent in the kitchen so you can get on with the many other duties in life. The tilapia parmesan recipe has been posted before, and I am not too sure about the asparagus. The asparagus is simply sauteed in olive oil and garlic for exactly three minutes to retain their crispness. The pasta is simply sauced with store-bought, alfredo sauce in a jar. When … Read entire article »
Filed under: pasta, Quick meals, seafood, vegetables
LP9 – Chicken Gizzards & Liver Adobo
Pabulum is this month’s host of Lasang Pinoy and for this round she chose to explore the inner realm of, Laman Loob loosely translated as that what is contained inside. In other words, offal. This round, we feature the different ways that the innards, commonly designated as undesirable parts, are prepared and enjoyed not only all over the world but specifically the Pinoy spin on this delicacy. Here in the southern region of the U.S. most people who live or lived on farms are familiar to utilizing all parts of the cow or the hog. I meant to try cooking some chitlings the southern way, but again life got in the way of blogging and I just haven’t had the time to go out and find some pork intestines and go … Read entire article »
A Foodbloggers Meme Around The World
CeliaK, the English Patis has tagged me for this meme on foodbloggers. Since I haven’t been bloghopping much due to work and kid duties, here is my lopsided attempt at world-hopping through food blogs. 1. Please list three recipes you have recently bookmarked from foodblogs to try. For this, all I have to do is pull out the top stack of printed recipes from my bag. Here are my recent print outs of dishes to attempt one of these days: (oh crap, I cleaned out my work bag so I’ll have to review my print outs when I get home tonight…promise I’ll add to this later)••• 2. A foodblog in your vicinityThe nearest one to me is the Ilocana Chef who is also a Southern transplant. One of these days maybe we’ll get … Read entire article »
Filed under: meme, miscellaneous
Broccoli Booster
I was a little bit apprehensive with this broccoli juice, but once I made it mom and I both loved it! I really reccomend it, because not only is it delicious, its very easy and healthy!! 125g/4 1/2 oz. broccoli florets2 eating apples15ml/1tbsp. lemon juice (thats about 1/2 a small lemon)ice cubes 1. Cut the broccoli florets into small pieces and chop the apples.2.Push through a juicers and stir in the lemon juice. Serve in a tall glass with plenty of ice. YUMM! … Read entire article »
Fruit Salad YUMMY YUMMY
I wanted to use up some extra fruit I had, and since I had the juicer out already, I decided to use it to create a fruity concotion with them. So here’s what I used:1 small eating apple1 nectarine2 c.(approx.1/4) pineapple Core the apple, nectarine, and pineapple and chop roughly, then push through a juicer. Serve with lots of crushed ice immediately. BON APETIT! … Read entire article »
Mixed Salad Revised
This was a really successful drink, especially since I didn’t totally follow the recipe due to a lack of ingredients, I loved the fresh, sweet mixture of lettuce and cucumber, it was really a mixed salad. What we used:1/2 cucumber1/2 iceberg lettuce2 large pearsCrushed ice 1. Chop the cucumber into chunks, roughly tear the lettuce into peices, quarter the pears and remove the core.2.Bush produce through a juicer and pour over crushed ice with cucumber swizzle sticks. VOILA! … Read entire article »
Ginger Juice
Hola! I’m finally going to be posting some stuff on a hopefully regular basis with this new recipe book mom got me, it’s called Juices & Smoothies, we got it as Borders last night in the bargain section for only $5.99! I was really happy coz, I’m a blending freak. They have some really cool stuff in here. So the one I whipped up today was “Ginger Juice” its not a smoothie but actually a juice so, take out that electric juicer!!! This recipe makes one glass. You’ll need:1/2 small pineapple25g./1 oz. fresh root ginger (about 1/2 in.)1 carrotice cubes 1. Using a sharp knife, cut away the skin from the pineapple, then halve and remove the core. Roughly slice the pineapple flesh. Peel and roughly chop the ginger, then chop the … Read entire article »
What’s on your Ref’s Door?
Toni at wifely steps asked, what does your refrigerator door look like? This is our two refrigerators, otherwise known as command central. It just so happened that we were going to do some spring cleaning today as things have gotten quite out of hand with our junk all over the place. As you can see, what’s on our ref is what is going on in our life. We put up upcoming events so we don’t forget, we put up pizza coupons so we don’t forget to use them next time we have one delivered, and of course, art work. We thought we would take a photo of this mess for posterity before we clean it up. Don’t worry though, it won’t stay pristine for long. In a few weeks … Read entire article »
Filed under: miscellaneous
Joojeh Kabab
I had taken out a whole chicken to defrost one day but had no idea what to make with it. I just figured I will get inspired by the time the chicken thawed out. And indeed, I was; thanks in part to Jade’s recent obsession with Persian Food. She has taken a particular liking to koobideh, I think because she likes how the word rolls off her tongue but she also just likes the flavor of grilled lamb. I didn’t have lamb on hand though, all I had was this chicken staring at be begging to be cooked in any other way other than adobo and fried. So we decided to grill it and also try this Joojeh Kabab recipe. We made a few modifications though since as usual, we … Read entire article »
Filed under: chicken, grill, Middle Eastern
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