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WHB #43 – Scarborough Faire Baked Chicken
Just because this is an HERBY dish, I decided to make this my entry for this week’s Weekend Herb Blogging, which is back home in Kalyn’s Kitchen this week. Are you going to Scarborough Faire…. Know that song? That is what this dish is named after. Why? Because it has parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, of course! All these herbs we have in our garden so I thought why not make a recipe out of the song and at the same time use these individually packaged chicken thighs that Costco, our favorite store, have started carrying. They contain 5 thighs in each pack which is perfect for our family, there’s five of us! Chicken is cheap and baking is easy so a baked chicken dish of one sort or another is … Read entire article »
A Food Meme
This meme is from the ever creative Toni of Wifely Steps which she sent to our email group but I chose to post my answers here. I tag all of you who love food and reads this. How do you like your eggs? I like eggs in any form except for poached. Just haven’t developed a liking for it yet. How do you take your coffee/tea:Like my man, strong and black LOL! Favorite breakfast foods:Fried Rice, tomatoes & onions, sunny fried egg, and one of these: langonisa, tocino, or daing (dried fish) Peanut butter: smooth or crunchy?Smooth What kind of dressing on your salad?Italian, Greek, or Caesar Coke or Pepsi?Pepsi, but rarely You’re feeling lazy. What do you make?Ramen noodles or boiled eggs You’re feeling really lazy. What kind of pizza do you order? Papa Johns – Spinach … Read entire article »
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LP12 – Pink Tinola
This round of Lasang Pinoy, hosted by the beautiful Ces, is all about being Distinctly Pinoy with a Twang or fusion cuisine. This blog has always been about fusion. Nothing is authentic here. Every dish we cook is spiced with what we are and where we are in life and in the world. So our traditional Filipino dishes get a touch of Americanism and we infuse our Filipinoness to every dish we cook. Sometimes subtly, sometimes not. I was thinking of doing a re-cap of old dishes we have done where we changed it up and made it our own, but all you need to do is rifle through our archives to see that. This simple dish came about during one of my experimental moments and because I have so … Read entire article »
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WHB #42 – Spiced Chard with Pinenuts
This week, Weekend Herb Blogging is being hosted by Cooking Adventures of Chef Paz, since that busy lady Kalyn is attending the Blogher conference in California. Although the title is weekend HERB blogging, the rules just requires that the post be about an herb, plant or flower. I thought this would be a great way to show off these beautiful swiss chard. I just wish there was a way for me to preserve the colorful stalks. With the abundance of swiss chard from our garden, I have been on the lookout for different ways to cook chard. The girls tend to favor them plainly sauteed with just a bit of butter, but I like to try new recipes, and they gamely indulge me sometimes. This is one of those times. While bloghopping … Read entire article »
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Cucumber Mint Salad
Kalyn who hosts Weekend Herb Blogging luckily posted this recipe a second time around and reminded me to try it out. I am glad I did because it is such a refreshing change from the usual pickled cucumber salad and it is such a perfect way to highlight the cucumbers and mints from our garden. I made a couple of modifications from Kalyn’s recipe since I didn’t have the green Tabasco sauce or peanuts on hand, but I think the spirit of the recipe still came through. Here’s how I did mine. Kalyn’s original recipe is here. INGREDIENTS: Cucumbers from our backyard ~ some were not very big yet or are shaped strangely, so I used about 5 or 6 cucumbers (use however many you need to make a bowlful)1/2 cup fresh … Read entire article »
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Beet Greens with Garlic
Several people I know, and I did this too before I knew better, throw the tops of the beets away and just cook the roots. The green parts of the beets are actually very delicious. Since we’ve had a very successful crop of beets in our garden this year, we’ve had plenty of greens of every type. I haven’t had to buy any vegetables for at least a month now. When you grow things yourself, you tend to not want to waste any part of them, so I learned how to cook beet greens too. They are in the family as the swiss chard and spinach, I think, so they all have that wholesome earthiness to them. You can add them in soups or other dishes or you can just … Read entire article »
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LP12 – distinctly Pinoy with a TWANG
My husband loves to tell a story of a chef who worked at one of the nicer hotels here in Durham that is supposed to be offering continental cuisine. It started out just fine for a few months but as the chef got more comfortable, the more his food started tasting like southern food until it got so southern people forgot what it was supposed to taste like to begin with! Well, that’s kind of what fusion cuisine is like, which is the next topic for Lasang Pinoy. Distincly Pinoy with a TWANG is what Ces has titled this round with, and I wish I had thought of it first, cause it’s the perfect name for my blog! I think my distinctly Pinoy blog is often hit with a touch of … Read entire article »
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WHB#41 – Fresh Pickled Beets with Dill
I finally got around to posting something for Weekend Herb Blogging which was started by Kalyn’s Kitchen! The garden has been doing really well especially the herbs, so I thought this event would be the perfect way to feature these goodies from our backyard. From one pack of beets seed, we’ve had a bumper crop of beets this season. I haven’t motivated myself yet to start canning anything so we’ve been eating a lot of greens and beets. So far our favorite way of fixing beets is this fresh pickled recipe which I put together from several sites on the web. The addition of fresh dill is a must. The dill heightens the natural sweetness of the beets perfectly. We have also tried it without the dill, and the flavors were … Read entire article »
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Eating Moments of Leisure
What do you do when you have some free time? That’s the topic this month at Blogkadahan.com, and I am the last to post. Here is what I like to do in the little free time that I have: Moments of leisure are hard to come by as any working mom (whether in-home or out-of-home) can tell you. Before I got married and started having kids, my free time, as much as possible, was filled with travel; of course that all changed when my children turned my lifestyle around. Reading was another past time I enjoyed, but that too went out the window when I couldn’t even keep my eyes open long enough to finish a paragraph before dozing off like an old woman. Read the rest>>> … Read entire article »
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