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Crab Stuffed Mushrooms
This is an old appetizer standby, and a favorite at parties. For parties, you probably should use smaller, bite sized mushrooms. This time though, I had some large mushrooms that were just waiting to be stuffed so I fixed this for dinner for me and the husband and still had plenty leftovers for lunch the next day. We had a nice big salad with plenty of tomatoes and cucumbers from the garden with these and they were delicious! It was a perfect, light summer dinner. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Appetizers, seafood, side dishes, vegetables
Nachos
This is one of the girls’ favorite snack and they have become quite adept at making this snack themselves. We like to make our own tortilla chips by frying up leftover corn tortillas. They taste so much better than the store bought ones, we think. For best taste, we like to make everything from scratch from the tomato salsa, the guacamole to the melted cheese. … Read entire article »
Homemade Pork Tocino
(Updated 1/3/2010) We love this homemade tocino recipe and so have many of our blogging friends who have tried it. There are many different versions of making Filipino tocino out there, but very few of them use cider vinegar like this one. Most of the ones I have seen online and even in most cook books only have salt and sugar as the main ingredient. I kind of like having the vinegar on mine. It’s not … Read entire article »
Grilled Chicken with Pesto Marinade
Oh it’s grilling time again, and if you’re blessed with lots of basil from your garden, it’s probably pesto time also. We have been blessed with pesto for the second year in a row but as much as I love it, we just can’t eat enough pasta and pesto to use it up. So we’ve been giving it away and using it up for other dishes like this grilled chicken marinated in pesto. This is a very simple recipe. Just marinade the chicken pieces in pesto sauce for 30 minutes to overnight and grill. If you missed the pesto sauce recipe I use the first time, here it is again.2 Cloves of fresh garlic3 cups of fresh basil leaves, stems removed1/2 cup of pine nuts1/2 cup of grated parmesan cheese1/2 cup of … Read entire article »
Filed under: chicken, Cooking Tips, grill, pesto, sauce
Clams with Black Bean Sauce
This is one of my favorite ways of cooking clams, and whenever I go to a Chinese restaurant that offers this, I never fail to order it. These clams, I found at Costco. Asi is my only daughter who shares this dish with me. She loves to put the sauce over her rice. When she and I are hungry, we can put away a whole order of this dish. … Read entire article »
Creamy Mango
Before the girls left for summer vacation, we bought a pack of ataulfo mangoes from Costco, which in the past have been very good, but this time they were not too sweet and were on the verge of getting over ripe. We decided to just scoop out all the flesh and make a puree out of it. We weren’t really sure where we were going with this puree. I was seriously considering mango cake but just didn’t have the energy for it. With dinner time looming and still had some prepping to do before our company arrived, we decided to just dump the whole thing in the ice cream maker and this is what came out. Like I said, I was feeling really lazy and didn’t want to deal with making … Read entire article »
Eggplant Fritata
The girls are off to summer at grandma’s house so it is just me and hubby at home again. Sometimes when we are feeling particularly lazy we cook an egg dish for a quick supper and since I am still trying to clean out the fridge of odds and ends, we decided to have this for a light supper. I only had one Japanese eggplant left in the crisper, and not much other vegetables to pair it up with so eggplant fritata it is.Since Japanese eggplants are relatively mild and thin skinned, I simply sliced them and quickly pan fried the slices in a bit of olive oil. Set them aside and scramble about 4 eggs and season with salt and pepper. Heat a couple more tablespoons of oil in … Read entire article »
Filed under: breakfast, omelets, side dishes, vegetables
Sauteed Green Beans with Tomatoes and Onions
The first to fluorish in our backyard garden are the green beans. We have had an abundance of them and we’ve cooked them every which way imaginable. This is one of the simplest ways of cooking green beans, and it’s an old standby in our kitchen. INGREDIENTS:Green BeansOnion, choppedTomatoes, choppedOlive OilSalt and Pepper I didn’t put any proportions on purpose because most of the time it depends on how much green beans I have on hand and what mood I’m in. Experiment with the proportions according to your taste. This is very basic, all you have to do is heat some oil and sautee the tomatoes and onions. After they have softened and become fragrant, add the green beans and season with salt and pepper. I don’t add any water, I … Read entire article »
Filed under: side dishes, vegetables
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