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The Perfect Birthday Cake
Today is my daughter Jade’s birthday so I was thrilled when I found out the recipe for my first Daring Baker’s Challenge! Yes, I joined the team of daring bakers to improve my baking skills which are practically nil I have to say that I was happy with the results considering this is my first attempt at baking for Daring Bakers. I was lucky that my first recipe turned out to be similar to the Coconut Cake that I have baked before. This month’s challenge, hosted by Morven of Food Art & Random Thoughts, is to bake Dorie Greenspan’s Birthday Cake. You see, a Daring Bakers host decides at the beginning of the month which recipe is going to be the theme that month and the rest of the group … Read entire article »
Filed under: cakes, Daring Bakers, desserts
Classic Leche Flan
I posted previously a recipe for Coco Flan and Pumpkin Flan but I just realized that I hadn’t posted a recipe for the Classic Leche Flan with just milk and eggs and no additional flavoring. Since I had 8 egg yolks that needed to be used up, I decided to make flan for our Easter dinner dessert. A great way to celebrate the egg. … Read entire article »
The Best Way to Cook Bacon
Bacon is one of our favorite breakfast items and we’ve had a love/hate relationship with it over the years. Some people in my household likes them extra crispy and some like them ‘just cooked but still soft’. Over the years, we’ve had more like burnt, too hard, or not cooked enough instead. There were bacon that shriveled and there were some that got tough as hide. The round skillets were also not very bacon friendly especially when you like your bacon straight up rather than bendy. When we discovered baking bacon, we were one happy family! See, when you bake bacon it gets to be nice and crisp without being greasy and some of the center ones (where it’s not so hot) get cooked ‘just right’. What I do is line … Read entire article »
Filed under: breakfast, Cooking Tips, pork
Potato, Mushrooms & Leeks Soup
The Clone loves soups and this weekend, as if sensing that soup weather will soon be past again, she requested soup for dinner. She’s always loved Potato Leek Soup but this time she said she would try mushrooms if it’s in the soup. Normally, she wouldn’t touch mushrooms. So just to get her eating them, I made her soup although I was already making another dish for everyone else. Well it turned out, everyone else had soup before their meal. … Read entire article »
Filed under: soup, vegetables
Lamb Curry
Finally, here is the highlight of the Indian dinner, the lamb curry! Every time I go into Costco’s meat department, the lamb just keeps calling my name and I can’t go by without stopping to contemplate the things I could do with lamb. Lamb curry is my favorite thing to order at the Indian restaurant so it has been on the top of my list of ‘ways with lamb’.This recipe was also from the All Around the World Cookbook by Sheila Lukins. … Read entire article »
Filed under: curry, Indian Food, lamb
Spicy Marigold Rice
My family loves their steamed rice and hate raisins. So when they say that this is one of the best rice dishes they’ve ever had, you better believe it! You can see a peek of the Indian dinner we had last week. This dish is not only pretty to look at, it was aromatic and delicious as well. This was a perfect compliment to the spicy curry. The sweetness of the raisins is a perfect counter for any spicy dish. We’ll definitely be cooking this rice again.The recipe for this was also from the All Around the World Cookbook by Sheila Lukins but I altered it a little to suit the ingredients I had. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Indian Food, Rice
Spring Basket Giveaway at Megan’s Cookin’
Megan’s Cookin’ is giving away this beautiful spring basket for your kitchen. All you have to do to get a chance to win it is click on the link or the photo to her giveaway announcement and leave he a comment telling her you’d like to be in the drawing. Make sure to tell her I sent you! Make sure you get over there before March 17th, St. Patrick’s Day. … Read entire article »
Filed under: announcements
Raita
I made a great Indian Food dinner last weekend, if I do say so myself. I made a very strong, pungent and delicious curry and this yogurt condiment was perfect to cool it down with. The recipes and meal combination were from the All Around the World Cookbook by Sheila Lukins. Asi, my oldest daughter loved the cucumbers and tomatoes; she said it had a very refreshing taste. I loved the layers of flavors in this and the other dishes in the meal. Recipes for the curry and rice will follow. … Read entire article »
Filed under: condiments, Indian Food
Chard in Coconut Milk (Laing)
This is not the first time I’ve cooked vegetables in coconut milk. I just love this combination, especially with greens that can withstand a slightly longer cooking time. That’s because for this dish to taste ‘just right’, it has to be cooked until most of the liquids have evaporated and only the flavors remain. This is my second entry for this month’s Lasang Pinoy, Coco Loco by Kai. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Filipino, Lasang Pinoy, vegetables
Catfish in Coconut Milk
My apologies to Kai for the late posting. The past few weeks have just been too hectic and hadn’t had much time to cook. I really meant to cook something sweet for this month’s Lasang Pinoy challenge, but I ran out of time and decided to just look through my recipes on the ‘wait-to-post’ list with coconut as an ingredient. It wasn’t hard to do, I love coconut so there is always a recipe or two with coconuts in it.This recipe was destined for the ‘secret pot’, those that no one else in my house would eat but me. I loved it, but I had to enjoy it alone and that is never fun. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Filipino, Lasang Pinoy, seafood, secret pot
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