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Refried Rice Cake
The girls and I had a cooking spree yesterday, each of us cooking a dish. The Clone made pizza from scratch, Jade made a delicious sesame chicken, and I made a roast pork. We now have enough food so that we won’t have to cook for days! That’s always a good thing in our house since I don’t normally get home from work until six p.m. or later. Well, I had a big slice of pizza while it was still hot from the oven and I wasn’t hungry anymore come dinner time. But, I stayed up late last night and right around midnight, I started to get hungry. I could have gone to sleep which is what I usually do, but instead I decided to have a snack. That’s when I … Read entire article »
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Pringles’ U Taste We Donate Campaign
Pringles launches their newest product, Pringles Multigrain, with the “U Taste. We Donate” campaign. Pringles partnered with celebrity chef, Tyler Florence to end childhood hunger in America by giving consumers an easy way to contribute to this great cause. Did you know that almost 25% of children in America faced hunger at some point? And no, it’s not the kind of hunger that my kids whine about when they get home from school and there’s nothing to graze on before dinner; the kind of hunger they are talking about is the one that happens when there just isn’t anything to eat at all in the house. It’s hard to believe that America which is supposed to be the land of plenty has people that are as bad off as those … Read entire article »
Lavash Crackers
Daring Bakers everywhere baked crackers for the month of September. These are savory treats this time, Lavash Crackers! This month’s hosts, Natalie from Gluten A Go Go, and co-host Shel, of Musings From the Fishbowl chose the vegan and/or gluten free recipe to challenge us with. Now I don’t know much about vegan or gluten cooking, but I do love my veggies and this time, I just happen to have some eggplants from the garden so I made the accompanying dip with them and they were delicious! The dough for the crackers is perfect for my little dough makers who like to roll and cut out shapes from everything. Here’s how we did it, based on the instructions from our hosts. … Read entire article »
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La.Pi.S – Crunchy
The theme for this week’s Lasang Pinoy Sunday is CRUNCHY. For this theme, I enter the Hazelnut Pralines that I learned how to make for the first time when I made the Filbert Gateau for Daring Bakers. This recipe reminded me of the peanut pralines we used to buy in Baguio where I grew up. Now that I know how to make it, I realize how easy it is to make. I should have been making this a long time ago! Making these praline is really simple. Get a couple of chopped nuts of your choice. It just so happened that the recipe called for hazelnuts so that’s what I used but you can use peanuts, walnuts, pecans, or whatever else you like. In a skillet or heavy bottomed pan, place a … Read entire article »
Spinach Quesadilla
I got a call at work one day from Jade who asked if I’m coming home for lunch. I hadn’t really planned on it, but when she said she was making lunch, I jumped right on it. It’s against my principles to turn down a free lunch When I got home, this is what was waiting for me, prepared by chef Jade herself. The main attraction is the spinach quesadilla which she paired up with sliced of grilled steak and some cherry tomatoes with slivers of sweet onions. It was a delicious lunch which was just perfect for filling my hunger but not making me too sleepy to go back to work. Making quesadilla is very easy and my girls learned how to make them early on, as … Read entire article »
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LP 22 – Puto
When I first started brainstorming about what to make for LP 22, I thought of trying my hand at making Tapey, a rice wine common during the holiday season in my mom’s hometown. It requires a yeast called bubud, to encourage fermentation, that I was determined to search for. But, holiday preparations got in the way and I resigned to try my hand at something simpler instead; this puto and kutsinta combination. Little did I know the process was not as simple as I thought to get the results I wanted! At least for the kutsinta I was partially successful and can foresee future tweaks to improve on it. My attempts at puto, however, leaves a lot to be desired. I wish I could have read Stef’s puto experiment, her entry … Read entire article »
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LP 22 – Kutsinta
I grew up eating these and yet and I never really saw anyone make it. Most times my mom or one of our aunts would buy it for our snack from hawkers who come through the neighborhoods shouting, “pooooto, kutsinta” as they walk down the streets. We’d start running after the guy and tell him to make sure to stop at our house. This is a steamed rice cake that is typically and best served with freshly grated coconut.This is still a work in progress but I’m quite happy with how this came out. I started searching online and kept running into the same recipe adapted from The Food of the Philippines by Reynaldo Alejandro. I first found the recipe on a website which claimed to have Philippine dessert recipes … Read entire article »
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