broccoli, my fave 2.0

I am so happy with my son's current appetite. Ever since we gave him pediasure, he has been eating well and has gained a couple of lbs in a span of 2 weeks! Currently, this is his favorite meal, Boiled pork or Nilagang Baboy with Broccoli. He does not like the cabbage and potato version :). What's your kids current favorite healthy meal?

Yema Balls recipe

This recipe I got from Nell which he shared in Plurkville. You know if you are on a diet, plurking is not a good area to hang on lol! They keep sharing photos, links and recipes of dishes they are currently eating, craving for or wanting to cook. So, in one of Nell's recipes-sharing, he shared this which I am wanting to make for a long time until today :).

Mix 6 eggyolks, 1 can of condensed milk and 1 cup of sugar in a double-boiler until sticky enough to make balls then dip in caramelized sugar. In this photo, they dip it in the simple sugar.

Enjoy your dose of sugar yay!

Photo Credit: PurplePantry.com.

Seafood Paella recipe

For this week's recipe, I am going to share my family's (more of my in-laws') favorite dish they'd want me to whip/contribute in every family gathering. It all started during my 1st Thanksgiving in 2007, they requested for me to cook Tom Yum and Seafood Paella. Since then they've always requested the Seafood Paella during family gatherings. So last Christmas, I made 2 pyrexes of Seafood Paella.

These are what you need:

Onions and Garlic

Unpeeled Shrimps and Squid. (but since hubby was too busy to check out fresh squid in the market, I used frozen mixed seafoods, don't include crab sticks)


Chorizos and Chicken Breasts (I preferred deboned)

1. Use 6 or 8 cups cooked rice: calrose or jasmine.
2. Saute 4 heads grounded garlic to total of 1/4 cup garlic in 1/2 cup oil. Add 2 minced onion (1/2 cups), violet onions preferrably. Add 2 Knorr beef cubes.
3. Add 1 kilo chicken (cut into serving pieces) and 6 small chorizo de bilbao or 3 big (sliced 1/2 inch thick diagonally) and cook until brown.
4. Add 1/2 kilo big shrimps (unpeeled), 1/4 kilo squid (remove ink, sack and covering, clean very well then slice into 1 1/2 inches rings include head). Continue stirring for 5 minutes.
5. Add 1 can or 2/3 cup tomato paste. Add 2 tbsp sugar, 1 tbsp fine salt, 1 tsp pepper, 2 big red bell pepper sliced into 1/4 inch thick strips. Turn off fire.
6. Carefully remove chicken, shrimp from the sauce and transfer to a platter. Mix the sauce with rice and top with chicken and shrimps.
7. Cover and Bake at 350F or 175C for 30mins. Remove cover and bake 25 mins more.
8. Garnish with green peas, boiled eggs and lemon wedges.

   

Smokey Chili With Pasta recipe

Apologies for not being consistent with posting my weekly Recipe sharing entries :). To make up for that, I promise to post 3 recipes before this week ends. Let's begin with this Smokey Chili Pasta recipe. This is a very easy recipe and a perfect one for this chilly weather.

SMOKEY CHILI WITH PASTA

INGREDIENTS:
2 Cups (about 6 ounces) rotelle or rotini pasta, cooked
1 Pound ground beef
1 cup chopped onion
2 cans (about 15 ounces each) red kidney beans
2 cans (10 3/4 ounces each) condensed tomato soup
2 tablespoons Hershey's Cocoa
2 1/4 teaspoons chili powder
3/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
Grated parmesan cheese (optiona)

1. Cook pasta according to package directions; drain.
2. Meanwhile, cook ground beef and onion until meat is throughly done and onion is tender. If necessary, drain fat.
3. Stir in undrained kidney beans, soup, cocoa, chili powder, pepper and salt. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Stir in hot pasta; heat throughly. Serve with Parmesa cheese, if desired.

***makes 8 serving.

quick fruit dessert

This was our dessert yesterday courtesy of Hubby. Like I said, he is taking over the kitchen for 2 days, at least.

Ingredients:
Peaches (fresh)
Banana
Maple Syrup
Sugar (to taste)
Milk
Vanilla
Mix and then chill. It was a hit to our toddler, but not for me. I am not a fan of Maple Syrup.

breakfast with dad's

The only upside of being sick is you get to have off days from all the household chores. You see, hubby has been such a great caregiver for almost a week now. He told me not to touch any of the housechores and let them wait until he gets home. He has also been preparing meals for us all. When I say prepare, as in with all the food preparation what-nots. We woke up with this big breakfast in our table :). For the sick me.
For the little boy.

Leche Flan

I blogged about my Mom's Leche flan recipe months back but I am going to do so again after learning how my friend, Mishel cooks leche flan without using a steamer.

To begin, here's my mom's leche flan recipe: (as copied from my mom's email)
10 eggyolk
1 condensed milk (big can)

make a syrup in a llanera pan about 4 tablespoon sugar or more. set aside. mix eggyolk with 1 condensed milk and 1 can water (use the condensed milk can) and put 1 teaspoon vanilla or desired flavoring. put the mixture in the llanera with syrup cover with foil and cook for 1 hour with slow fire or less.

And here's Mishel's style:
Mishel is my friend who recently got married to her boyfriend of 2 years in Indiana. Her husband is an American. She is trying to make Tim, her husband like Filipino cuisine and started cooking adobo, kaldereta, minatamisang saba and Leche flan for him and his family. The last time I spoke with her, she said that her Leche Flan was a hit. Her mother-in-law was even telling her to make a business out of her now famous leche flan. When I asked if what kind of steamer she uses, she replied: "I don't use one." Being the gullible and naive person that I am, I am amazed and shocked altogether. So if you do not have a steamer and is craving for leche flan here's what you do. Use the oven! Put a bowl with water half-filled under the llanera with mixed leche flan ingredients and bake them. In a way, you are steaming them in an oven. Very innovative huh?! I am going to try this next week as my steamer is so tiny (read: the top of a rice cooker) that no llanera would fit except if vienna sausage cans are counted as recycled llanera hee.

Crispy Golden Porkchops Recipe

One of my staple foods is Porkchops! My friends would wonder why I loved pork so much. I could live without chicken and beef, but pork no! So, this is a clear indication that I can never go vegeterian my whole life although I tried before. However, I have committed myself to living a healthier life to attain my desired pre-wedding weight and so I try as much as possible to avoid pork.

But I know, that sometimes it's good to indulge to our cravings so for this week's recipe, here's Crispy Golden Chops!

CRISPY GOLDEN PORK CHOP

Ingredients:
500 grams pork chop
1 tablespoon light soy sauce
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
¼ teaspoon five spice powder
1 small pack Japanese bread crumbs
1 egg white
cup plain rice
oil for frying

Procedure: Marinate pork chop with salt, soy sauce, five spice, pepper for about 3 hours and then freeze before cooking. Then dredge in the bread crumbs,( dip in white eggs,then flour and then to the Japanese bread crumbs) deep fry.

Basic Sauce
1 teaspoon soy sauce
3 teaspoon tomato sauce
2 teaspoon white vinegar
2 teaspoon white sugar
¼ teaspoon corn flour
1 tablespoon water
1 garlic
¼ grated ginger
3 pcs. Chestnut
3 teaspoon green peas
1 pc. Big red pepper

Procedure: Put chestnuts in a pan and add green peas, red pepper, sugar, vinegar, tomato sauce, soy sauce, garlic, ginger, little water or stock then boil. Pour to the fried porkchop. Or arrange as side dish

FANCY FISH FINGERS RECIPE.

I get tired with my old same frying, sweet&sour, baked, paksiw dishes I do for our bags and bags of fish fillet especially now that we always include fish in our meat-less days.

I hope to try it out tomorrow, so photos will have to wait :) Oh and by the way, this is a fried dish too but with a different twist.

FANCY FISH FINGERS:
4 pcs (400 grms ) fish or fillet
1 small can pinaple crushed drained (reserve 2 tbsp syrup)
2 tbsp calamansi juice
1/4 klo ground pork
1 medium carrot grated
1 stalk celery or kinchay chopped
1 med size chopped onions
1tbsp soy sauce 1/2 cup breadcrumbs

procedure
1. fillet and scrape flesh with spoon. remove bones, then marinate in pineaple syrup and calamansi juice for 15 minutes.

2. combine with the rest of the ingredients except breadcrumbs. season with 1 tsp iodised salt or rock salt and 1/2 tsp pepper. mix thouroughly.

3. form every 2 tbsp into sticks or croquettes. roll in breadcrumbs and fry until golden brown. serve with ketchup or sweet chili sauce.

Fish Pasta ala tira-tira

Don't you just hate throwing left-over food in the garbage? I do. I feel somehow this is part of our social responsibility.

Anyways, I cooked sinigang fish some days ago, when it was not finished up by my two boys, I made it into paksiw then eventually fried it. There were still about a couple of fried fish left and I made them into Pasta which in no time was finished. Below are the ingredients.

Fish Pasta or Pasta Ala Tira-Tira (as hubby would call it hee!)

Left-over fish (fry them and made them shred them)
Olive Oil
Capers and/or Black Olives
Garlic
Onions
Garlic Salt
Pepper
Chili Powder
Basil (leaves or powder)
Spaghetti noodlesCheese
Boil noodles then separate.
Saute garlic and onions in olive oil (make sure to put generous amount of olive oil). Then add the rest of the ingredients. Put garlic salt, pepper and chili powder to taste. Mix this with the spaghetti noodles, shred cheese and serve.

I assure you it's yummy.
Another alternative, add pesto and remove the capers and olives.