Recipes
Corned Beef Sandwiches
We’re a bit busy today so I just made some Corned Beef Sandwiches for lunch. They’re good ones though. I used Sara Lee Corned Beef Slices from the supermarket for my sandwich meat. The bread is Orowheat’s Oatnut bread with lots of whole grains. I also use a mix of horseraddish and mayo for [...]
German-Style Dinner
Dinner tonight was a German-style meal any Greta or Liezl can be proud to call their own. Unfortunately, veal was not available at the commissary this week so I had to subsitute my wiener schnitzel with breaded pork chops. But red cabbages are always available in any supermarket and that was enough to build on [...]
Pasta Fazool
Two years ago, Stepson gave us “A Goomba’s Guide to Life” by Steven R. Schiripa. Schiripa is better known as Bobby Bacala of HBO’s The Sopranos. Spouse and I really enjoyed that book and the show. Since Spouse grew up in New Jersey and his grandparent’s and parent’s last home was just a few blocks [...]
Low Fat Spinach Quiche
I’ve made this low-fat Spinach Quiche one of my regular stand-by lunch recipes for some time now. Spinach is one of those Super Foods packed with vitamins and minerals, best when boiled and not raw. I read this trivia in our local paper and was pretty relieved cause raw spinach is not my favorite thing in [...]
Bibingkang Galapong
It’s Christmas everywhere and in the Philippines no other treat says Christmas more than this rice cake. It’s available year round in most places. During the Christmas season, churches everywhere will have vendors setting up shop in the wee hours of the morning. These vendors will be selling bibingka or puto bumbong and cooking them [...]
Mr. Bean Car Cake
The recipe I used for this cake was actually not a good choice. It’s called a Kentucky Butter Cake and I found it in the website www.allrecipes.com I have to admit I was impressed with all the positive feedback the recipe generated. It’s just too sweet for our taste and if I ever do this [...]
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
This is a very basic carrot cake iced with a cream cheese frosting which I used for the “white cake” I wrote about in my last post. I tweaked the recipe to my taste and think this will be my keeper recipe. I just love this cake for the spice, the moistness, the crunch of [...]
Fish And Chips
I’m back and it’s all because my 93-year old uncle found my blog when he entered his name on google and found a post I wrote a couple of years back about our family and soybeans. Go check it out to understand the strange connection. Now, I’m in touch through email with my cousin like [...]
Fish Steaks
The Philippines has over 7,100 islands and you bet we eat a lot of fish and seafood, aside from rice of course. If you are in the Philippines and thinking of having steaks for dinner, your best bet is fresh fish steaks in calamansi butter sauce.
Suman Sa Ibos
This is a rice stick everyone in the Philippines knows. Filipinos like eating this with ripe mangoes, specifically, Philippine mangoes and none of the “manila” mangoes sold in the US. As every Filipino who has traveled outside the country will tell you – nothing beats Philippine mangoes for flavor and texture. And this Suman sa [...]
LP20: Muruecos
Muruecos is the name of a common rice stick or suman as Filipinos call it. It was supposedly my grandmother’s favorite suman. I like it too and featuring it for Lasang Pinoy 20th Edition, Binalot made the effort certainly worthwhile.
Binalot, a Dish from Bicol
Another entry for Lasang Pinoy’s 20th Edition titled “Binalot – All Wrapped Up!”. This dish is simply called “Binalot” by Bicolanos. It’s shrimp and coconut meat wrapped in gabi leaves then stewed and braised in coconut cream and herbs and spices.