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on Jan 17th, 2012 | 1 comment
One of my healthiest stew I ever made. I may say that this Healthy Chicken stew or Healthy Chicken Tinola can help you retain your weight as to compare to other recipes. Imagine, this chicken recipe used Chicken Breast and canola oil instead of using Chicken red meats and vegetable oil? I didn’t took off the skin because the recipe might fail.
Anyway, this recipe is very simple, all ingredients are all easy to find! In my case, I just got some of my ingredients at the backyard like the dahon ng sili and papaya. The ginger, garlic and onions are all typically can be found inside your...
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on Dec 28th, 2011 | 0 comments
It’s easy to make gravy sauce especially for roast meats like chicken, beef or pork or even hamburgers. You just have to make meat liquid stocks or set aside the roasted meat drippings to make gravy. You can make use also of instant meat stock cubes if you want.
Ingredients of Mushroom Gravy Recipe:
1/2 stick (1/4 cup) butter
3 cloves of garlic minced
2 tbsp Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce or soy sauce
1 pound mushrooms, sliced
1/3 cup Maya All Purpose Flour
1 quart cold beef, chicken or vegetable stock or broth
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
Procedure of the Gravy...
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on Dec 20th, 2011 | 0 comments
It’s going to be Christmas soon and we are now all busy with preparing our Noche Buena menu. I love the holiday season because it allows me to decorate the house with ornaments. Just look at my Christmas tree this year at the side.
Anyway, I love Christmas because it also allows me to plan what food to serve for Noche Buena.
Some of the traditional Noche Buena food which my family serves are:
Hamon – a Filipino favorite is of course the Christmas ham. Too hard to make on your own so just buy one at the grocery. Hehe.
Queso de Bola – the partner of the Christmas ham, but also, a great...
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on Nov 18th, 2011 | 0 comments
I’m really greatful and thankful that Maya Kitchen Cullinary Arts Center invited me to attend one of their cooking demo. This time, Chef Gen Capati thought us how to make CBK Chicken or the Cook Book Kitchen Chicken.
As I’ve notice, this recipe (CBK Chicken) is simmilar to cordon bleu without the coating. Chicken brest fillet, cheese and ham! But CBK Chicken was prepared in a different way. I just find it interesting that’s why I really payed attention to this demo.
Now, at home, I was pretty excited to try what I’ve learned from Chef Gen Capati of Cook Book Kitchen Restaurant...
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on Oct 29th, 2011 | 0 comments
Soup is one of my favorite part of my meal especially during cold or rainy days. If you love creamy types of soup, I think you’ll gonna like this recipe. It’s so simple and very easy to prepare!
Ingredients of Creamy Onion Soup Recipe:
1 and 1/2 medium white Onion minced
1/4 cup butter (about 1/4 of the bar)
2 Chicken cubes diluted to 2 cups of hot water
1 All Purpose Cream
1/4 cup Grated cheese (Grate 1/4 of the regular bar)
Pepper to taste
Procedure:
Melt butter in a large saucepan over low heat.
Add onions, cover, and cook until translucent–stirring occasionally–for about...
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on Oct 22nd, 2011 | 0 comments
Morcon is another famous food in the Philippines, perhaps, morcon is rated as a special food to pinoys because of its method of cooking. Well its kinda difficult to do and beef round it self is expensive.
It is typically serve during special days like birthdays, fiestas, Christmas. This is going to be my first time to cook morcon for me to practice for my Noche Buena this Christmas.
Beef Morcon Recipe:
2 lbs beef eye of round or flank steak, 3/4 inch thick in one piece
4 Calamansi juiced
1/4 cup Soy Sauce
2 tsp Pepper
1/4 cup Oyster Sauce
2 Boiled eggs sliced vertically
1 can Sausage cut into 1/2...