Three Awards

I am so thankful to Sheng for giving me these three awards. I really appreciate it and thank you girl for always visiting my blog and leaving a message. I am so pleased!





Now I am passing this to Chelle, Cacai and Alf.

I'm Back To Cooking

I know it's been a while since I updated this blog. I just didn't have the time and besides I've been so lazy these past few weeks. Hubby and I are still in Baguio and this is our second week here already. I sent our maid home yesterday so she can take care of my niece and my aunt. So now I am the one cooking our meals. I fried sliced fish during lunch and then my nephew MakMak and I went at the back of the house and gathered chayote tops. Oh my, it's so fresh and I just boiled it and we ate it with the fried fish. Now I am currently cooking beef adobo for our supper while I'm writing this. It's still raining outside and it's been raining here practically everyday for a week already. It's so nice and cool!

Malunggay For Dinner

I haven't been cooking much lately. If ever I cook, I just steam or boil camote tops or cook scrambled eggs. I let our maid do most of the cooking while I'm in front of my laptop busy blogging. Yesterday, Jenny came back from attending the HS graduation of her younger sister and she brought with her a lot of malunggay fruits. I love this vegetable, I missed it when I was in the US. She cooked it and she just mixed it with onions, ground beef, tomatoes and fish sauce. It was really good and of course we ate it with rice. I just forgot to take a photo before we ate.

Coconut Ice Candy

I made some ice candy last night out of coconut and milk. When I was done mixing the ingredients, I was ready to put it in the plastic bag for ice candy that I bought. To my dismay, the plastic bag had some leaks and I had to try again another bag and it still leaked. My youngest brother came in and I told him the problem. He then went to my sister's house next door and got some ice candy plastic bags and gave it to me. He even helped me made the ice candy. After doing it, I put it in the freezer. Before I went to bed last night, I tried some of my ice candy and it was so good. I ate 3 before I went to bed. Today only 1 ice candy was left. I gave some to my siblings and my nephews too. My hubby love it and he said it's better than ice cream, he-he!!!

Ingredients:

2 cans condensed milk (300ml)
1 cup evaporated milk
1- 1/2 cup grated young coconut
1 cup white sugar
2 cups coconut water
1/2 gallon water


How to make Coconut Ice Candy:

Mix all ingredients together: condensed milk, grated buko, white sugar, evaporated milk,coconut water and water.
Mix well until sugar is dissolved and condensed milk well blended.
Prepare the container or ice candy plastic bags and pour the mixture with a funnel to make ice candies. Makes 40-50 pcs. ice candies.

Tortang Talong

Eggplants are in season nowadays and they're very cheap. Those bigger ones for torta are cheaper than the smaller ones. It cost P10.00/kilo. It's almost give away so we always buy it and of course I like it cooked torta. We had it the other day and we'll have it again today.

Ingredients :

· 2 to 4 talong (eggplants), average size
· 2 to 3 eggs, beaten
· salt and pepper, to taste
· oil, for frying

Cooking Procedures :

1. Broil eggplants until tender (the skins are charred and blister appears).

2. Once cool, peel off the skins of the eggplant and retain the crown and the stem. Gently flatten its meat by using the back of a fork. Set aside.

3. In a bowl, beat the eggs and season with salt and pepper.

4. In a skillet, heat oil over medium heat. Dip each eggplant, one at a time into the egg mixture. Gently bring the bowl near the skillet and tip, lowering the eggplant onto the heated oil.

5. Fry until golden brown on one side, then turn and brown the other. Drain on paper towels. Keep warm and serve.

Fresh Lumpia

My brother cut our coconut tree in front of our house. It has grown tall and the leaves touched the electric wire so we decided to cut it down. We got the ubod of the coconut and made fresh lumpia. My brother-in-law was the one who made it. He's good in it. Fresh lumpia is so pricey in SM food court in Baguio, Php40.00 each and it's not that good.

Fresh lumpia are among the most famous of all Filipino dishes. These are not the fried, eggroll-like lumpia you may have tried, but a lighter, home-style version, in which delicate egg pancakes are rolled around lettuce and a tasty chicken, shrimp, and vegetable filling. Well, after enjoying this sumptuous delicacy, sit down, relax and enjoy then learn How to make a Custom WordPress Theme. You can use the free trial software to make your designs which helps deliver valid WordPress themes in minutes.



Wrappers
2 large eggs
1-1/4 cups water
1/2 cup cornstarch
1/2 cup flour
1/8 teaspoon salt

About 3 tablespoons cooking oil

Filling
1/2 cup julienned onion
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 boneless, skinless chicken breast half, thinly sliced
1/4 pound medium raw shrimp, shelled, deveined, and halved
1-1/2 cups finely julienned ubod of coconut or jicama
1/2 small carrot, finely julienned
2 green onions, finely julienned
2 teaspoons oyster-flavored sauce
1 teaspoon Filipino fish sauce (patis)
1/4 teaspoon black pepper

5 tender lettuce leaves


Getting Ready
Prepare wrappers: In a bowl, whisk together eggs, water, cornstarch, flour, and salt until smooth. Strain batter.

Place a nonstick 8-inch omelet pan over medium heat until hot; brush with 1/4 teaspoon oil. Pour 1/4 cup batter into pan; tilt pan so batter covers entire surface. Cook until edge of wrapper is lightly browned and surface looks dry, about 45 seconds. Loosen edge with a spatula, turn wrapper, and cook 10 seconds longer. Turn wrapper out of pan onto a plate. Repeat to use all batter.

Cooking
Prepare filling: Place a wok over high heat until hot. Add 1 tablespoon oil, swirling to coat sides. Add onion and garlic. Stir-fry for 30 seconds. Add chicken and shrimp; stir-fry for 2 minutes. Remove from pan. Heat 1 tablespoon oil. Add jicama and carrot; stir-fry for 1 minute. Add green onions; cook until vegetables are tender crisp, about 2 minutes. Return chicken mixture to pan; add oyster-flavored sauce, fish sauce, and pepper; cook for 1 minute. Cool.

Cut lettuce in half lengthwise. For each lumpia, place a piece of lettuce on wrapper. Spoon about 1/3 cup filling into center of wrapper. Fold bottom third of wrapper over filling, then fold in sides.

Serve with garlic dipping sauce or a mixture of hoisin sauce and soy sauce.

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