fresh fruits: cantaloupe, green and red melon

My food trip this Friday is fresh fruits. Buying peeled fresh cut fruits, is not that my type not until sometimes ;-). I usually buy whole fresh fruits and I am the one who will just peel and cut it whenever I and DH like to eat, yeah we buy preserved fruits which are in cans so anytime we feel like to eat --- it is always available since its expiration is longer. I know, nothing is best than fresh fruits and I nod on that, who won't? Well, that is your own perception and opinion. That is your own appetite and you are the master of yourself and I respect that. :-) So then, the fruits that I bought which I bought another one to which am currently eating right now are mostly cantaloupes and melons (green and red). I just bought separately an avocado, banana, ripe mangoes, apples and oranges. I so love to eat fresh fruits! When it's already peeled and cut from the store, you just have to consume it on or before the "best before" date or else its odor and taste are no good no more. I just like it because I need not to exert an effort and time peeling the fruits skin and just munch in every time I feel like it. ;-) Ooh well, during laze days.. hah.. And I would like to include it in my grocery list today that I will going to get it hours from now. I am just busy --- keep on running up of the time, ooh well, lots of going to do but just so little time... :-(

So then, have a great foodie trip this Friday! For more of my food trips, just click the label "fFod Trip Friday" or "kitchen journey" and for more foodies from other participants or if you wish to join, click the logo below, should you like to do so. Have fun... ;-)

You may be a little crack of this food long name, the salad by the way is named "Cranberry, Apple Walnut Grilled Chicken Salad" and the drink at its side in an image is called "Banana Chocolate Chip Hand-scooped Ice Cream Malt". Have you been gasping your breathe reading such a foodie name? LOL.. yep, it is quite long but I don't know why Carl's Jr. fast food chain make it that long. Hmmmm.. but on the other hand, it is yummy as can be.. heheheh.. I am not that fond of eating fresh salad, actually I do not eat fresh salad. What it got on my eyes because it has grilled chicken on it. :-) By the way, the salad consists of fresh spinach, grilled chicken, cheese, onion and an area of bacon that looks like a corned beef to me but to my surprise, it is bacon. Eeeee... :( Then the salad comes with raspberry vinaigrette, glazed walnuts in a pack and a dried cranberries. I eat all of the salad's stuffs excluding fresh spinach and the bacon. It just that my taste didn't go with the bacon and unfortunately with the green fresh vegetable. I won't close my taste bud of fresh salads especially that pizza is now one of my favorite food. To tell, I really2x don't like to eat pizza before, even its smell makes me awe. :( But it became now as one of my fave. :) And ola! I so like the drink. It has a thin strips of black chocolate and others to which I enumerated above. :-) That's my food after went from my doctor last week - check up of my reddish pink small round stuff on my right cheek. DH and I got some food through drive-thru and because such food chain don't have heavy meal, I just get such or else I will be forced to eat burger and fries (I don't like its french fries by the way, sorry to say). That's it, this is my food trip of this day for Food Trip Friday!

black idea of cooking the pork blood stew

Happy 1st Anniversary Food Trip Friday (FTF)!

A soup is good for cold times especially the season is winter. Today, my food trip for Friday is pork soup fresh from the pot and from my stove. :-) I was not able to take a pic on the bowl because I was drooling to ate it! Ha! :-) That is pork with chayote then spices like tomato, fresh bell peppers, pork bouillon, ginger, red round onion, scallions or onion leaves (green), and a bit of salt. The recipe is so simple to which I think most wives or peeps who are assigned for the kitchen knew. To those who don't, I boiled two cups of water with the spices on it (excluding onion leaves, fresh bell peppers, salt and pork bouillon). As it was already boiled, I put the pork (1/4 pound) and a dash of salt and let it boiled again. Once it was reboiled, I put the pork bouillon and let it dissolved through pinching it on a ladle and mix it all-together with the other stuffs in the pot. Then I put the bell peppers and onion leaves. When it was about to boiled, I turned-off the stove and done! Eating time.. :-)

Hello folks, how everyone doing? I hope you all the best on this day and onwards. Today is already Friday in Philippines and beyond (as well as other countries that is advance five hours advance from Eastern Time (ET) or eight hours advance here in Pacific Standard Time (PST). We all know that 12:01 AM is already another day, so welcome Friday! That is also mean that weekend is coming... For now, let us have some food tripping this Friday. This time, my food trip is my own version of beef steak. I actually do not plan to cook beef steak as of cooking the image below days ago but to my surprise, I have seen that is already a beef steak (but my own version)! (LOL).. I can still remember a cousin of mine who is good in making her special beef steak that she has to put force through paddling the steak over the beef to make it soft and as she said deliciously-taste. Then she has to marinade it overnight with lemons and all that marinade stuffs. What I did was simple but I made it to the point that it is savory because I did not marinade it overnight. I just steam it a couple of minutes to soak with the flavor and spices.

my own version of beef steak

milk bread (pan-de-leche)

Oops, it is Food Trip Friday time---it is foodies time! Today my food trip entry is sweets. My all-time one of my favorite sweet, Pastel which was Camiguin (my hometown), Philippines delicacy. This was my " pasalubong " given by my virtual friend Dhemz which is coincidentally from Misamis Oriental too (not that so neighbor but not too far). Actually this was my wish the time she and her own family have a vacation in our home country. It seems to me that I was also there vacationing. (~_~) Nope, it is the fact that I miss my hometown that is why this "pasalubong" is so important to me.. hehehe.. Thanks to my madam sis for making it possible.. oops she do not want this to tell that it came from here yet I did, she is just humble. So that is it. Pastel is one of the best of Camiguin aside from its sweet lanzones. If you happen to come there, you might like to try this one--it comes from different flavor like yema, ube, etc. Okay, that is enough or else you might say I am paid for this. I have to tell you not, I am not paid for this! I am just a satisfied eater (lol) :-).

Friday, it is time for food trippers! Food Trip Friday, here I/we come! (~_~) And now it is time to show "yummylicious" foodies folks... These time, my own cook---fresh from my skillet and kitchen stove which the date tells for proof. I cooked it early on that day because I had many chores to do so I just cooked first then preceded to my works so in time that I was hungry, the food was already waiting for me to scour. (~_~) I also cooked rice at the same time as well to save time since as I said I had a lot to do that time. What I did was just heated it up then ate after the works done. By the way, the ingredients with that were: beef, chayote, olive oil, a little water and soy sauce (more water than soy sauce), spices (green and red bell peppers, onion, garlic, tomato, scallions, salt), and pork bouillon. Yes I use bouillons whenever I cook even if there is already meat added. The taste is just different. So I guess you already know how to sauteed the ingredients to make it palatable depending upon your taste if you like it half cook or fully cook. It is good to have it half-cook when not eaten directly because the remaining heat in the skillet will make it fully cook even if the stove was already off. In case if you don't know how to cook it, this is just simple as like any other sauteed meat and vegetables with the spices and other stuffs. (1) Just heat up the skillet with the olive oil then toss the onion, garlic, and tomato. You could also put some bell pepper for taste and some afterwards when it is about to cook so the other bell pepper won't be fully cooked. (2)Then once the spices turned brown over the olive oil, put the washed beef and put some water, little salt and soy sauce then boil for two minutes. (3)After that, put the chayote then boil up again for two minutes the put the scallions. (4)Wait then for about a minute then done! Have a happy eating with rice and drinks.

Happy FTF! :-)

When it is packed with whitey stuff like that, it does meant that it was not fresh from kitchen. I mean it was bought from restaurant or food chain, apparently. :-) The above image just speak for what as described down its below. Usually I like to order on that food chain (whenever we like to eat outside food) the pork barbecue or shrimps, half and half - steamed rice and noodles, mix steamed vegetables(broccoli, mushrooms, carrots, green peas, cucumber, and celery), and sprite or seven-up drink. Just lately, I like their new recipe -- the sweet and sour pork or chicken then I changed my steamed rice to fried rice yet it's still half and half. The drink also sometimes apple juice in a bottle or pink lemonade in a can or as is my usual drink (sprite or 7/up). That's mine and hubby got potato chicken, peppered chicken, half and half of fried rice and noodles and a lemonade drink. Whenever we (DH and me) like to order in such food chain, we already know each other (whoever will go to the store to get, the other one will just wait in the car unless if it's night time) what to get. So that's it. That is my entry for the food trip! Have fun...

Happy FTF! :-)

My food trip entry for today is about late but hey it's still Friday here in my place. :-) So by the way, that is it the salad okra and broccoli with its vinaigrette. I put fish sauce with it but can't be seen because I just remember the time I was about to eat. The vinaigrette I mix were fish sauce, tomato, vinegar, scallion, and garlic. I felt like eating such cucumber in salad and I tell that was my first time (I just felt like to eat it). So that's it, that's my food trip.

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This is the result of the beef curry I cooked yesterday. Am glad it went good. I craved for this days ago since I saw the dark curry sauce mix that any meat can cook with it. Yeah I only knew chicken curry, so I was curious how to cook with the beef and the dark color since I saw the chicken curry flavor, it is yellowish in color. Though it was new to my senses, but I like the taste. I don't know with hubby.. lol. Ooh yeah, the above serving is for him and he requested to eat of that of his other meal. So I guess he likes it. Anyway, I assume you know how to cook rice, so what I will have to share now the recipe of the curry which I got the idea of Vermont Curry recipe. I just get some of its idea and created my own. And here it is: Ingredients: 3/4 box of 1 box HOUSE VERMONT CURRY SAUCE MIX 1/2 lb. or 400 grams of MEAT (BEEF OR PORK) or CHICKEN 1 (1/2 lb)ONION (if you like onions, you can put more) 1 big RUSSET POTATO (or any kind of potato same as to russet size or 2 pcs if small of 250 grams) 1 medium CARROT (70 grams) Directions:

1. Cut meat or chicken, onions, carrot, and potato into bite size. Saute in saucepan until lightly browned. Add 2 and 1/4 cups water and bring to a full boil.
2. Remove from heat. Break curry sauce mix into small pieces and add to saucepan. Stir until you feel it is already dissolved.
3. And cook over low heat about 20 minutes or until curry thickens. Then serve over rice or pastas. This is good for four(4) servings.

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