Showing posts with label kitchen journey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kitchen journey. Show all posts
August 16, 2011
And the kitchen journey continues. As I said in my other post that I want to cook the baking ingredients I had before my delivery date. To that, I can guarantee the freshness and the time I allocate. You know having a baby in the so-called "fourth trimester" , which is the one-three months after she born is the sleepless nights (as well as days). I can feel the time collapse. The busy days as a new mom. And so I have to begin cooking it this night. I wanted to move it tomorrow but I already told my friend, Te Claudine, that I will going to cook/bake it this day. Well, it's already night and haven't been doing it. But for sure, I will since she will going to visit me tomorrow very early morning for our breakfast hot milk time (or coffee for her) with the rice cakes am going to bake. I hope it will turn out good as the first time I did. This will be my second time so am a bit confident. Char! But am I doing? Am still here. Okay, minutes from now I will start it. I have the ingredients out so I just have to measure and mix, then the steps of the cooking/baking in the oven through steaming.
I just ate the four pieces fried plantain I cooked. I ate it with butter and sugar with water since it is already a bit sweet. I can tell you, it's yummmy-licious! "Love-my-own" I know but really, my taste loved it. When I don't like the way I cook, I also tell the truth, to what am expecting. Anyway, let me go now and see yah around. Thanks for reading or the visit. God bless and all the best! ~hugs&kisses~
Which do you prefer on the two, electric or gas stove?
When it comes to my kitchen journey, it does not matter to me what preferences of stove do I have as long as it is a working stove. Ha! But oops! I just did not realize (or because it is my first time, *naive huh!*) after my first time to use a non-lighting electric stove that I do love the gas stove or the visibly seen fired-stove. It seems to me like I am cooking in a ghost stove. Ha! Yes, am serious. Thought there is an intended little hole which is enough to see the light if stove is in use (you have to intentionally have to see it though), still am not comfortable if it is already up and running. I still have to put my hand over a particular area of pan rack where I have to cook to check if it is heated up to make sure it is active. I like that better than looking up in the peephole. *grin*
Sometimes, I forgot to turn it off when it is in low state (thanks goodness it is just in low state but still it is not safe aside from bucks wasted because I have not cooked anything. When it comes to monetary value, using electric is pricey than using gas. So speaking of saving, DH and I prefer using gas. However, by using electric stove, it has its great perk. And that is fast in cooking. You just have to put the arrow to high and at one snap, it already boiled. So which is which?
August 12, 2011
That will be before I deliver my baby by middle of September. So by this month until first week of September, the stashed cake ingredients I have here in the house should have to go. I should have to cook it since I can foresee I will be very busy when the baby is already out in my tummy. :-) The first three months I know would be tough which pediatricians actually called it as the "fourth trimester" because the baby-in-my-tummy will then adjust to her new environment which is the real world. :-) I have these ingredients gathered when I was still in our old apartment and I even gave some to my friend, Ate Claudia, or else it will get expired. Now, it is my time to cook the others left. And enjoy. Smile. Then my kitchen journey will then be having a joy ride. Ha! I was just very busy (pregnancy busy-ness) and I cannot yet find a good time to fulfill my goal, which is cooking such. :-) Soon enough I will have to cook it all. Crossing my fingers.
August 05, 2011
My kitchen journey was low. I was not able to cook for dinner viands for two-three quiet days already. I used to cook food in lump sum when it comes for me. Lump sum means, in bulk cooking and the rest will be kept refrigerator for the next meal(s). *grin* It's a bit of laziness but it saves me time and effort, besides, it's okay for my appetite. If I like the food/viand, I like to eat such in consecutive way then that's it. So grab the opportunity. :-) Lately, DH told me to cook rice since he will going to get something from his office to pair with it. Of course, I did it. Then he came and brought deli-food, the ready-to-eat pulled-pork in a beautifully-made pouch. Sure, I love the taste but it is quite spicy. I cannot eat deli foods (seldom is fine) and spicy ones as well because it is not good for pregnant women like me. But then I ate a little and as I said, it tasted good. I will ask DH to get me foods which are not spicy and let him remember that or else I have to look for another foods good for me. Anyway, how was yours? What's your dinner? I hope you had a good time!
Have a great day!
July 31, 2011
At first I was skeptical about it. Yes, my reading journey absorbed unto my head. I read it out somewhere from a reliable source that it is not good to eat banana fruit after sunset is not advisable. And I put it on my mind. From then on I won't eat banana fruit after sunset. Not until lately. I was tempted. And I ate the half one. I was also testing if it would hurt my tummy as it has been said, it will. The reason is simple: it won't be dissolved because it is already night time after then. Our body isn't active anymore unless if you are going to have a work-out during night time, maybe. But then currently, my tummy is heavy and it did effect. I don't really know much if it's something but one thing I know is I ate it, that's reasonable enough. Next time I won't take a chance, I won't eat banana fruit after sunset anymore to avoid something or what. Just to be in a safe side. After all, there are many fruits available aside from banana.
I have to research more about this. Let's check it out! On the other hand, one thing I know, am sticking to my decision of not eating banana after sunset.
I have to research more about this. Let's check it out! On the other hand, one thing I know, am sticking to my decision of not eating banana after sunset.
July 29, 2011
Speaking of a journey in our own kitchen, it is great to have a durable and stable stuffs like where we put our spices. Mostly we have cabinets but what if the cabinets are too small or not what we like to put it on? Yep, spice rack is an ideal place for it. Like me, I don't like to dig-up on that dark big cabinet or it is located above the visibility of my two naked eyes. Sure, I like to have that spice racks especially if I have a wide kitchen spaces or the other way around since it only need small space as how it is made. It is great to look-at and at the same time it is organizes and easy to get when needed.
What about you, do you also like the cool kitchen spice racks on your precious kitchen? I doubt if not because as you could only see the benefits it gives, it is worthy. Why sacrificing when we can have it at an affordable cost with the huge selection of different styles and that would fit the color of our kitchen? Or we can even put it in elegant way and saves space as well as kitchen spice racks, is very much available. This is what I like on this modern time, we have a lot of choices on the stuffs we like or want to have. Don't you love it (both the spice rack and the modern time we have now)? It is really awesome! It is your choice. Choose the best!
July 27, 2011
My body clock changed. I already asleep at 2:00 or 3:00 A.M. But still I have to get up at 5:00 A.M. (my eyes already knew its responsibility) to iron my husband's upper working shirt unless if I will iron it at night, but I like to do it at morning, you know I like to go with my even just at the door. :-) And besides am going to make him sandwich. It is my responsibility and I obliged myself to do it. I love that. And because I have to wait of him until he gets dressed-up and go with him in the door, I thought of preparing the ingredients to cook for breakfast lately. I thought of cooking beef soup cabbage. And I did. I finished it after DH went ahead on his journey going to his workplace. I had the bone-y beef (the best when it comes to soup is with the bones on it) soup with the spices, such as: ginger, bell pepper and scallion/onion leaves together with beef bouillon and salt to taste. I wanted to put tomato but it's not good for me as pregnant. Then cabbage for the vegetable mix. It's yummy! And my kitchen journey continues! It's eating time! :-) I had it with rice! Whew! What a breakfast. The leafy vegetable which is the cabbage was emptied first. ;-)
July 22, 2011
I might guess what you have in mind, yes, you bet those were our (DH&I) foodies lately. And yeah, I cooked early in the morning for that boney beef soup (or "nilagang-baka" in Filipino primary language *Tagalog*) and spicy chicken stew ( or "halang-halang" in Filipino bisaya dialect). I had an energy cooking it despite I asleep at 2:00 A.M. last night (my body clock extends the dawn time to about-afternoon). DH prepared to work at 5:00 A.M. and I also wake-up when he does because I have to iron his upper clothes. But usually no ironing for me during Thursdays because he will just wear a long-sleeved GIS work shirt, and that already hanged good from dryer which no need to iron. That saves electricity and energy. :-) And so what I did was then cooked and those were it along with rice and began to clean the house slightly. :-) After my awesome breakfast, relax a bit, stand and walk. Then after that, a journey of checking emails. Sleeping was the next thing happened. My friend, Ate Claudia visited me and brought fruits and stuffs. That made me smiled, complete morning! I let her brought some of my spicy chicken stew fresh from my kitchen and the rest of such was my husband's dinner along with the beefy ground chili and beans viand with rice. My kitchen journey was great! I was not able to take pics, next time.
What about you, how's yours?
What about you, how's yours?
July 12, 2011
You know we just moved-in. I and my DH are now living in our new apartment-rented abode. I always told you how better is this than the old one we reside. But there is a flaw. The kitchen sink got rusty when we just came in but then it did not bother that much to us speaking of the general conclusion. But if I/we would be given a chance to remodel it (the remodel fee should be deducted to our rent or the landlord will do it for the tenant), I would have to suggest a new kitchen sinks. I can see it is not that expensive, it could actually cost under a hundred bucks or a little about 60 bucks for one. We have two kitchen sink and yes, both of such goes rusty eventually. The other one is already free (for now) of rust for now but the other one beside has still some. Comet did not get it and I don't know when will it be gone. I already did the scrub and such but to no avail. Though there's only little left but am still hoping it will gone. I don't like looking at it even if it's not that so big. My kitchen journey is better without it and yes, better with new stainless steel 16 gauge kitchen sinks!
July 01, 2011
I am a vegetables whore, tell me about it! Ha! But yep, am really into vegetables probably because I was born with a lot of vegetables than meat. I could even remember my grandfather has a garden of veges, most of it for consumption and some for commerce. But then lo and behold, I don't know how to cook of those until I got married. :-) Well, I have a lot of time of cooking now than then. Before, I enjoyed much on cleaning or washing than cooking but now I enjoyed it all especially the cooking thing because I have much time now as being a stay-at-home wife. Image below is a sauteed different kind of vegetables without meat mix but just a seasoning given from a friend called "magic sarap" and it did it's job, it made my sauteed vegetables "sarap" (sarap is a tagalog word for yummy/delicious)!
That's a serve of what I cooked, the sauteed vegetables composed of green beans, squash, mushroom and okra along with its spices: red bell pepper, onion and garlic sauteed with canola oil and "magic sarap" seasoning with a little salt and water. And image below is this sauteed vegetables in a skillet. I like it with a soup-py sauteed. So here it is.
And the kitchen journey continues...
October 29, 2010
Unusual potato was what. Usually, I do mashed potato but such that time (while doing such image below) DH requested by cutting the raw russet potatoes (I still have a bag of ten pounds) and made it into soup. It just only took some minutes, if not only two to three minutes after boiled. Then, while having it boiled, I also put the beef into the reheated broiling pan. By the way, I put meat tenderizer and bell pepper unto the beef just the time a broiling pan reheated so it the meat won't overly tenderized. And so while waiting for the meat to turn, I checked the potato and after it was cooked, I drained the water then sit aside. Here comes the peas and carrots in a can, I warmed it up in a microwave high for about one to two minutes. Just in time, it was heated up, I have to turn the beef then waited again for ten to 15 minutes or until cooked.
I served the broiled beef with an A1 sauce. Can't you see, DH and I both love A1 sauce. ;-) What about you, what sauce you're in when it comes to broiled beef? Whatever it is, for sure you enjoyed eating it, I think so?!
October 25, 2010
Nope, it is not our dinner last night neither our early dinner lately, should you ask. :-) But it is one of our dinner foodies. Though DH likes what I cook, still it is not enough reason to get something from outside or ready-to-eat one, that is because sometimes (if not most of the time) we like to have changed (taste changed that is), foods and other crave for. And usually when this happens, DH just likes to get it after his work or take me off from house and just order what he likes, or I'll get it then him in the car waiting which is just cool to me.
It is a set of beef burritos, salad, crushed brown beans and a fried rice. Image shows just mine by the way. And then our dinner went well, full and contented. :-) What could be better (with a soft drinks after eating) ! ;-)
October 23, 2010
If you followed me here, you know how I love to cook chicken for my beloved DH. He likes chicken so much and so I love to cook it for him. As a stay-at-home-wife, I could never be happier seeing my dear husband likes how I cook, though there are also few times he does not like it. What I do for that is I have to learn how to do it more. Sometimes also it is not just his taste. Or he prefers to say he likes so I won't be disappointed but then I know it. And I love him more because of that. It inspires me to make it better. So it is just a matter of understanding and loving. :-) And be there with each other. :-)
The last time I was pretty love the party chicken style which is smaller than usual chicken in the market though it is just of the same cut. I guess it is also for a change. Now goes to cooking, I saw Kuya Mel's comment in one post (not on this blog though) that to have a crispy, one must have to put the chicken meat once cooking oil already hot (which is I always do) and it should have to under such cooking oil (which I do not usually do to save cooking oil, Ha ha ha!). Because of the big chicken sizes, I need to have a lot of cooking oil which is I do not like. Ooh well, thanks to the party chicken to which I can minimize such now because small cuts would minimize space in the skillet. But then when I cook fried chicken again, even with big ones, I have to let it be under the oil (I use olive oil for DH health) to make it crispy. Credit to Kuya Mel too. Anyway, below was my finish cooking. I love to hear how he said it is crispier. ;-) I would not sacrifice being thrifty of cooking oil (I usually had it like "on the neck side" of oil part of the chicken) than having a crispy one.
Happy eating! :-D
It's Friday once again. How time flies. So today am in again for a food trip post which is what I cook last more than a month ago. It was a crispy pork chop and a chicken partnered with steamed rice and chicken gravy over it.
It was not actually a typical type of cook how this served as DH prefers broiled one. But during that time, he likes the fried one. And so I deep-fried the meats with olive cooking oil as for a low cholesterol and some other benefits an olive cooking oil possess. What a relief to have cooking oil as we won't worried about typical cooking oil has.
Alright, so it is your time to share what has been your food trip this day, what is it? ;-) You may like to share your yummy food trip though. And so, have a great Friday and happy food trip!
October 16, 2010
Who among you in here is currently hungry, well, include me on your list then. :) I want to eat already yet my other half is buying something and I am thinking it is more delicious than what is in here. I have to hold-on my hungriness until he'll be home. Time check, it's three o'clock and thirty-seven minutes. Can you imagine of I just ate one piece of banana fruit after I got out of bed to prepare DH corn corn flakes with milk as his breakfast. Okay, we got up after 11 a.m. and so close to 12 noon already. I am a night-owl due to some arrangement and have to guard-up someone at night. Okay, am just home at night, not outside.
Time check: 4: 25 p.m. and I just ate. I stopped scribbling since DH got home. And we ate, okay it's burger and fries for me and just former choice for him. Then for drinks, we have lemon-ice tea in can (the taste is awesome and it's 99 cents per can, we had it for drinks aside from water like three+ months in a row and so far it's not monotonous) the drink from Carl's Jr is still there in the ref, haven't touch. And that's it. Enough, oops, I also ate some pork rind (chicharon in tagalog) too. Then toothbrush, had put a pair of teeth whitening strip currently, had one pair so I thought I would utilize it since the husband put it outside the box or maybe the other pair had him use. Unsurprisingly my teeth aren't sensitive unlike I had its bleaching last year which I paid 300 bucks, insurance won't cover it since it's beyond primary need. The bad was my teeth were too sensitive which it didn't last until end, in short, I didn't get what it has offered. It hurts but I can't get my money back. I thought I had half what I expected. That's it. Anyway, am already full now and had my minutes of standing after eating so it's fine with my tummy, it won't bulge and won't get any feverish because of not following etiquette after eating. Ha ha! Okay, I admit I do that sometimes, but then it's only sometimes or else it's still my tummy would be hurt. That's all folks! I hope you all are great. Have a great weekend!
October 12, 2010
I just wanna share one of my currently typical vegetable-meat food for me once I like to cook vegetable. It is a sauteed chayote with beef meat. By the way, I emphasize me because my dear husband seldom eat sauteed vegetables. Once I cook like this, expect it to to believe I will eat it alone, I meant just by myself as from a fact given. :-) By the way, do your American husband eat foods like this?
Well, would your American husband would like foods like this or not, nonetheless because wives like me can eat it alone. He he he! Ooh well, chayote vegetable is one of my favorite especially talking about saute-ing it. ;-) By the way, I also put beef bouillon even there is meat mixed and I put more than a usual fresh green bell peppers (different color to make it colorful. *wink*) and the rest is typical cooking style just like putting up garlic, onion and cooking oil with salt. I also put by the way more water because I like it "soupy" like (but of course not too much which just deserve of what its taste).
October 03, 2010
Forget about the five months late date on an image above. You can click an image by the way to enlarge, should you like (of course). And so, that is my version of beef chili and beans. I just cooked it like only two times. Yes, I cooked last eight days ago (well you can see as you enlarge the image, dated 28th of May and since it was late for five months, then it was last month ever) then again yesterday. My DH actually got this idea and told me how would I cook it. Then I just figured out it's just easy as 1-2-3. Yes, as simple as that. Once you have the raw ground beef, bell peppers (it is plural since I put red and green ones), garlic, onion, salt, beef bouillon (optional but it's necessary for me) and a can of hormel chili with beans then you're good to go. I will share my simple recipe next time around. For now, let us feast this beef chili beans above then serve over with rice and soft drink. *wink* Have a great day! Happy eating. Ciao..
August 29, 2010
Me and my blog and my other blogs (*wink) with my dear husband just want to greet everyone a happy Sunday! I wish you all the best with the best of health in there. Be happy and enjoy life! May this day brings you joy and happiness as you bond with your behalf, love-one, kids, family or friends. As for me here, the weather is beautiful! It is neither hot nor windy. I have a great time walking lately at the same time brought few groceries as my DH brought it two days ago. So I only had to get hot links, corn flakes, milk, excedrin, banana and ice cream! What a day! Ralph's store is not far from where me and my DH live, it is just five to eight minutes to walk. So I had what we wanted and at the same time I had my exercise. Whew! Fun! So then, again wish you all the best and happy Sunday! ;-) ~hugs~
August 19, 2010
DH gave me an opportunity to buy vegetables, fruits and other grocery goods different from what he usually eat. It is for me since I wanted it for my moody taste. It is great to have foods which my taste bud used to ate way back then. Yes, I have adapted most of what he ate but I still longing to have such taste. Ooh well. What can I do? It is my taste bud longed for it but how I can have it depends on myself with the help of my DH since it is quiet far from where we live and it is great to have him drive for me than taking a bus or ride a public transportation. Yes, I do not drive and I do not have a car but I am contented. I have my need and I comprehend it is better for me not to have one currently. Perhaps one day or sooner as it comes what may, you never know. Ha ha! You may think I am in US and I do not have a car, poor me(fortunately my DH has), but I do not care! Kiver (expression)! Ha! ;-) Okay, no pressure. ;-) Okay, I have to go ahead now and separate those leaves from the swamp cabbage's (or kangkong) [Thanks by the way to mareng Lulu for letting me know (unknowingly of her) kangkong is swamp cabbage] trunk which is the main ingredient for my viand in a minute.
July 29, 2010
These baby shrimps in a jar below which produced as known as "shrimps paste" is light in color unlike as what I used to have ever since. I bought this in 168 Supermarket (yes, supermarket as grocery goods). One woman blogger friend told me that in her place, the 168 Supermarket is a dry goods store but in my place where I am now it is a grocery store. Ooh well, perhaps the same store name or owner name but he/she just let it manage but other person and decided to let it be a dry goods in her place. One name of two or more different goods sold.
There you go. You can see the picture without flash (the first and second picture) and with flash (the third one). I bought this more than two weeks ago and put in refrigerator but I was super loaded and my bitter melon (or "ampalaya") did not last for long (normally) so I have to wait for days or a week so I can open it and saute it with it. Or I can fry it alone with tomatoes, onion and garlic. Mm. ;-) It is good as appetizer or with rice with any drinks should you choose other than water. By the way, you can enlarge images by clicking it should you like it larger. :-) Have a great day!
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