Spicy Broccoli Braise
Heat canola oil in skillet, over high heat. Add minced garlic, minced ginger, sliced onions, and crushed red pepper flakes (or broken up dried Chinese hot pepper). Stir-fry 10 seconds. Add broccoli florets and 1/4 cup water. Cover for 3-5 minutes and cook over...
Crunchy Green Salad
1 medium head romaine lettuce, torn into bite-sized pieces, rinsed and spun dry1/2 English cucumber or any waxless cucumber, deseeded if necessary4 ribs celery hearts, leaves discarded if you like, sliced thinly (leave unpeeled) the dressing, whisk all in a bowl: ~1/4...
All Mine: Insalata Caprese with Pesto
It's not picture perfect, and I wish I could say I grew the basil that went into the pesto, and the tomatoes... but no. It was still perfectly yummy, and what's important, it's all mine 🙂 -- well, except for a couple of bites Paco took. My little ones don't like this...
Black Forest Cake / Schwarzwalder Kirsch Torte
A repost from my old baking blog... The finished product. Sorry for the grease spots on the lens. We were in a hurry to get to the party! Black Forest Cake / Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte Elements here, bottom to top: the turntable/cake stand The baking circles or rounds,...
Chop Suey, a repost
A recipe I originally posted in 2005 at b5media's Noodles and Rice (now Blisstree). Chop Suey has long been rumored to be an American creation rather than a Chinese one. A search around the ‘net will show you just how much this story has spread. From tales of an angry...
Itlog na Maalat at Kamatis (Salted Duck Eggs and Tomatoes)
Another "fast food" dinner, karate night. This one is made just with chopped salted duck eggs and tomatoes. Sooo good with hot steamed rice. One can add chopped green onions to this, or minced red onions, or a finely chopped thai pepper. In the Philippines, my parents...
St. Louis Eats
This post is for our good friends D&L & their kids, on college tour right now.... They'll be visiting Washington University tomorrow, dh's and my alma mater and where our 17-yo went for preschool... Here you go: The Queeny Tower is actually located on the 17th...
Links and a Recipe
Baby Poems over at Martha's, Yes They're All Ours! The American Mathematics Competitions MathCounts Latin Spell Checker Catholic Music Network Spirit and Song Why Eating a Big Mac is Cheaper than Eating a Salad Latin Altar Card (pdf file) Altar Cards in Word format...
Another MHBB possibility
Anne in Oz keeps her hubby healthy with these herby salads. I've seen many of these mentioned in Prescription for Nutritional Healing so I'm trying to grow some of them again this year, but I was unsure how exactly to use them fresh. Now I don't have to wonder, as...
MHBB 07 February 2008
1 and 2. Rice noodles tossed with Szechwanese meat sauce (leftover from Fat Tuesday) 3. pineapple chunks 4. sliced apples
MHBB for 04 Feb 08
1. Leftover chili from Superbowl Sunday Dinner 2. Rice 3. Carrot sticks and apple slices 4. Mixed greens with apricot-apple cider dressing
Ground Meat Recipes
One of the moms at 4Real asked for ground beef recipes, so I thought I'd put several simple ones here -- not really recipes but more like guides. We've been having more ground meat lately because they made up the bulk of the grass-fed beef we had ordered from Grass...
Lasang Pinoy 22, Rice to the Challenge: The Puto Experiments
Editing to add, 04/18/2012: Please note that I haven't experimented with this recipe in a couple of years. The last one was 2010 and I didn't bother documenting because it was a busy time in our lives. My routine when making puto these days is soak rice overnight, and...
Allergy-Free Birthday Cake, Updated with an Allergy-Free Flour Formula
from my old baking blog: Not a perfect recipe yet, still working on it, but getting close and the kids scarfed it up, especially drizzled with some non-dairy chocolate syrup. cooking spray, oil or shortening for greasing pan alternative flour for flouring pan (I used...
Black Bean Chili
1 pound dried black beans, picked over, rinsed, soaked in water to cover for 1 hour, then drained1 large onion, chopped4 tablespoons minced onion3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil1 tablespoon ground cumin7 cups water1-2 chipotle chilies in adobo, seeded if desired,...