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Squash pancake everyone!

December 29, 2011 By
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Well, Thanksgiving is over and yet we are dreading on what to do with the leftover pumpkin puree. Luckily Bob was so resourceful in finding new recipe for me to cook. One of the recipes he got was about was a pumpkin pancake recipe. Since we don’t have pumpkin here in the Philippines, we just have squash here. Really we have pumpkin here in a can, imported from the States. And it costs a fortune to buy it. Since Bob doesn’t really like to eat food coming out from the can, I have to be inventive to make the recipe of what we have here in the Philippines. It worked out most of the time. I have to find what’s the best … [Read more...]

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Happy Thanksgiving to All!

November 25, 2011 By
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Wow, its another year for us to celebrate Thanksgiving again. It’s really one of the most exciting days for us to celebrate. We are so thankful to God of all the blessings He had given us for the whole year. I’m so happy to have my family in good health. I know that we lost some love ones this year. But all in all God is good. I decided to decorate the house early for Christmas this year. I started decorating like around the middle of November. I decided to decorate the whole house instead of just the Christmas tree only. It was fun for the kids helping me out putting the decors. I am still trying to finish up putting up my … [Read more...]

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Meringue everyone!

November 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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For the past month I have been making meringue here in my house. Bob saw the recipe on TV and he let me see it when they showed the segment again. I just memorized what the chef said and made a few changes. It's really an easy recipe to make. I am lucky because I had my nieces and my kids who are into cooking also. So now, I will just tell them to make it, and in less than 20 minutes of preparation then its in the oven for about 25-30 minutes, really until the top of the meringue turned color brown. Bob likes meringue a lot and so does our youngest son Jared. I made this meringue like a pie. Unlike the other meringue that we've made before … [Read more...]

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Chicken pot pies, recipe according to what we have!

September 6, 2011 By
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I made chicken pot pies last night. As always it’s a big hit here in my household. But the main people that will eat it, would be Bob, Chris and AJ. We like it a lot too but making the dough sometimes takes time so we will just eat the pot pies filling. Our new helper tasted the pie for the first time and she’s hooked to it already. Really to make the pie its just simple. But for the newbie thinking about it would be complicated. But really it is not. So, below is my recipe for chicken pot pies.  These use only ingredients readily available in the Philippines. Cook up, and enjoy! Ingredients Pot Pies for Chris AJ and Bob 4-5 … [Read more...]

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Homeless couples

June 16, 2011 By
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A few months ago I was having a meeting set at one of the condo units here near SM. Before the person that I had meeting with arrived, while my nephew was looking for a space to parked our vehicle, I was standing outside the building on the near walkway. I was standing at the sidewalk and texting. I noticed a cart (kariton) loaded with folded empty boxes. I can hear people talking. So I looked at the other side of the kariton, I saw 4 people eating lunch. I smiled at them and said hi. I tried not to looked at the food, I could tell that the couple were embarrassed that I saw the food they have. Just to make them comfortable, I moved a bit … [Read more...]

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The cooking show

March 24, 2011 By
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Lately Bob and I been watching a number of cooking shows. Most of the shows we’ve been watching are from Australia. We even say Aussies must be into cooking. We watched show like Masterchef Australia and the Junior Masterchef, My Kitchen Rules and others. I like most of the food they prepared and it looks so yummy. Bob and I noticed that Aussie are more friendly people and forgiving too, like the contestants would be sad when the other contestant is eliminated. When competing, mostly I’ve seen they were so helpful of the other contestant during the competition. I’ve noticed they are more similar in their attitudes like the … [Read more...]

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Pizza everyone?

March 3, 2011 By
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We’ve been living in the Philippines for  a long time now, and we’ve been longing for a good pizza for that long too. I have been trying to make pizza since learning how to cook. I made some that it tasted good and some just okay. We like our pizza to be super thin crust. Our kids like to helped out putting the toppings too. In our household we all like meat toppings like pepperoni, ham, sausages, salami and others. Some of us like Hawaiian pizza, I like the pineapple a lot on the pizza. A few weeks ago I saw a cooking show of Jaime Oliver cooking a pizza in just 30 minutes. Wow, that sounds great and quick too. As I was watching … [Read more...]

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My aspiring Cooks part 1

January 27, 2011 By
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Yesterday was Sunday here in the Philippines. Of course no school for the kids. As our usual weekend morning the kids will get up late in the morning. While I was working in the kitchen Jared and Aaron love to tell me about some games and stuff. To be honest when they’re talking about game [...] … [Read more...]

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Good recipe with coconut

November 25, 2010 By
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We’re all delighted right now. We just got cable TV hooked up in our new house. The Sky Cable company has a new thing now. When getting a cable you will get a Digibox. We get a lot of new channels now, which we really needed badly. One of the best channels we get is the TLC (The Learning Channel), and we love it. I’m in awe of the selection of cooking shows, decorating show and gardening and traveling they have on there. One show we are liking to watch is Everyday Exotic with Roger Mooking. I just looked him up on the web, I guess he is from Canada. Just observing the way he is cooking, I would have thought he grew up from the … [Read more...]

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More Breakfast Recipes!

October 14, 2010 By
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Hey guys I am going to give you another breakfast recipe that the ingredients are easy to find here in the Philippines. It’s one of the favorite breakfast in our household. For ground beef for us here in Davao and General Santos area we are lucky we have Lisa’s Meat. They have ground lean meat on the package already. They really have the best ground meat that I know so far. I tried Monterey Meat but their ground meat has so much fat in it. Whenever you cook you are not happy with the end result. One option too is getting the meat at your public market. Really know someone there that will give you a good meat. Get a good lean pork … [Read more...]

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