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Hotdogs wrapped with crescent rolls!

You probably wonder is it really easy to make the crescent rolls? It is, but just the waiting for the dough to rise is the hard part. :-). In the the West, particularly in the US, you can just buy the dough in the grocery store and ready to bake. The crescent  dough was made by Pillsbury. Unfortunately here in the Philippines it’s very hard to get any Pillsbury product. Since me and my family are into crescent rolls. I have to do some researching on the net for a good recipe. I found one that I tried and it’s good.

Yummy crescent hot dog wrapped!
Yummy crescent hot dog wrapped!

Golden Crescent Rolls Recipe:

Ingredients:

  • 3 teaspoon active dry yeast
  • 3/4 cup warm water (I microwave for 30 seconds)
  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon iodized or kosher salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
  • 4 cups all purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup butter, softened
  • Hot dogs (cook hot dogs first before putting inside the crescent)

Procedures:

  1. Dissolve the yeast in the warm water.
  2. Stir in sugar, eggs, salt, butter and the 2 cups of flour. Add yeast to the flour mixture. Beat until smooth. Add in the remaining flour and mix it well until smooth. Scrape the dough from side of bowl, knead dough, then cover it and let rise in a warm place until double the size around 1 1/2 hours.
  3. Punch down dough. Divide in half. Roll each half into a 12 inch circle  ( it doesn’t have to be perfect circle). brush with butter, cut into wedges (10-15 wedges).  Put hot dog in the dough on the wider side. Roll up the dough on the hot dog. Place the rolls  with the small end under on the greased baking sheet. Cover with cling wrap and let it rise until double in size, about an hour.
  4. Bake at 205°C for 15 minutes or until golden brown. Brush tops with butter when come out from the oven.
Crescent rolls dough!
Crescent rolls dough, ready to be bake!

*** You can put anything you like inside the dough. It can be ***

  • Cheese
  • Marshmallows
  • Hot dog
  • ham
  • pepperoni and pizza sauce (just like pizza)
  • chocolate
  • And many more!

Have fun making!!!

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Delicious Homemade Biscuits!

My family really likes eating biscuits. As you know living here in the Philippines we don’t have those Pillsbury frozen products on our supermarkets here like what the supermarket in the West have. If they have here it’s just so limited. So to keep up with some food that my family are kind of used to when we lived in the States. With the net nowadays I can cook anything even with the ingredients in the Philippines sometimes are limited, still I can cook it. Lol

The ham & cheese biscuit sandwich!
The yummy biscuits sandwich!

Drop Biscuits Recipe:

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1 tablespoon sugar (if you want sweeter put more sugar)
  • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt/kosher salt/iodized salt
  • 1/4 cup fresh grated Parmesan cheese (the grated one that sold in the store is good too)
  • 1/2 cup melted butter
  • 1 cup whole milk (I used slim milk here in the Philippines and it’s good too)

Procedures:

  1. Preheat oven to 400°C
  2. In a large mixing bowl combine flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and cheese. Whisk to combine well. Add the melted butter and milk and stir to combine.
  3. Prepare cookie sheets, grease or brush with butter.
  4. Drop biscuits using the spoon to make a rounded form and place in a oiled cookie sheets and place it in the oven for 12 or so minutes, until biscuits are golden brown. Enjoy

Many uses of biscuits: (For us anyway)

  • Chicken or beef stew
  • Ham & cheese sandwich
  • Chicken biscuit pot pie
  • Sausage egg biscuit casserole
  • Strawberry shortcake biscuits
  • Many uses for desserts

Feel free to drop me a note if you tried the recipe. Have fun cooking!

 

 

 

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Squash – Pumpkin Cookies Recipe!

Since Thanksgiving is coming up soon in the States, I am gearing up for the feast. Ever since living back here in the Philippines we do celebrate every year. We just celebrate on a different day (Saturday) since no holidays for the the kids here on the Thanksgiving day Thursday.

I’ve been cooking some food that usually had squash ingredients with it. Trying really some new stuff too on Thanksgiving day. We found this recipe on the net for cookies and been cooking for  a few years now with this recipe. The main ingredients was the pumpkin. Well since we don’t have pumpkin here in Philippines I substituted it with squash. Some stores carry nowadays but it’s not often though. Quite honestly, I can’t even tell the difference between the two. It just taste like pumpkin to me. Everybody in the house loves the squash cookies. Really yummy.

Squash – Pumpkin Cookie Recipe:

Ingredients:

  • 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 ½ white sugar
  • ½ cup butter, softened (1 stick)
  • 1 cup homemade squash puree
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • Glaze

Procedures:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. Grease or brush with butter the baking sheets
  3. Combine the flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, nutmeg, and cinnamon in a bowl.
  4. Beat sugar and butter in a large mixing bowl until well combined. Beat the squashed, egg and vanilla until smooth. Slowly beat in the flour mixture.
  5. Using tablespoon drop onto the prepared cookie sheets. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes or until the edges are firm. Let it cool at the cookie sheets for 2-3 minutes. Then transfer to the wire racks to cool completely.
  6. Drizzle with the glaze.

 

***For Glaze: ( Combine 2 cups sifted powdered sugar, 3 tablespoons milk, 1 tablespoon melted butter and 1 teaspoon vanilla in a bowl until combined and smooth). ***

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Easy to make pasty recipe!

A classmate of mine from high school asked me the recipe of the pasty that I posted on my wall on Facebook. I was thinking of emailing the recipe to her privately. Well, I notice another classmate of mine asking who made the pasty,  so I just then decided to share the whole recipe with you guys. The recipe, its easy and simple to make. You can even put any veggies that your family like.

For some people they might prefer store bough pie crust. But being here in the Philippines, we pretty much make our own pie crust. I will share with you my pie crust recipe that I used.

Ingredients for the filling : 

  • A kilo of ground beef
  • 1-2 onions
  • 2 stalks celery
  • 3 potatoes, cubet
  • 2 carrots, cubed
  • 1 small singkamas (jicama or turnip), cubed
  • corn
  • Good amount of pepper
  • Salt
***Mix it all together using your hand. Put it aside after you’re done making the pie crust.

Pie crust ingredients: 

  • 1 1/2 cups all-purposed flour
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1/2 cup (or a stick) chilled & diced the butter (I put my butter in the freezer for 10-15 minutes before using)
  • 1/4 cup shortening (same procedure with the butter)
  • 3-4 tablespoons of ice water

***To prepare the crust. Mix all the ingredients together, for me I used my hands so that I can feel the consistency. Lightly flour the surface where the place to roll the dough. Cut the dough into 3 rounds. Using the rolling pin, roll the though until it reach to the thickness you desire. Then put the filling on the one side of the dough for the other to fold on top on it. Use fork to press the edge of the dough or start folding just a tiny edge from one side to the other. Like what I have on my picture. Cut a slit like an inch on top of the pie to vent. Brushed with beaten egg on the pasty before baking. Bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for an hour. Some use ketchup for dipping.

Thank you for asking shi. I hope you like the recipe. Let me know.

Have fun making and eating!

Easy & quick to make pasty!
Just add the veggies you want!
Pasty, ready for the oven!
Ready for the oven!
The pasty looks yummy!
The pasty with initials!
Yummy & tasty pasty!

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Meringue everyone!

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 that it looked like a small cupcake that swirl inside. Honestly it is not a difficult recipe to make. Maybe the hard part was just separating the egg whites and the yolks. It should be that no yellow mix in on the egg whites. The good thing the ingredients is easy to find in the pantry and fridge. It’s really a common ingredients even the sari-sari store has it always.

Ingredients:

  • 6 eggs (white only)
  • 1 teaspoon cornstarch
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • a dash of salt

Procedure:

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

Beat the egg white with the blender, put the cornstarch and the salt. Slowly pour the sugar, keep beating until it is smooth. Really until the all sugar dissolve. When its ready, put in the grease cookie sheet and cook for about 25-30 minutes. Until the top of the meringue turn brown.

Have fun eating you guys!

 

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