It's 3pm and I'm craving on something and I don't know what to eat. There is nothing much in the pantry or even in the refrigerator. I found Ice Cream in the freezer and the left over bacon bits I cooked this morning. Just curiosity, I put the bacon bits on tops of the Ice cream like a colorful sprinkle like everybody used to put. And I'm not satisfied yet I put some cherrios and mix it, yummm. A little bit salty but the sweetness of the vanilla ice cream and cherrios is still there. How about you, what your craziest food you ever eat.
With Halloween approaching, what better time to learn a few kernels of truth about a favorite fall treat? Candy corn has been made with the same recipe -- containing sugar, corn syrup, and marshmallow -- by the Jelly Belly Candy Company since around 1900. One serving (about 30 pieces) has 140 calories, the equivalent of three miniature Hershey bars. The National Confectioners Association reports that more than 35 million pounds were manufactured in 2005, amounting to almost 9 billion kernels. image
Convenience foods, we've all agreed, are bad for you; high in calories and artificial crap; way too expensive; and nowhere near as good as real, whole food. Except for some convenience foods that are sometime-indulgences that we just can't help. For me, no matter how good the homemade stuff is (and it's goooood), it's mac and cheese in a box, and the occasional tube of cinnamon rolls...though I haven't had either--especially the rolls--in years. I hadn't been especially tempted, either, until I ran across this brilliant brainflash courtesy of the site I am so glad exists, Bacon Today.
Our intrepid reporter looked at ready-to-bake cinnamon rolls, looked at a package full of bacon, and realized that the world could, so very easily and with so little effort, be made so much better a place in 20--23 minutes. Headded one to the other and the result was reported to be, as you can imagine, sublime. What I am doing the next time I have a leisurely morning and a pound of bacon? I think you know. Also, I'm making these.. (Related: Bacon flavor without the bacon heart attack)
Our intrepid reporter looked at ready-to-bake cinnamon rolls, looked at a package full of bacon, and realized that the world could, so very easily and with so little effort, be made so much better a place in 20--23 minutes. He added one to the other and the result was reported to be, as you can imagine, sublime. What I am doing the next time I have a leisurely morning and a pound of bacon? I think you know. Also, I'm making these. Elastic Waist
So yummy!!! I can smell it here while watching it. I miss that in the Philippines. There is puto bungbong also for sale here but not that yummy like in Pinas.
There is a nearby Trader's Joe store at our apartment. Me and my two princess go for a walk when i'm on my day-off. I am curious with the food inside the store. There is many variety food here just like any other food store, but this one is kinda' different. I'm a mom and I budget everything including food, thats why I like cheaper one but have a good taste. This is not a typical store I used to go to, like Asian store that I can buy Filipino kind of food like noodles and canned of sardines or jar of bagoong or pulburon that I really like.
I bought lamb chops here and frozen treats that I can easily pop in the microwave. Easy and most of all, tasty. I can guarantee they sell good food. Food here came from different kind of country like France, Italy, Germany, Southern America, Asia and many more. Looking around here is fun and there's one dessert got eye from the frozen section. This dessert is called "panna cotta". It's an Italian dessert I never eaten before, my curiousity tingle me and bought it.
After we ate dinner me and the family tasted and we love it. It's very creamy and this one has a peach and blueberry on top (its already in the package). I even bought one called ice cream made of mango, vanilla and soy milk and WOW....lovin' it!!! I still have more to try in the store. So, don't be afraid to try any food that you never have before.
I seen this video lot of times. Its about a white dude who likes to cook adobong manok, so he made a video on how to cook the dish and he posted it in YouTube. It is informative and funny in a way. H speaks tagalog on the video, he even have tagalog words that is deep that even in tagalog dictionary or online cannot be found. I even thinking if he is half Filipino or he have a Pinay girlfriend or wife. As it turns out, Travis Kraft is 100% white… yup, a six-footer, blue-eyed, full-blooded American born in Iowa and raised in North Dakota who was a wrestler in high school, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications and Film from Eastern Michigan University, and is now a model/actor living in Hollywood, California.
More than that, Travis, who has visited the Philippines a couple of times and has done billboard work for Jockey and Rexona, is a lover of many things Pinoy – the food, the culture, the islands, the people, and, yes, for all of you women out there enjoying the single life, the girls. So how did he get the idea for the You Tube video?
"I was in the Philippines meeting with an executive at GMA-7 when I saw a poster for their program, Mobile Kusina," Travis relates to the Asian Journal. "I told them I could be a guest at the program and they can ask me to cook an American delicacy since I am a trained cook. Nothing came out of it as the executive probably thought I was pulling her leg."
He continues: "Back in Los Angeles, I wanted to brush up on my filmmaking skills and on one Thanksgiving, I thought I’d do a cooking show in Filipino. I didn’t even know what I was going to cook that day. It just came to me. I shot the video myself, edited it in 30 minutes, and put it up on You Tube and a couple of other sites."
By his reckoning, the video has had more than a million views in total, including ones that have been taken down due to copyright infringement. Still, he’s awed by the way people, particularly Pinoys, have taken to the video.
"I didn’t even tell anybody about the video," he reveals. "Somehow people began finding it and shared it with their friends. I never thought it would get to be this big thing."
Travis says most of the reaction to the video is positive, with some even containing marriage proposals. But he also gets the occasional negative hit where viewers think he’s disrespectful to Filipino culture or that he’s a racist.
"I am neither (racist nor disrespectful)," he proudly states. "I have always been fascinated with Far Eastern cultures since I was young. I went to Asia after graduation, and I stayed in the Philippines the longest. I have a lot of extended family in my adoptive mother’s country. I am genuinely impressed with Filipino culture and I hope I can promote Filipino culture to friends and other people."
And how did he learn to speak Filipino?
"I bought some language book tapes from Borders," he confesses. "I studied Tagalog for about six to seven months. When I was in the Philippines, I would go to places where people spoke the language so I would be forced to do so. I know I don’t have it down yet, and I have a funny accent, but it’s okay."
After the simple You Tube video, Travis’ next project Pinoy project is Salo Salo, a bigger budget DVD that is currently in postproduction and may become available by the end of July.
Travis promises that Salo Salo is funnier and is a unique take on an instructional cooking video. He is co-producing the video with Madley Katarungan, Manuel Santiago and Lance Keefer. His costars include Tim Javines, Christine Calacsan, Romeo Cristal, Yce Tan, Joyce Kao, Miki Hayashi and Aaron Robinson. The DVD is the first project of his company, Pool Boy Films.
"This is the first time that I am making use of my degree," the easygoing actor/model says. "I had worked on a Cheetah Girls video before for Disney, but in this project I wore so many hats. After this gets out, I will go back to making the smaller, You Tube-kind videos. And somewhere down the line, I’d like to shoot a movie and do some TV work."
For now, Travis is firmly planted in Los Angeles as he tries to keep his Hollywood career going. Currently, he is in meetings with a major studio for a movie role. His resume includes the commercial for FX’s Dirt starring Courteney Cox-Arquette, and a shoot with Lindsay Lohan for Harper’s Bazaar where he donned superhero costumes.
He’s also planning to go back to the Philippines (where he is actually known for his print and commercial work), and may visit Samar and Leyte, aside from the usual places he frequents. Travis says he misses the Philippines.
And what does he like the most about the Philippines?
"What I like about the Philippines is the people," he says, "not just the food, the places, and the hospitality. Also, it’s such a beautiful place. I like it that Filipinos are proud of their friendliness. You know, they will give the shirt off their backs… that’s the kind of people Filipinos are." AJ
Chicken Tinola is a Filipino dish, a stew concoction of chicken, young papaya, ginger, fish sauce and sili leaves. Here is a recipe from Pinoymix.com of one of my favorite staple favorites whenever the weather is cold. I wanna share it to you guys to all non-Filipino that doesn't know this dish. Try this and you never be sorry.
Ingredients: 1 whole small chicken (cute into parts or choice cuts of breast, thighs or wings) 2 1/2 cups young papaya or sayote 1/2 cup sili leaves 5 cups of water 2 tbsp. ginger (roughly chop) 1/2 head of garlic (minced) 1 medium onion (diced) 3 tbsp. oil 2 tbsp. fish sauce pinch of salt and pepper
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Procedure: In a casserole, heat oil ans saute garlic, onion and ginger. Add the chicken and water, Bring to a boil and lower fire, let simmer until chicken is cooked. Pour fish sauce, salt and pepper to taste. Add in papaya or sayote, allow to cook. When ready to serve, put in sili leaves.
I saw my mom eating this Pumpkin Seed flavored in green tes. She bought it in asian store were we always buy our grocery (its more cheaper there). And in the other day I saw her eating the seed again. I ask her why she keep eating it. Then she replied..."well, im enjoying it and can't stop eating it". So i grab one and crack it and it taste good. After 10 minutes of enjoying cracking each pieces of it. Hayyy...make me grab more and my mom laugh and said ..."now your hook,too! I told you can't stop eating it. My mom is right, its like the seed is telling me to get more...more!!
After visiting my mom i went to the store to buy one for me to munch at home. My husband saw me and he pick one and start cracking one...And whoooaaww...my husband can't stop it too....ahahahahha.. I wanna laugh that day, he said that he can't stop eating to even though his lips starting to look pale beacause of the salt in it. I don't know why this pumpkin seed is envading our mind. And this is the news...my dad eats the seeds too...We are the whole family crazy with this white seed flavored woth green tea.
oh i love cooking... I want the smell of garlic when I'm sauteing it...hhhmmm, nice aroma.
And now i will give you a recipe of one of my favorite food that I like to cook, It is called "Embutido". Its a Filipino version of meatloaf served almost on special occasions. You try this at home whatever race you are, you gonna like it. Just don't put to much salt, ok!!! Ingredients: 75 to 100 g leaf lard or sinsal, cleaned and drained
EMBOTIDO 1 piece white gulaman bar, finely shredded 1/2 lean ground pork 1/2 cup chopped Vienna sausage 1/2 cup chopped chorizo de bilbao (approx. 60g.) 1/4 cup grated cheddar cheese 3 tbsp raisins (optional) 2 tsp finely cruched garlic 1/4 cup pickle relish 3 tbsp. chopped red onions 1/4 cup chopped pimientos 2 tbsp chopped carrots 1/4 tbsp salt 1/2 tsp ground black pepper 3 pcs. eggs 1/4 cup Evaporated Milk
Cooking Broth: 1 tsp cooking oil 1 tsp crushed garlic 1/3 cup chopped red onions 1 pc 11g Pork Broth Cube, dissolved in (you can buy this at asian stores) 2 cups water 1 tsp vinegar 2 tsp butter 1 pc bay leaf 22 tbsp cornstarch dispersed in 2 tbsp water
Procedure: 1. Divide sinsal iinto 4 pieces and spread out in a tray. Set aside. 2. Soak finely shredded gulaman bar in water until soft; drain. Set aside. 3. Combine all pork, sausage, chorizo, cheese, raisins, garlic, pickels, onions, pimientos, carrots, Chilli Sauce, salt, black pepper, eggs, evaporated milk, and the soft gulaman shreds. Mix throughly. 4.put around 1 1/2 to 2 cups of mixture on each sinsal; form into a log and wrap with the sinsal. 5. Tie both ends with string to secure. Set aside. 6. To make the broth; Heat oil and saute garlic and onions unil limp. Pour in broth, vinegar, butter and bay leaf, let boil without stirring to avoid the raw taste of vinegar. 7. Lower embutido into the simmering broth and cook over low fire for 25 minutes. 8. Remove embutido from broth and cool before slicing. 9.To make gravy, strain broth and thicken the soup stock with cornstarch. 10. Serve with the sliced embutido.
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