Rainy day grilled chicken and pasta Alfredo
It’s not so much how many ingredients you put in your chicken marinade but, more often, it is how much time you allowed the chicken to absorb the flavors.
In the same manner, it’s not so much how fancy or how colorful a pasta dish is but, rather, what you serve it with.
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Shrimps, broccoli and cauliflower with Pad Thai sauce
Sambal Bangkok is a hot sauce… that it contains fruit juice. Pad Thai sauce turned out to be sweet and sour sauce BUT the souring agent is tamarind. I used both, and the crushed galangal, for the shrimps and vegetables dish that went into the girls’ school lunch boxes.
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Sukiyaki-cut beef with Kecap Manis
Kecap Manis is a thick and syrupy sweet soy sauce that comes from Indonesia. Sweetened with palm sugar and flavored with star anise and other Oriental spices, its flavor is more complex than ordinary soy sauce. It’s great as a dipping sauce but works equally well as a marinade…
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Jack’s Loft: ooey gooey cheese sticks, lemon chicken and chicken salad panini
That Sunday when we had lunch at Pho Hoa and dessert at Dairy Queen, we decided to have merienda cena at Jack’s Loft after seeing a movie… But since we weren’t that hungry yet, I figured we could order some light dishes and have dessert afterwards…
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Waffles for breakfast
The photo above was supposed to be accompanied by a photo of the waffle maker because this is supposed to be a review/feedback about whether or not a waffle maker is indeed a useful/convenient item to have in a modern kitchen…
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Pepperoni and cheese stuffed bread rolls
Sometimes, you dream up of something that’s great for a meal for one and, at the same time, pretty enough and easy enough to prepare for a party.
What are they? They are what the title says — pepperoni and cheese stuffed bread rolls. Served warm, the cheese is soft and gooey and every bite bursts with the mixed flavors of the pepperoni and cheese.
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Multi-grain bread and pesto cheese spread
Uncle George’s multi-grain bread is great with pork afritada or, if you want a light meal, try it with Pesto Cheese Spread… my new Cheez Whiz.
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Choco butter cupcakes
For those of you who made the buttery cupcakes and found them a bit too heavy, here’s good news. I found another basic yellow cake recipe which I adapted and baked into cupcakes. The result was a lighter texture with the same crusty, slightly crisp exterior.
This is based on a recipe from The Joy of [...]
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