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Manicotti Pasta Delight con Chicken Adobo
This menu is made out of my own style. It gives delight to me as an optional source of carbohydrates intake. Here are the simplest ways how to prepare it for five servings. 

     It's so easy and tasty! Click on Menus to get the recipe of this dish.

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                             RIVER FISH with POTATO

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COCONUT CAKE

MINT CHOCOLATE CAKE

   It doesn't hurt to try something so smooth and sweet as these desserts once in a while you know! Don't just abuse of the sweetness by taking it moderately! 

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SPICY CHICKEN BBQ in a row

This is the most loved food of kids; adults too take a share in the "too much liking" of barbecue chicken on a stick. Although there are varied ways how to do it excellently, everyone has a style which makes it unique and tasty. Here are what you need for a simple recipe:


For 5 persons:
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 teaspoon of black pepper in powder
2 table spoons of Maggi Savor sauce
Red hot chilli, crushed
2 table spoons of BBQ sauce
1 kilo of  chicken breast, sliced in serving size
Salt for your favorite taste
Fine sticks

Procedure:
1. Take a clean bowl and put your sliced chicken mixed with salt into it.
2. Put the garlic, and BBQ sauce; then, mix them together.
3. Add the 2 table spoons of Maggi Savor sauce and let it stay for 10 minutes.
4. Add the teaspoon of black pepper together with the crushed chilli.
5. Leave the marinated chicken for another 10 minutes.
6. Put the chicken meat on a stick and grill it until cooked.Avoid burning it with fire. Let the heat of charcoal cook it slowly by turning it moderately.

BON APETIT!

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MANGO FLOAT

       Craving for a dessert is but a normal situation. Some are crazy about vanilla ice cream, fruit salad, cake, etc. However, there are special desserts which require the most wanted creamy-sweet mixture of ingredients, and one of the most delicious, irresistible and mouth-watering dessert is the "MANGO FLOAT". It is easy to make and you will never regret after chilling at the fridge! Here are what you must need and do!

Ingredients

(4) Large, yellow (ripe) mangoes, (1) Pack of Graham biscuits, (1) Pack of crushed Graham (optional), (1) All-purpose cream, (1) Condensed milk, rectangular container, (1/4) cup of raisins and (/2) cup of roasted peanuts and bowl

Steps

1.) Mix the all-purpose cream and condensed milk in a bowl. Blend them well and put it aside. 2.) Slice the mangoes into thin long strips. Lay your Graham biscuits at the bottom of your rectangular container.  3.) Spread evenly some of the mixed cream and condensed milk above the graham biscuits.  4.) Put the mango strips over the layered cream. 5.) Repeat Steps 3-5 until you reach the top of the container. Sprinkle your Crushed Graham above your last layer. Place the raisins and peanuts on top of the last . 6.) Put it inside the refrigerator or inside the freezer. Let it stay there for 2 hours or more. If the mango float is cold, it is served better.

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TUNA FISH "KINILAW"

      Filipinos love to have something exotic. One of these is the raw tuna salad or tuna fish kinilaw. For others, this food might not be eatable due to fact that the fish is not cooked. However, to get red of the reddish appearance of the fish, there is a technique how to do it. This has already been a food specialty of the Philippines like in Visayan places. The fish is soaked in a strong  venigar (like the one coming from coconut wine which has been preserved for long time). After soaking, the texture of the fish changes and it appears to be cooked. Well,  this is a food known to those who have visited my country.

      To prepare tuna fish kinilaw for 5 persons, you must need the following ingredients:1/2 kl. tuna fish, sliced in cubes; 1/2 cup venigar; 1 large onion, minced; 1 clove garlic; chopped; 1/2 cup ginger, minced; 1 large cucumber; sliced; 1 green mango; sliced; 1 cup pineapple, sliced; 2 tbsps lemon (kalamansi) juice; siling labuyo (chili) and salt.

      Procedure: After washing and draining the fresh tuna fish, soak it into a venigar solution with salt for 2 hours (Others may soak it for 1 hour and 30 minutes).Cover it and set it aside. Then, when the time is over, remove the tuna fish from the solution and drain it. Put the soaked fish in a bowl. Add the following ingredients: onion, garlic, ginger, cucumber, mango, pineapple, chili and kalamansi juice. Mix all of these thoroughly. Add salt for you own taste.

     It is better eaten right after the preparation, paired with plain rice.

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GROUND BEEF WITH CRUNCHY PEANUTS

     The most versatile kind of meat is the ground meat because you have many alternatives how to cook it such as meat balls, meat flakes, beef soup, etc. For me, I have my own style in making a simple recipe out of it! I call it my personal dish, GROUND BEEF WITH CRUNCHY PEANUTS. So try this one for a change. Variety of dishes can make your kitchen table as the best place for your family and friends. Here is how to prepare it (for five persons):

     Ingredients: 1/2 kilo of ground beef; 5 garlic cloves, minced; 1/4 cup of carrot, sliced in small cubes; 1 big onion; minced; 1/2 cup of spring onion, cut in small size; 2 green pepper bells, sliced; 2 red pepper bells, sliced; 1 tsp. black pepper; 2 tsp oil; 2 tbsps of soy sauce; 1/4 cup of half roasted peanuts, water and salt.
     How to cook: Saute the garlic and onion in oil and make sure they become brownish. Add you ground beef and fry it for  7 minutes. Add your soy sauce,black pepper and water enough to be boiled and to be tender. Make it boil for 10 minutes until there is only a small amount of water left. After this, put the carrots, and peanuts; then add the red and green pepper bells.After five minutes, add salt according to your taste and put the spring onion to garnish your dish.

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BEEF MEAT in TOMATO SAUCE

     A satisfying meal for Sunday. This recipe is good enough to share with four persons. It is another style of cooking beef tenderly and deliciously in fresh tomato sauce. So, try this one to make a difference! 

     Ingredients are: 1/4 kl. of beef meat, sliced in two inches long; 2 pieces of potatoes, sliced; 1 medium sized onion, chopped; 5 cloves of garlic, chopped; two teaspoons of soy sauce; 1/2 cup of tomatoes; sliced; 1 teaspoon black powder pepper; 1/4 cup of spring onion, cut in small size for ganishing; salt; oil and remaining water.

     Procedure: (1) Mix the beef with soy sauce and black powder pepper. Let the mixture stay for ten minutes and boil it in a pot until it becomes tender. Once the beef is done, take it from the pot and drain. Separate the remaining water. (2). In a pan with oil, saute the garlic, and onion until they become brownish. Then add the tomatoes and wait until the natural oil and sauce come out. Add the potato and cook it for 10 minutes. Then add the beef and mix it well. Leave it on fire for ten minutes. Put a little water (remaining water) if necessary together with the salt according to your taste. After, you take it from the pan and garnish it with spring onion.

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The yumminess of fried fish omelet
Are you a lover of fish? How many ways could you cook fish? For lovers of fish dish, there might be 20 ways how to prepare a delicious stuff out of fish. For dinner, experience the yumminess of fried fish omelet with this simple method along with the combination of few ingredients to satisfy your repertoire. This is good for 4 persons to share.
Ingredients: 1/4 kg. of fish, sliced in cubes; 5 cloves of minced garlic; 2 regular size of tomatoes, sliced; 2 pieces of eggs; 1/2 tsp. of turmeric powder; 1 onion, chopped; red chili, sliced thin; salt and pepper powder; and oil.
Procedure: (1) Clean and wash the fish thoroughly. Evenly mix it with turmeric powder, salt and pepper. (2) After few minutes, fry the fish in deep frying fan. (3) After turning to light brown, remove the fish from the frying pan. (4) Heat the oil and sauté the garlic, onion, tomato and chili. Wait until these are cooked and their natural oil comes out. (5) Put the fried fish and mix with the other ingredients in the pan. Add the beaten egg. Then continue to mix until cooked.

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Yam wun sen (glass noodle salad-Thai style) with shrimps

     A very refreshing and an excellent Thai dish is perfect enough to give you a hot and spicy sensation in your tongue. This needs a precise mixture of a few ingredients to have a good tasty and satisfying dish for lunch. What do you need to complete your yam wun sen or noodle salad? For five servings, here are your ingredients: 200 grams glass noodles soaked in cold water for ten minutes and drained; one cup of fresh shrimps; 4 cloves garlic, minced; i onion, sliced small; 10 pieces of chili, sliced thin; 2 stalks of Chinese celery, chopped; 3 tablespoons os fish sauce; 3 tablespoons of lime juice; 5 tomatoes, sliced; and handful of coriander, chopped.

     Procedure: Boil the shrimps in water until cooked and take them out of the water. Pour hot water over the noodles through a strainer, enough to cook the noodles. Mix the noodles and shrimps well. In a bowl, mix the noodles and shrimps with garlic, onion, chili, celery, fish sauce, lime juice, and tomatoes. taste depends on your tolerance. Garnish your salad with coriander. Presto! You have yam wun sen served.Enjoy your meal, folks!

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Tuna flakes with mayonnaise


There was a time when my colleagues and I 
planned what to eat in the following day. Normally, each of us has assigned stuffs to bring and to feast on them in the pantry table. One day I lunched over tuna flakes, the best fish type and style I always want to eat. Although, during that meal time, there were around 4 main menus, my appetite was due to the one which made me eat a lot.
How to prepare Tuna Flakes with Mayonnaise? Simple but rock! You’ll never regret. Here are the steps: First, you need canned tuna flakes, mayonnaise and lettuce. Second, take the tuna flakes from the can and put them in the plate. Third, wash the lettuce and drain it totally. Fourth, spread the lettuce on the plate and place the tuna flakes on top of the lettuce. Lastly, mix the mayonnaise with the lettuce and tuna flakes. Better taste from best food for good health. Try it!
                                   

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SPICY GROUND PORK  with POTATO 

and TOMATO SAUCE

      This Filipino dish is easy to prepare. Let me share with you the home made food I have prepared for four persons.Spicy Ground Pork with Potato and Tomato Sauce is one of a kind.The more you taste, the more you crave for additional servings. You may have ground beef as your alternative.
      Here are the ingredients that you need: 

      Half kilo of ground pork;1 tsp. salt; 1 tsp. soy sauce;1 pork-flavored magi cube;1/8 tsp.white pepper and 1/8 black pepper; 5 cloves garlic, minced ; 1 onion, minced; 1 and 1/2 cup water; 3/4 cup fresh tomatoes, sliced; half cup carrots, sliced; 1 cup potato, cut in small pieces;1 red bell pepper, sliced; 1 green bell pepper, sliced; and vegetable oil. How to cook it: Saute the garlic and onion until brownish in a pan. Add the tomatoes and make sure that natural sauce comes out for good taste. Put the ground pork together with salt, soy sauce, magi cube, and black pepper. Mix and saute all of them evenly for 5 minutes and add water together with white pepper. Add the sliced potatoes and boil it for 20 minutes. Then add carrots, red and green pepper bells. Wait for another 5 minutes. Put the cooked menu in a bowl.

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A SIMPLE RECIPE FOR A HEARTY MEAL: SPICY SALAD SARDINES

         For emergency case, we grab a can of sardines kept at the cupboard. However, canned food like sardines can save us from a long preparation of food that we always want to eat. Time is fast. What will you do if you need to hurry for work. Guys, never underestimate the fish in tomato sauce inside a can. Rich in protein, sardines can be one menu if you want to try some modification. Let us try my menu to satisfy your meal-breakfast, lunch or dinner. Here are simple and fun steps to do! No heating involved but you get hot-spicy salad sardines for the day!
         First cut in small pieces one medium sized onion, three small garlic pieces, lemon grass, two small sized tomatoes, ginger, 5 pieces of red and green chilli and cucumber. Set aside these ingredients. Second, put the sardines in the plate and add the sliced ingredients, carefully arranging them to produce the most attractive appearance. Third, add salt according to your taste and squeeze the lemon into it to balance the taste. Lastly, mix the ingredients and sardines. PRESTO! You get what you want! Enjoy your hot and spicy salad sardines and have a maximum level of appetite!
 

                                        

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SWEETENED RICE CAKE (BIKO)

                                 FILIPINO DESSERT 

     Biko, a Filipino dessert made up of sticky rice, is a sweet favorite rice pudding served in special occasions like birthday, Christmas Eve, Easter Sunday and other Filipino celebrations together with families and relatives. Now, how is it prepared? Simply follow these steps and at the end you will get what you want.
    Here are what you should need for ingredients: 4 cups of sticky rice grains, 4 cups of water (in ratio), 400 grams coconut milk, 300 grams of brown sugar, a tablespoon of salt, 3 pieces of lemon, 2 table spoons of star margarine, one-fourth cup of orange peeling and one cup of raisins. This preparation is good for ten persons.
    Step 1. Wash the 4 cups of sticky rice grains and add 4 cups of water to cook it in a rice cooker.Wait until it is totally done.
    Step 2. Put the coconut milk in a pan on fire until oil is produced. Then caramelize it with sugar. Make the sugar totally dissolved as you may be able to make it brownish. Add the salt and lemon juice.Then add the sticky rice and mix it thoroughly and evenly. Add the margarine to the mixture.
    Step 3. By continuously mixing, add the orange peeling for good aroma and wait for 15 minutes to have a very good color and taste.
    Step 4. Take out the rice cake and put it in the rectangular glass canisterto cool down and garnish it with raisins.
     To serve it, you may cut it into squares.

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PORK AFRITDA con CURRY


      A Filipino delicacy and all time favorite food, Pork Afritada is one of those tomato sauce-based stews which was first introduced in the Philippines by the Spaniards. Aside from being famous in my country, it is normally a main menu during wedding celebrations held especially in the urban communities. This is a special dish of every common or average-income Filipino family or even those who want to eat pork once or twice a month. As an alternative, chicken afritada is also another taste-one of a kind. If a Filipino works abroad, this is the kind of dish that is certainly prepared in case he or she misses Philippines, other than "pinakbet' and "chicken-pork adobo". Thus, "sariling atin" is everywhere in the globe as long as one is cooking his or her own native country's dishes. As for me, I would like to share this modified Filipino dish which is Pork Afritada con Curry. What are the ingredients? The dish I prepared is good for five persons. 
     Here are the ingredients: 
     Half kilo of pork tenderloins cut into serving pieces;1 tsp. salt; 1 tsp. soy sauce;1/2 pork flavored magi cube;1/8 tsp.white pepper and 1/8 black pepper; 3 cloves garlic, minced ; 1 onion, minced; 1 and 1/2 cup water; 1/2 cup fresh tomatoes, sliced; half cup carrots, sliced;1 red bell pepper, sliced; 1 green bell pepper, sliced; yellow curry; 2 tbsp. fine breadcrumbs and vegetable oil.

      How to cook: Saute the garlic and onion until brownish in a pan. Add the tomatoes and make sure that natural sauce comes out. Put the pork together with salt, soy sauce, magi cube, and black pepper. Mix and saute all of them evenly for 5 minutes and add water together with white pepper. Boil it for 20 minutes. Then add the yellow curry to produce good smell, together with carrots, red and green pepper bells and bread crumbs. Wait for another 5 minutes. So, be ready to take it from fire and enjoy your special dish.

 

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 SPICY FISH STEW

      Many of us love fish dishes such as fried fish, fish soup, sweet and sour fish and the favorite one which is the fish stew. This is one of the favorite Filipino foods. In the Philippines, fish is a common dish among us, and we have many ways how to make fish delicious. Some menus with fish are variedly prepared with vegetables or just simply a hot spicy sauce. Here are what you should have to cook a fish stew.  

      Ingredients are 6 tbsp olive oil;1 tsp black pepper; 1 cup of chopped onions; 2 large garlic cloves, chopped; 2/3 cup fresh parsley, chopped; 1 cup of fresh chopped tomato (about 1 medium sized tomato); 2 tsp of tomato paste; a cup of water; 6 pieces of fish sliced for serving; red pepper and green pepper bells, sliced; and salt. 

     How to cook: Fry the fish in a hot oil until a bit brownish. Then remove the fish from the pan. Saute the garlic, and onion for three minutes. Add the black pepper, chopped tomato, tomato paste and parsley and cook for 3 minutes longer. Add the fried fish and water, and cook for 10 minutes. Add the green and red sliced pepper bells. Add salt to taste and put it in a bowl to serve.

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BEST ALTERNATIVE DESSERTS: 

PAPAYA, GUAVA AND PINEAPPLE

     Cake, ice cream, sweets, homemade sweetened chips, cookies, etc. are the common desserts often seen in parties and at home. Aside from their distinctive tastes, the color is one factor that attracts the people to crave for more. The aroma and the presentation of a dessert are but among those attributes which make people put more on their plates. Yeah, the more intake of these types of desserts, the more calories a person is accumulating too. Based on experience, I would rather abstain from taking sweets or any kind of desserts. I don't like sweets so as an alternative, I go for fresh fruits.Health benefits are in big scale and they are less expensive too. Aside from detoxifying your body system, you gain abundant Vitamin C and minerals.Fruits are not really new in the world of cuisine. They are even used by cooks in preparing dishes. Here are my best alternative desserts. There is nothing wrong if we eat any of these fruits: papaya, pineapple and guava.

MAGIC POTION

MULBERRY TEA GIVES HEALTH BENEFITS

     Mulberry tea leaves dried for health drinks are harvested from an  indigenous mulberry tree. This is common across the world. Commercially grown worldwide, there are 10 varied types of mulberry tree, such as the most common types: white mulberry and black mulberry. The green spade-shaped leaves of a mulberry tree are harvested in fall and dried as medicinal supplements and tea. The tea is used to treat different health issues like colds, insomia, heart ailment and blood vessel problem.
    


 I have read about the benefits of mulberry tea. One of these is to treat fever and colds especially when a warm glass of mulberry tea is taken. In addition to this, sore throat, and cough are also becoming better with mulberry tea. Based on experience, since I am a mulberry tea drinker every day, I find the tea good for my body system. It supports the good blood circulation and serves as an anti-oxidant. The risk of hypertension is reduced or the blockage of the blood vessel is avoided. The Journal of Nutrition in 2005 published a study on this.

    Drinking mulberry tea becomes my habit because I have gained the good results out of it like I can sleep soundly at night and I feel better always. I have my own way to make my tea. Let me tell you how I prepare my mulberry  tea: Boil a glass of water with two teaspoons of dried mulberry leaves added on it. Then, let the tea cool down. Two minutes is good enough for cooling down the tea. Sometimes I make the mixture in a pot to enjoy the good taste of the tea. It is part of my life now!

MAGIC POTION

                                                                 Violets make magic!

                Perhaps you have heard about violets (genus of flowering plants) that grow in varied spans of time and as such they can be classified as perennial plants, annual plants and shrubs.  Used as floral decorative during weddings or birthdays or other eventful occasions, they are edible enough to adorn a salad dish or fish or poultry. Desserts could have violets to flavor and to produce sweetness by all means. Other than culinary usages, violets can be source of scents for perfume production since they have some kind of seductive scent similar to any other plants. These violets can even be made as shampoo for dark effect on hair after use. As an alternative, violets juice is combined with lemon and a little amount of sugar for taste; however, its taste is distinctive with pure hot water only.

On the other hand, one thing that I love about sweet violets (Viola odorata, Viola tricolor and Viola yeozonsis) is to boil them for my evening juice. How do I make the mixture? Well, I pour boiling water into a glass with dried violets. I let it stay for 5 to 7 minutes before straining and drinking it.

The tea from violets is an alternative medicine for breast cancer, sinusitis, congestion, fever, allergies and stress. It detoxifies your body system, thus making your skin glow. A cup of violets’ tea is enough for a day. Excessive intake can cause vomiting which is of course true to any “non-controlled cases”.