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Meatballs: Ground beef Garlic Salt and pepper Soysauce Oatmeal Combine in a bowl. Mix and form into balls. Deepfry, drain oil and set aside. Sauce: Olive oil Minced garlic Chopped onions Cubed tomatoes Cubed bellpeppers Ground beef Tomato sauce Cheese Water Saute first 5 ingredients in a wok. Form a ring and put the ground beef in the center and cover to cook. Add tomato sauce, cheese and water. Simmer. Add salt and pepper and dry herbs. Serve on top of spagghetti... Posted via Blogaway

Wet ingredients About 8 overripe bananas (500 grams), mashed 1 cup brown sugar 1 1/3 cup olive oil (or canola oil) 2 tsp cinnamon powder (or vanilla extract) Dry Ingredients 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1 cup oatmeal 2 tsp baking powder Chopped macadamia nuts (any nuts or raisins will do) Combine all wet ingredients in a deep bowl Combine all dry ingredients in another bowl Add small amount at a time the dry mixture to the wet mixture. Mix well. Add the chopped nuts. Bake at 350F for 20-25 minutes. Makes 16 medium-sized cupcakes

There are many ways to enjoy your prepared pesto. One can put it in a cooked pasta together with cheese or Alfredo cream and spread it on a soda crackers. I topped a tablespoon of pesto on my scrambled eggs. I also put a tablespoon of it in my noodle soup. Please check my No-Frill Pesto in a previous post. Tell me more, how I can enjoy a pesto!!! Just drop a note in the comment box. ***

100g basil  1/2cup almonds  3 cloves garlic  1/2 cup olive oil  salt and pepper...  Put all ingredients a small portion at a time in a blender. And blend. *** *** Don't forget to patronize Fresh Start Organic Culinary Herbs... *** *** ***

*** 2kg Cassava 4 tablespoon Olive Oil or butter 3 Eggs 1-2 cans condensed milk 1 can sweet corn (Canned Cream Corn or boiled then grated) sugar (add, if desired) Peel the cassava, remove the hard root and ground in a blender/grinding machine for a pudding finish.  If grated, the consistency is different as it will appear like a fudge finish. In a deep bowl, put the ground cassava and the ground sweet corn. Make a well, place the lightly beaten eggs, milk, and additional sugar.  Mix well together until smooth. In a pan, put the mixture and bake for 40 to 45 minutes at about 200F. Make 3 1-inch 9X12 pan of Cassava Cake Pudding. Serve hot or chilled.

*Honey-Olive oil- Calamansi Honey Olive Oil Calamansi Italian seasoning (dry herbs) salt Put all ingredients in a cup with lid cover.  Shake before drizzling to salads.  *Mango Salsa Ripe mango, cubed Olive oil Italian seasoning (dry herbs) salt Put all ingredients in a cup with lid cover.  Shake before drizzling to favorite salad.  *Quick Thousand Island's Dressing  Mayonnaise Ketchup Italian seasoning (dry herbs) Mix ingredients in a plate. Serve as side with favorite greens.

Chicken: One whole chicken, cleaned (rub salt if desired) Pu erh tea steeped in boiling water, drained Star Anise Pinches of Chinese five-spice In a soup pan, put the whole chicken. Pour tea, just enough to cover the chicken. Put the Star Anise and Chinese Five spice. Bring to boil for 15 minutes, then heat in medium heat for 1 hour and 45 mins. Remove the chicken and place in the serving dish. Reserve stock for gravy. Gravy: 3 cups of stock starch, dissolved in water salt soy sauce black pepper Chicken bouillon (if desired) Strain two to three cups of chicken-tea stock to remove solids. Let boil in a sauce pan, add starch and adjust according to desired consistency. Adjust taste with salt, soy sauce and black pepper. Vegetables: olive oil onion, cubed carrots, cubed potato, cubed Bits and pieces of Mushroom in can, drained raisins or pickles Saute onion in olive oil, add carrots and potato. let cook and add mushrooms and raisins/pickles. Put a little liquid by using the stock. Serve t...

By GERLIE M. UY 2 T olive oil 12 garlic cloves, chopped 1 big onion, chopped 1 thumb (or more) ginger, chopped 1/2 kilo chicken, cubed 1/2 kilo malagkit rice water 2 chicken cube soy sauce turmeric powder (kalawag) salt and pepper Toasted garlic for garnish. In a skillet, saute onion and garlic in oil. Add ginger. Add chicken cube and stir fry for a while and add the washed malagkit rice. Stir again for about 3 minutes. Add water. Let boil until rice pops open. Add chicken cubes, soy sauce, turmeric powder, salt and pepper. Let the flavor sink in and the soup is ready to be served hot. Garnish with toasted garlic.

No, not all saucy spaghettis are created equal. For this one I am having, I can fairly call it half-half. Half-italian for using fair amount of chopped white onions and garlic as well as olive oil and pre-prepared fresh tomato sauce, and half-FIlipino for my use of store-bought sweet blend Filipino style tomato sauce and a can of spaghetti sauce with meat and mushroom flavor. On top of this sauce, I used my favorite canned solid tuna in water, dried basil, a few grates of quickmelt cheese in lieu of salt and a lot of pepper. I am a follower of spaghetti. And you can find recipes here. Depending on what's in the fridge or in the pantry, not all of my spaghetti meals are created equal, indeed. Enjoy!

By GERLIE M. UY Here is another way of enjoying spaghetti when one ran out of tomato sauce... The simple garlic and oil sauce. Just added a local canned tuna called Century Tuna Inasal flavor on top so as to interest the palate of my conventional eating pack at home. A serving for Julie-Ann  Ingredients: 1/2 kl spaghetti 9 cloves of garlic, sliced thinly 1/2 cup olive oil salt and  ground pepper dry basil leaves (if fresh herbs such as parsley or oregano are available, use them) Century Tuna Inasal flavor (smoked) How to: Heat olive oil in pan.  Add garlic slices and spread on the pan. Adjust heat to low until garlic turns medium brown.  Add the spaghetti pasta and mix together. Put dashes of salt and ground pepper to taste.  Add ample amount of dried basil leaves and mix. Remove from fire. Place tuna on top and mix together just before serving. The sliced (not minced) garlic If you use the extra virgin olive oil, the better. Aglio et olio Century Tuna Inasal F...

By GERLIE M. UY For Fries: 2 sweet potatoes, peeled cut lengthwise 1/8 of a medium squash, peeled and cut lengthwise canola oil for deep fry iodized salt for seasoning Heat the oil. deep fry the sweet potatoes and the squash. Serve with tomato ketchup. ***** For Grilled Eggplant, Pasta and sauce 5 pcs long eggplants, cut into half vertically and horizontally. If too thick, slice vertically once more until desired thickness. Tip: Not too thin as it will shrink after grilling. Also, immerse in water to avoid discoloration. Just before grilling, sprinkle with rock salt and dry or fresh basil leaves. Pan grill but put a small amount of olive oil. 1kg spaghetti, cook as package direction 1T of olive oil 3 cloves garlic, chopped Drain a 200g canned green peas 1/2 cup of slice black olives Grilled eggplant 1kl Tomato Sauce (I used the sweet Filipino Style as my eaters are not accustomed to the three-cheeses and italian-style version and the advantage here is that I am no longer putting sugar...

By GERLIE M. UY A serving of Sesame Chicken Teriyaki...  500 gms chicken breast, sliced medium thick and in serving size 2 T sesame oil 1/2 cup white wine 1/4 cup soy sauce 1/4 cup premium soy sauce (Lee Kum Kee) 1 T sugar 2 T brown and white Sesame seeds, toasted 1-2 T canola oil for basting In a non-metallic bowl, place the chicken and the next five ingredients. Mix well and pierce the chicken with fork. Chill for 15 to 30 minutes. In a pan, toast lightly the sesame seeds. Set aside. Lightly coat the same pan with canola oil. Pan-grill the chicken breasts, basting each with all if needed.  Let cook for 3 minutes on medium to high heat. repeat until all chicken is done. Place each piece in a serving platter and spread toasted sesame on top of each chicken. Meanwhile, in the same pan, pour the marinade and let boil until the liquid is reduced into half. Put the remaining toasted sesame. Serve in a sauce bowl. A quick capture of the pan-grilled sesame chicken!  The sesame...

By GERLIE M. UY Cucumber and Red Radish Crisps! 6 red radishes, sliced thinly 1 medium cucumber, sliced thinly 1 small white onion, sliced thinly 1 small head of lettuce Dressings 3/4 to 1 Yakult (60 to 80ml) 3 Calamansi, juiced 1 T olive oil salt and ground pepper In a non-metal bowl, mix all first three ingredients. Chill. For the dressing: in a glass with lid cover, put all last four ingredients and cover. Shake. Drizzle dressing in the first bowl of vegetable. In a serving platter, lay the lettuce bed. Just before serving, add all of the vegetables. Serve lightly chilled and serve immediately. Another look at the salad... cucumber... yakult quick photo of the salad... the salad on the side!!!