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I’m sure Hello Kitty fans will be thrilled to see this pudding with Kitty’s shape. The pudding maker comes with a recipe book and you can follow it very quickly. Priced at 44.60 USD. You don’t need to be a cooking expert to bake this one for sure. Hmmm..  I wonder what’s the taste of it.

To learn the recipe in English check out the recipe here:

http://www.strapya-world.com/products/41548.html

Once in a while we need to eat veggies so I cooked this very simple and easy to cook sayote with shrimps.

Ingredients:
1 pc sayote cut into strips
shrimps
onion
garlic
salt
pepper
water or sabaw ng pinisang ulo ng shrimps
oil

Directions:
1. Saute garlic, onion. Add the shrimps until it changed into orange color.
2. Add the sayote, add little bit of water. Season with salt and pepper.
3. Simmer until the sayote is cooked.

Serve hot. That’s it, pretty easy to cook!

I remember cooking this dish before but it didn’t turn out that great when I tried this, so I search online for a recipe and found a recipe at PanlasangPinoy.com/. Here’s the recipe that I tried and it’s real good. I just adjusted the measurements according to my taste.
Ingredients:

1/2 kilo beef sirloin
2 cups broccoli, chopped and BLANCHED
3 tablespoons cooking oil
1 tablespoon garlic, finely minced
1 teaspoon cornstarch, dissolved in 1 tablespoon water

Sauce
2 tablespoons oyster sauce
1 teaspoon rice wine (since I don’t have this so I didn’t put any)
1 tablespoon soy sauce
½ beef cube dissolved in ½ cup water

Marinade
2 teaspoon soy sauce
2 teaspoon rice wine
1/2 teaspoon cornstarch
a dash of ground black pepper

1. Marinate the beef for 30 mins or longer
2. Combine all the sauce ingredients in a separate bowl
3. Put oil on the pan and when it’s hot put the marinated beef. Make sure you flip it from time to time to cook both sides
4. Put the sauce and the freshly ground garlic and cook for few minutes.
5. Add the blanched brocolli and simmer for few minutes more
6. Add the cornstarch which is diluted in water and wait until it thickens

It’s been raining lately so sipping a hot soup for lunch or dinner is so very comforting. Tinolang Manok is very easy to cook and eventhough it’s not my favorite, I also need so soup dish on my diet. In fact, this is very nutritious as well. Here’s the TINOLANG MANOK recipe that I will share.

Ingredients:
chicken, garlic, onions
sili leaves, papaya, sili, and ginger
salt and pepper, water

How to Cook:
1. Saute the garlic, onion, ginger and put the chicken
2. Add a bit of water, add the papaya and let it simmer until the papaya and chicken is cooked
3. Add seasoning of salt and pepper or PATIS if you like
4. Put the sili leaves for a minute or two then serve hot.
It’s just fast and easy.

This Stir Fry Veggies with Shrimps & Oyster Sauce is one of my favorite dish that I want to cook. Aside from being delicious, it is quite easy to cook and healthy as well. You just need to have all your ingredients ready before you start cooking so that you’ll have no hassle.

I want to share the recipe and here it is:

Ingredients
1 onion, 3-4 garlic
1 red bell pepper, cut into strips
cauliflower, carrots, snow peas
shrimps (remove shell and head and mash then add water)
1 tbsp. oyster sauce
salt and pepper to taste
cornstarch dissolve in water

Direction:
Saute garlic, onion and red bell pepper, add the shrimps, put all the veggies except cauliflower.
Add water, season with salt pepper and oyster. Simmer till veggies are cooked then add cauliflower. Simmer for few mins.
Add cornstarch dissolved in water to thicken, then it is done. It’s easy!

Chicken caldereta is one of my favorite dish and my favorite to cook. There are so many ways to cook this dish but I want mine to be “saucy” and I don’t like putting chicken liver or liver spread like what others are putting.

Here is my own version:Ingredients :actually I don’t really measure so these are just estimates. Adjust according to taste.

~ 2 chicken breasts
~ 2-3 pcs. potatoes
~ 1-2 pcs. carrots
~ 1 pc. red or green bell pepper
~ 2-3 cloves garlic
~ 1 onions
~ 250g. Del Monte Orig. style Tomato sauce in terta pack
~ 2 -3 tbsp. pickle relish
~ peppercorns and pepper
~patis (fish sauce)
~ sugar
~salt
~water
Procedure:
Saute onion, garlic. Put the chicken, cook for few minutes. Add carrots, potatoes and green bell pepper.
Add peppercorns.Add enough water. Pour in tomato sauce and pickle relish.
Season with salt or patis, pepper and sugar
Cover until veggies are cooked.
~to make my sauce thick, I mash some carrots and potatoes and pour it in.
Cook for several minutes until chicken is done.

That’s it. Enjoy cooking!

Wow, isn’t this summer oh so hot!!!! Actually there are times that I just want to stay in the bathtub the whole day just to keep me refreshed. Anyway, here the Watermelon Popsicles recipe that I saw at Food Connect, this is actually very easy to make.

All we need is 5 cups watermelon puree

~Just peel the watermelon and puree the pieces in the blender.

~ Fill a popsicle mold with the puree and freeze it.  That’s easy enjoy!