Yeah, sorry I haven't been posting a lot of recipes. But I'm planning to make this a "everything-related-about-food" blog as opposed to a "recipe" blog. Just so I have more reasons to updates his more.
So expect some restaurant reviews, recaps on parties involving a lot of food (they'll usually be Filipino foods if it falls within the party category...hehhe...) and other shenanigans dealing with the sustenance we all enjoy consuming.
And seeing how I only have one more day of school before Summer vacation, that may happen sooner than you think.
So future blog posts for the following summer:
~Tomorrow, June 23rd: Restaurant review for Bravo Burgers, a local burger and Mexican food joint here in the California area
~Thursday, June 24th: Recipe for my mama's pancit canton. I'm going to be making it for a friend's birthday party, and all throughout Eastern Asian Culture, noodles on your birthday means you'll live a long successful life ^^
~July 3rd: Housewarming party for my family's new house in Las Vegas. We're going to have family and friends over, so there will be food to talk about. It'll also be a test run for some catering food that my mother and I are going to be making.
~July 31st(or somewhere around that time): my Aunt's wedding. this is the catering job my mom and I will be practicing for in early July. Hey, I know we're not hired professionally, (more nepotistically) but any practice is good for the future
~Randomly sometime in the summer: Restaurant review for In-N-Out. Seeing as I'll spend a lot of time in Vegas this summer, chances are my Dad will have us stop at some In-N-Out, in one of the many in Las Vegas. Come to think of it, there is a brand new one opening up in my neighborhood in Vegas...
And yeah. More time at home means more possibility that I will cook at some point. Even though in my school district's shorter-than-the-American-average-length-of-summer, what with summer work for my three College Level courses in Advanced Placement, Driver's Ed and working to get my license, and shuttling between my home in California and our new home in Las Vegas, I doubt I'll have THAT much time to update this here blog...but we'll see, I mean there's already five new prospects for food-related blogs. So the future is looking rather bright.
So yeah, so long. Im'unna go update my other blog.
June 22, 2010
May 14, 2010
Sattvic Apple-Pear Crumble
It actually turned out pretty damn well! I was surprised people in my yoga class actually asked for the recipe. That was cool. However, my badass friend Amy and her group (made up of my other badass friends Emily and Alaia) made some pretty legit Margherita Pizza. It was voted best recipe in the class.
And really, I just made a crumble to make an Old Greg reference.
Oh right, recipe!
Uhm, yeah, this recipe is something that I kinda just created, and will be different in a few ways. This recipe contains no added sugar or bleached flours, so its a lot better for you too! I'm not too sure about the nutritional facts, but i'm pretty sure its healthier than that Malomar bar you are eating.
Don't you try and hide that from me. You vile person.
::INGREDIENTS::
- 3 overripe pears
- 2 large or 3 medium Apples of your choice
- 3 tbls. of honey
- 1 tbls. of Roasted Flax seed w/ blueberries (can be found at Trader Joe's or
your local health food store)
- 1/4 tsp. each of cinnamon and nutmeg, divided evenly among fruit filling and
crumb topping
- 1/4 teaspoon of Vanilla essence (no vanillin- only use the real stuff)
- 3/5 cups of Whole Wheat flour (1/2 cup plus then some)
- 1 single serving packet of regular instant oats (or about 1/3 cup of rolled oats)
- 1/4 cup of butter
- optional: chopped walnuts
::PROCEDURE::
1). Peel and slice your pears, then mash them until they are somewhat smooth, yet still chunky.
2). Place mashed pears on a sieve over a bowl, and let drain for 30 minutes.
3). Slice apples, leaving skins on or off according to your preference (yet leaving the skins on is healthier ^^")
4). Take mashed pear out of sieve and onto the bottom of a 8x8 or 9x9 pan.
5). Put sliced apples in bowl with drained pear juices. Drizzle honey on top of apples, sprinkle with half of the cinnamon, half of the nutmeg, and all of the vanilla essence, mix, and let flavors co-mingle for 15 minutes.
6). Put apple mixture on top of the mashed pears, and sprinkle with roasted flax.
7). Cut up butter into small pieces and put into a bowl. Fill with flour and oats, sprinkle the rest of the cinnamon and nutmeg, then cut the butter into the flour and oats until it resembles a biscuit dough. You may add more flax if you wish.
8). Spread crumb dough on top of fruit mixture, and top with walnuts if you prefer, and more roasted flax as well.
9). Bake for 40 minutes at 350 degrees.
And of course, you may add sugar to your hearts content, but the point here is to try and be healthy! Besides, the drained pear juice form the overripe pears will bring enough natural sugars into the crumble, that you won't even need any additional sugars. Just the fruit and the honey does well on its own.
So yeah. Im'unna try and update this more often. Depends how often I can find time to cook. I have a Chemistry final in 5 days anyway, and nearing the end of school means finals, state standardized testing, yatta yatta yatta.
The yoga food class party was actually pretty successful. Everyone was creative didn't really make any bland-ass food. Except Nicole. But her hummus was ruined and needed something quick, so she made some granola.
Bless her heart...
And really, I just made a crumble to make an Old Greg reference.
Oh right, recipe!
Uhm, yeah, this recipe is something that I kinda just created, and will be different in a few ways. This recipe contains no added sugar or bleached flours, so its a lot better for you too! I'm not too sure about the nutritional facts, but i'm pretty sure its healthier than that Malomar bar you are eating.
Don't you try and hide that from me. You vile person.
::INGREDIENTS::
- 3 overripe pears
- 2 large or 3 medium Apples of your choice
- 3 tbls. of honey
- 1 tbls. of Roasted Flax seed w/ blueberries (can be found at Trader Joe's or
your local health food store)
- 1/4 tsp. each of cinnamon and nutmeg, divided evenly among fruit filling and
crumb topping
- 1/4 teaspoon of Vanilla essence (no vanillin- only use the real stuff)
- 3/5 cups of Whole Wheat flour (1/2 cup plus then some)
- 1 single serving packet of regular instant oats (or about 1/3 cup of rolled oats)
- 1/4 cup of butter
- optional: chopped walnuts
::PROCEDURE::
1). Peel and slice your pears, then mash them until they are somewhat smooth, yet still chunky.
2). Place mashed pears on a sieve over a bowl, and let drain for 30 minutes.
3). Slice apples, leaving skins on or off according to your preference (yet leaving the skins on is healthier ^^")
4). Take mashed pear out of sieve and onto the bottom of a 8x8 or 9x9 pan.
5). Put sliced apples in bowl with drained pear juices. Drizzle honey on top of apples, sprinkle with half of the cinnamon, half of the nutmeg, and all of the vanilla essence, mix, and let flavors co-mingle for 15 minutes.
6). Put apple mixture on top of the mashed pears, and sprinkle with roasted flax.
7). Cut up butter into small pieces and put into a bowl. Fill with flour and oats, sprinkle the rest of the cinnamon and nutmeg, then cut the butter into the flour and oats until it resembles a biscuit dough. You may add more flax if you wish.
8). Spread crumb dough on top of fruit mixture, and top with walnuts if you prefer, and more roasted flax as well.
9). Bake for 40 minutes at 350 degrees.
And of course, you may add sugar to your hearts content, but the point here is to try and be healthy! Besides, the drained pear juice form the overripe pears will bring enough natural sugars into the crumble, that you won't even need any additional sugars. Just the fruit and the honey does well on its own.
So yeah. Im'unna try and update this more often. Depends how often I can find time to cook. I have a Chemistry final in 5 days anyway, and nearing the end of school means finals, state standardized testing, yatta yatta yatta.
The yoga food class party was actually pretty successful. Everyone was creative didn't really make any bland-ass food. Except Nicole. But her hummus was ruined and needed something quick, so she made some granola.
Bless her heart...
May 12, 2010
I HAVE DECIDED WHAT I WANT TO MAKE!!!1!
Yeah, that was awkward...
But yeah. I'm going to make a fruit crumble. Mainly because I feel it would be awesome to get a good grade and say "I made a crumble. Teacher said mine was the best!"
And if you don't get that reference, go to youtube and search Old Greg. Some of the most hilarious shit to come from Britain since Fawlty Towers.
But yeah, its consisted of fruits, and a crumble topping made with whole wheat flour, butter, chopped walnuts, and blueberry flavored flax-seed. YUM.
Yeah, once I'm done creating it, I'll post the recipe of it.
Since we are nearing the end of the school year, this means I get to do more fun shit at home and with my friends, so I'll most likely blog more on both of my blogs in the near future.
But yeah. I'm going to make a fruit crumble. Mainly because I feel it would be awesome to get a good grade and say "I made a crumble. Teacher said mine was the best!"
And if you don't get that reference, go to youtube and search Old Greg. Some of the most hilarious shit to come from Britain since Fawlty Towers.
But yeah, its consisted of fruits, and a crumble topping made with whole wheat flour, butter, chopped walnuts, and blueberry flavored flax-seed. YUM.
Yeah, once I'm done creating it, I'll post the recipe of it.
Since we are nearing the end of the school year, this means I get to do more fun shit at home and with my friends, so I'll most likely blog more on both of my blogs in the near future.
April 23, 2010
Possibly one of the Hardest things I'm ever going to have to Cook
So in my Yoga class, we've recently been talking about food, like which ones are good and which ones are bad. There are three classes of foods. One of them is Tinnastic (sp?), which is the worst possible kind. It consists of frozen foods, heavily factory-made food, microwaves food, burnt food, and barbecued food. The other is Rajastic, which is stuff like meats, fish, eggs, sugar etc. The best possible kind is Sattvic, which consists purely of vegetables and fruits, whole grains, beans, and legumes.
My teacher wants us to make a recipe solely out of Sattvic foods.
Some of the restrictions are as follows:
NO garlic
NO onions
NO salt
NO Vinegar
NO Meat
(which completely throws out anything Filipino D:)
NO sugar
NO eggs
NO fats
You get the idea.
...YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS (for me, at least) TO COOK WITH NO GARLIC, ONIONS, PORK, OR FAT(s)?
I kind of want to make like an Asian Tofu stir-fry over soba noodles. But there's this one girl in my Yoga class completely OBSESSED with Japanese food, so I don't want to end up making the same thing. And another part of me wants to make a drink or a baked good, because I know no one would try to do something like that. And another part of me just want to do it easy and make Sago Gulaman.
I don't know. All the Sattvic recipes I found online are lame. I'll update when I figure out what I'm going to do.
My teacher wants us to make a recipe solely out of Sattvic foods.
Some of the restrictions are as follows:
NO garlic
NO onions
NO salt
NO Vinegar
NO Meat
(which completely throws out anything Filipino D:)
NO sugar
NO eggs
NO fats
You get the idea.
...YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS (for me, at least) TO COOK WITH NO GARLIC, ONIONS, PORK, OR FAT(s)?
I kind of want to make like an Asian Tofu stir-fry over soba noodles. But there's this one girl in my Yoga class completely OBSESSED with Japanese food, so I don't want to end up making the same thing. And another part of me wants to make a drink or a baked good, because I know no one would try to do something like that. And another part of me just want to do it easy and make Sago Gulaman.
I don't know. All the Sattvic recipes I found online are lame. I'll update when I figure out what I'm going to do.
February 25, 2010
MULTICULTURAL FAIR TOMORROW!!
It's gonna be fun :D
I made my afghan biscuits, packed them in twos to sell for a dollar. The rest of the food for sale is going to be cupcakes in the shape of sheep, since apparently there are a lot of sheep in New Zealand, and Ginger Ale. Since we clearly cannot sell Ginger Beer to High School Students. Dad kept buggering me about the cookies, asking if he could have some. I told him if there were any leftovers, then yeah. But I enjoy my recent cooking ramblings, I feel like cooking something this weekend. Oh, and Saturday I'm making something Asian with my mom so I can bring something to my friend's Disney Party. Its just going to be me and my closest friends watching Disney movies on Saturday, so I'll probably be cooking with my mom tomorrow night, Friday.
Yeah, I spend my Friday nights cooking with my mom. Wanna mess?
I made my afghan biscuits, packed them in twos to sell for a dollar. The rest of the food for sale is going to be cupcakes in the shape of sheep, since apparently there are a lot of sheep in New Zealand, and Ginger Ale. Since we clearly cannot sell Ginger Beer to High School Students. Dad kept buggering me about the cookies, asking if he could have some. I told him if there were any leftovers, then yeah. But I enjoy my recent cooking ramblings, I feel like cooking something this weekend. Oh, and Saturday I'm making something Asian with my mom so I can bring something to my friend's Disney Party. Its just going to be me and my closest friends watching Disney movies on Saturday, so I'll probably be cooking with my mom tomorrow night, Friday.
Yeah, I spend my Friday nights cooking with my mom. Wanna mess?
February 5, 2010
Why is it so hard to find good recipes on the interewebz?
So later tonight, I'm going over to my friend Kori's house for a potluck/ anti winter formal type thing. Me and my friends are going to watch movies and play Wii, and eat foods!
So being somewhat famouse for my baked goods, my friend Kori asked if I could bake something and bring it over for my potluck dish. And of course, I said yes. I have little time, so a chocolate cake mix out of the box will have to suffice. But I am going to spruce it up with a homemade frosting. Trying to find a recipe, I found a great website with many different kinds of frostings/icings. And for any beginners out there, I will establish the difference between frostings and icings.
Frostings generally are fluffy and used for cakes and the like, made of some sort of combination of sugar, eggs, butter, and/or milk.
Icings harden into a a shell-like consistency and are used for cookies like sugar Christmas ones, and are generally made of icing/confectioners sugar, and some liquid like milk, water, coffee for a coffee flavored icing, and some sort of flavoring like vanilla or almond essence.
So I looked in my fridge for butter. And we only have a tbls. of butter in the whole house. Not really expecting much from and Asian household. But we do have copious amounts of cream cheese for some reason (I think my mom was planning to make a peppermint bark cheesecake sometime ago), so I'm going to make a chocolate cupcake with blue tinted cream cheese frosting, decorated with blueberries. I think it should do fine. And I don't think any of my friends are allergic to blueberries. Then again, I could be wrong, like when I gave a lamington to one of my coconut-allergic friends. But let's not get into that...
So being somewhat famouse for my baked goods, my friend Kori asked if I could bake something and bring it over for my potluck dish. And of course, I said yes. I have little time, so a chocolate cake mix out of the box will have to suffice. But I am going to spruce it up with a homemade frosting. Trying to find a recipe, I found a great website with many different kinds of frostings/icings. And for any beginners out there, I will establish the difference between frostings and icings.
Frostings generally are fluffy and used for cakes and the like, made of some sort of combination of sugar, eggs, butter, and/or milk.
Icings harden into a a shell-like consistency and are used for cookies like sugar Christmas ones, and are generally made of icing/confectioners sugar, and some liquid like milk, water, coffee for a coffee flavored icing, and some sort of flavoring like vanilla or almond essence.
So I looked in my fridge for butter. And we only have a tbls. of butter in the whole house. Not really expecting much from and Asian household. But we do have copious amounts of cream cheese for some reason (I think my mom was planning to make a peppermint bark cheesecake sometime ago), so I'm going to make a chocolate cupcake with blue tinted cream cheese frosting, decorated with blueberries. I think it should do fine. And I don't think any of my friends are allergic to blueberries. Then again, I could be wrong, like when I gave a lamington to one of my coconut-allergic friends. But let's not get into that...
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