Food
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Chicken Tortilla Soup
I don’t think i ever had chicken tortilla soup until few weeks ago . I thought they’re good , similar to Chili , but i think i prefer tortilla soup better . The recipe here is so easy , although it took about 1 hour to simmer , so that the taste blends better , so worth it . Perfect day for a chicken tortilla soup , since it’s a little bit cold over here . Anyway here is the recipe : 4 chicken thighs , boneless , cut into bite size vegetable oil salt and pepper, smoked paprika Cut the chicken thighs into bite size , salt pepper…
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French Vanilla Ice Cream
Over the weekend i ordered ice cream maker, it’s Cuisinart newest model , forgot exactly what was the series number . But i remember over the christmas , William Sonoma had a christmas sale for that ice cream maker , the price was pretty good , almost like 50% off or something . But i didn’t get it on time , i didn’t get to read the email on time , so it was too late to order it . So , last week i decided to look this up , and i ended up buying myself an ice cream maker . The package arrived yesterday and i washed the…
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Red Robin’s Honey Mustard Poppy Seed Dressing
The first time i visited red robin was few years ago back when we were still living in Wichita , Kansas . But since then , although they have couple of red robin’s restaurants around our area , we barely went there . It’s just hamburgers anyway , that’s what i think . Until few months ago , we set a playdate for the kids over there , and i ordered their crispy chicken salad with honey mustard poppy seed dressing . I always love honey mustard , so i thought this was a good choice , i didn’t regret it , it was great !! And i found the…
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Slow Cooked Chicken Teriyaki
I ran to this recipe online , it was adapted from Rachael Ray’s website , she’s famous with her quick 30 minutes meal . Well this one wasn’t a quick 30 minutes meal , and i am not really into her recipes either . But this one caught my eye .. easy and it’s like forget it and let it cook by itself . It doesn’t call for too much ingredients , but one thing that you must have , it’s the teriyaki sauce itself . Although in my opinion , you can always make your own teriyaki , this recipe also similar to my Indonesian Ginger Chicken recipe ,…
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Mini Trifle
I made this quick and easy dessert over lunch today . I just wanted to use the shortcake that i bought from the store few days ago , since it’s been sitting there without anybody eating it . I’ve made the custard the other day , was going to use it for eclairs , but i think i’ve been making too much stuff lately for our little family . One can only eat so much , right ? So , everybody can make this , i use the pretty glass for this , just pull apart the shortcake or even angel food cake from store would work just fine ,…
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Raisins Butter Cake
One of my favorite cake of all time . When i was younger , my mom used to bake this cake a lot . The smell of the butter being baked in the oven was so good . To bring back memories , i had asked my sister the recipe for this cake , since i believe she was the one who gave my mother the recipe . ( She went to culinary school ) So , this afternoon , i decided to make butter cake , this cake is so easy to make , yet , they’re so moist and rich . Most of you have the ingredients that…
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St.Patrick’s day cake
This st.patrick’s day cake is so easy to make . I’ve modified them , by using a cake mix . According to all the people who ate the cake , it’s very delicious and they wonder what the secret ingredients was , some asked if i added nutmeg , or hazelnut in there .. LOL . But my in laws had them , 2 slices each , then my husband had 2 slices too , and a friend of mine at the gym also had 2 slices , and everybody said it’s delicous . Yet , if they only knew , it was so easy to make .. everybody can…
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Pasta con Fruitti Di Mare ( Seafood Pasta w/ simple tomato sauce )
It was one of the lazy cooking day , i have been slacking with cooking for a while . We’ve got too much leftovers from cooking the previous days . We finally finished the leftovers from 2-3 days ago of cooking . So it was about time to cook again .. i was going to make shish kebab but changed my mind , and ended up with seafood pasta . I make my own sauce for the seafood pasta , ever since i learned how to cook and found out how easy it is to make your own pasta sauce , i never use store bought pasta sauce any more…
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Lemon Garlic Pasta Cream Chicken w/ Focaccia Bread
This morning after working out , i decided just to make focaccia bread , it’s raining and we had nothing else to do today anyway . So , i put the dough in the bread machine , letting it go , actually you could made it manually , by hand , but to save time and less messy i just let the bread machines take care of the dough . It didn’t take long , about 1 hour and half and the dough was ready to be baked . I put some herbs in the dough , thyme , garlic , basil oregano and black pepper . On top of…
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Fruit Tartlets
This afternoon i decided to make use of these strawberries we had in our fridge . It was cheap , i couldn’t help not to buy 3 pints of strawberries , only to wonder what else could i make with these strawberries !!! It was only $1.00 / pint , during winter month , who could’ve refused that ? Okay , it’s close to spring , but it was still cheap , even during summer months you can’t get $1.00/pint at the grocery store , except at the farmer’s market . I remember early fall last year i got 8 pints of strawberries and it only cost ms $1.00 for…
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Spicy Noodle Soup with Seafood and Vegetables
Tonight’s dinner in our household is Korean dish , it’s one pot meal , since it has everything that your body need . I actually think this dish is pretty healthy , it has noodles , seafood ( i used squid and mussels ) and 1 piece of boneless chicken thighs . For the vegetables i had cabbage only on hand , the recipe ( from Maangchi website ) calls for napa cabbage too , but i don’t have them , and i don’t have white button mushroom either , so i only used the cabbage , and then the shiitake mushroom from the stock that i made , carrots…
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Strawberry Cake with White Chocolate Whipped Cream
Made this birthday cake for our neighbour the other day . Originally i was going to make chocolate cake , but obviously i changed my mind at the last minute . Ended up with making strawberry cake , just 2 layers of strawberry cake , with dark chocolate icing in between , and then white chocolate whipped cream on the icing all over the cake . I have to say that i never worked on whipped cream icing , i usually just use french butter cream icing , or chocolate ganache icing . Doesn’t mean i never used whipped cream , i’ve used it for cakes few times ,…
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Coconut Chicken
This is another easy dish to make for weekdays. The fact that it comes with a dipping sauce or just a sauce to spice up the chicken itself , is yummy , the sauce is made from pineapple preserve , i think you can always make your own pineapple sauce if you have fresh pineapple on hand , or when pineapple is in season , but the preserve is just comes in very handy . And i thought at first pineapple preserve with jalapeno and green onion was kinda strange combination , but it turns out to be delicious and perfect pair for the chicken cutlets . Instead of using…
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Bruschetta
Made these wonderful appetizer over the summer , in fact it was so good who knows how many times i made them . Everything was on season , tomatoes was cheap , basil was grown in my own garden , the taste was so delicious , and not to mention it was so easy to make . Although i make my own french bread , but if you’re short in time , just grab the baquette from the store and you’ll have these snack / appetizers in minutes ! 6 roma (plum) tomatoes, chopped 3 cloves minced garlic 1/4 cup olive oil 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 1/4 cup fresh basil,…
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Espresso Meringue
Made these meringues few times already , so easy yet so yummy . Most of the time i only have 2-3 pieces of them just because they’re sweet , i guess that’s why it’s called meringue !! I love this kind though because it has espresso in there , i used instant espresso , and since i loved mocha / coffee stuff .. this becomes my preference compared to regular meringue which nothing but sweet . Nick also loves this ,he requested it few times already for me to make them . Anyway .. make sure your oven is in the low temperature , and after finished baking them ,…
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Lemon Meringue Pie
So i was trying to make this classic lemon meringue pie , since it’s my husband all time favorite , well it used to be his favorite until i made fruit tart not too long ago , and it became his favorite now . But still i think i still owe it to my husband to make him a real good home made lemon meringue pie . Years ago when we were just married , probably the first year , i tried to make lemon meringue pie for him , okay , not home made from scratch everything , since i bought the pie crust , and then the filling…
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Spicy Fish Soup
I was going to blog about this couple of days ago since , the soup was made few days ago , but i kept forgetting about it . But this was about the fish soup , korean spicy fish soup . Bought red snapper , that was already cleaned and gutted by the fish monger , which was excellent , meaning i don’t have to make a mess in my kitchen , i don’t have to look around if there is any flying scale , or scale landing on my hair .. eww .. yes .. gross .. I love fish , but it’s just scaling the fish was the…
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Classic Fruit Tart
Made this fruit tart this afternoon , well actually was planning to make it last night , but didn’t have enough time , we got home quite late , and fixing dinner quite late . But late last night i decided to make the fillings for this wonderful classic fruit tart . Most of the tart i saw used cream cheese as its filling , which i don’t care so much about . I love the vanilla custard that i made for eclairs , and i decided to make that custard as the filling for my fruit tart . The crust was a lil different than regular pie crust ,…
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Garlic Rosemary Roasted Chicken Legs
Since we have so many chicken legs / thighs in the freezer , i’ve been trying to circle my dinner menu this week around that . And tonight i ended up with this garlic rosemary chicken legs , so easy and less mess . I love quick fix dinner that does not require too much mess , esp. when i have to handle everything myself . My dishwasher was already busy going , so i refuse to make a complicated dinner that require a lot of washing dishes or making too much mess on the stove . This was great .. just dredge , dip and roll , and bake…
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Seafood and sausage pasta with essence cream sauce
After days and days of korean dishes on our kitchen and dining table , we decided that it’s time to take a break from korean food . LOL , not that we don’t love it , we do .. that’s the problem !! So tonight , i decided to go a little italian , sausage and seafood pasta with essence cream sauce . It was not hard , just like any other pasta dish , i used hot italian sausage and mixed seafood in this dish . The only thing i am not too happy is the fact that i had to use heavy cream for the sauce .. it…
