Tender Juicy Hotdogs

I woke up early this morning to breakfast for the family.  Our helpers have been utilizing their week long day off and as a mom, I got no other choice but to be on a complete mommy mode.  I was supposed to cook pancakes for the kids but then my eldest daughter woke up and said she wants some hotdogs and eggs for breakfast.  So its the hotdog syndrome again! Have you ever wondered how to make a very good and juicy hotdog for breakfast? Simple yet...

Jennifer Lopez - On The Floor ft. Pitbull

Yummy Cheesy Chicken Pastel

Ingredients needed:

• One 1 1/2 kilo chicken, cut intocubes
• 3 potatoes, diced
• 1 carrot, diced
• 1cup button mushrooms
• 1 green bell pepper, sliced in strips
• 1/2 cup sweet peas
• 1 onion, minced
• 1/2 cup grated cheese
• 1 oz butter
• 2 cups chicken stock (broth)
• 1/2 cup evaporated milk
• 4 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 lemon extract (juice)
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch mixed in 1/4 cup water
• Salt and pepper to taste
  
  
  Cooking Instructions: 
  1. In a bowl, marinate chicken lemon juice and soy sauce for an hour. (better if you marinade for more than an hour if you have ample time)
  2. In a skillet, melt butter and fry the chicken cubes.
  3. Set aside.
  4. Sauté onion, bell pepper and mushrooms till onion is golden brown.
  5. Add chicken broth.
  6. Simmer for 15 minutes or until chicken is tender. 
  7. Add potatoes, carrots, sweet peas, 1/4 cup of the grated cheese and milk.
  8. Add cornstarch mix.
  9. Continue cooking for 10 minutes then add pepper and salt to taste.
  10. Add 1/4 cup grated cheese on top of the dish
  11. Serve with garnishing.

The Little Chef in Me

I decided to create this blog to share my ideas about cooking and food industry. I love to eat and cook but then time and career as a professional has equipped me to freeze my noble interest. Thanks to the inspiration given to me by my mother. When she died, I had a realization that it is now my responsibility to relive the moments of her cooking days. No one else would cook our favorite pasta such as spaghetti and carbonara, noodle meals such as pancit palabok and pancit malabon, steamed fish and relyenong bangus, liempo, leche flan, bread pudding, pichi-pichi, siopao, siomai, rice cakes, cup cakes, buco pandan, fruit salad, fresh salad, hearty and munchy sandwhiches, menudo, caldereta, lengua, paella and so many more dishes that seems to be never ending!

This realization started during her wake. We cannot decide what to prepare for our guests. We had no choice but to go to the grocery, spend 10,000plus per day for the food and serve only but cupcakes, noodles and biscuits. As her children, we realized, this is not what our mother serves our guests. My mom has been a very good host and she never fails in every ocassion. So from that day on, we realize we had to prepare something else. My husband and I started making sandwiches for the guests, microwaved food for breakfast, lunch and dinner, which primarily is for the family members present during the wake and fruit salad for desert. But the microwaved food didn't turn out to be like microwaved food. It was like, professionally done just like what my mom did and so we said as a couple, this is it! We have to continue the legacy.

Fortunately, these days we have been accepting orders of relyeno (stuffed fish) and is doing very well. Pasta meals such as carbonaras, pesto and spaghetti is a win-win prophecy for those who would like affordable food served during birthdays and mini parties. Rice meals is also a hit! We are now in the process of creating new stuff and recipes for rice meals. Pastries such as cup cakes and mini cakes in carrot flavor, chocolate and mocha has been a favorite of kids during celebrations. Leche flan, bread pudding and fruit salad has become an addictive delicacy for our friends and relatives during celecrations. The food business that my mother has opened for us, created not just doors but windows too! It has not just created business for our family but also has given me the opportunity to continue the legacy and create the little chef in me. :)

-Mommy's Little Chef