Monday, July 6, 2015

Fruit Bowl Salad with Honey Mint Dressing by Mahalo #Mahalo #Salad #FruitBowl #HealthyBreakfast

If you want to start your morning with a healthy breakfast, start it with the refreshing and easy to make Fruit Bowl Salad with Honey Mint Dressing.

INGREDIENTS:
  • 2 tbsp fresh mint, snipped
  • 2 tbsp lime juice
  • 2 tbsp orange juice
  • 2 tbsp honey
  • 1 small cantaloupe melon
  • 1 1/2 cups strawberries, hulled or halved or quartered
  • 3/4 cup red seedless grapes
  • 4 kiwi fruit, peeled and cut into 1/2 inch pieces
PROCEDURE:

How to make the dressing
  1. Mix all the dressing. First the juices and the honey. Add the fresh mint.
  2. Whisk all the mixes. And set aside.
Fruit Bowl Salad Mixture
  1. First get the melon, cut into half, scoop out all the seeds.
  2. Get an ice cream scoop or a spoon to scoop the flesh inside and put it in a bowl.
  3. Add all the remaining fruits, like the strawberries, kiwi, and grapes then toss it.
  4. Then add in our dressing with a lovely snipped part bits of mint.
  5. Then toss again, to give a perfect taste of a Fruit Bowl Salad with a Honey Mint Dressing.

See video here >>> RECIPE 

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

HASH BROWN POTATO CAKES RECIPE

In every occasions FOOD is the center of attraction. Crowds arriving to the table will have the opportunity to connect and savor great food to pick. Food is absolutely delicious, most especially if you have sumptuous appetizer on the table!

 An appetizer, is a small dish that stimulate your appetite to go extra hungry, then followed by the main course.


HASH BROWN POTATO CAKES is fantastic for breakfast added with bacon and also a good appetizer served with a dry hay and sour cream.
INGREDIENTS:
  1. 1/2 kg round red potatoes
  2. 1/2 medium onion, thinly sliced
  3. 1 tbsp olive oil
  4. 2 tsp fresh thyme, snipped
  5. 1/4 tsp salt
  6. 1/8 tsp ground black pepper


 PROCEDURE:

  1. Peel and washed potatoes, then shredded it coarsely,  rinsed and patted it dry.
  2. In a bowl, put the coarse potatoes add the thinly slice onions.
  3. Add the fresh thyme, this will make a great aroma and taste in our potato cake.
  4. Mixed with the olive oil and salt & pepper to taste.
  5. Prepare the skillet, medium high heat.
  6. Get 1 tablespoon of the potato mixture and carefully put it on the preheated skillet.
  7. Use spatula to flattened down the potato and flip them every 5 minutes until you achieve the golden nice brown potato cake.   
Video here >>> HOW TO MAKE HASH BROWN


Thursday, June 4, 2015

DIY S'more Recipe: A TREAT THAT YOU CAN'T RESIST #ChocolateIndulgent #S'MORE

I know summer here in the Philippines is over, but who can't resist this yummy goodness chocolate indulgent summer treat for kids?

 S'more a traditional nighttime campfire treat that is popular in the United States. This is a combination of a roasted marshmallow and a layer of two-pieces chocolate sandwiches of graham cracker.

 But you can make S'Mores, no need of a campfire, just by having it dip. Yes, a S'Mores DIP RECIPE.
S'MORE A TREAT THAT YOU CAN'T RESIST


Photo by BUZZFEED

Yields 1 (9-inch skillet)

  • 2 cups dark chocolate or chocolate chips
  • 1 cup jumbo Marshmallow
  • Graham crackers(for dipping)

A very quick and easy to prepare treat for kids that you will surely love!

 Watch video here on how to make it.



















  

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Top 5 Drinks To Be Avoided #WorstDrinks #DietDisasters

I'm enrolled in a diet plan and after exercising and dieting, it is easy for us to grab a drink just to quench our thirst and tiredness. But after learning this from SHAPE, I guarantee--- you won't attempt to drink again.



FLAVORED WATER

There are a lot like this in the market, flavored and infused. Most of this, you can read at the back of the labels have added few extra vitamins but most of it are sugars.

 So be careful in buying flavored waters that says it has a lot of vitamins,.good for the body. CHECK THE LABEL, if you see that it is more on water and sugar then leave it on the fridge. DO NOT BUY IT!
DIET SODA


How many of us were to believe about this drink, SUGAR FREE and LOW or ZERO CALORIES? Oh c'mon! Maybe all of us were hypnotized with this campaign.

 I have a friend who is addicted with cola, she drinks diet coke all day, not thinking that for every drink she might damage her body.

 Let us say its TRUE, that it has zero calories and indeed a diet cola, but we have also to discipline our self, that drinking too much of this can destroy our self too!
FRUIT SMOOTHIES

I'm sure everyone will be shock about this. Yes, fruits are healthy and it is good for us, especially those who are in to a diet.

 Let us say, eating whole pineapple or the entire mango and a cup of strawberries and grapes in just one sitting. How many calories you have there? Too much consumption of sugar content but fewer intake of a fiber and proteins plus 700 calories??? My gosh!

 Those calories will be stored in our fat cells, now you have to burn it again and again by exercising.

LEMONADE

Lemonade in an artificial flavoring pack.

 Well you can buy this one in the market. Just add water then mix and there you have your lemonade drink. A cup of lemonade is composed of 100 calories, plus six teaspoon of sugar and zero nutrients--- you are just drinking a liquid candy. Not good, most especially if that pack is added with a magic sugar. Whew! Very bad!
ENERGY DRINK



If we're tired we need energy, and to give us that kind of boost we need "ENERGY DRINK".

 Problem is that most energy drinks are loaded with too much caffeine and sugar. Even if they say, they have less caffeine and no sugar added but still they will give you short-term burst of energy.



For me, too much is not good. Limit your intake and if you need something to boost your energy and at the same time help you with your diet just drink 8 glasses of water per day, or sip a cup of a green tea and snacking a handful of a walnuts.


*Source: Shape 


    

Saturday, April 4, 2015

Black Rice Pudding #LentenMeal #GoodFriday #HolySaturday

Read a lots of shout-outs in Facebook about someone having BINIGNIT and BIKO for Good Friday and Holy Saturday.

Each households are busy preparing and helping in dicing, grating, slicing of ingredients. Even the smell of our house and some of my neighborhood tells that their are also cooking BINIGNIT and BIKO.

These are some of the foods identified as food for the Holy Week. Why? Because no meat in observance of this religious occasion. 

Last year we had also Binignit and Biko, and its like we had binignit and biko the whole week, ended up bloated. So, I tell my mom if she is going to cook again binignit and biko this time kindly give some to other neighbors who haven't nothing to eat at all.

Though it was indeed popular in my hometown, I prefer this BLACK RICE PUDDING for a change, as my #BLACKFRIDAY meal.

I saw this recipe from Veronica's Cornucopia Site, and I adore her pudding recipe.

(C) Black Rice Pudding 



You can print recipe HERE


This is another healthy recipe that you can enjoy. A dessert that is full of antioxidants, more than a blueberries.



  

Sunday, March 29, 2015

Mango Sago Dessert Recipe #Dessert #MangoSago

I had a great time celebrating a graduation party of my niece, led by people who really love her---her parents and relatives - and most importantly me, who entirely believe when I said she can do it all the way in college.

 Usually, her parents love to make a party for every achievements she received in school. And most of their food was presented with some seafoods, pork lechon, pansit, rice, gruel's, caldereta, etc..food that makes a Filipino party tons of gustatory or the unmatchable thrill of food tasting.

 In my sense, it's gets a little harder all the time to see this usual recipes in the table, but I was stop to see a bowl of mango custard full of chewy sago pearls.


Most of the time, I saw mango float, maja blanca or buko salad as a dessert serve in every party I attended.

 And this is very easy to do recipe, and this is perfect for warm weather here in the Philippines.
MANGO SAGO RECIPE

Ingredients:
  • 1/4 cup small sago pearls
  • 3 to 4 tbsps sugar(brown sugar)
  • 2 cups water
  • 2/3 cups evaporated milk
  • 6 tbsps coconut cream/milk(optional)
  • 1 cup of mango puree or juice
  • 2 mangoes, sliced in cube
PROCEDURE in cooking the sago pearls:
  1. Soak the pearls in a bowl of water for 30 minutes.
  2. Boil water in a saucepan in add the sago(medium heat), boil for 3-5 minutes, stirring consistently. Then open the lid and let it stand for 30 minutes(turn low heat) until sago is transparent.
  3. Run cold running water on the sago to keep it cool and not to overcooked.
  4. Drain the sago in a colander.
Making the Mango Sago
  1. Dissolve the sugar with water in a saucepan.
  2. Cool the sugar-water mixture before adding the evaporated milk and mango puree. Stir well.
  3. For base consistency, just add water or milk, depending your taste.
  4. Add the mango cubes.
  5. Chill in the refrigerator and serve.
  6. If you want, you can add ice cubes to make a cool and refreshing dessert.


In my cousins case, she did not use coconut cream/milk. For too much of coconut milk or a cream isn't healthy. Here's the sample of her recipe taken from MANGO SAGO DESSERT, where she copied the recipe.

(C) Mango Sago Dessert

  

Friday, March 13, 2015

Boneless Bangus Tocino Recipe

Fish Tocino is a healthy alternative way to provide for our kids instead of pork tocino.

Tocino dish is a popular meal for kids for their baon and love by most of the mother's because it is easy to prepare and cook.

 Got so excited when I saw the Boneless Bangus Tocino recipe at Business Diary.






Ingredients:
  • 2 pieces boneless bangus
  • 2 tbsp. calamansi or lemon juice
  • 1 tsp. garlic powder
  • 1 tsp. iodized salt(sea salt)(to taste)
  • 2 tbsp. sugar
  • 2 tbsp. anisado wine(or you can use pernod)
  • 1/4 tsp. ground white pepper
  • 1/4 tsp. prague powder(pink salt) OPTIONAL

Procedure:

  • Just combine all the ingredients, marinate fish in the mixture for 24hrs or for at least one day.
  • Fry and served with salted egg and steamed rice, dip in vinegar.


 I went to the market and buy boneless bangus(slice thinly). I hurried home and follow the procedures in marinating the Boneless Bangus Tocino, left it for a day. 

 The next day, I cook the marinated fish tocino and my kids love the taste so much.


You can do business with this recipe too!

 Healthy way to eat tocino.



Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Friendly Rice Recipe For Diabetic

It doesn't mean that you are diabetic person you no longer allowed to eat rice or cut out rice to your diet. You can eat rice, but not the starchy one. 

 Most preferably, a diabetic person is advisable to eat whole grain rice such as BROWN RICE.

 Brown rice is rich in Vitamin B and antioxidants. This Friendly Rice Recipe can help you maintain proper diet without altering the taste of the food.

SPANISH STYLE RICE
VIEW RECIPE

 So healthy to eat, and very quick to cook just add some chicken to make a low-calorie and low-fat recipe into a FULL MEAL.
SPICY VEGETABLE FRIED RICE

VIEW RECIPE

 Want to have a spicy hot meal? Try this spicy recipe, added with a little Sriracha sauce that gives a punch of peppery taste to your rice and vegetable meal.
ASIAN TURKEY RICE SOUP
VIEW RECIPE

 It is also called the easy and slow cook recipe. All you need is to: chop, stir, set, stir again and viola you will have a low-calorie rice soup.
RICE PUDDING with APRICOTS 
and a CHERRY SWIRL
VIEW RECIPE

 I love this kind of a pudding("lugaw" in our local dialect here in the Philippines), because this dish is a yummy mixed with sweets. A fruity pudding for snack or it can be a guilt-free dessert.
CAULIFLOWER RICE CAKES
VIEW RECIPE

 Who loves munchies?! This is a crispy, low-calorie, low carb-snack dip in a creamy pesto sauce.

 So healthy recipes, especially made for diabetic patient.

 Make a healthy food choices that can help you prevent, control, and even reverse diabetes.
Source: DIABETIC LIVING ONLINE

    

Sunday, March 1, 2015

How To Make a Classic Healthy Lasagna

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What can be more satisfying feeling and affable than lasagna? You can eat it anytime and anywhere, because it's easy to make or even easier to buy because it is available in the market or in a fast food chain.

Lasagna is a wide, flat-shaped pasta and one of the oldest types of pasta. It is composed of a sausage, ground beef and three types of cheese cooked into perfection. For some, this kind of food is not healthy, because its full of fat and calories not good for the body.

Be healthy and wise, that's the point I get from Eating Well. You can still eat your favorite lasagna but need to cut some of the ingredients that have a lot of FAT and CALORIES and by adding FIBER from lasagna without sacrificing its flavor.

(C) Sausage, Mushroom and Spinach Lasagna


  • Light Lasagna Pasta  - use this to increase fiber
  • Italian full-flavored Sausage - instead of pork sausage to cut saturated fats.
  • Frozen spinach - to add more nutrients and add volume to a minimum amount of calories.
  • Add more Mushrooms - this is to replace meaty sausages, mushrooms have a "meaty" taste and flavor as satisfying, but have less calories and fat.
  • Shredded Part-skim cheese - instead of full fat cheese, this will reduce calories and saturated fat    

INGREDIENTS

Meat Sauce

1/2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
4 ounces hot or sweet Italian turkey sausages, remove the casings
2 onions, finely chopped
1 carrot, finely chopped
12 ounces of mushrooms, clean and chopped
2 cloves minced garlic
1/8 tsp salt
Freshly ground pepper, to taste
1/4 cup dry red wine 
2 28-ounce cans drained and chopped plum tomatoes
1/2 cup sun-dried tomatoes(not packed in oil), silvered
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tsp dried basil
1 tsp dried thyme
1/4 tsp crushed red pepper, to taste

PASTA & CHEESE FILLING

8 Light Lasagna Pasta, 8 ounces
2 cups nonfat ricotta cheese
1/8 tsp salt
Freshly ground pepper, to taste
Ground nutmeg, to taste
1 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella
1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
2 tbsps chopped fresh parsley


PREPARATION
  1. To prepare meat sauce: Heat oil in a large heavy pot or Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add sausage and let it cook for 3-5 minutes, wait until browned. Then reduce the heat to medium add onions and carrot, cook to 2-3 minutes, by stirring frequently until softened. Add the mushrooms and garlic, saute and season with salt and pepper. For 4-6 minutes cook and stir frequently, until mushrooms liquid evaporates.
  2. Stir in wine, plum tomatoes, sun-dried tomatoes, basil, thyme and crushed red pepper. Bring to a simmer, reduce heat to low, cover and simmer, stirring occasionally for 45 minutes. Leave it uncovered and cook for 30-45 minutes, by stirring frequently, until sauce is very thick. Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper.
  3. To prepare for the filling & assemble lasagna: Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat a 9 by 13 inch baking dish with cooking spray.
  4. Cook noodles for about 10 minutes until just tender or according to package directions. Drain, then let it cool down by plunging noodles into a large bowl of ice cold water. Lay the noodles out on a kitchen towels.
  5. Season ricotta with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Spread about 1 1/2 cups meat sauce in the prepared pan. Layer 3 noodles on top. Spread another 1 cup sauce over the noodles. And about 2/3 cup ricotta over the sauce, then sprinkle with 1/4 cup mozzarella and 2 tbsps Parmesan. Continue layering the noodles, sauce and cheese, finishing with the sauce, mozzarella and Parmesan. Sprinkle with parsley, cover with foil.
  6. Bake the lasagna for about 35-45 minutes until the sauce is bubbling. Uncover the bake for 5-10 minutes, until golden. Let it cool down for another 10 minutes before cutting and serve.


TIPS & NOTES:

Prepare through STEP 5. Cover and refrigerate for up to 2 days or freeze for up to 3 months. Thaw before baking.

HEALTHY FACTS & NUTRITION

This lasagna recipe has lots of flavors but less fat and calories. As per serving: CALORIES: 357, FAT: 8 g or 3g sat, 2 g mono), CHOLESTEROL: 32 mg, CARBOHYDRATES: 46 g, PROTEIN: 22 g, FIBER: 9 g, SODIUM: 698 mg, POTASSIUM: 396 mg

It has a Nutritional Bonus of a FIBER(36% Daily Value), CALCIUM(30% dv)

CARBOHYDRATE SERVINGS: 2 1/2


source: EatingWell  

    


Friday, February 20, 2015

Moringa (Malunggay) Milk Shake Recipe

A simple way to make a Malunggay Milk Shake. Have all the ingredients and follow the steps in making it.
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Ingredients: 
1 cup fresh malunggay leaves, washed 
2 to 3 tablespoons powdered filled milk 
2 to 3 tablespoons of sugar (white/brown) 
2 cups water

Steps:
Boil the water in the pan. 
When the water came to a boil, add the malunggay leaves. Cover the pan and let it simmer for 1 minute. Do not overcook the leaves. 
After that, remove the pan from the fire. 
Transfer the contents of the pan into a bowl. Separate the cooked malunggay leaves and set aside to cool. Do not throw the water. 
Prepare the blender. Once the cooked malunggay leaves and the water had cooled down, put them all in the blender together with the powdered milk and the sugar. 
Blend until all ingredients are totally liquified. Transfer to a glass and consume at once. Do not store for more that 30 minutes after blending.
Source: Answers.com

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Pomelo Noodles

Hello! It's been so long that I haven't updated my site here, because I am looking for a unique recipe that I can share, that will entice your taste.

 Here's a dish that I've receive via email from 101 Cook Books.


POMELO NOODLES

(C) 101 COOK BOOK


This is an interesting lunch meal good for those who are into a healthy diet. Simply noodles, salad greens, easing dressing(not oily), peanuts and pomelo. Just give it a toss and you are all set.





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