My Friday Recipes

21 January 2011 This recipe came from my mom whose cooking I so admired. She said the years of marriage perfects ones cooking, and so I hope for it myself. It was every Sunday that she surprised us with new recipes that can tickle our taste buds since it was the day that all of us were complete. I would come home from the Metro where I was studying, excited to be with my family again. It was such a joyful moment to see our family sitting down at our dining table happily eating together. Of course, we never fail to appreciate mommy's new food that is why they are becoming more delicious the next Sundays. And from her smiles we know her heart is more full than our tummies. So I cooked this one for my hubby for the 3rd Friday of January--my Chicken Pastel which made his tummy full too! Ingredients: Chopped garlic Chopped onions Green bell pepper sliced into small squares Potatoes sliced into cubes Carrots sliced into circles Pineapple chunks and its juice Sliced hotdogs

14 January 2011 Four Christmases ago, me and my best friends got together on an afternoon cooking date. We never cooked together before so we were very thrilled to start. Excited, we went on the nearby grocery store in our small city and bought the ingredients for Fettuccine Alfredo. Much to our delight, most of the ingredients we needed were out of stock because of the holiday season's demands. After which we just laughed it out and bought substitute ingredients for our dish hoping that it will still taste as good. And so we went on and cooked the pasta, having a good time while cooking. We underestimated ourselves and expected we're not going to make it perfect. But when it was done, lucky are we! It tastes really yummy! As I reminisce those funny and yummy memories with my best friends, I would really love to have a taste of it again and now with my hubby. Now here's my own version of it... Spinach Fettuccine Alfredo for my second Friday: Ingredients: 500 grams Sp

7 January 2011 I was able to eat my first Bibimbap when I worked for the Korean Embassy Manila right after college. Our Korean bosses often treated us for lunch and one time they ordered me this Korean rice bowl topping. It looks too Filipino for me, with all the veggies on top of white rice, but the spicy taste made it all truly Korean. I haven't got the chance to eat Bibimbap again since I left the embassy until me and my husband's couple friends invited us for dinner in their house and they served us this favorite Korean cuisine. Home made Bibimbap, and a little less spicy, still tastes so good that I want to try cooking it myself. After all, I realized I missed Korean foods! So here goes... Bibimbap recipe for my first Friday of cooking: Ingredients: (note: T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) 1. For the meat:  Thin sliced lean meat (either chicken, pork or beef) 2 cloves crushed garlic 2 chopped green onions 5 T soy sauce 2 T sugar 2 T oil 1 T sesame oil 1 t sesame s

It is every Friday that people tend to go night out, hopping on different restaurants and bars, staying out late to eat and enjoy the last working night of the week and say to oneself, T.G.I.F.! But for stay at home wives and moms (like me) who are nursing a baby while waiting for hubby to come home, could not pretty much enjoy such kind of Friday date. So I thought, why not make Friday home dinners as special? And since it is the start of a new year (it's 2011!), I realized there is no better opportunity to start a new goal but now. So to have a new taste to our dinners every Friday, I bid myself to search and cook new recipes at home. At least new to me and my husband's (who, by the way, loves to eat) taste buds. Enjoy!