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Chicken Cordon Bleu

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25 March 2011 What you will need for the chicken cordon bleu: Chicken breast, thin sliced Sweet ham Cheese Bread Crumbs Eggs (with pinch of salt) Flour What you will need for the creamy sauce: 2 tbsp butter 2 tbsp flour 1 cup of milk 1/4 cup grated cheese How to do it: 1. Place sweet ham and cheese on top of chicken breast, roll and secure with toothpicks on both ends. 2. Deep it in flour, then in eggs, and in bread crumbs. Make sure it is finely breaded. 3. Deep fry it until golden brown. Remove toothpicks. 4. Cut one roll into several circles and serve. 5. To make the sauce, heat butter, add the milk and wait to boil. Add the flour and grated cheese and stir until thick. Dinner is served.

Deviled Eggs

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18 March 2011 This is not really a dinner recipe but since we already had dinner tonight outside, I decided to make these funny-looking eggs for our night snacks, which I found in one of the cookbooks in the house. What you'll need: Hard boiled eggs Mayonnaise Salt & white pepper Grated cheese How to do it: 1. Boil eggs 2. Cut in half lengthwise. Make sure the egg white is even. Then take out the yellow part of the egg. 3. Mash the yellow part with mayonnaise, salt & white pepper. 4. Put back the mixture in the egg white and serve .

Fish Fillet with Tartar Sauce

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11 March 2011 My husband and I attended a wedding reception recently and we tasted this very delicious Fish Fillet. I researched the how-to's and here it goes: For the fish fillet, you will need:   Fish Fillet, cut in cubes Eggs (with pinch of salt) Cornstarch Bread Crumbs For the tartar sauce, you will need: 1 cup mayonnaise Sweet Pickle Relish Red & Green Bell Pepper 1/3 cup water 1 tbsp sugar Steps: 1. To make the fish fillet, deep them first in cornstarch, then in eggs and roll in bread crumbs. Make sure the whole fillet is breaded. 2. Deep-fry in heated oil until golden brown. 3. To make the sauce, just mix all the ingredients. Dinner is served.

Fresh Lumpia

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4 March 2011 I got this very yummy recipe from my sister-in-law and my husband and I both love it! For the wrapper, you will need: 3 Eggs Dash of salt 1 ½ cup water 1 cup cornstarch For the sauce, you will need: Minced garlic 4 tbsp soy sauce 1 cup brown sugar 4 cups water 5 tbsp cornstarch   For the stuffins, you will need: Ground Pork Togue Carrots Singkamas Cabbage or Lettuce Peanuts Steps: 1. For the wrapper, just mix all the ingredients and heat 1/4 cup separately in a non-stick pan until all is consumed.  Makes 8-10 wrappers. 2. For the sauce, also mix all the ingredients in a separate pan and boil until thick. 3. For the stuffins, saute in a separate pan with vegetable oil, minced garlic & onions. Add salt and pepper to taste. 4. Wrap the stuffins in your lumpia wrapper, add the sauce and sprinkle with crashed peanuts on top. Dinner is served.

Fried Tilapia with Sauce

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25 February 2011 Ingredients: 1 Whole Tilapia fish, deep fried Sesame oil 2 garlic cloves, crushed 2 tsp grated ginger 2 small green onion, minced 1 green bell pepper, sliced 2 tbsp soy sauce 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 tbsp Kikkoman Soy Sauce 1/2 cup water Steps: 1. Deep fry tilapia until golden brown. 2. For the sauce, heat sesame oil in a small saucepan. 3. Add the garlic, ginger, green bell pepper and cook for a minute. 4. Add soy sauce, kikkoman soy sauce, lemon juice, water and cook for 3 minutes. 5. Coat the fried tilapia with the sauce and serve in banana leaves. Dinner is served.

Chopseuy de Leche

18 February 2011 Ingredients: Vegetables – broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, string beans, sayote, cabbage 2 tbsp sesame oil Onions and garlic, minced 1 cup water ¼ cup evap milk Salt and pepper Steps: 1. Saute garlic and onions on sesame oil. 2. Add all the vegetables at once. 3. Add the water, salt and pepper. Wait until the vegetables are tender. 4. Add the milk and wait to simmer.  Dinner is served.

Chicken Yakitori

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11 February 2011 This recipe is a request of my husband. I let him choose from the Asian Favorites cookbook of our friend and he pointed out this Chicken Yakitori. Sounds very Japanese to us. Well, this is supposed to be a finger food as directed in the book, but I made it as a dinner dish. So here goes the Chicken Yakitori for the second Friday of February: Ingredients: 1 lb chicken breasts sliced lengthwise *for marinade: 1/2 cup teriyaki sauce 1/4 cup honey 1 garlic clove, crushed 1/2 tsp ginger, ground oil for greasing Steps: 1. Marinade the chicken breasts with the teriyaki sauce, honey, garlic and ginger overnight. 2. Heat barbecue grill or electric grill and grease lightly with oil. 3. Place the chicken in a row and cook for 2 minutes on each side, brushing with marinade as they cook, and when turned. 4. Wait until chicken is golden brown or well done and serve with rice. Dinner is served.