Food trip friday

French's Green Beans Casserole




Ingredients:

1 (10 3/4 oz.) can cream of mushroom soup

3/4 cup milk

1/8 tsp. black pepper

1 can cut green beans

1 1/3 cups FRENCH'S® Original or Cheddar French Fried Onions

Directions:

Mix soup, milk and pepper in a 1 1/2 -qt. baking dish. Stir in beans and 2/3 cup French Fried Onions.

Bake at 350°F for 30 min. or until hot.

Stir. Top with remaining 2/3 cup onions. Bake 5 min. until onions are golden.





Fiesta Chicken

Ingredients
2 tablespoons oil
3 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breast and cut into 1" pieces
1 medium onion, chopped
1 large green pepper, chopped
3 cloves garlic minced
1 small jalapeno pepper finely chopped (optional)
2 diced tomatoes
1/4 teaspoon cumin
cucumber

Directions
Heat oil in skillet, cook chicken pieces until browned. Remove and drain
Place onion, green pepper, garlic and jalapeno pepper in skillet and saute until slightly cooked
Add all ingredients to crock-pot and stir to combine
Cover, cook on low 6-8 hours or on high 3-4 hours. Serve on flour tortillas and enjoy with Ranch :)

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My Valentine Date

Sirloin and Lobster



Sirlon and Deep fried Shrimp




Ube Halaya Cake

Valentine is a special day for the couple and not only for the couple of course..this is also a time to share and be with the people close to your heart. I have a family and friends whom I love so dearly and I treasure them so much. I know not only of this day that you can celebrate valentine, when your in love, everyday is a valentine and it always nice to receive a flower, chocolate and dinner in a fancy restaurant of girl like me..but the best of them all is that they show you how important you are and something that would make you feel the essence of being a woman in love and as a family bonding too..

I was preparing for a dinner valentine that suddenly somebody knock in our door and that was the 'UPS' guy and hand me the box and to my surprise , (12) dozen of roses with chocolate..from my husband..'how so sweet' ..XOXo..and he got a reservation in a fancy restaurant..I supposed to suprise him for making a nice dinner but instead I was suprised of what he did to me...I really enjoyed that night we had and the food was awesome :)

Charice- Home for Valentine

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Roasted Butternut Squash with goat's cheese

Roasted Butternut Squash with goat's cheese


A Fantastic vegetarian main packed with veggies and smothered with melted goat's cheese..Free of Meat


Ingredients

2 small butternut squash
garlic cloves, crushed
3 tbsp olive oil
a pinch dried chillies flakes
1 tsp thyme, chopped
courgettes, cut into 2cm chunks
red peppers, cut into 2cm chunks
2 small red onion, cut into thin wedges
200g cherry tomatoes
50g pine nuts
100 goat's cheese, crumbled
1 tsbp breadcrumbs
1 tbsp parsley, chopped
1 tbsp parmesan


Method

1. Heat the oven to 200c/fan 180c/gas 6.
Cut the squash in half and scoop out the seeds then cut criss-cross pattern over the cut-side of each one. Mix together the garlic, 2 tbsp olive oil, chili and thyme and brush this mixture over the flesh. Bake for about 30-40 minutes until the flesh is tender.

2. To make the filling, put the courgette, pepper and onion in a roasting tin and drizzle with 1 tbsp olive oil. Season and roast for about 20- 25 minutes until tender and starting to brown at the edges. Add the cherry tomatoes and pine nuts and cook for another 10 minutes.

3. Mix the breadcrumbs, parsley and parmesan. Arrange the roasted vegetables and goat's cheese in the squash halves, scatter with the breadcrumb mix and bake for a further 10 minutes or until golden and bubbling.

Lumpiang Tikoy with Nutella

This time I will share this craziness desserts for my left over Tikoy
And you can try this too..it taste good especially when you dip in a honey sauce..

Recipe
Leftover Tikoy
Nutella
egg roll wrapper
cooking oil
Honey

Just spread nutella in a tikoy
Wrap each tikoy with nutella and fry
Sprinkle with honey sauce and enjoy with your favorite drinks or tea :)

HomeMade Tikoy

Lumpiang tikoy with nutella (I made some for my leftover tikoy)


'Kung Hei Fat Choi'...Spring festival, or what is more known as the Chinese New Year, is considered one of the most important events in China. The celebration is based on the lunar calendar, so that the first day of the lunar year marks the Chinese New Year. Thus, the event falls between late January to early February. The celebration begins on the eve of the lunar new year and continues on until the fifth day of the lunar calendar's first month. Next will come the lantern festival. This year Chinese New Year falls on February 3; the Year of the Rabbit.
'Tikoy' Nián gāo, Year cake or Chinese New Year's cake is a food prepared from glutinous rice and consumed in Chinese cuisine, traditionally it is most popular during Chinese New Year. It is considered good luck to eat.
Since I'm here in USA and it's hard to find here 'the ready made Tikoy'. So instead i made my own..Made from Scratch..enjoy!! I love Tikoy and I miss it since Binondo was close to our hometown before

Here's the recipe



3 cups sweet rice or malagkit na bigas
1/2 panocha or 1 cups brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar (white)
2 1/2 water
2 teaspoon cornstarch
cooking oil
sesame seeds
dates (optional)

Procedure
1. First Soak (ibabad ang malagkit na bigas with 1 cup of water sa blender hanggang sa lumaki or ma-drain un water) then another 1 cup of water to grate until it becomes sticky ( or pinong pino na un bigas sa blender)

2. Place in a bowl and mix sugar, salt, corn starch and panocha..stir it until so sticky and you can add a litte water if its too sticky

3.Spray a round baking pan with oil spray and place on a steamer

4. Steam on medium heat for 1-2 hours

5. Refrigerate until firm. Slice thinly and dip in beaten egg before frying and( if you want more sweet ..roll in a plate of sugar before dip in beaten egg and fry it)..enjoy!!



for panocha

boiled water and drop panocha until the panocha is melting and continue stirring and pour in a sweet rice mixture