rush whole wheat bread

ingredients:

• 1 to 1 1/4 cups lukewarm water
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 6 tbsp. brown sugar
• 3 1/2 cups King Arthur Premium 100% Whole Wheat Flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons instant yeast, or 1 packet active dry yeast
• 1/4 cup nonfat skim milk
• 1/4 cup orange juice
• 1 1/4 teaspoons salt

how to:

put all ingredients in the sunbeam bread maker (as photo shown below)

 1. plug the power chord and press menu

2. choose #3 for type of bread (french is #3)

3. choose light for the color

4. press start

the bread maker will do its own magic in less than 4 hours

happy baking and have a wonderful day! 

we both just had one. :)

Azil's Winter Soup

looks sumptuous but very affordable and wondrous soup on a winter

Ingredients: 

Turkey dark meat (wings or neck part to get the right flavor)

Margherita Turkey Pepperoni (a handful)

Birds Eye Steam fresh Brussels Sprouts (a handful or at least 7 pcs.)

Birds Eye Sweet Kernel Corn (3/4 cup)

Birds Eye Sweet Garden Peas (1/2 cup)

Baby spinach (a handful)

Medium-sized Red Onion (for onions in the US, please use 1/8 part only)

Ginger (sliced or diced)

RED Potatoes (or any available in your area - 1 sliced in 4 cuts)

Water (2 1/2 cups)

Salt and or ground pepper to taste

Cooking Procedure:

1.) Cook turkey dark meat in 2 1/2 cups of water.

2.) Once in boiling point, add sliced/minced ginger. 

3.) Wait until the meat is tender. 

4.) Add potatoes and onion.

5.) Let it boil then after 3 minutes, add brussels sprouts, peas and corn kernels.

6.) Put salt and or pepper to taste. Personally, I don't use ground pepper on my diet but it can be added in this soup if you want.

7.) Serve hot.

Bon Appétit! :)

re-united at last!

after a year-long wait, we finally made it happen! 

this is where we were trying to look for call card so i can let my family in the Philippines know i'm 
so safe in my baby's loving hands. 











at Ruby Tuesday after a 3-hour winter coats hunting...we were starving, food was half eaten before we remember we should take photos together to let our loved ones back in the Philippines know we're fine! ♥ ♥ ♥

starving no mo...
we made sure we have enough groceries, 
got great and organic food and other necessary stuffs before thanksgiving!

kimchi

thanks to kitchen wench for the recipe!

i made the sauce while i was soaking the cabbage with salt

(i must have put so much salt on the cabbage)

i rinsed it well anyways so no worries 

the only thing i did not do as advised by kitchen wench is to use the blender.

i did the labor of love
- manual blending and artsy cutting of ingredients rock!

and...the end-result?

kimchi sauce

cabbage soaked in salt

now safe in my ref! :)

have a wonderful hotta hottie 27th monthsary, babylove ko!

-kimchi lady :)

oh for those who's buying, each bottle is worth a hundred pesos! :)

my very own spaghetti

the end-result - not just my ordinary spaghetti..
it's my very own carrot spaghetti recipe!!!
 enjoy!
♥♥♥

ingredients:

1 kilo spaghetti italiani noodles

1/2 kilo of beef ground round by monterey

1 pack of hunt's spaghetti sauce (parmesan cheese)

1 pack of nestle all purpose cream

1 white large onion, chopped

1 head of garlic, minced

3 tablespoon of olive oil

2 large bell pepper (red & green), diced

2 carrots, diced

1/2 teaspoon of salt to taste

2 tablespoons of brown sugar

1 glass of alaska evaporated milk

1/2 glass of water

cheese (optional)

how to:

1. boil water with salt and oil to cook spaghetti noodles and wait till it's al dente, ensure to rinse with running / tap colder water (set aside)

2. in a wok, heat up olive oil then sauté your prepared garlic and onions
3. add ground beef, bell pepper and half glass of water - bring to a boil and let simmer for 10 minutes then add carrots and let it simmer for a minute
4. add tomato sauce (with parmesan cheese), salt to taste then let simmer for another 10 minutes
5. pour in evap milk and mix with the all purpose cream then add brown sugar 
6. continue to simmer for about 5 minutes
7.  serve with the cooked spaghetti noodles
and grated cheese on top (optional).
 ♥♥♥