Kitchen Deelite

Archive for May, 2009

My version of Adobong Kangkong
The vinegar and soy sauce combination gives this dish a piquant flavor. The perfect accompaniment for it is a bowl of steaming hot white rice.. Yum!

Recipe below:
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Eyes are the most precious possessions for every one. Taking care of our eye area, where some of the most sensitive skin in our body is found, is important to include in our skin care regimen.

A good natural eye cream can help to keep our eyes healthy and sparkling. But how can we find the best eye creams? You may want to read the research and analysis from besteyecreams.org. They reviewed eye creams according to some criteria.

For natural ways, some of the most effective includes:

- Using cucumber: Cucumber mainly contains Vitamin A and C, magnesium and calcium, which are very helpful for eyes. You can use cucumber water or thin slices of cucumber to apply on the skin around your eyes, particularly if your skin looks dry in that particular area.
- Milk: Milk is natural and also safe cleanser for the eyes. Take a clean cotton ball and dip in milk. Use this dipped cotton ball to clean your eyes.
- Rose water: Like milk, rose water can be used for cleansing your eyes. It eliminates dirt and harmful pollutants and induces fresh glow to our eyes.

Last Wednesday night, we met an old friend who went here in Hong Kong for 3-day vacation… and we had dinner at Causeway Bay (I forgot the name of the restaurant), which cooked the best stir fried crabs… and here it is:

We ordered 2 crabs and they cut it already…. See the garlic, it’s so crispy and really yummy!

Once you go here in Hong Kong you have to try this one… highly recommended, hehe…

Enjoy the weekend….

food friday

#1. Anele’s question. Do you have a natural ability to cook or do you feel you just “get by?”
~ Looks like it gets by for me.

#2. Why do you buy the size eggs that you buy?
~ we usually buy the Japan eggs the comes in 6 and that’s the only size they have.

#3. Do you have any cooking “rules”?
~ none.

#4. Fresh corn. Yellow, white or bicolored?
~ yellow.

Happy Weekend!

…. anyone??

Happy Wordless….

wordless wednesday …. Join here.

… it should be quail eggs but then I don’t have it so I use the regular eggs instead, hehe… still yummy!

I have there pork, carrots, beans and baby corn…

Enjoy the weekend….

food friday

#1. Do you celebrate Memorial Day with a picnic, cookout, road trip or some other way?
~ We don’t have Memorial Day from where I’m living now.

#2. What are staples at your summer time cookouts?
~ hotdogs, barbeque

#3. What drink do you find most refreshing on a hot summer day?
~ Ice Lemon tea

#4. Share a recipe for a picnic side dish.
~ found this from www.picnic-basket.com.

Salsa Explosion
(makes 2 servings)

# Ingredients 1/4 cup chopped red onions
# 2 tablespoons chopped green bell peppers
# 1/2 clove(s) garlic, minced
# 1 1/2 teaspoons light olive oil
# 1 1/2 cups chopped very ripe fresh tomatoes
# 1/4 teaspoon oregano
# 1 1/2 tablespoons chopped canned jalapeno peppers
# 1 1/4 tablespoons natural rice vinegar
# 3 teaspoons chopped fresh cilantro
# 3/8 teaspoon salt
# pepper, as desired

Microwave onion, green pepper, garlic and oil 1 minute on high, covered. Add tomatoes and oregano; microwave 2 minutes on high. Stir in remaining ingredients. Refrigerate an hour or overnight to blend flavors.

Serve with tortilla chips.

Our breakfast this morning

I was thinking of food that I can include some veggies and that the little boy will not recognize at all, hehe… so I made this one. I have the recipe below in case you want to try it too:

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Since I’m in-charge with the kitchen everyday, I make sure our sink is always clean, free from odors and clogs. I don’t want to experience clogged drains again just like in our previous house. I hate it when the dirt stays on the sink and gives bad odor and eventually have stain…
Anyway, I have few simple steps below that I follow to keep drains odor free and draining properly:

1. Run very hot tap water every few days through the drain.
2. Put a tablespoon of baking soda into the kitchen drain once a week and slowly pour in lemon juice and let it stand for 30 minutes. Then run hot water through the drain to eliminate minor buildups and odors.
3. Consider buying a drain cleaner solution if you have drains you can’t clear out naturally. This is what we use with our problem in our previous house.

Don’t wait until you have a big problem with your sink.
So whether it is a stainless sink or one of those zero radius sinks, cleaning and making them free from unwanted items is a good way to start.