Julienned vegetables and ham appetizer

Start your main dish with this julienned vegetables and ham appetizer it will surely tickle your appetite :)
Julienne is a kind of vegetable cut that is thicker and longer that strips cut. You can refer to my post.  
http://melyskitchen.blogspot.com/2011/10/different-cuts-of-meat-and-vegetables.html

Ingredients:

carrots (julienned)
Cucumber ( julienned)
spring onion ( julienned)
ham ( julienned)

For the Sauce:

Just combine
2 tablespoons mayonaise
1 teaspoon hot chilli sauce
3 drops olive oil
a dash of salt

Procedure:

1. In a platter arrange the julienned vegetables and serve it with your favorite sauce or the sauce that I put here.

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Puto- Steamed Cake

One of the famous dainties in Philippines is Puto or steamed cake. This can be eaten as dessert or snack, or anytime you want it. It is creamy and sweet. It can be made from rice flour or all purpose flour. The recipe that I am going to share now used all purpose flour, soon I will post different flavors of puto,  for the mean time,  here is how to do the simple one.

Ingredients:

2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1/2 cup melted butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 beaten eggs

Procedure:

1. Sift together the flour, sugar and baking powder.
2. Mix the water, milk and beaten eggs, then the melted butter
3. Mix together 1 & 2 procedure.
4. Put in the molders and steam for 10 minutes or until cook

5. Serve it plain or with fresh grated coconut.

Different Cuts of meat and vegetables

There are different terms for the slices or cuts of meat and vegetable, here are some that I knew, I will update this post soon, to add more.

Half

Quarter

Wedge

                                                                 Cube

Julienne

Dice

Strip

Shred

Mince

French

Ground

Crush

Batonette

Chiffonade

Ruban

Fruity corn flakes

Start your day right with this nutritious cereal breakfast.

Ingredients:

1 cup corn flakes
1 banana (sliced)
5 strawberries
6 grapes
milk

Procedure:

1. Arrange in a bowl all the dry ingredients.
2. Pour in the milk and serve it with love :)

3 in 1 salad

It was one Sunday afternoon when I saw all the viands were meat. So I made this to balance the DIET? lol, well whatever my reason for that day, this combination of salad is yummy, I even have it every now and then.

Ingredients:

10 pcs strawberries
Lettuce
 4 pcs. tomatoes
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
salt to taste

Procedure:

1. Combine the olive oil and vinegar
2. Pour it over the sliced lettuce, strawberries and tomatoes.
3. Dash it with salt and it is ready to go with your main dish. :)

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Bolinho de arroz- Rice cake

Bolinho de arroz is a popular  South American rice recipe, this is good for snacks. Arroz is a Portuguese term for rice, so basically the main ingredient here, is rice. I can say that I like this dish, specially if  it is a little spicy.
If you have a leftover rice, try this recipe.

Ingredients:

2 cups leftover rice
3/4 cup evaporated milk
1 medium size carrots (minced)
1 medium size onion ( minced)
3 pieces hotdog ( minced)
2 beaten egg
3/4 cup flour
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:

1. Mix all the ingredients
2. Spoon an enough amount and deep fry it until golden brown.
3. After frying it, put in a paper towel to drain the extra oil.
4. Serve it hot together with your favorite drinks. :)

Note: Add a little water if the mixture is too dry.

Homemade French Fries

French fries does not mean that this fries came or originated in France. French in cooking means slicing vegetables or meat into thin strips almost like julienne.It was believed that in 1802 french fries were serve at the white house dinner as ordered by Pres. Thomas Jefferson, but during that time the name is not yet french fries, but potatoes were serve in french manner and as time goes by in some places also they have this version of cooking the potatoes and it is now a popular fast food item called french fries. Patates Frites as French called it. In  Philippine food chain stores the term french fries is being used. Since it is weekend, I decided to post this recipe, because most of the weekends moms and dads stay with their kids at home. Just in case you want to have something to munch for the weekend with your loved ones,  french fries is an affordable and easy to serve. Happy weekend everyone. :).

Ingredients:

2 potatoes ( frenched or julienned)
a dash of salt and pepper
Oil for frying

Procedure:

1. In a big bowl put the sliced potatoes and dash it  with salt and pepper.
2. Heat the oil and deep fry the potatoes, increase the heat when it is almost done to make sure that it is crispy.
3. Put in a a paper towel and serve it hot with ketchup or mustard.

When it's almost done, increase the heat to make it crispy but be careful  not to burn it.

Garlic Shrimps

This recipe is one of the fastest dish to cook.  I've got the idea of this recipe when I was in Thailand, although this is not a Thai cuisine, but I always see it at some restaurants there, it is maybe because shrimps in Thailand are so affordable compare to other countries that I have visited. I said to myself this recipe is so easy because I can see how simple the ingredients are. Now I am sharing this simple recipe with you. I hope you will try it and let me know about the result. I will be glad to hear from you :-)

Ingredients:
1/4 kilo shrimps ( cleaned)
8 cloves garlic (minced)
2 tablespoons lemon juice or calamansi juice
2 tablespoons Sprite(softdrink)

Procedure:
1. Marinate the shrimps in lemon juice and sprite for 10 minutes.
2. Saute the garlic until almost brown
3. Add in the shrimps with the marinating sauce stir until it is done.
4. Serve it hot with rice.

Fish Curry

I made this recipe for all of you who are avoiding  to eat meat. I think this one is a good fish recipe that you will surely like, the curry makes the fish more flavorful.

Ingredients:

1/2 kilo fish ( fried)
2 medium size potatoes
1 medium size carrot
1 small onion
3 cloves garlic
3 teaspoons curry powder
1/2 glass water
1 glass coconut milk
olives (optional)
2 calamansi

Procedure:

1. Squeeze the calamansi on the fish, then sprinkle with salt, fry it and set aside.
2.Saute ginger, garlic and onion
3. Add the  curry powder, saute for a minute.
4. Add the fish, potatoes and carrots, simmer for few minutes
5. Add the water and cover until the vegetables are cooked.
6. Add the coconut milk and let it boil, then simmer for 2 minutes.
7. Serve it hot and do not forget to smile :)

Note: You can use any kind of fish

Bam-i

A touch of Chinese cuisine, but Bam-i is a Visayan dish , its a version of pancit-bihon in Luzon. It is one of my favorite dishes when it comes to noodles. I like the combination of these noodles, both are smooth and firm. In the places that I've visited, most of the time fresh egg noodles( pancit) is not always available as well as bee-hon ( bihon) so this is my version of this recipe.

Ingredients:

2 packs instant noodles ( cooked without the flavoring)
100 grams vermicelli noodles ( sotanghon)
3 cloves garlic
1 pc small onion
1 pc carrot ( strips)
1 small chuchu or sayote ( strips)
1/2 kilo cabbage
4 tablespoons soy sauce
3 pieces chicken hotdog
1 glass water

(vermicelli)Sotanghon

Procedure:

1. Saute onion and garlic
2. Add the sliced hotdog, pour in the soy sauce simmer for a minute.
3. Add the water and let it boil.
4. Put the vermicelli cover for few minutes
5. Put the carrots and chuchu simmer for 2 minutes ( just add water if necessary)
6. Put the cabbage and the cooked instant noodles mix it well.
7. Serve it hot and sprinkle it with spring onion.