In My Kitchen

Another copy-cat canning of mine. 😃 When it comes to american food I don't have my own recipe. Since everyone was talking about pineapples on sale what else am I going to do. Make stuff with on sale pineapples and here is one of them. If I have a lot friends this thing will be a seller. But since i don't, well, this will be in my pantry until i eat them. I enjoy making things in the kitchen, who knows maybe I will open a little bakery in my house since this property is still considered a business property. Something to think about to earn the payment for my very expensive property tax.

Remember the group I told you about a few post back? Yup, I got the idea from them. The pictures of food and recipes they share looks really good. I need to make my own and try them. With this recipe, my youngest and only daughter like it. DH does not like anything with fruit, but he will eat it when someone else gives it to him. He will not eat anything I make. I am still mad at him about the pumpkin cake he got two years ago. Ha! I told him I can make it if he wants it. He said, "I can't say no." However, he can say NO to me with no problem. Thanks DH!

Or is it the other way around, Fruits with Cottage Cheese, either way it's yummy. I made a post about this a long time ago. However, this time I found a nice camera to take food picture better. You'll be the judge. It look very nice with black table top also. As for the ingredients; mandarin oranges, ripe banana slices, cottage cheese, & sprinkle with sweetened coconut flakes. Very easy to make. For the camera, I used DH HTC/Thundervolt camera phone with no special setting. Point and click. I am very glad how the picture turned out. Enjoy.

A lot of fresh fruit to choose from. Not only that but I notice that summer fruits taste much better than any other seasons. And here is my strawberry smoothie by request of my DD and YDS. Only 3 ingredients: strawberries, plain yogurt, and honey as sweetener. You can also freeze the strawberries before making this, for thicker smoothie. This is my finish product. Somehow I can't find the straw for the picture. :( Want to have a taste, here is a glass of my strawberry smoothie just for you. Here is another favorite of mine. I eat a lot of fruit in the summer and sometimes I end up with stomach ache at the end of the day because I eat them right after the other. My stomach does not like it.

This is a Cuban style beef stew. Just like I mention below DS is having May 5th celebration in school and I am not happy. I really don't mind the cooking but why are they celebrating someone else holiday? Anyway, enjoy the picture. I did not like the dish one bit, it gives me too much gas...burp! Oh my...excuse moi. I cooked this in a crock pot over night. It smelled soo good but I don't like the taste.

This is a good source of vitamin C. Basically I mixed 1 cup of cottage cheese, 8 ounces mandarin oranges (drained), 8 ounces pineapple chunks (drained), slices of bananas and some sweetened coconut flakes. That's it, enjoy!

2 pkg. (8 oz. each) Cream Cheese, softened 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 tsp. vanilla 2 eggs Preheat oven to 325 °F. Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add eggs; mix just until blended. Pour into pie pan (Note: I used the cheese cake mold with the picture above. Rub butter all inside and flour to prevent sticking.) Bake 40 minutes or until center is almost set. Cool. Refrigerate 3 hours or overnight. Store leftover cheesecake in refrigerator. How to easily cut the cheesecake For clean edges on the cheesecake slices, use sharp knife to cut the chilled cheesecake, wiping the knife blade with damp cloth between each cut. For Toppings use strawberries slices and arrange on top. For Syrup 2 lbs. strawberry, cleaned and cut lengthwise into 1/4 to 1/8 inch slices 1/2 cup sugar 1 pinch salt 1 cup strawberry jam 1 tbsp lemon juice Toss berries with sugar and salt in a medium bowl. Let stand for 30 minutes to dissolve sugar tossing occasionally. Mea...

I used plantain banana to replace sabang banana kasi may local grocery store doesn't sell them. Cut them to pieces kasi masyadong mahaba, dip in brown sugar and deep fry until golden brown. It taste like my moms. Well heck I don't even know if it taste the same. I've been out of Philippines for a very long time and I don't know what the local saba taste like anymore. Here are the pictures, I even put it in skewers...he he he. Yummy! I ate to much today. I still want tinapang tulingan, padalhan nyo naman ako....waahh