Munchkin Mommy :. Mapped Memories :.munchkinmommy | October 8, 2009
Mussels. One of the reasons I try to be at Costco on weekends. It makes for good “bar food”/appetizer and soup. It’s also a favorite paella ingredient. The mussels we buy from Costco are surprisingly already clean, so there’s really no need for cleaning…I think. But if you feel more comfortable going through the process, [...]
munchkinmommy | August 31, 2009
I loooove soup…noodle soups, clear soups, soups that are a meal in itself. One soup that is very easy to make and which may double as a viand is Picadillo or Ground Beef soup. Instead of ground beef, however, I use ground turkey. :)
This soup can easily be a go-to dish when one is in [...]
munchkinmommy | April 4, 2009
*This is entry #43 for Lasang Pinoy, Sundays (La.Pi.S.), a weekly food photography meme.*
This week’s La.Pi.S. theme is “Melted Bliss”. Anyone who knows me well enough would probably guess I’ll have photos and a recipe which features melted chocolate. Well, chocolate WAS my first choice, being the hopeless chocoholic that I am. But I decided [...]
munchkinmommy | October 13, 2008
I saw this pack of colorful vegetable noodles at the Asian supermarket the last time we were there and I simply had to buy it. Over the weekend, I made Chicken and Crab Noodle Soup.
Abby chose the purple noodles (which turned pink), while I chose the orange noodles for myself and assigned the green ones [...]
munchkinmommy | October 2, 2008
There are two soup dishes from the Philippines, which, I dare say, are the top 2 national favorites: sinigang (a sour soup that is usually tamarind based) and nilaga (boiled beef with vegetables – pechay and potatoes).
Yesterday, a busy day, I decided to cook sinigang na bangus (milkfish in tamarind broth) for lunch. The fact [...]
