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Mongo Guisado and Fried Hasa-Hasa

February 02, 2012

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Mongo / Balatong/ Mung bean stew and fried fish for supper. Hmm.

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Christmas 2011 Turkey Special

We cooked turkey for this year's Christmas dinner. The 7lbs turkey was stuffed with squared onions, basil, garlic cloves, and lemon halves. The trick is to leave the turkey covered with foil or pan cover if you use a pot, and to keep it covered until the last hour. This ensures the bird is cooked well done to 82 degrees celcius. I also find that it generally takes 3.5-4 hours to cook a 7lbs turkey. Happy Holidays! (Photo taken by Nick Amin)

Birthday Party for Kyle

We celebrated Grace's kid Kyle's 1st birthday party by cooking up a storm. I thought it was a success. There were a lot of kids running around and they specially enjoyed the Bouncy Castle we borrowed from Patrick and Lawrence. We ordered Lechon from the restaurant at Fraser in Vancouver but everything else was cooked by Grace, Ava, Rowena, and Matet. We had pansit, beef calderetta, baked salmon, spring rolls, leche flan, puto, and many other Filipino favorites. Gabriel and Raul especially liked the lechon because it was hard to avoid it as it almost filled the entire table.

The Rocky Mountain Rum Cake Story

We just attended a dinner hosted by a lovely couple who had a tasty story to tell about this Rum Cake. The cake was delicious and moist with just the right amount of rum around the cake. Ken, the baker, explained that the cake was vacuum sealed for freshness and he even showed the vacuum sealer right there in his living room. The cake packaging was equally neat. The actual picture on the box was taken by the couple themselves. They drove up to the Rocky Mountain and then had it professionally redone at the print shop. The ingredients list, barcode, and manufacture address, all had an interesting story attached to each one. You just have to hear it firsthand. Ken gave us a cake to take home and I just know it won't last long. It does look good as a Christmas treat but I don't think we'll wait. If you are interested in sampling or purchasing, please comment here andwe'll see if Ken can get one out to you.

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