The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Because Sam is only home on weekends, I pamper her with home cooked meals. Last week, it was lengua with mushrooms sauce and homemade pizza. Last night, I went the extra mile — pasta with white sauce and mushrooms, pork steaks and home made pesto bread (that’s why the bread is greenish — it’s ALL THAT PESTO!). Yes, I baked the bread. My arms ached from the kneading but I was darn happy with the result…
EVEN if you’re very hungry… say, you haven’t eaten in two days… or say that, for medical reasons, you were prohibited from eating red meat for years and you’re just craving… Or, let’s just say you have a huge appetite… Can you finish a sandwich this big?
The photo above was an attachment in an e-mail sent by my brother-in-law, Sonny. It’s real, I tell you. It’s called the Quadruple Bypass Burger and you’ll find it in the menu of a restaurant in Chandler, Arizona, a hospital-themed joint where the waitresses are dressed like nurses. Well, kinda…
Leftovers from last night’s dinner at Vieux Chalet was today’s breakfast. There’s some roast chicken, osso buco and rosti… for me — liver pate, butter and toasted whole wheat bread. Liver? Isn’t liver fatty? Actually, you can trim all visible fat from liver. And making your own pate gives you more control over the amount ... (more)
Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase “Breakfast of Champions” by starting off his day by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.
He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.
A 4,000-calorie breakfast, no less. Well, I’m no athlete and I’m certainly not on a quest for an Olympic gold but if there were Olympic Games for cooking, I’d enter this dish and be hopeful for a gold.
Not, not a hidden Mickey. A hidden egg. There’s an egg under the cheese in each of these two slices of bread.
Traditionally, a poached egg is used to make this breakfast dish. The poached egg is placed on a piece of toasted bread and topped with a slice of cheese. A few minutes under the grill to melt the cheese and the result is a tantalizing breakfast that takes the boredom of out plain bread, egg and cheese. Honestly, there’s so much that a cheese can do to transform an ordinary dish. In fact, add cheese to just about anything and the most picky child will likely declare it to be yummy.
… today’s reading of health news and articles leads to something quite controversial. According to an article at eDiets, there are seven foods we must absolutely avoid.
Here goes.
It sounds simple enough: you buy bread, eggs, some cold meat and vegetables from the supermarket and you use them to make sandwiches. But the dilemma starts right there at the supermarket. White bread or whole wheat bread? Whole wheat bread or multi-grain bread? The problem extends to your choice of eggs and vegetables. Organic or not?
In a generation obsessed with health, we are told that white bread should be avoided because it increases the risk of cancer and contains the kind of carbohydrates that make us fat.
But what is white bread exactly and why has it become anathema to the health conscious?
Turn leftover stew into a hearty breakfast.
Split a pan de sal. Lay some lettuce on one half. Spoon some filling on top of the lettuce, top with the other half of the pan de sal and enjoy. The meat filling is the stew from the dish called Arroz A La Cubana. You can also top the beef stew with a fried egg or slices of hard-boiled egg before covering with the top half of the bread.
Bread… it’s been on the news so much lately because of the rising prices of wheat and grain. Not that the rising price and shrinking size of the pan de sal is something new. I’ve been hearing about that complaint since I was a child. What’s new are the suggested substitutes to flour for making pan de sal.
Cut off the crusts of the bread, then toast lightly. Brush with pesto and sprinkle with your favorite cheese. If you’re watching your sodium intake, since pesto is already quite salty, you might want to choose a mildly salted cheese.
Pop the cheese-topped bread slices the oven/griller for about 30 seconds or until the cheese melts and the edges of the bread are browned and crisp.
Love the herb-y taste of pesto? Why not grow your own herbs?
Casa is Spanish for house. CASA is also an acronym for Connie, Antonio, Sam and Alex. We are all surnamed Veneracion. We all love to take photos -- of anything that catches our fancy. It's a family obsession.
This is a journal of how we live, eat, learn, play and have fun. Work? Work is part of playing and having fun. Seriously.
In 2003, a time when I hadn't heard of the term "blog", I started a recipe website at cooking.houseonahill.net using a now defunct content management system that ran on ASP. Ok, never mind the geek talk, I'm sure you're not interested in that. The contents easily multiplied and, in 2004, I moved the food site to pinoycook.net. Always unhappy with the fact that the dot com versions of houseonahill and pinoycook weren't … (click here to read all »)
Conversations