A Kare-Kare Dinner with Kate

Last Wednesday, my roomamate Kate & I had dinner at Landmark's Food Center. We tried Barrio Fiesta's Kare-Kare.

Kare-kare is a Philippine stew. It is made from peanut sauce with a variety ofvegetables, stewed oxtail, beef, and occasionally offal or tripe. Meat variants may include goat meat or (rarely) chicken. It is often eaten with bagoong (shrimp paste), sometimes spiced with chili, and sprinkled with calamansi lime juice. Traditionally, any Filipino fiesta (particularly in the Tagalog region) is not complete without kare-kare. In some Filipino-American versions of the dish, oxtail is exclusively used as the meat. wikipedia.org

Kare-Kare

Lechon Kawali

Barrio Fiesta's Kare-Kare Combo

(kare-kare, lechon kawali and plain rice)

Php85.00 or approx. $2

Want to try cooking Kare-kare? Try this kare-kare recipe from Manong Ken's collection...

sweet come back...

Hello everyone! I've been quite busy with my new job that I wasn't able to do updates here... and I'm so sorry... But now I'm back and hoping that will give you updates atleast one a week *fingers crossed*

Now let me welcome myself back with something sweet... *big grin*

Kuting's Graham Ref Cake

the ingredients

1 200 g pack Grahams Honey

1 300g can Nestle cream (chilled)

3/4 cup condensed milk

1 small can crushed pineapple

(sliced mangoes, peaches and fruit cocktail will do)

marshmallows (optional)

Crushed Grahams (optional)

the preparation

Mix condensed milk and nestle cream on a bowl.

Then on a reactagular dish, pour some cream mixture until the bottom is covered.

Lay Graham Crackers on top of the cream.

Pour another layer of cream and sprinkle some crushed pineapple.

Repeat the process to make 2 or 3 layers.

Then on the last layer, top with more crushed pineapple, marshmallows and crushed graham.

Chill and serve!

It's my nephew G-Boy's request that I make Ref Cake for his birthday, that's why I thought of putting some mashmallows! *big grin*

Cakes Galore!

An afternoon at Red Ribbon with Nadine & Nestie!

Cakes... I've got my slice of s'mores chocolate cake, Nestie ordered the choco mocha crunch and Nadine with something like stawberry cake... which she didn't like. *big grin* 

Cool drinks! 

Here's what makes me so full... aside from that delicious s'mores, i also got my cheesy lasagna! *yumyum*

... and now I am craving for S'mores! I guess I'll have one slice tomorrow! *smiles*