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Dried Pusit Fried Rice
Here is another breakfast dish that will surely brighten up anyone’s day.
Aldrin and I both love dried pusit, we can finish off one 500-gram pack in just one sitting. With sukang may bawang at sili na sawsawan, you just can’t go wrong. I specially love Pinakurat or the hot and spicy Datu Puti Suka.
Fried Dried Pusit
I used dried pusit to jazz up our ordinary sinangag. It’s as easy as 1-2-3, and one of those that you can call 10-minute kitchen wonders, like one of my favorite local cooking shows, QuickFire in CH.11.
Read the recipe after this break…
Sam’s Yummy Birthday cake
It’s my daughter Sam’s 4th birthday last October 25. And for her birthday, I decided to make a no-bake home-made dessert which also served as her birthday cake. I made Oreo cookie Graham cake and Fruity Graham cake with Sam and Ley’s help. They enjoyed the mixing and tasting! I think they have a future in cooking, they like playing restaurant where they call me “miss” and they ask me “miss, ano pong order mo?”
Sam and a slice of her birthday cake
Before we get to another story, here are the ingredients:
For the Oreo Cookie Graham Cake:
- Graham crackers (original or choco-flavored)
- 3 cups of crushed Oreo Cookies
- 2 pouches of Nestle All-purpose cream, chilled
- 1 medium can of condensed milk
- gelatin powder (1 packet of Alsa Gulaman)
- 1/2 cup of milk (water will also do)
- whole Oreo cookies for decor
Procedure:
- First, melt the gelatin powder in 1/2 cup of milk (or water). Heat in pan until gelatin is fully dissolved. Set aside to warm a little bit. This will serve as a binder for a firmer cream mixture.
- Then, in a separate bowl, mix the chilled all-purpose cream and condensed milk. Stir in 1 1/2 cup of the crushed cookies and the melted gelatin. Mix well.
- you can let the kids help in the mixing. Kids will enjoy this stuff, as for my kids, I can see in their faces whenever I let them help out with the cooking and other chores like making the bed, drying the spoons and forks, they feel proud and they feel confident that I trusted them with an adult stuff. This is big deal for them!
- Line a baking pan or any other container with Aluminum foil or plastic wrap. This will make taking out the graham cake easier.
- After this, line the pan with whole graham crackers, make sure to cover the base of the pan. Pour part of the cream mixture to thinly cover the crackers. Repeat this step to have 2 layers of cream-covered Graham crackers. – Kids can also help in this, let them figure out how they can properly cover the pan with Graham crackers.
Graham and Cream layers
- Spread the remaining 1 1/2 cup of crushed Oreo cookies and cover with cream mixture then top with 2 more layers of the graham crackers and cream.
Oreo cookie cream mixture
- Decorate the top with whole Oreo cookies. If there are left-over Oreo cookies, this can serve as a rewarding merienda for your kids for helping in the kitchen!
- Chill for an hour or two. Serve cold.
Oreo Cookie Graham Cake
For the Fruity Graham Cake, just substitute the Oreo Cookies with a fruit cocktail. And you can use the fruit syrup to melt the gelatin powder. As final touch, set aside some of the melted gelatin to glaze the top layer of your Fruity Graham cake. Yum!
This Graham cake is also good as giveaway to your loved ones for Christmas, you can make smaller versions using those rectangular-shaped microwaveable containers. Your friends will surely love it!
My new career!
It has been 2 weeks already since my last day at work for an IT company. I have a new job now. A job that I was, I mean my husband and I are both apprehensive to take at first but in the end were both whole-hearted and excited by the choice we made.
I am talking about my being a stay-at-home Mom. We had yaya troubles for some time and so we decided for me to take a break from the corporate world and be the one to take care of the kids and my husband and the house too.
I have been posting about my random thoughts in Facebook. I will also posting them here plus some other stuff too like my very own recipes! I already have a line-up of my Recipe posts, so please watch out. I hope to include pictures of me actually doing the cooking. 
That’s it for now, it’s kids merienda time. I will be posting about this too.
My Dinner at Bagoong Club
Last night, me, my good friend and officemate Reych, and her good friend Glen went to one of the most talked-about restos in the metro.
Reych invited me to dine with them at Bagoong Club, I called Aldrin and Reych asked permission from Aldrin so I can go with them. I’m not sure if he agreed but I went with them.
New York, New York
Who wouldn’t want to visit New York? They say its beautiful there; even after the 9/11 tragedy. So here’s an ice breaker for everyone: What makes New York, New York?
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