Nov 8

As promised, here is a picture of the Halloween Graham cake that I made for Sam and Ley’s Halloween party. To make this, just follow the recipe for the Oreo Graham Cake that i previously posted then decorate with chocolate syurp, Oreo cookies and chocolate candies. Use your imagination. For the Christmas holidays, you can use red and green colored candy tapes and chocolate candies to decorate. Enjoy!

Sam and Ley very happy with their Halloween Graham cake

Sam and Ley very happy with their Halloween Graham cake

Halloween Graham cake

Halloween Graham cake

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Oct 17

As promised, here is one of my Recipes. I am posting my Embutido Special recipe with pictures and with a couple of side stories too. :) By the way, thanks to my loving husband for naming my Embutido dish. (his only participation besides the eating part)

I cooked Embutido yesterday. The preparation started early in the morning, right after breakfast. The kids helped too. They are always excited to participate with the cooking preparation.

And so, let’s start with the Ingredients:

  • 1/2 Kilo of ground lean pork
  • 1 egg
  • 1 medium onion chopped
  • 1 medium red bell pepper chopped (you can also use canned pimientos, just chop it)
  • 1/2 cup raisins
  • 1/2 cup pickle relish
  • 4 pcs. of Vienna sausage chopped
  • 1 medium carrot grated (the embutido I made had no carrots though, there was a shortage due to the recent typhoons :( )
  • 3/4 cup of bread crumbs (you can find this in the bread section of the groceries)
  • 3 tbsp of soy sauce
  • 1 tsp of pepper
  • 1/2 tsp of salt

For filling or garnish:

  • 2 hard boiled eggs sliced lengthwise
  • Cheddar cheese sticks
Embutido Ingredients

Embutido Ingredients


Chopped Ingredients

Chopped Ingredients

Preparation:
In a bowl, combine the ground pork, chopped onion, bell pepper and Vienna sausage, grated carrot, raisins, pickle relish, bread crumbs and egg. Mix until all ingredients are well incorporated in the mixture. Season with soy sauce, salt and pepper.

Embutido Mixture

Embutido Mixture

When you prepare dishes like this, its okay to let the kids help out. With this dish, I let the kids beat the egg and I also let them mix the mixture as well. Just make sure that their hands are clean. I also wore a hairnet when I prepared this dish, we don’t want to see any undesirable ingredient in the Embutido. And that also goes with other meals that we prepare. :)

Kids helpin out

Kids helpin' out

Me wearing a hairnet

Me wearing a hairnet

Next, we prepare the Embutido roll or the llanera Embutido. (llanera is the one we use for leche flans.)

For the llanera style, line the llanera with aluminum foil. Then arrange pieces of the hard-boiled eggs and cheese. Then, carefully fill the llanera with the Embutido mixture. cover the llanera with foil. This way, the embutido will have a nice presentation when take it out of the llanera.

Embutido in Llanera

Embutido in Llanera

For the roll style, scoop a mixture into an 8×11 aluminum foil, flatten it and arrange the hard-boiled eggs and cheese. Fill with the Embutido mixture to cover the eggs and cheese. Roll and twist the ends of the foil to seal the Embutido mixture.

Embutido Roll

Embutido Roll

Last step is to steam the Embutido. I used my sturdy rice cooker pot (this comes with a steamer pot topper) as steamer. Steam the Embutido in a stove top over medium heat for 45 minutes. Just fill the pot with 1 1/2 cups of water. And for the embutido roll, just turn it over after 30 minutes to cook the other side.

While waiting for the Embutido to cook, I took pictures of kids while goofing around.

Ley as Darna

Ley as Darna


Me, Ley and Sam

Me, Ley and Sam

For the quantity of the ingredients listed above, I was able to make one 8-inch llanera Embutido, 1 large Embutido roll and 2 small Embutido rolls. Here’s a picture of the Llanera Embutido. (Notice the hard-boiled eggs and the melted cheese.) :) I served this for dinner. This will surely be one of the home-made products that I will include in my future cook-to-order business. :)

Embutido de Llanera

my Embutido Special

I hope you enjoyed my post and that you will try to make Embutido for the weekend luncheon or dinner! Happy Cooking and Happy weekend! :)

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Oct 15

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. :)

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Sep 7

I was about to sell these pics for a magazine cover but we did not agree with the price. So I will just publish them for free. :)

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