Chicken with roasted carrots

There are times when you prepare a meal for dinner, you just wanted to cook it quicker and at the same time mantain the flavor and keep it on the healthier side. Today's meal was a simple roasted carrots, with some white rice and a piece of chicken breast. How to cook the white rice. use a cup of rice, wash and drain the water 2 times. No detergent needed for this. Just use cold tap water. For a cup of rice, you will need 2 cups of water. Cook tge rice in a pan on medium low heat. Stir occasionally until all the water has been absorb by the rice. Tutn the heat off and cover the pot Next is to roast the carrot. Take one long carrot, clean the skin off and cut both ends off. Slice the carrot at an angle. Sprinkle some salt and ground black pepper. Drizzle some olive oil. Mix well. Bake in the oven at 400 degree F for 20 minutes. Clean, wash and pat dry the chicken breast. Sprinkle some salt and ground black pepper. I like to sprinkle tiny bits if ground turmeric. It will give a kick to the flavor. In a pan, heated some olive oil on medium high heat. Fry each side of tge chicken breadt for at least 5 minutes. Last but not least is to cook beef gravy or any gravy you like. Boil a cup of water to a 3 tablespoons of powdered beef gravy. Stir it until it thickened. Garnish the meal with chopped green onion.

New year's day meal-Asian noodle

Nana is back. Today's breakfast was a simple Asian noodle cooked with onions, mushrooms, mrs. dash spices and hamburger. I am using just two tablespoons olive oil, sautee diced onions, chopped mushrooms. Then break off the hamburger and fry it with the onions and mushrooms. Add 2 cups of water. Let it boil. Add Mrs. Dash, about 1 tablespoon and a pinch of salt. Lastly, add the Asian noodle and let the noodle cook. Simple and satifying.

Almond cookies

Ingredients

2 sticks of unsalted butter

1/2 cup of sugar

1 1/2 cups of almond flour

1 1/2 cups of flour

1 teaspoon vanilla 

1 teaspoon orange zest

1 cup of powdered sugar to dust the cookies

Karipap inti sardin

Karipap sardin is one of my favorite food. I like it so much that I can eat it for breakfast, lunch or dinner. However, I have to make sure I only eat 1 or 2 pieces in a day. This is because this delicacy is loaded with high cholesterol. At my age, having two active grandsons, I do need to watch my diet. In the past, I used to make the skin for this puff pastry from scratch. I use vegetable shortening, or butter, and knead the flour until soft. But now I have found the best puff pastry skin, ready to use empanadas made by Goya empanadas skin. The brand came in two sizes, small and large size. I like them both. It also has 2 types of flour, one is made from regular flour and the other is from corn flour. I have tried both. They both tasted good.

 

I like the puff pastry cook in deep fryer than bake in the oven. Any of these cooking method will give a nice flavor to the puff pastry.

As for the filling, my favorite is sardine in tomato sauce mix with carrots, onion, hot peppers and potatoes. Dice them small, remove the bone from the sardine and drain the sauce. Mr. Big doesn't like sardine, I have to use chicken or beef for the fillings for him.

Maryland Blue Crab

Ramadan is here. The first day of fasting in my area was on Saturday, May 27, 2017. It went well for me since I stayed at home and just entertaining my 2 grandchildren. They both are too young to understand what fasting is. I didn’t indulge on food for morning breakfast before the sunrise nor do I cook much for breaking fast. I ate my regular breakfast food like pancake and eggs. I drank milk to give the energy throughout the day. On the first day of Ramadan, I had rice with fried chicken and shrimp egg foo young I bought from the Chinese takeout. The second day of Ramadan, I was invited to my in laws for some crab feast. It was really nice eating with family. The dinner feast was for observing the Memorial Day on Monday.

My vegetable garden is doing very well. Soon, I will be getting salad from the garden. The rainy days we have been getting has helped. The peas are growing faster than anything else. I have started to see the white flowers on the plants. I am growing mostly the sugar snap peas. I do grow some little marvel peas as well as the snow peas. Couple of days ago, I put in more string bean seeds in the ground. If the soil temperature went up above 70 degree, the bean seeds will germinate faster. Otherwise, I will have to wait about 2 weeks to see some growth. I already planted a 30 foot row of string beans when the soil can be worked on.