Lasang Pinoy is back! yey!

We went to M&M's World in Vegas and boy was it so colorful. It is a four-story establishment of anything M&M's and we bought 2 bags of these colorful-coated chocolate candies. DS had the honor of choosing the colors, his favorite was black. yay!

Happy LP y'all! Off to check this Bluetooth headset for a friend.

Just dropping by to wish all of you a Happy Weekend before I untangle our cable ties. We had this very yummy Pancit Canton last New Year's Eve. I am waiting for my mom to email me the recipe and I will share it here.

Did you serve pancit during New Year's? It is said to bring Good luck!

We have leeks at home.
Let's try this out before I check on these jobs in philadelphia pa.

Good for your kiddos, no hard munching involved hee.
Happy Cooking!

BEEF TENDERLOIN WITH LEEKS

Ingredients:

375 grams tenderloin, sliced ( can also use pork or chicken breast)
2 teaspoon soy sauce
1 clove garlic, crushed
½ teaspoon salt
100 grams leeks ( or asparagus, bamboo shoots or mushroom)
1 medium onion
4 teaspoon oil
¼ cup beef stock
1 teaspoon corn flour
1 tablespoon cold water
1 teaspoon sugar
oil to cook

Procedure: Marinate beef with salt, sugar, soy sauce, a little bit garlic, ginger then mix add white pepper or labuyo. In a pan sauté onion, garlic (lightly fry) add leeks and a little water then add the beef and add a little cornstarch to make it sticky.

Tips
You can use honey or maple syrup and soy sauce preferably Kikkoman.

After reading some weight loss success stories, I realized that most people who lost weight, eat many times a day but with small proportions. By doing so, your tummy never gets stretched, chances are you won't develop flabs, more so your metabolism will be improved. I guess this finger food photo is the idea of small portions harharhar! Can you survive with that small proportion every 2 hrs in a day?

One of my staple foods is Porkchops! My friends would wonder why I loved pork so much. I could live without chicken and beef, but pork no! So, this is a clear indication that I can never go vegeterian my whole life although I tried before. However, I have committed myself to living a healthier life to attain my desired pre-wedding weight and so I try as much as possible to avoid pork or else I would end up taking these fat burner supplements.

But I know, that sometimes it's good to indulge to our cravings so for this week's recipe, here's Crispy Golden Chops!

CRISPY GOLDEN PORK CHOP

Ingredients:
500 grams pork chop
1 tablespoon light soy sauce
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
¼ teaspoon five spice powder
1 small pack Japanese bread crumbs
1 egg white
cup plain rice
oil for frying

Procedure: Marinate pork chop with salt, soy sauce, five spice, pepper for about 3 hours and then freeze before cooking. Then dredge in the bread crumbs,( dip in white eggs,then flour and then to the Japanese bread crumbs) deep fry.

Basic Sauce
1 teaspoon soy sauce
3 teaspoon tomato sauce
2 teaspoon white vinegar
2 teaspoon white sugar
¼ teaspoon corn flour
1 tablespoon water
1 garlic
¼ grated ginger
3 pcs. Chestnut
3 teaspoon green peas
1 pc. Big red pepper

Procedure: Put chestnuts in a pan and add green peas, red pepper, sugar, vinegar, tomato sauce, soy sauce, garlic, ginger, little water or stock then boil. Pour to the fried porkchop. Or arrange as side dish

As I was telling my friend about these best prenatal vitamins because She recently got pregnant after waiting for a year, my boys were feasting on this. Sadly, they still miss my mom's cooking, me also. But, this will all help me and DH to shed off those extra pounds now that I am the one who's running the kitchen. And yes, I am back with my "generic cooking" (LOL!).

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GARLIC SPINACH OR KANGKONG IN OYSTER SAUCE

Ingredients:
· 500 grams spinach or kangkong leaves
· 1 clove garlic
· 1 piece ginger
· ½ cup water or light stock
· 3 teaspoon oyster sauce
· 2 teaspoon soy sauce
· salt to taste
· 1 teaspoon corn flour
· 1 teaspoon cold water
· 1 teaspoon sesame oil
· oil to cook

Procedure:
1. Put salt in the kangkong leaves, add oyster sauce, soy sauce and 1 liter of water.
2. In a pan add oil, garlic and then put the kangkong leaves. Add sesame oil, then stir fry add a little water to the corn flour or cornstarch then to the kangkong leaves. Serve over rice.

My recipe for this week is something that would make green leafy veggies delectable to my many friends who dare not touch these type of veggies as they claimed, they do not eat GRASS! I myself is not a big fan of veggies (except for eggplant!) but I am not choosy when it comes to eating greens. So here's a salad with 4 different types of simple dressings that I hope might make you enjoy eating greens! Very timely for my new diet routine. Enjoy the recipe, off to check this hair loss treatment review.

Put in a big salad bowl, lettuce leaves, 4 tomatoes sliced crosswise into rings, 2 white onions sliced into ring, 1 red bell pepper sliced into rings, green bell pepper sliced into rings (leave skin on.) Put in a different small bowls.

1. Blue cheese Dressing: Mix 1 small pkg blue cheese or use ½ cup cheddar grated with 1 Philadelphia cream cheese (225 grm) ¼ cup mayonnaise and 1 cup all purpose cream or avoset
2. French dressing: Mix together, ½ cup cooking oil, 2 tablespoon vinegar, 1 tbsp bottled lemon or calamansi juice, ½ tsp salt, 1 tsp paprika, 1 tsp mustard, 1 tbsp sugar
3. Italian Dressing: Same recipe as for French dressing but add 1 small head minced garlic, ¼ tsp each of thyme and oregano.
4. Thousand island: Mix together, 2 cups Kraft mayonnaise, ½ cup catsup, 2 finely chopped hard boiled eggs, ¼ cup pickle relish, 1 tbsp karo syrup. If Kraft miracle whip, omit pickle relish in your recipe.
   
   

Yesterday, I was missing Tokyo Tokyo so badly that I had to ask DH to drive me in the nearest Japanese FastFood. This is what I got for myself. It was a 15-maki-dish and then more hahah! I know I broke my diet routine but I fasted the whole day as I have been craving for Tokyo Tokyo's Red Iced Tea, Beef Terriyaki, Tempura, Yakisoba and Maki. I was so full last night that I immediately check these colon cleanse product reviews.

Time to catch up with my food meme category which I have been neglecting for a few months now. Starting with this:

I just cannot contain my excitement over a close friend's wedding come Autumn. This would be my 2nd American wedding to witness here. And like my other friend told me, weddings are celebrated here differently. Compared to what we had back home, weddings come with huge number of guests and very grand celebrations. Anyways, this friend is checking some destination weddings venue as this couple is very outdoor. They want something different for their special day yet intimate for their friends and family to enjoy. I just can't wait for this big day as I would be able to catch up with our other friends and of course, a perfect reason to diet and get back to my old tiptop shape. :)

Happy 2010 everyone! Again, my apologies for the lack of updates here :).
One of my New Year's resolutions is proper and improved Time Management. With that being said, I guess I'd be able to squeeze in some time updating this blog regularly :).

In the meantime, let me tell you that yes, like everyone else, my New Year's Resolution list include living a healthier life, no more crash dieting and junk food binging. Health first before anything else. It's the 19th of January and so far, I have been very good on this. In fact just this morning, I hit on the ellipticals and ate my grass (I call my salad, Grass Hee hee). To add to that, I added this Calorie Counter called LOSE IT in my iPhone to track my calorie intake a day. My goal is to lose 2 lbs a week to achieve my pre-wedding weight. Yeeha! Why such a big number? I am going to be an MOH for a September wedding, I do not want to cram on losing weight again. Wish me luck :).