Filipino Bbq, Island style

26 May Brings back nostalgic tears of joy!

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So check it.  Memorial day is creepin. Which means that Bbq season is here.  My husband gets all wiggedy wack on me and his addiction to Filipino banana ketchup comes full throttle. Yes, I said banana ketchup.  Made from bananas, sugar, vinegar and spices.  It has a thai sweet chili flavor to it.  With tangy notes you can detect from the tongue to the palatte.  It gives off a totally different flavor when you bbq meat with it (pork and chicken).  My husband has mastered the art of basting and caramelizing his BBQ with this stuff. I usually pull it out of the cupboards and christen the summer off with with a memorial weekend  BBQ with it and he takes it from the there the rest of the summer.  I find it quite comical when I am away from home and he bbq’s with banana ketchup!  That’s my boo!  Bat shit crazy when it comes to cooking with Jufran in the summer!  Pinoy through and through!  Represent!  I have the best memories of Filipino gatherings with this dish! Pool parties, boating, bonfires and pork shish kabobs! Brings back nostalgic tears of joy.  Sniff!    P.S.  This is one of those dishes where you have to fend off your husband and kids.  It’s like they become blood sucking vampires when they smell it on the grill and you have to ward them off!  Trust.  They ate 6 skewers before I was finished bbq’ing it this week. Sheesh..Where is the garlic necklace when you need it ?! ;) If you can’t find this stuff, no worries.  Use regular bbq sauce.  Or nothing at all.  Your meat should be plenty flavored after marinating it!  For those of you who are local to the Wayne county area here in MI , I get mine at the Jeramm west side oriental store in Garden city.  There are two kinds.  Hot and regular and the hot is really hot!  I hope you all like it!

Ancient Filipino secret. That or use regular BBQ sauce or even nothing at all because the marinade has great flavor anyways

Ingredients

3 pound pork butt or country style pork ribs

1 cup soy sauce

1 cup vinegar

1 cup sugar

4 cloves minced garlic

1/2 tsp black pepper

bamboo skewers

1 bottle Filipino style banana ketchup (Jufran) optional

or you can use regular bbq sauce if you can’t find it at your nearest Filipino/asian store

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San Francisco long layover Chinatown-financial district

21 May organic marbled eggs

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Nee-hao!  I’m so sad to say, but my epic journey with the canon SX-130 has come to an abrupt end.  It took a crap on me in San Francisco.  I was quite upset about it at first.  Luckily, I had Teddy (like the bear), who is one of the coolest crew members ever to console me while it all happened!  He tried performing surgery on it, but couldn’t resuscitate. Oh well. Shite happens. It was fatally flawed straight from the rip anyways.  The thing sucked up batteries like there was no tomorrow.  Shame, because it takes wonderful pictures.  So I am in search of a new one.  If anybody knows of a good blogging camera, please leave me a comment.  I would L,O,V,E love any suggestions.   Other than that little bump, my layover was awesome as always since San Francisco is one of my fave urban cities in the U.S! On a side note, besides the kick ass food, I would have to say one of the highlights of this layover is observing all the Chinese centenarians living life as healthy as a horse.  No pun intended.   I have never seen so many in my life congregated in one area, kicking it. Amazing!  Any-hoot, enjoy my pics.  There are lots of cheap eats I found. There was much-ado. The marathon, Giants game and Asian festival.  Lots of hustle and bustle this past weekend.  Perused and enjoyed it all!  Good stuff!

P.S. I am playing around with the slide show and gallery features in this post.  Dunno what I am really doing. I do know that if you click and  hover over the thumbnails,  it takes you to the enlarged photos.  Figuring it out as  I go.    “Zai-Jian.!”  That’s mandarin for goodbye or English version, “Ah see you rater,arrigator”

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Ontario, California-yay or eh?

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I’m laying over in Ontario. Never been.  I was a virgin to this destination til today and virgin destinations don’t happen to me very often anymore.  So I was semi-excited.  The other Flight attendant I was working with thought we were going to Canada. Now, I knew we weren’t going to Canada.  But I wasn’t any better myself  because even though I knew we were headed to Cali, I had no idea where at in Cali.  So I google mapped it.  Closest city that I recognized was Rancho Cucamonga.  Only because of the movie, “Next Friday”  with Ice cube.  Lol  Anyvay, here are my pics of the day.

First things first.  The working trip here.  I got on the plane and I always get wierded out when I have to fly first in flights or dang near it.  The whole working out the quirks on anything new gets my jitters going.  I think they call this the dream liner or something? On second thought, maybe that’s the 787. Well, at least the parts look dreamliner-ish.   Oh who knows. All I know is I couldn’t work the lighting on this piece! And those overheads were a bee-yah to close.  But  the aqua blue lighting was very feng shui! So this aircraft was alright with me.

 Arrived and waited for the van 25 minutes to come get us.  Ugh!  101 ways to drive a crew crazy?! Make them wait for the van after a long duty day.  But the driver made up for it with cookies. They got me with 2 extra.  Gluttony.

So my excursion started and kept continuing with flowers. I snapped this shot because my cool cousin Tony would love the  Brilliant yellow.

We came across artwork from the Local artists…Shame, because other than this, it was a pretty area.


I’ve already eaten three square meals at this point of the day. I’ve been up since 4 a.m. eastern time. So technically it was dinner, but it was only lunch on the west coast so hey, why not fit more meals here in Ontario, eh?  It was either Yoshinoya beef bowl or In-n-Out burger.  Well that was a no brainer.

The best part.  The menu and walk up window.  Simplicity at its best! There will be no A.D.D.  No choices for you!!! LOL The workers weren’t playing either.  You better know what you want when you get up to the window or face the wrath.

  The grassy knoll underneath the palms trees was our dining table.  Perfect.

Took our time eating, talking the biz. About turbulence, and severe bodly injuries from turbulence.  Yikes! A Flight Attendant’s worst nightmare.

We walked off the calories. These pink flowers were growing like weeds near the highway. Purty!


Pretty in pink blossoms

The reddest roses ever.  But I couldn’t capture how brilliant the red was.

And then there were the puppies.  Oh the puppies!

Puppy one and puppy two.  Brothers!  They tackled us with their puppy breath.  The smell of puppy breath drives me to the brink of adoption.

Only in California  can you find signs for Menudo at the motel 6

Johnny Depp was hiding behind those bushes making artwork. 

So my choices for dinner were Indian, Japanese Yoshinoya beef bowl or Marie Calenders.  I chose Marie Calenders under my O. G. Jodies advice since she mentioned it is quite the popular choice amongst the frozen food population of American homes.  She gives a compelling argument. So off I went  like a prom dress.

P.S. I awt to have re-named this post “the california flower” right?   I appreciate the flowers!

Got to Marie Calenders and it felt like I was in the movie “Waiting”.  The restaurant had an uncanny resemblance to Shenanigans, which I thought was shenanigans.

Ordered, got some cornbread, the rose mary chicken with field greeens candied pecans and mandarin oranges and the double cream blueberry pie to go.  Whoa, it was alot!

Trotted my happy ass back to the hotel and took  a few last pictures of the scenery and falling sun!

The sunset.

Weeping trees of some sort…

No wonder the flowers and trees are so happy here in Ontario.  All that recycled water!

 Now time for my night cap from Marie Calenders.  Double cream blueberry cheesecake! It was off the heezy! I was in a coma after this. Trust! 


Worked the flight to Denver the next day.  The view from my office.  The rocky mountains. Buh-bye to everyone of ya’s! Til next time!

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Green Street Fair 2012! Plymouth Love

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Plymouth Love and the Green St.  Fair

It’s that time of year again!  The green street fair came to Plymouth and it reminds me of why I love this city.  Now even though I’ve been all over the world, I tend to look at Plymouth as the end all and be all city at times.  I get all plymouth’ed out when these type of festivals come to town.  I got my camera out and took my son and daughter on special one on one  dates to the festival and snapped away.  The only thing I was bummed about was not taking pictures of the farm animals.  My Canon ran out of batteries when I got to that part of our excursion.  The animals weren’t there anyways.  I assume they were on a coffee break.  That or on strike.  I would hope the latter…Anyhoot, enjoy my pics!  Go green ya’ll…

When I smell a fair coming. The parking regulators come a’ regulatin.

We got there early  Friday to see what all the hoopla was all about this year.  Fox 2 got in on the action.  We inadvertently ended up being on the News that day. My daughter said “mommy look, we are on the news” when we got home.

Out first tent.  Recycled wine bottles! 

If these work, I’ll take a hundred of them..

Soy candles for the greener glow in you!!!  And I will never go back to burning wax  again!

Just Say no to GMO’s.  No genetically modified organisms in this seed!

The fountain of youth gone green. Or more like the toddlers of Plymouth’s watering hole!

Detroit rock city!

Locked and loaded…

   It ain’t a fair without the fair food.  I should’ve fired myself for not getting my son butterfly chips.

Greek food vendors.  That’s hardcore 313 right there baby!

 The best food fair in the biz.  Deep fried elephant ear frenzy.

There is something about BBQ that gets me stoked.  I hate to admit it, but I guess it’s the inner Texan coming out in me.  Since I lived in 3 cities in Texas, I claim Texan once in a while depending on my mood.

I might’ve stumbled upon the holy grail of BBQ pitts.

Door to door organics tent from Livonia.  Thinkin to my self, “self, I might just try it out this year.”

I’m all about the fuel efficiency, but are they safe?

Fun facts of a greener car. Ironically, it require so many of those greenbacks!

I’m thinking  the Romans came up with this one or maybe even the Chinese? Like the cistern thing? Dunno really.  Great concept though.

Dearborn animal shelter green tent got in on the recycling concept.  Hoping this little guy got adopted.  He was the sweetest.

This was a black lab mix

Recycled books for the sustainable reader in you!

Fudge buckets!  Mackinac Island made a cameo!

The boxed village construction site for the kids. It was game over after she saw this. My daughter didn’t wanna have anything else to do with the rest of the fair!  Proof that all they need are boxes to occupy their time.  Self entertainment at its best.

Cheers to another year of going green in my city!  Plymouth Love! That’s what its all about! Til next time everyone!

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Mexican Rice para cinco de Mayo!

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Mexican rice para cinco de Mayo.

My sister once asked me, “When is Cino de Mayo?”  Funny some of the things I recall.  Now my Spanglish is pretty bad, but I knew the answer.  Had I not known any better, I would’ve thought that she was yanking my chain.  But it was my sister and she’s not always the sharpest tool in the shed, God love her.  So I knew she was dead serious when she asked.  My response,” Uh, May 5th” with an, are you serious?, face. She chuckled and went on her merry way, continuing our conversation.  Luckily, she loves to laugh at herself when she is having one of her moments and realizes it.  Which I love because she has  a lot of ‘em.  That’s one great thing about her.  She can laugh at herself and her funny energy carries over the entire room.  And it always makes me smile.  Funny thing is, she once owned a Mexican restaurant and I remember working there with her on Cinco de Mayo when it was slammed.   I specifically remember the rice and chilaquiles.  I haven’t been able to find rice or chilaquiles like that ever since.  And that was a long time ago.

Recently, I stopped by the local Mexican grocery I frequent in Westland off Ford Rd, Dos Hermanos, and asked the cashier how he makes Mexican rice.  He ended up getting his mom in the back where the restaurant is and she started rambling on in a thick Spanish accent about browning your rice, adding onions smashed tomatoes, tomato bouillon, etc, etc.  I could barely understand her, but I was picking up what she was putting down.  I re-iterated what she said and for the most part,  I got the gist of it.  I made it once I got home and I let my husband be the judge because he swears he’s Mexican by geographic orientation.  Well he loved it and now he makes it that way too.  Two toots for the Hispanic lady who helped me make this bangin rice!  Toot, Toot!

Ingredients:

1 to 2 tablespoon canola oil

2 1/2 cups of long grain rice

3 cups water

1 large tomato chopped fine

1 chopped onion

1 knorr tomato bouillion cube

dash of salt to taste

Procedure:

1.) Heat pan with canola oil and brown rice to light golden just to toast and give a nutty depth of flavor.

2.) Add chopped onion and tomatoes to pan.  This is where the lady told me I could mash the tomatoes with a mortal and pestle, but that would involve a bit too much work for me so I chopped the tomatoes.

3.)  Add three cups of water to pan.  Add tomato bouillion cube, dash of salt and bring to boil. Stir.  Turn down to a simmer and cover tightly.  Do not disturb.  Let rice cook until fluffy.  Roughly 15-20 minutes.  Fluff with fork.

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grilled bbq chicken wings

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It was the Saturday before my sons 4th birthday and we had a party planned out at Gymnastics for him.  He was way stoked.  We also got suckered into saying yes to chuckee cheeses the night before.  How did that happen?   As if birthday parties aren’t expensive enough?! Luckily this spoiling happens once in a blue moon.  My fears of raising kids in this entitled generation  gets the best of me.  So my should be yes’s end up being no much of the time.  My son being able to finagle us into saying yes to chuckee cheese  for his special day was something I was willing to overlook. Our little man is way worth it.  So of course we made it happen on his special day. Luckily, Robert printed out two coupons for 40 tokens we got to use for his birthday.  He felt bad that we used both coupons.  But hey, I didn’t.  The workers accepted both with no qualms. So I have no shame in this game.  I guess that’s the scam artist in me.

Too make our dollar go further, we decided to make dinner at home before all the gaming.  BBQ to be exact!.  I was watching the cooking show “BBQ U” on PBS and my ears perked up like a dog when I overheard the hosts talking about bbq’ing frozen wings on the grill.  The convenience in  bbq’ing frozen wings  is that it not only eliminates the thawing process, but it prevents the skin of the wings from sticking to the grate and making a mess.  Now how clever is that?!  I decided to give it a whirl!  They turned out spectacular!  And it was probably the easiest bbq I ever made! What a hit!  After grilling, just toss them in your favorite hot wing sauce or bbq sauce!  We loved it so much, we already made it again less than a week later!

There is really no ingredients to this.  The hot wing sauce I made has 3 ingredients. Super simple!

Ingredients:

24 frozen chicken wings

For the sauce:

3 cloves minced garlic

3/4 cup of Franks red hot

3/4 stick of butter

Procedure:

1.  Take your garlic, butter, and franks red hot and melt slowly in a pan a sauce pan.2. Pour into bowl and set aside until later.  I also set aside a cup of sweet baby reys vidalia onion BBQ sauce for the kids chicken wings too.

3.) And now time for the grilling wings part.  Place FROZEN wings on bbq grill  for 30 to 35 minutes, turning once in a while.  We closed the the grill as well between turns.

4.) Then when the wings were done, we tossed half the batch in our home made hot wing sauce and the other half in sweet baby reys vidalia onion bbq sauce!  Perfecto!

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Vancouver-Long layover!

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I think I’ve decided to start writing about good eats and fun things to do on my layovers.  I’m morphing a section of my blog  dedicated to this.  Not only will this help me remember where to eat and things to do, but will help other airline crews out and I’m all about helping fellow front line workers.  We’ll see how my dedication goes with this section, fingers crossed.  Hoping that laziness won’t prevail and I’ll keep at it.  So I had one of my most favorite layovers ever in the Continental system the other day!  I was perusing open time shopping and there it was.  A 32 hr YVR layover! Vancouver, yeah buddy!   I snatched it right up too.  Was very excited because I haven’t been to Vancouver since before my first born.  Which was around 7 years ago.  I didn’t mind the five drink minimum the other FA’s forewarned me  about either because the Canadians are for the most part, super nice!  And the destination is way worth it. There is so much to say about this beautiful city. Robson street, the food, the sea planes taking off and landing like your on fantasy island when you look outside your hotel window, the whistler and biking the majestic stanley park around the English Bay.  It’s the creme de la creme of Canada.  That and I kept hearing that the hotel we stay at now is oober nice!  There was a mall, the metro, and foodcourt in the basement of the hotel.  So in theory, I didn’t really need to step outside the hotel if I didn’t want too. But that ain’t how I roll.  The only thing I regret about this trip was not being able to rent a bike and huff it around Stanley park because in my opinion, that park is one of the most beautiful parks I’ve ever been in an urban environment.

For starters, I’ll first put up a pic of the F.O. who got me hip to the Japa-Dog!  I had a chance to talk to him for a bit up in the pit and he briefed me about this Japanaese hot dog.  He was right on point too.  They are known for their Kobe beef hot dog with various Japanese toppings!

Shout out to Dan and the Japa-dog for the great recommendation.

The Japa-dog are outside vendors, but I wanted to enjoy my meal inside so I walked down Robson street and found the restaurant.  I was greeted by the most friendly Japanese fast food crew ever!   I ended up getting their signature dog which came in the number one combo.  “Teryiamo” an all beef hot dog served with  mayo sauce, a terriyaki mayo and seaweed combo.  Along with shoyu butter browned bag shaken french fries!  The fries were the  bomb diggity yo!  For the realz!  This place was packed too.  Standing room only!

Afterwards, went right next door to Beard Papa for dessert also on Robson street!

I got myself a green tea cream puff.  Creamy and whipped!  Not too sweet.  I think I might favor their vanilla custard better,  although this wasn’t bad! But not sweet at all compared to the other fillings I’ve tried!

I walked the shops of Robson.  Was really wanting to go for a bike ride but it started to rain on me and after an hour,  I went into a Blenz coffee house because this sign suckered me in….

Damn sign got me.  But who wouldn’t want hot chocolate made out of pure Belgian chocolate on a cold rainy day?  I thought this was a mom and pop owned coffee shop, but found out this is more like a Canadian  version of Starbucks,  but better as far as hot chocolate is concerned.

I thought I died and gone to heaven when I tasted it.  They asked if I wanted dark, milk or white and I chose the milk chocolate.  Got the kid size because I was trying to count calories!  Funny since I has just hossed down on fries an hour earlier!  This is the best tasting hot chocolate I ever had by far. The picture doesn’t do it any justice.

Went back to my hotel room and rested up for a bit.  Called the crew to see if they wanted to go ride bikes at Stanley. No dice! Then went shopping for some Parada at the Pacific Center. Was way thirsty so went and got me an orange Julius at the food court!

Waited some more to see if the rains would die down so I could rent a bike.  No luck.  After a few more hrs of window shopping, I decided to go to Ramen Sanpachi Japanese noodle house for dinner to wrap up my food adventure of the day.  This is located off bute and robson street.  Since the cold windy weather was such a drag at this point. Nice hot soup was calling my name.  I wanna say this was the miso ramen I got.

Good stuff!  Hit the spot too! I was cashed after eating half!

I decided to walk towards the board walk to coal harbour and watch some water planes take off and land.  On the way, took pics of spring at its finest next to my hotel…..

Then to Coal harbour and took some mediocre photos.  I’m thinking I need to take a photo class because these photos aren’t doing the scenery any justice.  That or you tube might be able to teach me a thing or two on digital photography.

Floating Gas Station for Marine vessels

Went walking towards Stanley Park to the other side of the city to English Bay and got a wonderful surprise.  Sun came out. @  English Bay Beach

Here is the entrance to  Stanley park in the upper left corner of pic below.  I would have walked it but my feet couldn’t carry me anymore. That and it was already dusk.

Pretty sunset

English Bay Beach and the the huge logs.

Watched this dude do back flips for a while, while I basked in the peacefulness of the sun setting!

Before I caught a cab back to the hotel, I took one last shot!

4 a.m. wake up the next morning and back to the grind.  What a wonderful crew.  It always makes working so much better when you have a great crew!  Shout out to  Steve, Nick, Kim and Sharon.

 Back to dtw on the commute.

With the morning line up

Alas,  home sweet home! Walked off the plane and captured one last shot while I waited for Robert and the kiddos to come get me!

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Turmeric milk with raw honey and cinnamon recipe

10 Apr IMG_2075

MY NEW NIGHT CAP!!

YAY! I made this for my kids and added chocolate syrup to mask the turmeric flavor and they absolutely loved it!  Next time, I think I’ll just add dark chocolate cacao powder instead of the syrup and see how they like it. How exciting.  Here is the recipe without the chocolate syrup.  I very much hope you all enjoy this. Turmeric, cinnamon and raw honey have awesome potential health benefits.  But before I share with you my short story of how I got this wonderful concoction, I listed the health benefits I found for each:

Health benefits of Turmeric

-prevent and slow the progression of Alzheimer’s

-Natural antiseptic and anti bacterial agent

-prevents prostate cancer when combined with cauliflower

-prevents and kills melanoma cells

-has prevented breast cancer from entering lungs in mice

-used as an antidepressant by the Chinese

-liver detoxifier

-prevents metastases from occurring in many different forms of cancer.

-aids in metabolism and weight loss

-natural treatment for arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis

-natural painkiller

-potent natural anti-inflammatory without side effects

Health benefits of Cinnamon

-regulates blood sugar

-reduces LDL cholesterol levels

-effective against ulcer-causing H. pylori bacteria

- reduces pain linked to arthritis

-natural food preservative

-cinnamon holds promise for various neuro-degenerative diseases, including: Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, brain tumor, and meningitis,

Health benefits of  Raw honey

-balances blood sugar

-helps with cholesterol

-has a large amount of friendly bacteria

-used for ulcers

-aids in digestion

-aids in sinusitis

-anti-fungal and anti bacterial properties helps to heal wounds

-boosts immunity

-great cough suppressant

I come across some of the most intriguing people flying.  Perks of the J, O, B! So I was commuting into Newark the other day.  Sweatin bullets because I didn’t think I was going to get on.  Luckily,  I got the last seat in the house.  Low and behold, we ended up having a  2 hour ground delay going into Newark. No surprise.   We sat on the hard stand for a good while waiting it out.  This is where I usually take the opportunity to clonk out for the entire delay.  And I rarely talk to people on my commute, but the lady next to me said the last time she flew into Newark, it was really delayed.  My response, “it’s typical air traffic for the Newark/New York area.  It could be clear skies and sunny but the air space is always so saturated.  It doesn’t phase those of us who are use to it though.  That’s just the way the northeast corrider  rolls.”  We were about the same age and she looked pretty cool so I asked what  she  was reading.  I also noticed she pulled out what looked to be a green tortilla.  Interesting.  Being the die hard foodie I am, I asked what it was.  Well, we got to talking and she ended up being a writer that traveled to and from L.A.  We struck up a conversation about writing and she was quite informative. (P.S.  I had no idea that most famous writers don’t write their own books, they hire folks like her, cheaters!) We talked about flat breads from India, which was what she was eating.  She was from the North, I think Punjab, Spoke 4 languages and very much liked to talk about her ethnic cuisine.  She schooled me on why North India is better known for there breads because the land is better adept to growing wheat.  And the south is better known for their rice dishes because  the land and climate are better adapted for the growing conditions.  I had no idea.  Pretty cool.  Makes sense from a geographical standpoint. She not only shared her recipe for “thepla”  the flat-bread she was eating, but she also explained to me how it is cooked on a “tava”.

After over an hour of talking non-stop food.  I finally asked her what she thought about turmeric.  Her response, “I have turmeric everyday, without fail.”  She even had the stuff in her carry on bag.  If she doesn’t have turmeric in a dish everyday, then she would have it warm in a glass of milk with cinnamon  at night.  She said roughly 1/4 tsp  per cup, if my memory serves me correctly.  I have always wanted to incorporate turmeric and cinnamon in my diet because of the wonderful healing qualities both posses, but didn’t know how to, I thought this was ingenious.   I always read in health magazine on the jump seat  about how wonderful cinnamon and turmeric are, but the recipes are always too high maintenance for my liking.   So I was really wanting to jump out of my seat and do cartwheels when she told me she had it in her milk every night without fail.  I told her I can’t wait to make it.  She said go easy on the turmeric at first so I cut the amount down by half.  I added the raw honey, another component I don’t think I get enough of.

Here we go……..

Turmeric Milk Recipe

This recipe is for a jumbo coffee mug so you can cut the ingredients by half if you are using a standard sized mug

Ingredients:

1/4 tsp turmeric

16 ounces milk

1 heaping tsp raw honey

one 2 inch cinnamon stick

Procedure:

1.) Pour milk in a small sauce pan and heat on medium until hot but not boiling

Then add turmeric and cinnamon stick:

2.) Pour in a glass:

3.) Then add raw honey.  Mix well, done!!!!!

As always thank you for visiting.  If you have any questions, please feel free to ask, vote 5 stars ;) or even follow me. I would love that!  I have a ton of recipes  on this site you maybe interested in.  I’ll get back with you as soon as I can with your questions and comments. Promise.  Happy eating and have a beautiful day!

Spinach and Bacon Quiche Recipe

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Top ten reasons I love me some Sundays

Hello ya’ll!  I love Sundays.  I always look forward to ‘em.  Here are my top 10 reasons:

1. Sunday dinners.

2. Sunday lunches,

3. Sunday breakfasts.

4. Lazy Sundays.

5. Church on Sundays.

6. Chillaxin with the Sunday paper and a cup of joe in the morning Sundays.

7  Sunday family gatherings.

8.  Pajamas all day long Sundays

9.  Sleeping in on Sundays and last……

10.  Brunch on Sundays.

The Quiche I made this past Sunday was phenomenal.  I never make Quiche the same way twice.  This time, I wrote down the recipe.  It was the bomb diggity yo!  For the  realz!  This is great for brunch on a Sunday or any day of the week really!  And it keeps well too!  Hope you likey!

Ingredients:

9 large eggs

2 cups heavy whipping cream

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp pepper

2 cups fresh baby spinach

1/2 pound bacon

4 slices pepper jack cheese

two 9 inch frozen pie crusts

Procedure:

1.  With kitchen scissors, cut bacon in 1/2 inch pieces and brown in skillet until crispy,  drain on paper towels and set aside.

2.  In large bowl, beat eggs, salt, pepper and heavy whipping cream thoroughly.

3.) In frozen pie shells, place dry fresh spinach on the bottom of each shell.

4.) Then pepper jack cheese slices and bacon.  I tear off the slices of  pepper jack to space it out evenly.

5. ) Pour in egg mixture in both shells and place on a foil lined cookie sheet.

6. ) Bake in a preheated oven at 375 degrees for 35 minutes or until quiche is set.

7. ) Let cool for 10 minutes.  Serve warm

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Easy Peezy lemon squeezy Beef Strogonoff Recipe

29 Mar IMG_1886

You ever feel like there isn’t enough time to do all the things you need to be doing?  For me, it’s running the kids to and from school, homework, naps, laundry, extra curricular activities, house work, on the J, O, B work, running errands, chores, grocery shopping, planning and cooking meals that occupy my day.  And obviously,  I find myself not having enough time to finish all the things I should be getting done on top of it all.  Even when I do have downtime, my mind is racing about things I need to be doing.  Cooking and meal planning takes up a good chunk of my days.  And I try not to succumb to eating out.  Cause for one, it’s not the healthiest option and two, it expensive. So of course, I’m all about the easy meals. The strogonoff  I made this week is as basic as basic can get.  I probably shouldn’t be blogging about it. It’s that easy.  But what kind of food blogger would I be if i didn’t include the easiest recipes in my repertoire?  As my daughter would say, “easy peezy lemon squeezy!”  Hope you like it the way my family likes it!!  Pause….they don’t just like it, they LOVE it!

Ingredients:

1 1/2 pounds beef stew meat

1 can cream of mushroom soup

1 can beef broth

1 block Philadelphia cream cheese

1 small can of mushroom pieces and stems

salt and pepper to taste

1 packeage cooked egg noodles

Procedure:

1.) In a large sauce pan, mix beef broth, cream of mushroom soup and mushrooms with a whisk.

2.) Add beef stew meat to pan and heat to boiling.

3.) Turn down heat to a slow simmer and cover.

4.) Cook for roughly an hour or until meat starts to get tender. Add block of cream cheese during last 5 minutes and mix with wire whisk until it dissolves completely.

5.) Sprinkle salt and pepper to taste. Serve over hot rice or cooked egg noodles.

As always thank you for visiting.  If you have any questions, please feel free to ask, vote 5 stars ;) or even follow me. I would love that.  I have a ton of recipes  on this site you maybe interested in.   I’ll get back with you as soon as I can with any questions and comments. Promise.  Happy eating and have a beautiful day!

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