Treasure Jar

Home cooking is not only inexpensive but it sure guarantees safe handling of food. Home cooking is also a way to be creative in preparing healthier choices as compared to food prepared elsewhere.

If only most of our meals are prepared at home then I know we are eating better than the alternative.

Being creative in the kitchen enables one to experiment with different tastes, textures, flavors and adaptation to what is readily available in the kitchen.

Here is one alternative food preparation we did recently, introducing our homemade chicken shawarma:

Thinly sliced chicken strips (from chicken breast fillet) with oyster sauce, a bit of light soy sauce, and a little muscovado sugar, were cooked in olive oil.

I seasoned with salt and pepper.

For the vegetables, I sliced green bell peppers and cucumber (I removed the seeds). Lettuce is still very expensive so I skipped that.

For the dressing I used light mayonnaise.

I then topped these with grated cheese and voila, a homemade chicken shawarma for us.

The wrap consisted of store bought wheat soft tortilla wrap.

Yes, it was ‘sawrap”!

Tags: cheese, chicken, cooking, dining, food, food and dining, food photo, healthy eating, home, Photography, Purse Strings, shawarma

I love fresh tomatoes.

No, that is not my vegetable garden but I wish it was, lol.

I use these fresh tomatoes with omelet, as a side dish, for pasta and as part of sandwich fillings.

Below is a photo I have already used in this post:

We had this again the other night but this time using vegeroni spirals.

No photo though, we just dug in as soon as the dish was ready.

Yeah, we were that hungry.

We were also in a bit of  hurry because I needed to go online for a live chat.

Happy Sunday and yes, happy eating 🙂

Tags: cooking, dining, eggplant, food, food photo, healthy eating, Lasang Pinoy Sundays, pasta, Photography, Purse Strings, tomatoes

Peanut brittle is a must-have item from the North’s Baguio City, the country’s summer capital.

Romana peanut brittle, nomnomnom!

Dig in and get some of this crunchy and sweet peanut brittle while I read about online backup of files. Save some for me, will ya?

A jar of this is like that potato chips in a canister tag line that says “Once you pop, you can’t stop.” With this once you open, you definitely can’t stop yourself (and others) from getting that one last bit.

Tags: Baguio, food photo, peanut brittle, Romana

Succulent lechon ribs can be had over here at the home of Lasang Pinoy Sundays 🙂

For the juicy = succulent combination, here is fresh pineapple for a lot of nutritional love:

Why settle for something that came from a can loaded wth sugars when you can have it natural and fresh?

Tags: food photo, fresh pineapple, juicy, Lasang Pinoy Sundays, pineapple juice, succulent

Bottomless iced tea. Our children love to drink this beverage, bottomless or not.

One of the more popular “resto-rant” would be about iced tea not getting filled fast enough especially when there are a lot of customers.

We have encountered those too but more often, we don’t. So what’s the secret?

Sit near where the pitchers are kept 😉

One more thing, we ask if it is ok for two young children to share the bottomless iced tea. They usually say yes.  If only they know these two children drink more than I can drink, so “shhhhh…” 😉

Tags: bottomless iced tea, food photo, iced tea, Lasang Pinoy Sundays

I apologize for the uncooked seafood but I could not resist posting this photo of a crablet in the clam. I got a kilo of these halaan for lunch and decided to take photos when I got surprised to see these little creatures. Yep, around half the clams had these crablets inside.

Here are some (soon-to-be) baked mussels and mussels cooked in lemongrass broth which I am sure some of you have already seen.

Have a great week, everyone!

Tags: Filipino food, food photo, Lasang Pinoy Sundays, seashells, shellfish