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Sunday May 4, 2008
- 1/2 kilo string beans
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1 onion
- 1 cup tomatoes
- 1 teaspoon marjoram, optional
- 1/2 teaspoon French savory salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vetsin
Boil string beans; when tender remove from fire and rain. Saute garlic, onion and tomatoes, add remaining ingredients. Simmer for 5 minutes. Pour over cooked green beans.
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Sunday May 4, 2008
- 2 cups yellow squash blossoms
- 2 eggs, beaten
- Margarine or oil
- Bread crumbs
Cut off ends of the blossoms. Wash very well and lay them flat. Dip in beaten eggs and then in crumbs and fry in margarine or oil.
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Sunday May 4, 2008
- 2 cups fresh green bean pods (string beans)
- 1 tablespoon margarine or oil
- 1 can mushrooms, ground
- 1 tablespoon onions, minced
- 1 teaspoon vetsin
- salt to taste
Saute onions in oil or margarine. Add mushrooms, then the beans. Cover and let it simmer a few minutes. Add broth from mushrooms. Cook till beans are tender. Add salt and vetsin. Serve hot.
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Saturday May 3, 2008
- 2 cups mashed potatoes
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vetsin
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon onions
- 2 cups crumbs or cornmeal
Mix all ingredients and shape as big as fingers, and coat with flour. Roll in egg diluted with milk, and then roll in crumbs. Fry Serve hot with gluten cutlets or fried tokwa.
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Saturday May 3, 2008
- 1 cup carrots
- 1/2 cup squash, sliced
- 1 cup chayote
- 2 cups thick coconut milk
- 1 tablespoons onions, chopped
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 2 tablespoons oil
- salt to taste
- 1 teaspoon vetsin
Saute the garlic until light brown, then add the onions. Add all the vegetables. Season with salt and vetsin. Cover and cook till tender. Add the curry powder when vegetables are half cooked. Serve hot.
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Saturday May 3, 2008
- 2 eggplants
- salt
- vetsin
- flour
- 1/2 cup oil
- 1/2 cup oil
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- Garlic
- 1 cup tomato soup
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup cheese
Pare eggplants and slice. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and dredge with flour. Fry slowly and drain. Saute garlic and onion, add tomato soup and water. heat and season with salt and vetsin. Arrange eggplant, tomato mixture and cheese in alternate layers in greased baking pan. Bake in moderate oven for 20 minutes.
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Tuesday Apr 29, 2008
- 4 cups shelled green peas
- 1 medium onion, sliced
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups boiling water
- 4 small cucumbers, peeled and diced
- 3 tablespoons butter or margarine
- 1 cup cream or rich milk, scalded
- 1/2 teaspoon vetsin
Combine the peas, onion and salt in a saucepan. Add the boiling water and cover. Cook until peas are almost done. (about 15 minutes). Add the cucumbers and continue cooking until these are also tender. Drain, cream and let boil once. Add vetsin. Serve very hot.
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Tuesday Apr 29, 2008
- 2 cups grated young corn
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 onion
- 3 cups water
- 1 small patola
- 1 cup malunggay
- 1/2 teaspoon vetsin
- Salt to taste
Saute garlic and onion. Add water and let it boil then add the corn, stirring often to avoid burning. When cooked, add the patola and malunggay. Serve hot.
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Monday Apr 28, 2008
- 1/2 cup yellow corn meal
- 2 1/2 cups sifted flour
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 4-6 tablespoons iced water or milk
Sift corn meal, flour, and salt in a bowl. Cut in shortening till mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add water, slowly stirring meal mixture until pastry can be formed into a ball. Divide pastry into two parts. O a floured board, roll each to form a 9-inch square. Cut each square into four and shape over bottm of a muffin tin. Pleat edges, leaving corners to give tulip effect. Prick surface with fork. Bake in a preheated oven 450 degree farenheight 12-15 minutes. Cool. Remove from tins. Fill cups with Corn a la creme.
Filling
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 cups corn, cream style
- 2 tablespoons minced onions
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 1 cup milk
- 2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
- 2 tablespoons minced green pepper or pimiento
Saute onions in butter. Stir in flour and add milk, stirring constantly until the mixture thickens. Add the corn and continue cooking until the corn is hot. Then add 1/2 cup cheese and green pepper. Stir over low heat till cheese melts. Serve hot in tulip cups.
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Monday Apr 28, 2008
- 1 big bamboo shoot, sliced thin
- 2 handfuls saluyot leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon vetsin
- 1 1/2 cups coconut milk
- salt to taste
Squeeze out the juice from the bamboo shoot. Put in a pot with enough water and boil for a few minutes. Continue cooking until it is almost done. Add the saluyot leaves and season it. Add the coconut milk. Let it simmer, then remove from fire.