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My Top 10 Entrecard Droppers for April

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1.Girl for All Status 2.Restaurant Blogger 3.Durano Lawayan 4.Ur Resident Chef 5.Saxon 6.Prove Me Wrong 7.Diet Recipes Blog 8.Embrace Simplicity 9.Authentic Greek Recipes 10.Dubai City Thank You All Very Much!

I Like My Chef Stone-d :-)

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Ah ah ah. That’s not what I meant. I am talking about Curtis – The Take Home Chef. This would be my second post on a celebrity chef (the first was The Naked Chef , of course that’s Jamie Oliver) First time I saw Curtis was on his Take Home Chef show on cable. I thought the show’s concept was brilliant. I haven’t seen anything like it anywhere. The tact is Curtis goes around supermarkets to pick-up a lady shopper, bring her back to her home, where Curtis will prepare a special dinner menu for her and a loved one. Yes, that is very right - he will do all the cooking and the food preparation (well, not really. I saw the show's credits and he has a sous chef), all in front of the cameras. It’s like a reality cooking show. Back to Curtis, he was born in Australia . Before realizing he wanted to cook, he was studying Business. He went on to start his cooking career in Savoy , quite a famous Aussie hotel. From there he proceeded to England to work for that famous chef and

Why not EVOO from Spain

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Here's an image of the evoo brand I would like to have the next time I buy my supply of olive oil. Alcubilla is an olive oil mill which exclusively produces Extra Virgin Olive Oil extracted from certified organically farmed olives. Alcubilla is owned by the Luque family from Castro del Rio, Cordoba in Spain. They have been in the olive oil business since 90 years ago. This evoo “is an artisan-made fruit juice” which does not undergo any heating process. In 1990, Alcubilla obtained the Certificate of the Committee for the Regulation of Organic Agriculture which means that what they say about their olive oil is true and accurate. Futhermore, Alcubilla has developed a tracking system which controls the production process of its evoo brand from the harvest of the olives till it reaches the dinner table. I have been using Filippo Berio and Bertolli from Italy since I have been introduced to olive oil but got worried when I read this . Olive Oil and More from Wikipedia: The Internat

Another Day of Wine and Cousins

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Since I am on the subject of grapes aaannnd wine, I am looking f orward to serving a dear cousin who's coming to visit next week. She's going to have some 'great' wine from Italy . We have in our wine bar an o ld, old labeled Cinzano Asti Spumanti. I am posting about this because I am trying to learn as much as I can about different types of wine and their origin. According to Wikipedia Asti or A sti Spumante is a *DOCG white sparkling wine produced in an area to the south of the town of Asti in Piedmont , Italy . Made from the Moscato Bianco grape, it is sweet and low in alcohol, and often drunk with dessert. It retains its sweetness through a complex filtration process. DOCG or Denominazione di origine controllata is an Italian quality ass urance label for food products and especially wines. modelled after the French AOC and was instituted in 1963 and overhauled in 1992 for compliance with the equivalent EU law on Protected Designation of Origin , wh

Yes I am Sour Grape-ing

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My friend who recently came down from California, believe it or not gifted me with grapes harvested from her own family's Napa Valley grape plantation and wineries. Yes, she married into a family who's been into wine making for the longest time . Swell. And the green seedless grapes were delivered in a large balikbayan box, delivered door-to-door in time for her arrival. And so, af ter disbursing some to my mom's and brothers' I asked myself, what shall I do with these luscious looking fruits? Good thinking. There's more than enough to prepare a green grape salad concoction such as this: 1 kilo seedless grapes, washed very well, peeled, refrigerated in a separate glass bowl 1 cup grated queso de bola 1 cup grated ordinary cheddar 1 cup lemon juice 1 cup mascu vado sugar 2 cups sour cream Mix everything in a large glass mixing bowl. Chill. When almost ready to eat, toss peeled grapes into the mixture. Serve lusciously :-) This is really decadent as f

My Breakfast Combis

Breakfast as we all know is the most important meal of the day. But who among us take this fact seriously or thoroughly. Not even I who is sort of a health nut. My last post was about a new food wellness menu I designed to suit my hypertensive condition. This post will further expand that because I shall write about different breakfast combinations that can be tried or explored. So here goes: BTW my breakfast combis utilize locally sourced food items -meaning it is mostly for Philippine audiences. 1. Fruits in season as listed below: in balls, slices, chunks, tidbits, or in shake, or perhaps juiced. Bananas as in Lakatan Pineapple Papaya Mango Melon Watermelon Melon-Papaya Chico Guyabano (Sour Sop) Atis Avocado Ube Halaya Fresh fruit salad 2. Boiled Banana Saba - plain Natural Honey Glazed Kamote or Sweet Potatoes Baked Potatoes bathed in Evoo Boiled Saba Bananas with mascuvado sugar Boiled natural Corn drizz

A Recipe for Wellness

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My new food wellness menu: Breakfast: Extra Virgin Olive Oil (evoo)on top of a grated garlic topped slice of bread (2pcs) (I don't take any processed anything for my bread no more) Any fruit in season, maybe papaya, avocados, melon, pineapple, ripe mangoes (2-3 slices depending on fruit size) Coffee (quarter of a teaspoon instant coffee grains and same amount of brown sugar) Snack 15 minute Meditation plus a slice of fruit Lunch Dinner left over (steamed again)usually fish or lean meat portions only Vegetable Salad of any hodge podge of green turned into a salad (with ginger and evoo on top) Less than a cup of rice Fresh Fruit Snack Fresh fruit juice with any type of pasta (chicken breast or clam or shrimp) with liberal evoo dressing) Dinner Vegetable usually, onion soup (uncreamed) Green salad bathed in evoo Steamed fish or chicken breast Fresh fruit I have been on this for almost a week and I feel good about it. The weather over in this part of the world is scorching heat and h