Mely's Kitchen Sausage Delight

This is my own recipe, I created it in my mind while I was shopping at a frozen food section at the supermarket and I saw different sausages. Then I felt the tears want to come down my eyes, because I am missing my nieces and nephews, I remember how they love sausages. I said to myself when I will be with them again I will cook a dish of sausages for them, and I come up with this recipe.

Ingredients:

1/4 kilo hotdog sausage or pepperoni sausage
1 regular can  vienna sausage
1 dozen quails egg ( hard boiled and shelled)
3 cloves garlic
1/2 slice small onion
1/2 cup cashew nuts ( optional)
10 pcs. cherry tomatoes
1 teaspoon seasoning powder
1/2 glass water

Procedure:
1. Saute garlic and onion
2. Add all the sausages together with the seasoning powder, simmer for a minute.
3. Add the water let it boil.
4. Add the quail's eggs and tomatoes, simmer for few minutes
5. Stir in the cashew nuts and simmer for 2 minutes.
6. Turn off the heat and serve it. :)

You can garnish it with spring onions or parsley.

I am 100% sure that young and adult will like this! What are you waiting for? Try it now. So easy, simple and affordable.

Chicken Feet Adobo

Chicken feet dishes in China is ranked as number 5 among China's exotic food. Weird as other people looked at it, but to those who eat it, its a yummy treat.  I am a chicken feet eater :D frankly speaking its addictive lol if you know how to cook it, it doesnt taste weird at all, it is yummy specially when it is so tender and saucy.In the Philippines we call it "adidas".

Ingredients:

1 kilo chicken feet
1/4 cup soy sauce (add if needed)
1/2 cup vinegar
6 cloves garlic
1 small size onion
garlic ( thumb size)1/4 teaspoon ground pepper
2 cups water
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:

1. Saute garlic, ginger and onion
2. Add the chicken feet and the rest of the ingredients cover it and simmer.
3. Mix it well, then add water and let simmer until tender. When it's already tender and it's still has a lot of water, increase the heat and allow the water to evaporate making it saucy and yummy.
4. Serve it hot.

Tuna and sausage Omellette

Since I was a kid I always love omellette, either breakfast, lunch or dinner, whatever is the filling in it I will eat it. It is also the very first viand that I learned to cooked. As time goes by I use different stuffs to go with it, but what I wanted to share now is the tuna and sausage.

Ingredients:

 6 eggs
1 small size onion
1 medium size tomato
1 small bell pepper
2 sausages
1 can tuna flakes ( drained)
salt

Procedure:

1. Saute the onion, tomato and bell pepper then add the sausage and tuna flakes, add some salt, then set aside.
2. Beat the eggs.
3. In a frying pan  put oil, wait until its hot before  putting the beaten eggs.
4. When the egg is a little cooked, put the tuna and sausage mixture for filling. Then flip both sides of the egg    to meet at the middle to sealed the filling.
5. Cover it and cook in low heat after few minutes, turn once to cook the top side.
    That's it, so easy:) Enjoy your food ^ _ ^

Pineapple Chicken

 There are so many versions of pineapple chicken in different places of the world. I read from the internet, some of the recipes about it are not easy to follow for a beginner. Why make it complicated when we can make it simple, right? So here is the easiest way to cook pineapple chicken.

Ingredients:

1 kilo chicken
1/4 teaspoon whole black pepper
1 cup pineapple
2 cups pineapple juice
4 cloves garlic
1 small size onion
dash of salt

Procedure:

1. Saute garlic and onion.
2. Put the chicken and braised it for  a while.
3. After braising it, put the black pepper, dash of salt and pineapple juice, let it boil until cooked.
4. Add the pineapple simmer for few minutes,  increase the heat to high to make some soup evaporate until the soup thickens.
5. Serve it,  garnished with spring onions.

Simple and easy to prepare yet the taste is satisfying. :)

Lengua Estofada

The word LENGUA is a Spanish word for tongue (dila), so our main ingredient for this recipe is the tongue (beef or pork tongue). This recipe sounds difficult but actually it is easy to cook. Even if you are a first timer I know you can cook this right. Here is the simple and easy steps of cooking Lengua Estofada. Have fun!

Ingredients:
1pc lengua (beef or pork's tongue) (cleaned, boiled & skin removed)
1/2 cup tomato sauce
1 tsp garlic, minced
1 pc. medium size onion
green olives ( as needed)
½ cup all purpose cream
1 cup button mushrooms, sliced
2 pcs large size potatoes
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Saute garlic and onion.
2. Add the tongue,tomato sauce, salt and pepper to taste simmer for few minutes.
3. Add water that is enough to cook the tongue, (it's better to tenderize the tongue first in the pressure cooker) for faster cooking.
4. Add the potatoes and simmer for few minutes.
5. When the tongue is already tender add the all purpose cream, mushroom and olives, simmer for few minutes.
6. Serve it and don't forget to smile :)

 

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Sweet and sour Tilapia

I cooked this because a friend requested a recipe for this.

Ingredients:

1 kilo Tilapia ( fried)
1 small size bell pepper
1 small size carrots ( strips)
1/2 cup vinegar
1/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons ginger ( strips)
3 cloves garlic
1 small size onion
3/4 cup water
1 teaspoon cornstarch dissolved in 1/4 glass water

Procedure:

1. Saute ginger and garlic until brownish,  put the onion and saute more.
2. Put vinegar and sugar,  mix thoroughly, then add the water and let it boil.
3. Put the carrots,  boil for few seconds then put the bell pepper
4. Put the cornstarch mixture, stirring well until it boils.
5. Put the fried fish, cover and boil for one minute.
6. Serve it hot with rice :)

Sauteed Lettuce

Lettuce is well known for salads, or you can just wash it and munch it, crispy and tender. I never thought of cooking it, until one day when I saw lots of lettuce at the kitchen table. I do not want it to be rotten so I thought of cooking it  and I am also curious how does it taste when it is cooked. So, I cooked it. Its my first time to eat cooked lettuce and I was surprised, its still crispy and I like it a lot even my friends who tasted it. Here is how I did it.

Ingredients:

1/2 kilo lettuce ( cut around 2 inches long)
1 can tune flakes in brine
3 tablespoons soy sauce
3 cloves garlic

Procedure:

1. Saute garlic
2. Add the tuna and soy sauce simmer for few minutes
3. Put the lettuce, increase the heat to avoid discoloration
4. Stir fry or cook  it quickly for 2 minutes, that's it! Enjoy our food :)

 

It really tastes good.

Yakisoba with crab sticks

Yakisoba is a very popular noodles in Japan, but you can have a taste of it right in your own home through this recipe that I am going to share. It may not be as perfect as the Japanese way but I am sure this is yummy. I had a first taste of it at a Chinatown restaurant somewhere in South America, as I am eating it, I looked at what are the ingredients, and I said to my friends,  wow the price is expensive but the ingredients are just these, if we can find a yakisoba noodles, then I can cook it for us if we want to eat yakisoba again, in that way it's less expensive.

Ingredients:

1/4 kiloYakisoba noodles
5 crab sticks ( you can replace this with a meat that you want to use)
1small size onion
4 cloves garlic
1/4 kilo Chinese cabbage
1/4 cup button mushrooms (halves)
1 pc. carrot ( strips)
4 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 glass water
1 small bell pepper
1 teaspoon cornstarch dissolved in a little water.

Procedure:

1. Boil the Yakisoba noodles, when its cooked drain it and set aside.
2. In a pan saute garlic and onion
3.Add the soy sauce, sugar, crab sticks (or any meat that you are going to use) simmer it for 2 minutes
4.Add the water, let it boil
5. Put the carrots and mushrooms, simmer for 2 minutes
6. Put the Chinese cabbage and bell pepper simmer for a minute
7. add the cornstarch solution let it boil
8. Stir in the Yakisoba noodles, mix it well and turn off the heat.You can dash it with ground pepper.
9. Serve it hot and with a smile :)


If you will use a ready to use Yakisoba noodles sauce, no need to put water, sugar and cornstarch solution just stir fry the vegetables.

 

If Yakisoba noodles  is not available in your place, you can use the instant noodles. DO not include its flavoring.

Bitter Sweet Peanuts

Try this recipe

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo peanuts
1 glass sugar
1 and a half glass of water

Procedure:
1. In a pan put the water and the sugar together, dissolve in a medium heat, until it boils
2. Add the peanuts, stirring occasionally, until the water has been dry out.
3. When it is already dry, increase the heat to melt the sugar.   When the sugar is starting to melt lower the heat.
4. Mix the peanuts continuously until it is coated with melted sugar then increase the heat to make it bitter -sweet by over cooking the sugar but not burning :)

 

Mely's Kitchen three colored pasta with cream of mushroom

I have 3 unexpected guests today and I do not know what to prepare for them because the fridge just have some slices of ham and some vegetables, I can not think of a good mixture to cook. I looked at the cupboard and found the three colored pasta, hmmmmmp I think for a while what to do with it, and my eyes wandered around and I saw a can of cream of mushroom soup. I thought the mushroom cream will be a yummy sauce for the pasta, so I grab it and started to cook what I imagined:)

Ingredients:

1/2 kilo 3 colored pasta ( cooked according to packaging instruction)
spring onion for garnishing
1 cup diced ham
2 cloves garlic
1/2 cup nestle cream
1/2 cup minced carrots for garnishing
2 cups cream of mushroom 
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:

1.Saute the garlic
2. Add the ham, stirring constantly
3. Pour in the cream of mushroom and Nestle cream then simmer for few minutes
4. add pepper and salt to taste, let it boil
5. In a big mixing bowl, put the pasta and pour in the sauce, mix it well and garnish it with spring onion and carrots.

Wow! the taste is really yummy..