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Lasang Pinoy Sundays # 25… Saucy
When Ces of Spices started hosting this weekly Filipino food photography, she always have encouraged me to join. After all I have been active with the Lasang Pinoy “Filipino Taste” events before but fickle minded as I am, I never posted anything but I always check what’s going on by the time I find something to post, Sunday gone again.
So am not missing this one, she might not ask me for crazy ideas anymore, lol. This week’s theme is SAUCY… sounds so sexy isn’t it.
This is not strictly a Filipino food am posting, rather a Greek food. But when one thinks of kokinisto, it’s almost similar to the Filipino menudo sans liver.
Kokinisto means reddened, red sauce in Greek. It might be pork, chicken, veal, beef cooked in red sauce. Nostimo… Yummy!!!
Also posted in Greek Food & Culture, Lasang Pinoy, Photo Essay
Tagged greece, kokinisto, lasang pinoy sundays
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blueberry muffins
I came back from Athens just a week ago. The following days was spent cleaning the galley. Scrubbing the walls, fridges and cupboards. One cupboard is full of baking goodies… nuts, flours, syrups name it all including two bags of Valrhona chocolates.
I love making brownies with these chocolates….
On the upper shelf is what our chef calls emergency stash. Basically it’s where you can find Betty Crockers cake mix…
In our job and industry, we tend to shop and stock up for weeks when we are on a trip. You can’t easily just dash to the supermarket when we are anchor off in a remote island.
Now with the boat up for sale and trips have ended, I am slowly emptying cupboards. Make use of what we have as much as I could. My captain has told me if we sell, I will just pack most food stuff and give them to the poor.
Thats how I make use of that pre mixed muffin where you only add the berries, oils and eggs. They turned out great but I still prefer doing everything from the scratch.
Also posted in Baking
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…home
I know I have been such delinquent with updating my posts… but there is something some of you do not understand that living with many in a boat where I do not have my own personal space is not easy…
So am happy to be back in Athens just for few days… I was at the market the other day just to feel am back in this chaotic city.
Also posted in Greek Food & Culture, Stigmiotipa
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… storm season has arrived
Its been a week since we came back from the Bahamas and ever since then, there was only a day that it did not rain. The storm season has arrived.
On a fine Sunday morning last week, I woke up early in spite the fact it was a day off when I noticed the emergency light went off. I dashed outside to re start the shore power when I saw the storm approaching us. All the crew came out to the deck after we heaved and felt the powerful wind that slashed at almost 42 knots. I have just to get used to this rain storm that is so part of the life here in Florida.
So what is the best to cook when rain comes pouring heavily?
Soup to soothe the soul.
I have been doing a lot of creamed soup lately. I needed something quick that lifts the mood up. I thought of doing the vietnamese pho soup.
Hmm I do not have the beef. At the end I just made a soup what ever I could find in the fridge.
I first made a broth. I boiled chicken pieces with ginger, parsley, spring onions, carrots.
After straining the broth, I chopped the chicken into tiny bits.
I sliced carrots, celery, thin slices of ginger, spring onions and some cilantro. I boiled the clear broth once again and added the vegetables except for the cilantro. Just before the vegetables are soft, add the chicken, season to taste.
Serve with chopped cilantro. Soothing…..
And to add a bit of cheer on such grey day, I bought some lilies and a pot of orchids to brighten up the day.
Also posted in Soups
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back but yet… busy
This is one table arrangement we did, when we were in Marsh Harbour, the Abacos…
Will soon post… am back here in Palm Beach and will be heading to Ft Lauderdale soon.
will be away for a while… again
flying over the Atlantic and see this little tyke…
and soon to the Bahamas again….
don’t we love birthday cakes?
Oh well after this site got hack and a wordpress bug stopped me from posting delectable photos for the readers to drool, time to catch up with blogging, isn’t it. I certainly have no more reasons not too, oh yes when we use the Marina’s wifi I could not do ANY BLOG AT ALL!!!
So , where I’ve been?
Unlike last year where every day I found myself at different places every day or at least every other day or so along the coastline of France, Italy and Croatia, this year has been a little of a drag.
Oh no am not complaining its a good break from my usual routine…
After 5 weeks trip in the Bahamas we found ourselves going up down the coastline of Florida, Ft Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Miami and back.
After the trip from the Abacos ( I did not want to come back that soon,the photo alone of the inn just make you want to stay) we just sat in Ft Lauderdale for a very long time. At this very moment of writing I am back here in Palm Beach.
We have no more trips the boat am working on is up for sale. Yes I had chances, so many offers to go back to the Mediterranean but I have declined them all. Sometimes I find myself having wishful thinking that.. perhaps I should have gone back but Florida keeps holding me to stay.
Since we have been put up in the market and have no trips, our crew been down sized too. I have taken the role of the chef. Most times its just me and my deck hand A, few days a week our Captain is around.
A joined us the week I was in London for a short break last January. I met him when the crew came to pick me at the station at West Palm. And oh I never had worked with a deck hand closer to my age, A is a year younger than I. Most of the deck crew I have worked with are in the early 20s.
On A birthday last May, I wanted to do Stel’s chocolate malted layer chocolate cake , but the day before I was due to bake I did not have the malted milk. So opted for another cake recipe which I found on Trish Deseine’s “I want CHOCOLATE” cookbook.
Many moons ago, I googled cake chocolate recipe and linked me to the well known Parisian blogger Chocolate and Zucchini’s . She wrote about baking Melt in your mouth chocolate cake that sent me to click amazon dot com (oh the joys of internet!).
Light and Airy Cake
1 cup unsalted butter softened
1 cup sugar
4 eggs
2 cups all purpose flour
where is the butter?
This site has been hacked then a wordpress bug would not allow me to post photos. Thanks to my hostee that the problems been sorted out.
Soon am back….
The photo taken from Abaco Inn at Hopetown, Elbow Cay, Abacos, that beautiful place faces the Atlantic. Wished we could have stayed longer but the trip was all work.
…gone fishin’
I just sat down after 11 hours of work, yes 11 hours you did not misread that. I was up before 6am to set breakfast for my boss and his brothers. When I started the chef had already baked fresh croissants and pan chocolat… in between setting the breakfast I also prepared the coffee jugs… they left 7am for fishing. By 10 they came back with 3 mahi mahi and a wahoo. Greg and Leigh went fishing with our guests and lunch was pan grilled mahi mahi and wahoo served with salad.As I am typing this one the CHEF was already telling me off to get off from my laptop… we crew are having a bbq, mahi mahi of course and the wahoo…. still at Harbor Island will depart for Nassau tomorrow.
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