Garden Chef's Needle and Pen

Hello there! Today is Sunday but I wasn't able to attend the Worship Service. There were carpentry jobs at home which I had to supervise, and while doing so, as usual, the experiment in the kitchen goes on. Never a day without trials and tests in my kitchen. My experiments usually consist of  modifications in the original recipes that happen when: I deliberately change the ingredients of the recipe according to what is available  I modify the sequence of the cooking directions as I deem appropriate Today's recipe experiment is a variation of Betty Crocker 's Quick Chicken Scampi . This is a delicious skillet dinner made with linguine served with chicken mixture and vegetables. Betty Crocker's recipe has the following ingredients:

How are you spending your weekend? Remember my post two Sundays ago featuring the poem of Corrie Ten Boom? Here's a sequel to that.

Hello there! How well do you like fairy tales? Well, I do (did, and still do)… very much! As a child, I was able to keep my own collection of Classics Illustrated, numbered them one by one as my mother bought one or two every time we would go to the city to shop. Then my father would read the stories first and read them to me, until I was old enough to read them myself. I would keep them in my bookshelf, invite my friends to read over, until I left our hometown for my college education. Sad to say, while I was away, my mother lent quite a number to a cousin who never got to return the borrowed items :( Years later, I had all my comic books bound and read to my own children during their early years, just the very same way my father did when I was still a small child. This morning, as I went to the market earlier than usual, I remembered the story of the Three Little Pigs . Let me reminisce a little bit. In the story, one of the three pigs was wise enough to build a house of bri...

It's been more than a month since I last posted ( I Turned my Kitchen into a Laboratory this New Year ) about my kitchen spree. After more than a week of being contented with fast food meals due to overtime and late nights from work, I was finally able to spend more time in the kitchen this weekend. For this post, I'd like to feature the salad showcases by Chef Dolly for lunch on February 3, 2012  during the Closing Meeting of the FERCAP-PHREB Advanced Training for Surveyors/Accreditors. Chef Dolly is the Head of 1475 Cafeteria of the Philippine Heart Center , the hospital where I work.  She impressed not only the local and foreign surveyors but all the participants with her Talinum-Apple  Salad with Bagna Cauda Sauce ,  Melon-Bitter Melon Salad with French Onion Sauce and Alugbati-spinach-camote tops-sigarillas-papaya salad with bagoong-vinegar sauce . Here, take a glimpse at each of the three---  First, the TALINUM-APPLE SALAD WITH BAGNA CAUDA SAUCE...

Praise God I found this poem by Corrie Ten Boom.