Tinolang Manok (Chicken Soup)

Recently, I noticed how my brother loves to cook tinola. I'm not so fond of it as I rather have my chicken fried but the way he cooks it, and the color of it after it cooked makes me hungry. I like my tinola yummy and NOT pale.

Ingredients:

2 pcs. chicken breast

1 chicken cube

1papaya (fruit)

red pepper leaves

red pepper

onion

water

cooking oil

Saute first your chicken in a skillet with hot oil (with your desired cut size). Stir until a bit brown or fairly cooked. In a separate pot, put a small amount of oil and toss your onions, mix until aroma comes out. Pour your desired amount of water in the pot and let it boil. Add your chicken and let it boil in a medium fire. Add your chicken cube (salt and sugar if you need more taste) and lastly the veggies (papaya and pepper leaves) so as not to over cook them. Add chopped red chilli pepper or pepper flakes (if desired) to add spice in it :D

Quick Dinner

If there's one thing you need to cook without rushing, it would be dinner. Why? it's because this is the time when everybody gets home and relax, maybe hungry a 'lil but.. you can wait the rest of the night. If there's one quick cooking needed to be done, I'd say breakfast but.. who eats sloppy joe's for breakfast? alright.. I guess me and my brother are guilty.

For dinner, I came home meaning to cook some sloppy joes homemade style.. I hope you like it.

  

Ingredients:

1/2 lb ground pork

1 can tomato chunks

1/4 cup steak sauce

1 big clove onion

1 medium size green bell pepper 

1 medium size red bell pepper

Olive oil or any cooking oil available 

Salt and sugar to taste

4 pcs. crusty roll (French Baker) / Bolillos by purposedrivenchef

(Slice onion and pepper in your desired size) Heat oil in  pan and toss your onions and bell pepper in there . Saute until the smell comes out. Mix the ground pork with your onion and bell pepper, keep stirring until brown.. Add steak sauce and tomato chunks and simmer in very low fire. Add salt and sugar to taste. Whoala! makes 4 sloppys :D

This post mingle and crowds:

What can you get from lemon and tea?

I recently wrote about the lemonade cleansing diet (which  by the way of research is a good way to detoxify and cleanse the body) but not without its grueling and intense dieting combination. For some health enthusiast, the lemonade cleansing diet (master cleanse) can be done in as easy as 1,2,3 step routine for a month while some would sweat it out like a math exam. 

But did you know there's another way to detoxify your body without depriving yourself of food?  

This, I pretty much figured out myself even before my sister told me all about it. On top of our fridge is a box of green tea my mom bought when she was here. Take note I am not a fan of green tea or any tea for that matter. I go coffee and more coffee as the day smiles on me (like the lemon image on top). Then one night after we ate dinner, i still felt like eating but already full so instead of drinking plain hot water like what my lola always told me, I dunk a green tea bag in my hot cup of water and whola! few minutes later i felt better, and as the day was ending I opt to complete my water intake so I made me another cup and there started my body's regular detoxification "if you know what I mean) :D

Oh and by the way.. try squeezing few drops of lemon in your tea and yum yum! talkin' about putting some zest in your drink