We’re all delighted right now. We just got cable TV hooked up in our new house. The Sky Cable company has a new thing now. When getting a cable you will get a Digibox. We get a lot of new channels now, which we really needed badly. One of the best channels we get is the TLC (The Learning Channel), and we love it. I’m in awe of the selection of cooking shows, decorating show and gardening and traveling they have on there. One show we are liking to watch is Everyday Exotic with Roger Mooking. I just looked him up on the web, I guess he is from Canada. Just observing the way he is cooking, I would have thought he grew up from the South. Lots of similarities with our cooking here in the Philippines.
Last night Roger was cooking chicken with coconut. He used grated coconut with bread crumbs to coat with the chicken. Right before he started cooking, he was saying what he was going to cook and they showed a preview of what he was cooking. When they showed the preview of the cooked chicken our mouth just about dropped just looking at the oh so yummy coconut chicken.
In this episode Roger was also cooking salad that goes with the chicken. The salad consisted of bowtie pasta, red and green onions, olive oil, white wine vinegar, cayenne pepper, parsley and toasted shredded coconut. I made the salad, but Bob and I felt that it need something to make it zing. I’m not sure what, we used dried parsley might made a big difference with the taste compared to the fresh one. It was good already, but just wanted more taste to it.
I didn’t put the mint sauce with the chicken. Both Bob and I we’re not in to mint sauce. But overall I will still make this recipe and will play around with some herbs and spice in it. As always good to cook a good recipe when the ingredients are readily available here in the Philippines. At least I don’t have to be scrambling around the web to look for the substitute for the unknown ingredients. Put a big smile into my face.
I’m definitely watching Roger and the rest of the gang on the TLC network for more cooking lessons.
I’m almost done with my work here at the house decorating. So pretty soon, time to be playing around with new recipes in my new kitchen. I’m excited also because our barbecue grill is almost ready too. Jun Jun just had to put the bricks and some concrete underneath and its good to go. Jun Jun had it made now that we can bring along with us our new barbecue grill whenever we move. So its more convenient and cheaper for us too. It’s a bit heavy but he said 4 people can carry it. He made an island for my kitchen before when we first moved to the Philippines. Its removable too. We always have it with us every houses we moved in. And its still good until now.
Anyway, I hope you will try Roger Mooking’s recipe. Have fun eating!
Wow Feyma that coconut chicken looks lovley. I am hungry all ready just looking at it. Maybe if you need more zing to it try some Naga Bhut Jolokia Chili powder (Ghost peppers) on top of it…That will make a plenty of zing and You will sweat and your knees will go weak! Ghost peppers are great but you only need a few flakes but for sure will put the zing into foods if you need some zing..Great post and lovley looking foods…Feyma
Hi Dan – Thank you. The chicken really tastes good… I’m not using any ghost pepper. I remember a friend brought something like that for us to taste, he told us to be very careful in handling the bottle. He told us that even just a drop of it, its a thousand or more times hotter than the Tabasco sauce. My gosh, I’m not eating that. To be honest I’m not really into spicy foods.
Thank you so much for stopping by. Thank you for sharing your thoughts too.
Happy Thanksgiving…
Take care!
Feyma
That coconut chicken recipe looks really good. Will definately try it. I think oregano or an Italian Seasoning which is a combination of oregano, thmye, rosemary and other herbs will really add that zing to your salad. In will come in the store marked italian seasoning. Also garlic might be an option too. Hope you, Bob and family had an enjoyable Thanksgiving.
It looks yummy!
Right now we have Turkey in the oven and sweet potato casserole and green bean casserole. The siblings in the US are lazy they said they bought spiral cut ham at costco and were eating that instead of turkey, LOL!
Hi Cheryll Ann – Thank you. Glad your celebrating Thanksgiving too. Hey, they should have ordered cooked turkey somewhere there. Hey, but ham is good too. 🙂
Good to see you my friend.
Take care!
Hi Ms Feyma – Love your post. I love anything to do with food. I also like to watch those cooking shows. I don’t know how to cook, though I can prepare.. but that’s about it on kitchen abilities. Thank heavens for those shows and post like this one.
I’m not really into coconut, though there are dishes with coconut that I like (Shrimps with coconut..something)). The chicken and the salad (I like salads a lot!) sure looks delish! Oh, I like BBQ too. ^_^.
Hi sugar – Thank you. Hey, I’m like you before. I don’t know a thing when it comes to the kitchen stuff. I can decorate though. Ha ha ha… But after moving here I tried learning how to cooked. And it work out good for me. I like to cook anything now.
I like coconut shrimp. I tried cooking that before too. I am not into some food with coconut either. We tried our new BBQ grill the day before yesterday and it works good. The chicken tastes oh so yummy as always. 🙂
Good to see you here.
Take care
Sugar
Coconut shrimp is good. I will agree. You can learn how to cook. All it takes is some recipes and some imagination and just experiment and you will be fine
Yup Randy. I need to learn how to cook. He he. Tagalog name for the coconut shrimp dish I like, is hipon na may gata (shrimps in coconut cream!) Yum.
Hi Feyma,
Food looks great! I’m hungry again.
To add zing, add some corriander & basil, these herbs usually great with chicken & coconut.
Ms. Feyma, I love that show also. I have tried a few of his dishes before and find them fairly easy to prepare and usually very tasty. This is my first comment on this site even though i read it everyday. I am preparing for my big move to the Philippines next June. Ihave been planning for a few years now and am looking forward to living in the Philippines for many years. I look to this site for education all enjoyment. Thanks and keep it up.
Hi Mike Gunkel – Good show. Good to see you here. Good luck on your move. What part of the Philippines your moving to? Best of luck to you and have fun adjusting here.
Thank you for stopping by. Keep reading.
Take care!
Hi Susan – Thank you. I will try that next time.
Nice to see you here. Thank you so much for the nice tips.
Take care!
Feyma,
You might find this blog interesting:
http://kusinanimanang.blogspot.com/
It has all/most of the recipes for Filipino dishes. My wife found it, recently, and has been trying new dishes almost every day.
… also dishes based on american & other cultures.
Hi Mike – Thank you for giving me the link. I will go have a look and maybe try some of her dishes.
Good to see you here again. Thank you for your comment.
Take care!
Feyma , happy thanksgiving from my corner to yours– made some sausage & liver stuffings for my 9-lb turkey, Mandarin orange salad & Banana-pecan pie (hubby’s favorite). I can’t make out the pair of shiny pink on your chicken dish–what are those?
Hi Rhodora – Thank you. The dishes you cooked sounds good too. Oh the pinkish thing that you saw might be the tip of the grated coconut. It might just be from the camera though. After seeing the cooked chicken and the tip of the grated coconut it looked brown to me.
Good to see you here again Rhodora.
Take care and Happy Holidays!
Hi Feyma,
Seeing that picture jsut made me hungry. Better than shake and bake. There’s a similar Thai dish but tiger prawns instead of chicken, served with sweet/spicy dipping sauce.
Alex
Hi AlexB – Shake and bake is good too. I just made something new for a change and the ingredients were readily available here anyway. Thai dish with tiger prawns with sweet/spicy(not too much) sauce sounds good to me too. I really like shrimp.
Thank you for dropping by…
Happy Holidays!
Kalami naman! Nag gutom nako..Tama ba? lol….
Hi jonathan – Good to see you here… Its okay na. You tried to speak our language. Good for you for trying. Keep it up.
Happy Holidays!
my mouth is watering. we will try next weekend nice recipe thanks
My favorite Filipino dishes are the ones made with coconut milk which we get freshly squeezed at the local markets. I was always shocked that they throw out the coconut meat!
I tell them to give me the meat also but they can’t understand why.
In America we eat that a lot in candy, Coconut pies. and many other recipes. There is no fresh coconut milk only in cans in the grocery.
And as one reply said about coconut shrimp this is a favorite in “OUTBACK STEAK HOUSE” the Australian themed chain. The shrimp are coated like your chicken and they make a Orange Marmalade Sauce to dip it in. MASARAP!