Happy New Year to all of you. I’m sure everyone is thinking now of the new year ahead of us. Are you one of those folks that will set a goal for the year? I guess, this year I will try again to set a goal for the whole year. I did set goals when I used to lived in the States. It’s easier to set my goal there, it’s not a laid back kind of life there. I really had to do what needs done there. Unlike here now that I am a bit relaxed and procrastinate some of the work that needs get done. Hey, sometimes I had some other people do it for me though. In short, kind of living the lazy life. Ha ha ha. But the coming year I will try to do it myself. Not rely on others to do it for me. Crossing my fingers on that. 🙂
You’ve probably noticed if you are my friend on Facebook that I had been posting some pictures of foods that we cooked here at the house. One of my goals for the coming year will be trying to cook food for others. I am talking food that’s usually eaten by the foreigners. I am not a good cook for Filipino dishes. I know some, but not a whole lot though. But I know how to cook more of the American dishes or foreign dishes than with the local dishes here.
Just like during Thanksgiving me and my niece cooked our food from scratch. From the pies, the crusts, stuffing the sausages, yams, mashed potatoes, pumpkin and banana breads and others. We also made different kinds of cookies. Really in every holidays that we are celebrating now, me and my niece were the ones cooking our foods. We made a few cakes. Not totally liking the store cakes now. Some were dry, plus we can play around with the recipe.
I’m excited to start my journey this year. It will be an exciting one. I am going to show you guys the links later after everything’s done. To those of you who are our customers from WowPhilippines you are also welcome to see the links and order from there.
So watch out for my site about the food that we cook here in the house. Maybe you want some of it. I will tell you though every person that tried the food that we gave during holidays or we invited them for a small get together here at the house, they all say they like it. During Thanksgiving not just this year but from the previous years, people that were invited really raved how good the food was. So I guess all in all everyone were pleased of the food that was served here at the house. I’m not going to argue on that though, for one, Bob was my number one critique. He will tell me honestly if the food was good or not good. Second critique would be the kids. They really let me know if the food that was served were good or not. They’ve been so brutally honest about it. If they like the food they let me know. If they don’t like it, they also let me know. I will tell you though foods during Thanksgiving were really a big hit in the house. Really my kids think that me and my niece can cook any dishes that would be thrown to us. My niece she’s good also in cooking Pinoy dishes.
During the feeding at the orphanage we were cooking some of the dishes for the kids there. It was fun. The kids and the nuns and the people that helped out there like the food that we brought there.
Have fun eating.
Masarap!!!!!!
Hi Dirk – Masarap!!! TALAGA… I can assure you that. 🙂
Have a wonderful day!
hi Mrs. Feyma..
Nice that every year you have a new goal and pilipinos really good in cooking
you can have extra income to accept catering services if i were you, and for sure
you cook good food. have a nice day.
Hi anne – Thank you so much. Really I will try to work on the goal I have this year. Your thoughts were the same of a friend of mine to go for a catering services or take orders from somebody. I am working on that. That’s one of my goal this year. Thank you for the good compliment. I really appreciated your nice thoughts.
Happy to see you here. Have a wonderful day!
BTW thank you for the banana bread and cookies. They went fast. I’m used to having a lot more treats around at Christmas, and we didn’t have much ourselves. I’ll fix that next year 🙂
Hi Randy – I’m glad you and Amelyn liked the goodies. Yep, we tried giving something like that during the holidays. We also get those kind of stuff during Christmas too in the States and here now. I’m sure you will be having more next Christmas. You were adjusting to the new lifestyle right now.
Have a great day!
Hi Feyma
Good luck with the cooking and baking. Are you trying out anymore Jamie Oliver recipes. We have such a lot of cookery shows on TV these days. Two more down to earth cooks (not chefs) are the ‘Hairy Bikers’. Our butcher makes fantastic pork pies so we have no need to make them. We seem to be having more crumbles than pies these days. If the family appreciate your cooking thats is the most important bit.
Thank you so much Marjorie. Yes, I’ve been trying more recipes from Jaime. But lately that we don’t have house help I have been cooking on our crockpot (slow cooker) more. That’s one good thing for you you can just get some pies near to your place. Is it cook already or you will be the one to cook it?
That’s for sure my family enjoys what we put on the table to eat. 🙂
Have a good one my friend!
Hello Feyma! Although you say you are not a good cook for Filipino dishes it seems that you are a natural at cooking. Once you start cooking cakes and goodies at home the store bought ones never seem as good any more! In the future, my husband and I plan on moving to the Philippines. My husband’s a chef and I love to bake. Is it easy to find ingredients over there?
Hi Maria – Thank you. I think you are right. Sometimes when my niece cooked the Pinoy dishes I will just add something to make it taste better. It’s chef’s instinct. Ha ha ha…
So true, we don’t enjoy the made cakes now from the store. It just taste dry to us. Good thing you had a chef husband. You will enjoy cooking with him then. If you move back here try to buy good baking oven. Not the La Germania. They had like a surplus type store here that sells kitchen stuff, go there and shop there.
For me it’s easy to get ingredients here. We have malls that sells imported ingredients and I can do substitute from our very own local ingredients.
Thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!
Hi Feyma
Yes the pies are already cooked, they do pork pies, steak and steak and kidney. and if I am feeling naughty chips. Pork pies are traditionally served warm with mushy peas.
Feyma,
I’m a very good cook and used to love to cook and bake and make all sorts of things for everyone. Because of my back, I’ve been unable to do much, unless it is something that I can sit down to cut vegetables, or other preparation. I have won some cooking contests too, so I know the food is good. I’m hoping that the warmer weather will allow me to spend some more time doing what I loved to do so much in the past.
Good for you Feyma to try cooking dishes that foreigners like. I have had my issues with adjusting to life in the Philippines primarily because of the food. My number 1 issue is that I do not like my food cold, number 2 is I don’t particularly like fish and blasphemous as this will sound to a Filipino, white rice has basically no nutritional value at all, just empty carbs. Having said that I like white rice a lot and eat it with most meals because it is filling. At Thanksgiving my wife and I both cooked, she making traditional Filipino dishes like Pancit, Lechon baboy, etc and I cooked a butterball turkey with stuffing and mashed potatoes. I have introduced my Filipino family to slow cooker recipes which they seem to really like, cooking pork or chicken all day in a crock pot with vegetables then eating with rice. They also seem to like my pasta dishes, ones that I make with lots of cheese and bake in the oven. Things I miss the most are bread varieties, beans, albacore tuna, salad dressings like hidden valley ranch, poppy seed. And for some reason Filipino baked goods and donuts seem to be missing something, maybe the flour they use? Anyway thanks for this post!