Vegetable for your Dinner Date

Planning for a dinner date? You might be worried about how restaurant food will measure up to your diet—after all, there's often a shortage of good-for-you veggies on the menu. Don't let the menu hold you back. "Ask your waiter or waitress if you can add veggies to your meal. Ask for specific veggies that you love, or ask them to surprise you with a mix. Chinese, Thai and Italian restaurants are usually happy to accommodate your request, but it can't hurt to ask when you're dining at other places, too."
Veggie up items like pizza, pasta, stir-fry, sandwiches, burgers, omelets and wraps. There may be an added charge, but the boost of flavor (not to mention fiber and nutrients!) will be worth every penny.

Eat healthy for a healthy body!

I’m Here for the Party

Today is my friend daughter’s birthday. I went there late this afternoon. There were a lot of foods and visitors. All of the foods look really good but I lost my appetite when I saw flies inside the house. It was just disgusting! I only had two bites and I was done.

I was there for a party, which means it was a perfect time for me to eat more because I made myself hungry. And it’s only once in a lifetime that all Filipino friends will have gatherings and party. Most Filipino goodies and foods were served.

Filipino Rice Sticks Noodles with Chow Mein (Bam- i)

Last couple days were my days off. I spent my day cooking my husbands’ favorite dish called “bam-I”, a Filipino term for the mixture of rice sticks and chow mien noodles. I am so glad that at last he loves my food. That encourages me to cook more delicacies knowing that he will try and love Filipino dish.



How to prepare? It is simple! In preparation, soak the rice sticks noodles for about 30 minutes or more. In a frying pan sauté the minced garlic and green onions. Add the vegetables and salt to taste. Add the noodles. Ready to serve!

What’s for dinner?

After my long day from work, I felt very tired and hungry. Every time when my husband pick me up from work there’s one immediate question that will always comes out from my mouth “What’s for dinner” sweetie? That’s what I usually ask my husband before reaching home. But in order to avoid asking my husband of “what’s for dinner” I fixed something healthy foods before I went to work today. Guess what’s for my dinner? Here’s my sautéed vegetables, good for me and for my baby.



My ingredients are: 1 tbsp of minced garlic, 1 tbsp of sliced onions, 1 pound of side pork, 1 pound of sliced carrot, 2 pounds of squared banana squash, 2 cups of sliced chayote squash and 1 pound of baby spinach.

How to cook? In a large frying pan, fry the side pork and let it cook then sauté the garlic and onions. Put and mixed all the vegetables. Add 3 cups of chicken broth. Add salt to taste. Let it cook until all veggies are tender. And lastly add the spinach. Let it stay for another 2 minutes. And done! Serve it with rice for me.

Yummy! Anyways, my baby loves this all kind of veggies.

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Our House Stinks Today!

I was talking on the phone with my Filipina friend this afternoon and she mentioned “dried fish” for her dinner! And it sounds interesting and good to me since it’s been a long time I haven’t had dried fish! So I decided to fry dried fish for my appetizer. I was thinking to fry it outside the porch but I didn’t felt like doing something outside. And then, I did cook it inside the house and OMG the whole house stinks now! My mom in law asked me if what did I cooked because its stinks! And I was just laugh and said its dried fish! And all of the sudden she left the house with her two grandkids! They just disappear without saying anything! But for me that was funny though because I made the house stinks and made them go away too! Now the house is so peaceful but stinky for sure! hahaha… So now I am ready to eat my dried fish for dinner!

Economic Crisis: Rice Shortage in Oregon

Is your town experiencing this so called “rice shortage” crisis? If so, Oregon is one of it. Started last week most people rushing and buying more rice since they heard that there is a rice shortage coming. And yesterday I went to all bulk stores that carried rice but unfortunately they were all out. So I began to think maybe it is true that Oregon will encounter this “rice shortage”. Lately I ordered rice at WinCo Foods, and said that I will get as much as they have, but they only have one bag. The good thing is they saved it for me.




But I did start wandering, why we have “rice shortage”? And how it happened? Did somebody hide the rice? There is no way people can do that. Anyway, as what I’ve heard from the news and all the gossips everywhere especially in the stores that most of our rice was sent to China, which they needs rice right now and their family here in Oregon trying to provide rice for them. That’s why Oregon encountered this economical imbalance with rice. In fact Costco limits one bag of rice per person. And I worried about my co- rice lover! I knew that Chinese, Filipino, Mexican and etc. eats rice with their meals. So, folks let saved rice now!

The Origin of Banana chips

I realized that some American who loves banana chips didn’t have a chance to see a real banana plant. Here’s a picture that shows the origin of banana chips, for where it comes from "Banana Tree".




Well, back of my days in Philippines I used to ask my mom in the province that I was coming home from the city and I missed banana with salted fish (bagoong). And she hurriedly cooked it for me! I really love boiled banana too.
Anyways, banana chips are an all natural product prepared from the sound fruit of the Saba variety. The bananas are picked in their mature green stage, peeled, washed, sliced and then fried in fresh refined coconut oil.
The country of origin is Philippines, the supply of banana’s is all year round.
And America is one of the importing country for banana.

Asparagus: My baby’s 1st favorite vegetable.

Once in a while, we will have a whole family dinner and it’s always comes with asparagus. I’d tried to feed it to my 5months old baby Mickael, and we were all surprised how much he sucked and chewed it. Oh man! He really loves asparagus. And he will end up screaming if there’s no more asparagus for him.


Here’s one of his stolen picture while he was eating his first vegetable “asparagus”!





And I do believe that good nutrition and a balanced diet help your kids grow up healthy. Serve a variety of healthy foods and snacks. Be a role model by eating healthy yourself. To all mommies try to feed your babies with a healthy food. Start with vegetables.