Our Pre-Holiday Food Adventures

Cheers!

Wow, it's been more than a month since my last post. I have been too busy yet again obviously. So before I babble about my not so boring life, here are some of the food we have been eating lately. This is going to be one long post again :D

Let me start with some BEEF dishes. Well, mostly meatball dishes. We bought a huge bag in Costco and I had fun throwing them into several dishes. Believe it or not, the bag still had tons left. I love beef because they are easy to cook and flavorful. They taste great in almost everything, soups, stir fry, etc. Here goes my experiments!

beef with mixed veggies and sour cream

our favorite Pho with meatballs

stir fry beef with oyster sauce, vinegar and bell pepper

meatballs cooked in mushroom soup with mixed veggies

meatballs, canned tomatoes and vermicelli

ground beef sauteed in garlic, onion, cherry tomatoes, bell pepper and egg

We have been cutting down on meat mostly PORK which makes me sad, really really sad. Hubby has been craving for Lechon Paksiw for the longest time. And when he craves, he bugs me no end. I made several attempts using porkloin, pig's head and pork belly.

porkloin

roasted pig's head

oven broiled pork belly

Finally found the squid we like and cooked it in vinegar plus I made bagoong rice as well. Not much Filipino cooking lately except for the Lechon Paksiw.

Adobong Pusit

Bagoong rice

We haven't eaten as much rice and meat in the last few weeks. In other words, I'm dying haha! I told hubby time and time again, we have to eat more healthy food, more fresh veggies, etc. and we really are trying to. The kids are loving the variety of food we are having lately except Leila maybe, who loves to eat rice and pork every single day. Here are some of the food we eat aside from our usual rice and meat.

sushi night

egg potato salad

roasted veggies with feta cheese

hubby's creation: canned tuna with curry

soup, salad, sandwich night

Greek salad

hubby's :)

mine :)

Leila's snack in school--prosciutto salad

kids' snack and lunch in school

cheese wrapped in prosciutto

Leila enjoying s'mores and strawberry banana pudding

monster pancakes

Leila making her own salad

kids enjoying their soup and crackers

grilled soft taco with shredded cheese

cheesy french toast

Since the holidays are coming, eating salad won't work for me unless it's fruit salad. Maybe after the holidays we will go back to eating it again or maybe not. My family loves food period.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!