Chop, Chat and Chomp

    One dish that became my favorite was Hainanese Chicken Rice. I first tried this dish when I was in Singapore with my husband, Tommy and my daughter, Cham. Tommy's cousin who was based in Singapore that time, introduced this dish and instantly it became our favorite. I remember ordering this dish during our 3-day stay there in every restaurant we went trying which one is the best and we never got tired eating it.     Back home, I bought a cookbook with Hainanese Chicken Rice recipe just to be able to eat again this dish. But I never tried cooking it because the procedure is quite complicated.Then I remember cooking a dish similar to this which I got from a very old cookbook I bought when I was starting family. The taste is very similar to Hainanese Chicken Rice but the way of cooking it is so easy that even a neophyte in the kitchen can successfully cook it. I would like to share this and I will call it Hainanese Chicken Made Easy. Hainanese Chicken Made Easy Rice coo

    Browsing the new cookbook that was given to me as pasalubong, I came across a recipe with unfamiliar name, tapenade. Tapenade , ( French pronunciation: ​ [tapənad] , Occitan : tapenada [tapeˈnadɔ] ), according to wikipedia is a Provençal [1] dish consisting of puréed or finely chopped olives , capers , anchovies and olive oil . [2] Its name comes from the Provençal word for capers, tapenas ( pronounced  [taˈpenɔs] ). It is a popular food in the south of France , where it is generally eaten as an hors d’œuvre , spread on bread. Sometimes it is also used to stuff fillets for a main course.     Curious, I decided to make one, with pan fried pork steak. It's something different from the usual pork dish we serve. The olive tapenade goes well with the Greek marinated pork steak. I prepared coleslaw as side dish made of shredded cabbage, juliened carrots, chopped onions, pineapple chunks with vinaigrette. Pan fried Pork Steak with Olive Tapenade  Pan Fried Pork Steak

    From a busy, busy schedule, I am back and it's again the two of us (Tommy and me). I so miss my kitchen and my cooking and because Tommy loves Turbo Chicken (chicken cooked  in turbo broiler), I looked for a recipe that can be cooked in a turbo broiler but different from my usual chicken seasoned with salt and pepper.      And I found this: Easy Peri Peri Chicken  http://www.iskandals.com/eats/?p=8532.  Peri peri according to wikipedia is African Birds eye chili http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_piri Siling Labuyo (Philippine version of peri peri)     I remember loving this dish in one of the restaurants we've tried with family. And this is my version of that dish, Peri Peri Chicken. Paleo Peri Peri Chicken     Instead of putting the marinated chicken on a grill, I placed the chicken with the marinade in a pyrex dish and broiled it in a turbo broiler. The outcome was fantastic, juicy inside and very tasty, skin was crunchy. Tommy loved it. Paleo