CHILI GARLIC POTATOES

Ingredients:

• 1/2 kg baby potatoes
• 1/4 cup butter
• 3tbsp olive oil
• 6-8 cloves of garlic, diced
• 4pcs jalapeno chilis, cut in to rings
• 3tsps balsamic vinegar
• salt to taste

How to Cook:

1. Wash the baby potatoes very carefully. Boil potatoes in their jackets until tender then cut it in half. Be careful not to overcook so that it won't break when we stir fry it later.
2. Heat the butter and olive oil in a skillet. It's important to have both in order to achieve a nice golden-brown crust.
3. Saute garlic and chilis until the garlic turns brown. Add the potatoes. Cook until the potatoes have a golden brown color.
4. Add the balsamic vinegar and salt.

This goes well with pasta or porkchop or roasted chicken. Enjoy!

Bell Pepper Pizza

Ingredients:
- 8pcs medium sized bell pepper cut in half
- 1pack bacon chopped
- 1can mushroom chopped
- Onion chopped
- 4oz  cream cheese softened
- Mozarella grated

How  to cook:

1. Saute onion,  bacon and mushroom until cooked. Add a few salt
2. Transfer to a bowl and let cool
3. Mix cream cheese  and 1/3 of  mozarella. Blend well.
4. Stuffed mixture inside bell pepper
5. Put remaining mozzarella cheese on top
6. Bake for 15mins in 350 degrees until cheese is melted 

You may also use pizza crust instead of bell peppers as it base.  Just put some pizza sauce before placing the bacon mixture and add chopped bell peppers on top.

Enjoy!

Chicken and Tuna Pesto Pasta

I love to cook on my spare time. Here's a simple pasta recipe that you can whip up for merienda or parties.

Chicken & Tuna Pesto Pasta

Ingredients:
500g fusilli pasta (cooked as directed)
3 cans tuna flakes (i like to combine two variants - in vegetable oil and hot & spicy)
1 small pouch Clara Ole Cheesy Pesto Sauce
1/4kg boneless chicken cut into cubes 
Olive oil or butter
garlic
garlic powder
pepper
Maggi magic sarap

How to cook:

1. Marinate chicken cubes in pepper, garlic powder and magic sarap for 15-20mins
2. In a skillet, saute garlic and chicken until brown. Mix in the tuna but drain and reserve the oil. Add some pepper
3. After several minutes, put the pesto sauce and the rest of the oil from the canned tuna.
4. Salt to taste. Let it simmer for 10 minutes. 
5. Pour the pasta and serve while hot

Try this at home and let me know what you think. :)

Oreo Truffles

I whipped up something new in the kitchen today. I was looking for a no-bake dessert that can also be served on parties since Mikeila's 2nd b-day is in a few months. Here's the recipe for Oreo Truffles (also called Oreo Balls)

Ingredients:
30pcs Oreo Cookies
8oz cream cheese, softened (for this recipe, I used Philadelphia cream cheese 1/3 less fat)
360g white chocolate chips used for baking

How to cook:

1. Crush the Oreos real good until you get a powdery consistency. You may do so by putting it in a blender or by placing it in a ziplock bag and manually crushing it with a baking pin.
2. Transfer to a bowl and put the softened cream cheese. Blend well with the Oreos until smooth. Refrigerate for 30mins.
3. While waiting, melt the white chocolate chips using a double boiler method or microwave. For the former, get a saucepan and fill a quarter of it with water. Simmer in low heat. When the water gets hot (not boiling), place another bowl on top of the saucepan uncovered. Make sure that the bowl is dry and that it does not touch the water below it. Put the chocolate chips and stir occasionally until chocolate is melted. Remove from the pan and set aside.
4. Take out the Oreo mixture from the fridge and form little balls the size of a lollipop. Dip each ball in the melted chocolate making sure that it is completely covered. Place the balls in a baking tray lined with baking sheet. Put a cocktail pick in each ball so that it will be easy and fun to eat
5. Refrigerate and let it set.

My husband loved this. Try this and it will surely be a hit especially to those with sweet tooth!
Enjoy!