Happy 3 King Day

I know that not all the countries celebrate it, but today is the day we commemorate when the Three kings visited the newly born Christ Child in Bethlehem bearing him gifts. This is an important day here and the 3 Kings will visit every good child to deliver them gifts. Children collect grass and place it in boxes or containers under their beds for the cammels.

Happy Three Kings Day!!!

I {HEART} Cooking

Holiday Salads are a thing in my family, we do like 4 different ones on Christmas Eve or New Year Eve and whenever we have a party at home a Holiday Salad is a most!! I already posted one of them a while ago, but today since it is New Year Eve I am posting my most favorite one, the family tradition, the unchangeable one and the one I did for tonight party at my in laws. Sorry for the lack of picture but I had to do several thing today and couldn’t take any one :(

Ingredients
-1 pineapple, cubed
-3 green apples, cubed and without the skin or peel
-3 red apples, cubed and without the skin or peel
-1 ½ cups of ham cubed
-1 cup of almonds, skinless
-1 cup of raisins
-1 cup of mayonnaise

Cut everything into cubes (the pineapple, apples and ham), mix with the rest of the ingredients and serve cold. You can decorate it with maraschino cherries, I did an 09’ out of cherries on top of mine ;)

This is one of my favorite things to eat as a leftover the day after the party :D
ENJOY!!! And Happy New Year Again!

Here is some proof of the Holiday Salads Thing:

2006Bayohan is pointing at the 4 cheese lasagna to send the picture to my sister and see what she is missing from living so far away!!! (Notice the 3 big bowls, they have 3 different Holiday Salads)

Yes, we take pictures with our food :) This was Christmas eve 2006!

2007

New Year Eve 2007 at my in laws, I was not kidding about taking pictures with food :pSee the big aluminium pan with a huge fork, that is todays salad!!! and the first bowl is also a different Holiday Salad :)

2008

And this year at my mom's Christmas Eve dinner today recipe is the tall bowl with cherries for deco and next to it a different Holiday Salad!!!

See!!! I told you Salads were a big part of our holiday dinners tradition!!!

Happy New Year!

Yup That is a picture of me on New Years Eve long ago!!!

Happy New Year

I have a feeling that 2009 is going to be our year!!!

I Know, I Know...

Bayohan is probably going to kill me for this, but I HAD to do this!!!
Get a good laugh out of it, I know I did :p

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

I {HEART} Cooking

This post is a little all over the place, sorry in advance :P
I hope you are all enjoying your thanksgiving, like I said we do not celebrate it here, but I did something a little special for our meal :D I also helped my mom make some salads because she is hosting a thanksgiving dinner at her house.

That means I have 2 great recipes for today :D YAY!!!!!

First lets start with YUMMY Chicken, Rice, Mushroom Casserole

-2 cans of cream of mushroom soup
-2 ½ cups of water
-1 ½ cups of uncooked rice
- ½ spoon of dry parsley
-1 spoon of black pepper
-1 cup of bacon, diced
- ½ cup of cooking whine
-1 can of mushroom, sliced
-1 onion, diced
-4 chicken breast

Mix all the ingredients (except the chicken) and put it in Pyrex, season your chicken like you usually do (I use lemon, pepper, garlic) and put it on top of the uncooked mix that is in your Pyrex.
This goes to your oven for 45 mins at 375˚F

Here is mine, TRUST me the pic does not do any justice to the wonderful flavor this casserole has, our house smelled like glory today –I also baked brownies for a dessert tonight so the good smells lasted long :p

And know a Holiday Salad: Cheese and Apple Salad

Ingredients
-1 can of red bell peppers
-1 pound of Gouda Cheese, cubed
-2 red apples
-1 can of sweet peas, drained
-1 can of corn, drained
- ¾ Mayonnaise

Cut everything into cubes, the peppers, cheese, and apples with their skin or peel, mix with the rest of the ingredients and serve cold.

I tried taking a good picture of it -the colors in this salad are beautiful- but they kept coming out like this:

So here is a picture of the one on my recipe book

I also did MckMama’s Corn & Bean Salad but in my style.

I am also Thankful for these cuties :P

Happy Thanksgiving!

We do not celebrate this great holiday here, sigh! I wish we did because not only there is some great food and get-togethers is also a good time to remember all the things that we are thankful for.

I'm thankful for so many things: my family, the oportunities life brings me everyday and a God that never lets me down!!

Have a Happy Thanksgiving :D

Here is a pic of the cutest little turkey -my Godson Gabriel :D We are not cooking him this year so dont worry :p