Pumpkin: lasagna and kheer
What is it? Well ... for one thing, it's sprinkled with cheese ...
Pumpkins are:
-A squash
-A fruit
-A gourd
Pumpkin can be:
-Boiled
-Baked
-Roasted
Pumpkin and pumpkin seeds provide:
-Potassium
-Magnesium
-Iron
-The flesh provides beta-carotene, an antioxidant that helps fight free readicals
-The seeds provide zinc and essential fatty acids
*****
I like to think that my KitchenAid mixer in the back isn't jealous of the little hand mixer I bought before the KA was gifted to me by one of my fabulous friends. The Little Mixer that Could (LMtC) also doubles as a small food processor, and also has an immersion blender attachment.
Looking into the diminutive mixer bowl, you can see it does a pretty good job of pureeing roasted pumpkin
And it came with a neat little cover--LMtC is like a Transformer--more than meets the eye. This mixer would be an Autobot. Mixer Prime.
All this for pumpkin lasagna. Say what you will about Top Chef Season 1's Tiffani Faison--she came up with intriguing recipe, none less than her introductory dish. Those leftover wonton wrappers from Farmer's Cheese Ravioli have gone a long way!
Bite?
The last bit of puree
Pumpkin keer, traditionally a rice pudding, from Ruta Kahate's 5 Spices, 50 Dishes, substituting pumpkin seeds for cashews
With coconut cake "croutons" from Filipino Food night (Bibingka--rice and coconut cake--coming soon to a post near you)
Enjoyed over my newest cookbooks
Pumpkins are:
-A squash
-A fruit
-A gourd
Pumpkin can be:
-Boiled
-Baked
-Roasted
Pumpkin and pumpkin seeds provide:
-Potassium
-Magnesium
-Iron
-The flesh provides beta-carotene, an antioxidant that helps fight free readicals
-The seeds provide zinc and essential fatty acids
*****
I like to think that my KitchenAid mixer in the back isn't jealous of the little hand mixer I bought before the KA was gifted to me by one of my fabulous friends. The Little Mixer that Could (LMtC) also doubles as a small food processor, and also has an immersion blender attachment.
Looking into the diminutive mixer bowl, you can see it does a pretty good job of pureeing roasted pumpkin
And it came with a neat little cover--LMtC is like a Transformer--more than meets the eye. This mixer would be an Autobot. Mixer Prime.
All this for pumpkin lasagna. Say what you will about Top Chef Season 1's Tiffani Faison--she came up with intriguing recipe, none less than her introductory dish. Those leftover wonton wrappers from Farmer's Cheese Ravioli have gone a long way!
Bite?
The last bit of puree
Pumpkin keer, traditionally a rice pudding, from Ruta Kahate's 5 Spices, 50 Dishes, substituting pumpkin seeds for cashews
With coconut cake "croutons" from Filipino Food night (Bibingka--rice and coconut cake--coming soon to a post near you)
Enjoyed over my newest cookbooks
Comments
I haven't had time to really give a hard look at "Memories of Philippine Kitchens," but my first impression was that it was eye candy first. The recipes aren't always necessarily traditional, as some are altered to suit the authors' tastes--no harm in that. That said, they definitely aren't my memories of Mom's Philippine kitchen. Coconut in adobo might be traditional in some provinces, but it's foreign to my tongue. When I think adobo, I think salty and tangy, like this. This recipe is almost identical to my mom's, except for its substitution of white wine vinegar for regular white vinegar. Still, you get the vinegar tang and the soy sauce salt. The sweet doesn't seem right, but I'll give it a try some day and have a better idea then.