Home - Phillip Phillips

I havent really been keeping up with AI these days, or even for quite sometime. But always near the finale there is so much hype.
And guess who caught my eye. What a cutie!! No doubt he was to win. Love this song too. And love how he cried and went to his family without finishing up his song...

Easter Ham

Ok so I guess Im just catching up on things I have made - just trying to learn how to cook things now that Im back living on my own.

Waaaay back at Easter I made this. I still prefer Turkey over ham. I made a Turkey a couple times a while back - find it kinda stressful (over cooked = dry, under cooked = sick/killed relatives, dont open the oven door too often, Check the temp etc etc). Good thing my sister in law made her always fabulous turkey that day too. OH so much food.

This was a ham from a butchers shop - apparently tastier and better quality meat than those pre- made grocery store ones - though I must stay the spiral ones look easy and are tasty too.
The hams are already cooked so they say... its just the seasoning and prep that makes it more complicated. Funny how we still gotta cook for a couple hours even though it is already cooked.

This was a mix of two receipes (Picked things out of each):

Ham Braised with Maple Raisin Sauce

Epicurious Maple raisn ham

and


Martha Stewart's glazed ham

Sotanghun Soup

Weird. Looked this up and it seems that there are different kinda receipes for this.
Some use a chicken soup base but for some reason my mom doesnt add that and it tastes so chickeny wonderful! - No idea how she does it.
Anyhoots here goes:

• Soak Longhou Vermicelli in water, set aside
• onions & garlic
• equal amound of ginger (ahhhh :)  )
• chicken - small pieces
• you can add veggies if if you like
• salt - to bring out flavor
• pepper
• add water for soup
• simmer it for a bit to bring out flavor - I guess....
• Add noodles
• Add chopped green onion to flavor
• maybe some roasted garlic?

.... no actual pic for this one though....

Pancit

• longhou vermicelli and E& B brand Egg stir fry noodle - soak for 10 min in water.
• Satay onions , garlic
• add chicken
• salt, pepper
• celery, carrots, beans - diagonal thin sliced
• add oyster sauce and soy sauce
• water
• simmer for 20 min covered
• drain separate sauce and meat & veg
• to sauce wisk in Mama sita's Achuete ~achiote powder dissolved in cold water (half a teaspoon to teaspoon) - bring to boil
• keep stirring in noodles until cooked and not dry
• add cooked meat and veg.
• soy sauce and lemon to taste