Canning: Banana-Apple Jam

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BananApple Jam

After I made apple-maple jam which I found so good to make "papak," I thought of using that to top a banana that was not quite sweet. And as I was eating the combination, the thought of making banana-apple jam crossed my mind. I saw a recipe on food.com but saw some comments that it was too sweet. So I compared that recipe versus the recipe that I used for apple-maple jam, and guessed that 7 to 8 cups of sugar would suffice. I started with 7 cups and tasted as the jam was cooking, and I was satisfied with its sweetness. So here is my recipe.

Reader's Photo Gallery #21

From Eva S.S.

Manang, I tried you rice puto recipe. My family loved it and my grandson was excited about the different colors. Attached is the picture. Thanks for the recipe. I added pandan and mocha flavors.

Another from Marygold C.:

HI MANANG! THANKS SA RECIPE MO! EVERYONE LOVES THE CHOCO FLAN! AND TO THINK IM NOT A GOOD COOK, HUMANGA SILA SA AKIN DAHIL SA RECIPE MO...

Choco Flan Cake

This email and photo are from Rosanna:

Hi Manang! Pasensya na ngayon lang uli ako naka email sa iyo. I am sending you a picture of my third attempt to bake the Leche Flan cake.
Needless to say it looked very good and tasted very good. I changed the recipe a bit. I took out the sugar for the flan and added two more yolks.
I also doubled the sponge cake ingredients to give us more cake. The original recipe for the flan was a little bit to sweet for us and the sponge cake
seemed not enough since the flan came up too thick. Thank you for sharing the recipe. Thank you also for telling us about your new method of
caramelizing sugar in the microwave. It was fast and less messy to make. Thanks again and please keep up your good work. We appreciate it
very much.


Rosanna
P.S. If you're ever in the San Diego area, please let me know, I would love to meet you and maybe we can cook together. Best regards!

Filipino Custard (Leche Flan) Cake

And lastly from Rowena,

Hi Manang!


So happy to inform you that my ensaymadas are successful! Your recipe really works! Theyre so soft moist and so yummy! Ive been trying a lot of recipes and this is the best! Will send you the pictures of my finished products.


Thanks Manang!




Yours truly,


Rowie

Which she followed up with this email:

Hi Manang!


Im really so happy to have tried your recipe! Everybody loves them! My daughters are picky eaters and dont usually like filipino foods but they love the ensaymadas. Actually Im baking some again right now! Lol.


Yes , I do have a facebook account and already posted a picture. I love baking , i started out experimenting on cakes ( cafe-mocha, ube macapuno, buco pandan, lecheflan upsidedown cake). I can say that im quite good at it but I hate decorating and my kids and hubby arent fond of cakes , so i rarely bake unless requested bymy friends and inlaws. Thats the reason why I started making breads, at least my two girls and hubby eat them.


Thanks again for the wonderful recipe! Have a great day!


Rowie

And this photo is one I grabbed from wall posts by Alexis, an fb friend, after she tagged me with that photo.

Hibachi-Inspired Beef Sirloin Teriyaki

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Beef Sirloin Teriyaki

I was again faced with the dilemma of "what's for dinner" decision-making. I was thinking of using up some of out steaks and took out a pack of NY sirloin from the freezer to thaw. I looked in the fridge and saw the different Asian sauces/marinades I had there, and chose to use the teriyaki. I decided to cook them not quite Hibachi-style but with all the flavors that we loved when we visited the highly entertaining chefs of a Hibachi restaurant in NH.

Hubby's comment: "This dinner is excellent!"

Ingredients:


I have no proportions for these ingredients. I just had them ready by the stove.
1 pound beef (NY sirloin steaks) sliced not so thinly
Kikkoman Ponzu Sauce - Lime
Kikkoman - Aji-Mirin (Sweet Cooking Rice Wine) 17 Oz.
Mikee Ginger Teriyaki Sauce

Instructions:


The gist of the instructions is to heat up the iron cast skillet on high, spray with olive oil, and working with small batches, stir fry one-third of the unseasoned beef pieces for about 1 minute or until browned, add some ponzu sauce and stir until sauce almost dries up, then add the sweet rice seasoning and stir again until almost dry. Transfer to a dish and do this again for the remaining batches.

Once you finish all, place them all back into the pan to heat through. Place in the dish then pour some teriyaki sauce, enough to coat the pieces without drowning them.
Serve along with small amounts of teriyaki sauce as dip. Very good with mashed potatoes or fried rice. Don't forget your veggies!

Ube-Pandan Whoopie Pies

Ube Pandan Whoopie Pies

At first I thought my Ube-Pandan Whoopie Pie was going to be purple because, as you can see below, the dough was purple. But it turned out as having a greenish tinge when baked. Does it remind you of ube cake when you bake it without purple coloring, that it turns greenish???  I even used the clear pandan flavor (McCormick). Good thing is, it was good! My sons and I love it. This is an addition to my fusion recipes- East meets West kind of dessert.

Honey Buttermilk Bread

I have a buttermilk jug in the fridge that has been sitting for more than a week now, originally intended for a caramel cinnamon roll recipe that I saw, but never had the gumption to make (somehow, really sweet rolls make me cringe at the present, with my struggles not to add any more pounds on my baggage).

I was preparing Pork Roasted in Mang Tomas Sarsa and was thinking of making a bread to go with it for supper. Then I saw the buttermilk...so off I looked for recipes. I combined a recipe of Honey Buttermilk Bread and one from breadworld since I wanted to make use of my Rapid Rise Yeast.   I imagined in my head how I was going to proceed, then prayed.

I was so excited when supper time came, and we were not disappointed with the outcome of the recipe I developed for a buttermilk bread that has honey and egg in addition to the old-fashioned recipe.

Apple Maple Jam

Apple-Maple Jam

Dedicated to Ella T. W...

I got the recipe from here back when it was still recipezaar. Wish I had this in mind during fall when apples were cheaper and fresher! Hubby says it's like having apple pie on a toast. We can easily eat up a jar in a week.

Spinach-Stuffed Chicken and Mushroom Bake

Spinach-stuffed Chicken with
Mushroom Sauce and Stuffing
Served on Plain Rice

Something I made up. Typically if I wanted a chicken casserole, I dice chicken breast and mix with cream of chicken, cubes of Velveeta cheese and a bag of chopped broccoli. But I had no cream of mushroom. And I had other extra items in my fridge that were waiting to be used, or else they just might expire.
So...what did I have?....hmmmm....think....think....

Manual Prep of a Bread Machine Dough Recipe

I have had readers who ask me, "What if I don't have a bread machine? Can I make this manually?"

Those questions were in reference to some of my popular bread/roll recipes that utilizes bread machine.

Brazo de Mercedes on Mango Mousse Sauce

MinBrazo de Mercedes on Mango Mousse Sauce

I prepared this out on a whim when I stumbled upon in the grocery store a whole bin of yellow mangoes. That was the first time I saw them (it would always be green or red mangoes that I used to see). I got several and they were surprisingly good.

Artisan Honey Wheat Loaf

Artisan Honey Wheat Loaf

 I thought I had posted about this already...

This is one of our favorite healthier breads -- light whole wheat with bran cereal. It surprisingly turned out soft and moist.

Recipe from breadworld.com.

Ingredients: