Kitchen misadventures 4
Okay…okay…I admit I have been remiss lately in posting my kitchen/cooking adventures. But it just seems so hot to cook nowadays and all throughout this summer our house seemed like a (bahay-ampunan) of sorts because eight of my husband’s nieces and nephews had their vacation here at our house (so including our family of five plus my sister-in-law that makes us fourteen people altogether) I found it quite tedious to cook some fancy meal for such a big number of eaters. And besides I wouldn’t really know if the food will come out okay or even if they will eat it so rather than risk having food go to waste, I opted to let them just cook and eat regular fare like tinola, fried chicken, pork adobo and at times veggies like ampalaya, steamed kangkong and okra and whatever my sister-in-law wants to cook for us.
RHUM CAKE
It was only during my youngest daughter’s birthday that I once again decided to venture into the kitchen because it was a Sunday and our place was too far away from bakeshops like Goldilocks or Red Ribbon so I decided to just bake her a cake – with the only cake recipe I know - rum cake. I remember getting the recipe from the internet, I just can’t remember from which site… but suffice it to say that it was a recipe that called for loaf pans but since I wanted it to be a birthday cake I decided to just place it in a rectangular pan and followed the same basic procedures for the rum cake.
Okay…okay…I admit I have been remiss lately in posting my kitchen/cooking adventures. But it just seems so hot to cook nowadays and all throughout this summer our house seemed like a (bahay-ampunan) of sorts because eight of my husband’s nieces and nephews had their vacation here at our house (so including our family of five plus my sister-in-law that makes us fourteen people altogether) I found it quite tedious to cook some fancy meal for such a big number of eaters. And besides I wouldn’t really know if the food will come out okay or even if they will eat it so rather than risk having food go to waste, I opted to let them just cook and eat regular fare like tinola, fried chicken, pork adobo and at times veggies like ampalaya, steamed kangkong and okra and whatever my sister-in-law wants to cook for us.
RHUM CAKE
It was only during my youngest daughter’s birthday that I once again decided to venture into the kitchen because it was a Sunday and our place was too far away from bakeshops like Goldilocks or Red Ribbon so I decided to just bake her a cake – with the only cake recipe I know - rum cake. I remember getting the recipe from the internet, I just can’t remember from which site… but suffice it to say that it was a recipe that called for loaf pans but since I wanted it to be a birthday cake I decided to just place it in a rectangular pan and followed the same basic procedures for the rum cake.
See the finished product below… I wanted to put some icing in it but alas, I didn’t know how to do so. I just decided to make some pink-colored chocolates for décor and let my daughter design her cake… well, at least all her guests liked it even if the icing contained just a little bit of rum in it and they all got the chance to partake of the chocolates which also served as her giveaways. Maybe next time I’ll try to learn how to make some icing so that it would look more like a cake…
OATMEAL IN MY PANCAKES
Here’s another recipe which I found easy and necessary to do because I wanted the kids to have more fiber in their diets and since I could not get them to eat oatmeal as it is and I found it too hot to bake cookies (maybe when the rains come and the kitchen would not be so hot with the oven turned on) I decided to put oatmeal in their pancakes. I followed the basic pancake recipes found at the back of pancake boxes. I just added a cup of oatmeal, 3 mashed bananas, and some cinnamon. And voila!... My daughter truly loved it, not knowing there was oatmeal in it…
Here’s another recipe which I found easy and necessary to do because I wanted the kids to have more fiber in their diets and since I could not get them to eat oatmeal as it is and I found it too hot to bake cookies (maybe when the rains come and the kitchen would not be so hot with the oven turned on) I decided to put oatmeal in their pancakes. I followed the basic pancake recipes found at the back of pancake boxes. I just added a cup of oatmeal, 3 mashed bananas, and some cinnamon. And voila!... My daughter truly loved it, not knowing there was oatmeal in it…
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