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How to cook easy baked tahong

happypinaymommy — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:32:28 +0000

Easy baked tahong recipe from the Happypinaymommy Home Kitchen.

I do not cook mussels or tahong all the time. But when I get to the grocery early, and I see some nice looking ones, I grab the chance and buy some so we could eat easy baked tahong (mussels).

Baked mussels is one of the easiest dishes to make, except of course for the cleaning and de-bearding part. I think every nanay has her own way of preparing tahong and mine I think is somehow simple, and has passed the test – no sick tummies after the meal.

Preparing to cook easy baked tahong

So what I do is i wash the mussels thoroughly in water and rock salt. Let it stand a bit and then after a while start the de-bearding process.

I use either a knife or kitchen shears to get the beard out fully. For those who arent familiar with this, try looking for some strands of hair around the shell’s opening and pull it out with your hand, or knife or shears. Whatever works for you. They say that eating mussels without removing the *beard* can cause indigestion. Besides, it looks yucky.

Look at these photos:

How to clean, de-beard, prepare, and pre-cook tahong before baking.

Anyway, after that, i brush the dirty looking shells and then give it another wash. I then boil it until all the shells are opened. Discard those that did not open up as these are not fresh.

Once cooked, you can then remove the empty half of the shell so as to prepare it for the toppings of your baked tahong.

Ingredients for the baked tahong recipe:

This baked mussels recipe is so easy to cook that you can ask your kids to help you out!

Pre-cooked Mussels or tahong (1kg)
Butter (1/2 cup or one stick)
Minced Garlic (6 medium sized cloves)
Quick melt cheese (or any cheese that you prefer), grated (1 cup or more)
Chopped Parsley or parsley flakes
Chopped spring onions

Cooking Procedure:

1. Preheat oven to 350 F

2. Soften butter and mix minced garlic thoroughly.

3. Spoon a bit of the mixture into each tahong.

Easy and yummy baked tahong recipe.

4. Top generously with cheese

5. Sprinkle some parsley flakes and spring onions on top.

6. Bake for about 10 minutes.

7. Serve with hot sauce on the side.

Super easy to make, and compared to ordering it in a restaurant you would get to save more when you make this dish at home.

So there you have it, i hope you’d give this dish a try. You will not spend more than P230.00 to make this dish and it is a great appetizer!

For more quick cooking recipes and Filipino weekly meal plans, please check out the recipe section in our website or browse our Facebook albums. Hope you can also follow us on Instagram and Pinterest where we reguarly post updates on family meal recipes, toddler and baby food ideas, and anything that would be if interest to Pinoy parents.

See you there!

Leaving you with a video on yet another tahong recipe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtPkFYj99OU

https://happypinaymommy.com/2018/04/27/how-to-make-basic-overnight-oats/

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Weekly Filipino Meal Plan December 4, 2017

happypinaymommy — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 13:56:28 +0000

Filipino Weekly Meal Plan for December 4 to 11, 2017

Been a long time since my last weekly meal plan post, and I am really sorry. Life and motherhood happens and so I can hardly type in front of my computer when my two nurslings are up and about, and when the eldest has exams and assignments to finish.

Anyway, I would like to share with you the Filipino meal plan that I have drafted for the week. I strive harder this time to include fish dishes as they are easier to cook, and are healthier compared to fried meals and red meats.

Here’s our weekly Filipino meal plan for the first week of December 2017:

Filipino weekly meal plan for those looking for ulam ideas for the whole week.

As always, I have taken into consideration left overs, as well as days where meals will be mostly using up left overs in the refrigerator. Food should be consumed within two to three days to avoid spoilage and food poisoning, thus if you are cooking in big batches, the food has to be frozen after it has cooled to room temperature.

Overnight oats are also amazing, because all you have to do is to make sure that you have oatmeal and some dried fruits like raisins and dried mangoes in your refrigerator, and this should be a go-to-quick and healthy breakfast for everyone. It is such an easy breakfast to prepare because as the name suggests, you have to make it the night before! Caution though on the use of honey for babies, so skip that drizzle if you would be giving them some of this quick brekky.

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Chicken Lomi meantime is new to me. This will be an experiment on my part as it will be the first time I will be using fresh noodles sold in grocery stores. I was actually inspired by a mom I follow over at IG (@jennyhennypot) who cooks fresh noodles for her children. Hopefully it will be a success for us because my three littles are noodle monsters.

Again I will endeavor to resume my weekly posting of meal plans. I will be updating as well the meal plan album on our FB Page so if you have time, and you want a compilation you can save on your mobile devices, please check out our FB album.

Meantime, if you wish to scour great dessert recipes, you may want to check out Good Housekeeping’s Dessert Cook Book featuring Brownie Recipes — buy it here

Please drop by my facebook page or Instagram Account for feedbacks, comments or recipe suggestions.

Looking forward to hearing from you. A Happy Homemaker is a Happy Pinay Mommy!

Leaving you with this video clip on pinoy homecooking from the husband of one of my favorite vloggers, Kitz Clutzina:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PQnW-jXAx0

Six ways to make learning more enjoyable for kids

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Filipino Weekly Meal Plan Recipes 2017 June 05

happypinaymommy — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 08:14:12 +0000

Off topic: Just proud of my eldest who helped me with this image/graphics for our Filipino Weekly Meal Plan Recipes 2017 June 05

Hi Everyone, sharing with you our new, more comprehensive (and revitalized —hahaha) Filipino Weekly Meal Plan Recipes 2017 June 05 to June 11. Hopefully this could help those of you who may not have mapped out their Filipino Weekly Menu as of yet.

Starting this week I will be cascading a more comprehensive meal plan as I will be sharing with you as well, the meals I will be making for our baby, toddler, pre-schooler, as well as our grade-schooler.

Filipino Weekly Meal Plan Recipes 2017 June 05:

Sharing Our new and improved (hahahaha) Filipino Weekly Meal Plan Recipes 2017 June.

If you may notice, most of the packed lunch meal for grade schooler is the same thing that the family will be having for lunch. This is of course to save on prep time, as well as the electricity used for cooking the meals. This will also minimize left-overs and save on our food budget. Check out out baon recipe suggestions in this post.

The meal suggestions for the baby/toddler is meant for BLW babies hence most of the suggested meal items are just unseasoned versions of what the whole family is having. Of course just mind the portion slices depending on the age of your baby, and the weaning method of your baby. Make your own adjustments as well if you follow Tamang Kain principles – although most of the food in the weekly pinoy meal plan above adhere to that.

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I have also taken into consideration the suggested school baon recipes that I have included in our back-to-school bundle of blogposts which you may find here.

Some of the recipes, as always, are part of our under P100.00 ulam recipes, in our yearly series.

If you are overwhelmed with the meal plan and would think that it would just leave you slaving in your kitchen the whole day, then you may want to batch cook what you can and just freeze what can be frozen. Here is previous blog post on freezer meals and weekly meal preparation. For instance, pancakes can be frozen in zip lock bags for reheating when needed. This will be very helpful during hurried crazy mornings, or as baon for your little school kids.

Some lunch baons for your gradeschoolers may also need preparation the night befor (like the thawing and breading of porkchop and the tortang talong), but that advanced preparations will leave you worriless the next day because you will just have to fry the above-mentioned pinoy ulam.

I also tend to cook pinoy food that is good for 2-3 meals so that I could save and freeze some for later use, or eat the same ulam at night when everything is going crazy in the household.

Anyway, till next week!

If you have the time, hope you could drop by my Facebook page and hit the like button, or follow our Instagram account so you can receive regular updates from Happypinaymommy.com direct on your newsfeed.

Thank you so much!

A Happy Homemaker is a Happy Pinay Mommy!

Leaving you with more recipes for on-the-go breakfast recipes and ideas:

Breakfast Food Recipes Children Can Eat in the Car

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Weekly Filipino Meal Plan 2017 May 29

happypinaymommy — Mon, 29 May 2017 06:12:57 +0000

Sharing our Filipino Weekly Meal Plan 2017 May 29 to June 04

Been a while since I have posted a real blog post for our weekly Filipino meal plan 2017. I usually do the catching up through our social media channels particularly Facebook and Instagram.

In any case, for those of you who have yet to come up with your own menu plan pinoy cooking for the week, sharing with you our Happypinaymommy meal plan for the week:

Weekly Filipino Meal Plan 2017 May 29:

Pinoy Mealplan Recipes for May 29 to June 04

You can go to our Facebook or Instagram page so you can save it easily, or just bookmark this post.

If you have noticed there’s not much meat recipes this week, because we are consciously trying to lower our meat consumption. We believe this is good for both our health and our budget.

Also, we are bringing in more shrimps in our diet because we have summed up the courage to let achiebells taste it and she did not get any itch, allergy whatsoever. Plus found a supplier from Gensan that sells fresh frozen ones at costs much lower than that those that are sold in groceries! So maybe, her allergies are clearing up. Nuts seems to make her itchy still though.

If you want to get some easy and happy shrimp recipes, please check out this past post.

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For those of you who may already be preparing (or bracing) for the next school year, allow me to invite you to our posts on preparing for your children’s (and even the mister’s) baon. These includes a post on quick breakfasts too for those hurried mornings!

I will be coming up with more baon related post soon to help you out with your meal and baon planning, and in mapping out your grocery list.

And as usual, we have our budget ulam recipes and lists for those of you who may want to save up on food expenses, or are working on a tighter budget since we are still on the run up for payday.

So there you have it, I will posting a new meal plan again next week. Meantime, if you wish to scour great dessert recipes, you may want to check out Good Housekeeping’s Dessert Cook Book featuring Brownie Recipes — buy it here

Please drop by my facebook page or Instagram Account for feedbacks, comments or recipe suggestions

Looking forward to hearing from you. A Happy Homemaker is a Happy Pinay Mommy!

Leaving you with this video clip on budget friendly Filipino recipes:

School Snack Baon Ideas for Filipino Kids

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