Simple sweet-style kiddie spaghetti recipe

happypinaymommy — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 03:16:01 +0000

My girls have been bugging me to cook sweet spaghetti for their afterschool merienda. Today, I gave in to that prodding and made some. This simple snack dish is made from my super easy and quick recipe that I thought of sharing with you too.

Disclaimer though, we do not put ground beef anymore because my kids are picking out the minced beef. I also do not grate cheese on top since they do not like it. After more than a decade of motherhood, I have learned to pick my battles and not sweat the small stuff, so I don’t bother anymore. Anyway, this is just an after school merienda. They get nutritious food in their main meals most of the time anyway haha.

After school snack: easy spaghetti

1. Cook pasta according to package instructions and set aside.

2. Fry sliced hotdogs. Add onions and garlic.

3. Add tomato sauce about 250ml for three to four servings.

4. Add 2-3 tablespoons of sugar. Half a beef broth cube, and then cracked pepper.

5. Simmer for 3-5 minutes.

6. Adjust seasoning according to taste

7. Add cooked pasta, combine well and serve.

Plain but the kids love it

The spaghetti may look plain, but for my kids, this spaghetti is the best especially when they get home from school starving for merienda. You can use any type of pasta for this dish, and you could even substitute the tomato sauce with canned diced tomatoes, or if you want to be healthier, omit hotdogs and replace tomato sauce with pureed over ripe tomatoes.

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Recipe for the best life

At this point, I hope you can also allow me to share with you one of my favorite bible passages, this time from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah:

“If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land”
Isaiah 1:19

Again, thank you for stopping by and till next post!

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How to make colorful Palitaw

happypinaymommy — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 13:55:42 +0000

It is easy to make colorful palitaw. Let me teach you how.

Palitaw will always be a yummy merienda for me, and this is why I also introduced this native merienda recipe to my kids. I figured though that they are more likely to enjoy it if i make colorful palitaw instead of the standard ones that are plain white sprinkled with coconut shavings. Not that there is something wrong with the original recipe but because you know kids, they like everything to be happy and colorful.

So i will be sharing with you today how to make colored palitaw so that you too can make it more enticing for your kids to eat. Also makes for a great baon.

If your kids are like mine, they too will enjoy making shapes out of the colorful dough.

So without further ado, here’s our–

Colorful palitaw recipe:

Ingredients:

1 cup of glutinous rice flour (split into two)

1/2 cup of water (split into two)

1/2 cup of grated coconut

1/4 cup of sesame seeds

2-3 tbsp white sugar

2 different food coloring depending on your choice (we used green and red – you can use more just double up the recipe as well)

Procedure in cooking colored palitaw:

1. Make two separate mixtures of the split portions of water and glutinous rice flour. Add food coloring ( i used about 3 drops each but you may want to make it lighter or darker so asjust accordingly). Remember though that the color of the dough will darken further when submerged in water.

2. Form balls and flatten it to make the standard palitaw shape or use cookie cutters to make some happy shapes out of your palitaw dough.

3. Bring a pot of water into a boil, and once boiling drop the palitaw carefully. Scoop out the dough once the colorful palitaw floats in the water. It means it is already cooked.

4. Set aside the cooked mixture till it cools a bit.

5. In a pan, toast the sesame seeds until it bevomes fragrant. Make sure that it doesnt get burned lest it will affect the taste of the whole dish.

6. Once the sesame seeds have been toasted transfer ito a container and add in the white sugar. Set aside.

7. Get the cooked palitaw and roll it in fresh grated coconut. Sprinkle the sugar-sesame seed mixture and serve.

So there you have it, i hope you could give this recipe a try. This was how I served it to my daughter as she brought it in her school as her baon. I purposely did not roll the palitaw in niyog because she wants to do it by herself. Same with the sugar-sesame mixture.

Here’s my daughter’s packed colorful palitaw for school. For more baon ideas please check out our baon ideas section in the website, our Pinterest board or our IG account.

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Simple sweet-style kiddie spaghetti recipe

After school snack: easy spaghetti

Recipe for the best life

A happy homemaker is a Happy Pinay Mommy!

How to make colorful Palitaw

Colorful palitaw recipe:

Procedure in cooking colored palitaw:

A happy homemaker is a Happy Pinay Mommy!