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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.

Thank you and hope you will like this recipe too! If you are on the lookout for recipes, please checkout our recipes and meal plans section here.

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!

A happy homemaker is a Happy Pinay Mommy!

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Super Easy Pork Sisig Recipe

happypinaymommy — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 07:53:39 +0000

Super easy pork sisig recipe

If you are in need of a quick lunch baon idea or a quick meal to cook, then this shinortcut jazzed up super easy pork sisig can save your day.

So as a background story, i was toiling and deciding on the quickest dish to cook the other day. I still havent bought veggies and all but I do have ready to cook sisig in the ref so that is what I prepared.

I know, i know that nothing beats char grilled maskara chopped to bits then cooked sisig style with pig’s brain but a homemaker has to do what she has to do — cook a quick meal when the situation calls for it.

So for newbie cooking mamas, take heart. You can definitely jazz up a grocery ready to cook sisig into tasting like a resto (or should i say beer joint? ) type of sisig. Below is a rough guide in cooking that frozen grocery easy pork sisig recipe.

Easy Pork Sisig Recipe

1. I sauteed minced onion, ginger and garlic.

2. I added the thawed frozen ready to cook sisig (i used monterey), and cooked it until it rendered its own oil.

3. I added some ground pepper and knorr liquid seasoning, plus a tablespoon of lemon juice. Naubusan lang kami ng calamansi ha kaya lemon, but if you have calamansi that will be great.

4. Taste to adjust and you can add eggs and crushed chicharon to make the sisig all the more cholesterific (hehe ). You can also add some sliced siling pansigang, unfortunately i ran out of it too.

Easy pork sisig:

I know nothing beats char grilled maskara chopped to bits then cooked sisig style with pig’s brain but a homemaker has to do what she has to do — cook a quick meal when the situation calls for it.

Hope you’ll like it and give it a try as well. Let me know in any of our social media channels. Till next post!

A happy homemaker is a Happy Pinay Mommy!

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How to cook quick and easy beef salpicao

happypinaymommy — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 06:31:52 +0000

This easy beef salpicao recipe can help you put a yummy dish on the table during days when you do not have much time to cook in the kitchen.

If you are in for a busy day, then this is a dish that you can prepare without sweat! Easy beef salpicao is what it is, easy, quick cooking, but definitely not short of flavor and yum factor.

I typically cook this on days when I have an extremely long list of back to back chores (like when i have to review my eldest for an exam, i have to catch up.on my cloth diaper laundry, or I have writing backlogs). You see, it is easy to cook — no more than five minutes. Prep time is easier too and i discovered a way to further cut short that prep time.

When i buy beef in the grocery, and i intend to use it for salpicao, i choose my favorite cut and then ask the butcher to slice it further to me for salpicao. It is a free service after all, so might as well take advantage of it.

Now once we get home, i wash the beef and prep the marinade, and marinate the beef for twelve hours. Yes even if i do not intend to use it later or the next day. Why? Because I can freeze it and thaw it the day I would like to cook it. Almost zero prep time on D-day right?

So without further ado, here’s the recipe of —

Quick and easy beef salpicao

Ingredients:

1kg beef chopped into small cubes (i usually choose tenderloin)

6-7 pcs garlic minced

3-4 tbsp liquid seasoning

1 tbsp worcestershire sauce

1 tbsp oyster sauce

2 tbsp olive oil

1-2 tbsp butter

Pinch of paprika

Pinch of pepper

Optional ingredient: chili flakes

Procedure for the beef salpicao recipe

1. Mix all the ingredients except for the beef, oil, butter, and garlic to make the marinade.

2. Mix the marinade thoroughly and pour over the beef cubes. Marinate for at least 30 minutes.

3. Once ready to cook, heat oil and saute the garlic until golden brown. Remove the garlic and set aside.

4. Strain the beef cubes, and fry for two to three minutes searing all sides of the cubed meat.

5. Add some of the marinade mixture and cook for another 1 minute. Add the butter stir through the cubes and it is done!

6. Serve with the toasted garlic on top. Add chili flakes if you want it spicy. I usually use marble potatoes as a side to this dish because my eldest loves it!

So there you have it, easy beef salpicao recipe. For more quick cooking ulam recipes, please browse through our meal plan and recipes section of our website. You may also browse our facebook recipe album or check out our Pinterest recipe board. Hope you can also follow us on Instagram where we regularly post family meal ideas, among other day to day mothering stuff. See you there!

A happy homemaker is a Happy Pinay Mommy!

Leaving you with a video on the different cuts of beef:

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Easy Miki Pancit Guisado Recipe

happypinaymommy — Mon, 07 May 2018 15:49:40 +0000

Here jan easy to cook Miki pancit guisado recipe

I have always wanted to try cooking fresh noodles. So when I came across packages of fresh miki in the grocery store i knew it was time to try out an easy miki pancit guisado recipe.

But because life happens, i almost forgot to cook my miki. It has to be cooked within five days from purchase, and by the third day, some of my intended ingredients have been used for an impromptu out of the meal plan dish that i had to prepare a couple of days ago.

Nevertheless, this Miki guisado recipe ill be sharing with you still tastes great. In fact my kids so enjoyed it! So if you have shrimp and squidballs at home, go ahead and add it to the mix. If you want to use chicken instead of pork it is fine too. Just use the breast part, pre boil it and shred.

So without further chatter, here is Happypinaymommy’s —

Easy Miki Pancit Guisado Recipe

The ingredients are easy to find. Preparation may take time because of all the slicing and chopping but the cooking procedure itself is relatively quick.

Ingredients

500 grams fresh miki

1 medium sized onions, chopped

2 cloves of garlic, chopped

2 pieces of chorizo, sliced

250 grams of menudo cut pork

Salt and pepper to taste

Oyster sauce (start with 2 tbsps)

2 tbsp of soy sauce (to add color to the dish)

1/2 tbsp chinese cooking wine

1 tbsp sesame oil

Carrots, sliced thinly

Cabbage, shredded

Green beans, sliced

Shrimp, peeled (optional)

Squidballs, sluced into half (optional)

1/4 cup chicken broth

How to cook miki guisado:

1. Season pork with salt and pepper. If you are adding chicken and shrimps, season it a bit too. You have the option of pre boiling it or cooking it along with all the ingredients of the pancit. I usually pre boil then I set it aside.

2. Prepare fresh miki by soaking it in hot water (boiled) until all the noodles have separated. Drain and soak again in a new bowl of hot water. Wait for about two minutes then drain. Set aside.

3. Saute onions and garlic. Add in the pork. Once the pork has browned add in the chorizo, plus other meats you may want to add (squid ball, pre boiled shrimp or pre cooked chicken).

Pancit miki guisado is an uncomplicated recipe best enjoyed with the company of family or friends.

4. Add in the broth, the cooking wine, the oyster sauce and the soy sauce. Add in the pepper. Taste and adjust the seasoning using salt or soy sauce, depending on your preference.

5. Once you have seasoned it according to your taste, you can then add in the vegetables and cook for about three minutes

6. Add in the sesame oil and mix well.

7. Add in the pancit and toss until the sauce has spread evenly to the miki.

8. Serve with calamansi on the side.

Pancit Miki Guisado may be a simple dish but it caught my kids’ hearts.

So there you have it, i hope you would give this recipe a try. It is a great weekend meryenda or a nice recipe to serve for when you are expecting some guests.

For this recipe, i did not spend more then P150.00 to come up with geberous servings for at least four adults.

The ingredients to this pancit miki recipe is not hard to find and are affordable.

For more recipes, weekly meal plans and budget ulam ideas, feel free to browse our recipes section in the website or check out our Facebook album of recipes. Hope you can also follow us on Instagram and Pinterest where we regularly post family recipes, baby and toddler food ideas, and local parenting information for young families. Hope to see you there!

Living you with a video on how to make fresh noodles for pancit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fERcQsoxGg

https://happypinaymommy.com/2018/05/06/how-to-cook-bagis/

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