Spring Wedding

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Last Saturday May the 17th we attended a Traditional Filipino Wedding Ceremonies held at Saint Joseph's Church. They are a Filipino -Canadian couple. I managed to snapped some photos at the Church and more photos in the reception. The Reception was held at Guelph Place Banquet Hall. The place was awesome and the food was great!

Check out the Menu
Assorted Hors'doeuvres
Cheese and crackers
Spring rolls
Egg rolls
Kieshe
Cucumber and dill
Breaded zucchini
Salad
Garden salad with three types of dressing
Pasta
Large ravioli with tomato sauce

Main Course
Breaded chicken breast stuff with asparagus and provolone
cheese topped with a creme sauce
Platter of Prime rib with mushroom gravy
Rice
Garlic mashed potatoes
Green beans

Dessert
Cannolli crepe ice cream served with fresh fruit and sauce
Coffee and tea


The Bride and the Parents

The Bride and Groom

Cheese and crackers
Spring rolls
Egg rolls
Kieshe
Cucumber and dill

Garden salad with three types of dressing

Large ravioli with tomato sauce

Breaded chicken breast stuff with asparagus and provolone
cheese topped with a creme sauce

Platter of Prime rib with mushroom gravy

Cannolli crepe ice cream served with fresh fruit and sauce

Wedding Cake

I hope you enjoyed the food as much as I did...lol.. I was so full.. It was a great wedding. It reminded me of my own wedding.

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Cherry Cheesecake

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Don't you love cheesecake? I do. This is Cherry Cheesecake that I bought last weekend and it's gone now.lol. By the looks of it you can tell that it's really yummy!
Are you hungry yet? lol

Smoked Salmon Appetizers

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Last Saturday I took my sister to Sam's Club for the first time and she was quite amazed about the food demo. We tried almost everything. My daughter enjoyed the food demo as well. Here's some appetizers that I learned last Saturday at Sam's Club. I love it and it's very easy to make. No need to cook. The Atlantic Salmon is already cooked!

Break the flat bread and spread some cream cheese on it then put the shredded salmon on top. That's it and enjoy!

Here's the finished appetizers


Smoked Atlantic Salmon


Flat Bread

Cream cheese

Weekend Snapshot (Birthday Party)

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Yesterday we went to a birthday party for a friend's kids. There were 3 celebrants. Apparently their 3 kids born on the same month. Wow! eh looks like it was a plan kids. The oldest son is 7, next one is 3 year old girl and the the youngest is 1 year old boy.
Above is the pictures of food that we ate. I will try to tell you what they are: Roasted pig known as lechon, pusit/squid rings, egg noodles with veges, shrimps with veges, embotido/loaf , Bangus/Milkfish relleno/stuffed, fried rice, pancit, chicken wings and dinuguan/blood pudding.

What's for Lunch (Spaghetti with Shrimps)

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After Church we came home right away and I made some lunch. I made some spaghetti with Shrimps. Well, it's obvious that I love Shrimps. I'm sure you can tell because of my recipes here. Anyway I made this recipe up so that means I made my own measurements according to what's available on hand.
1/2 package spaghetti
1 can chickpeas
1 large can crushed tomatoes
1/2 package shrimps
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 tbsp. butter
salt and pepper
Cook spaghetti according to instruction. Add shrimps. Drain
Saute garlic with butter. Add crushed tomatoes, chickpeas. Season with salt and pepper. Add spaghetti and mix it together. Serve it in a bowl and sprinkle with parsley

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Yesterday was hubby's b-day so I invited some close friends and family. I cooked some favorite foods but I will only share one menu tonight. The other menu will be shared next time. However there is one dessert menu below this post. It's a Strawberry Cheesecake. I know most people love Strawberry Cheesecake. Do you? Anyway one of the menu that I would like to share is Lasagna Roll-Ups. Lasagna is my favorite pasta.
I hope you will try this one day. I will guarantee you that it is yummy and delicious!

Here's the Menu:
Ingredients
12 lasagna noodles
2 cups ricotta cheese
1 egg
1/4 cup chopped parsley
2 cups shredded Mozzarela or cheddar cheese, divided
8 ounces Italian sausage, casings removed
You can also use ground beef
1 package ground beef
1 jar marinara sauce, divided
Preheat oven to 375 F. Cook noodles according to package directions. Drain noodles and rinse with cold water. Mix ricotta, parsley, egg and 1 cup Mozzarela in a bowl. Set aside.
Cook sausage or ground beef in a skillet over medium heat until browned and crumbly. Drain fat.
Spread 1/2 cup sauce in a baking dish. Spread 3 tbsps. ricotta mixture on each noodle: top with some sausage/ground beef. Roll up each noodle and arrange seam sides down in baking dish.
Top roll-ups with remaining sauce and Mozzarela. Bake loosely covered, for 15 minutes. Remove cover; bake for 10 minutes longer or until brown and bubbly.

Mixing the ricotta cheese mixture!!!


I used 1 packaged of Ground beef.


These are the Pasta noodles. You can use any kind of brand!!


This is how I spread the ricotta mixture and beef!!


Roll-Ups are ready for the oven!


Here's the finished Lasagna ready to serve!
Enjoy and Happy Cooking

Weekend Snapshot 2 (Merienda Time)

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These are some of the famous Merienda for Filipinos. Even though we are no longer living in the Philippines we are still able to eat these kind of snacks. My brother got them in a Filipino Bakery located in the City of Toronto.


These are Ube Bread

These are rice cake. I know how to make these cakes.

These are called Pork Bola-Bola Siopao. Siopao's are inspired by Chinese Cuisine if I'm not mistaken.

Anyway these are Chicken Siopao....

Weekend Snapshot 1(Beans Soup)

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13 kinds of beans

Added chicken, broccoli, onions, salt and pepper!!!

It was very cold this weekend and it has been snowing all day on Saturday with 10-15 inches snow out in the driveway. Hubby had been shoveling all day that day as well. Well, I decided to make beans soup! There are 13 kinds of beans in my soup and it taste good!