Josie's Kitchen

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One lazy afternoon, classes was suspended due to strong typhoon, so the whole family was present. The weather was so cold so I decided to cook something hot to warm the body. I planned to cook Champorado (Chocolate porridge) but I have no stock of cocoa powder (I’m using Hershey’s). Then I saw chicken in the freezer, fine,  it will be  Arroz Caldo (chicken rice porridge) for our merienda (afternoon snack).

Ingredients:

• 2 cups  uncooked sticky rice (malagkit)
• 1/2 kilo chicken cut into pieces
• 1 med. onion chopped
• 2 cloves minced garlic
• 1 tbsp. chopped ginger
• 2-3 tbsp. fish sauce (patis)
• 1 chicken cube
• salt and pepper to taste
• 2 tbsp cooking oil

• In a deep sauce pan, saute ginger, garlic and onion
• Add the chicken and stir occasionally, when chicken changed color
• Add fish sauce or patis, let it simmer to make the chicken absorb the taste of patis
• Add 6-8 cups of water and simmer until chicken is cooked or tender.
• Add the sticky rice and chicken cube,  continue cooking with constant stirring to prevent rice from sticking at the bottom of the pan.
• When the rice started to burst and soften, season with salt and pepper.
• Remove from heat and serve hot, garnish with fried garlic and  spring onion.

You can partner it with fried tokwa (tofu) and boiled pork dipped in the mixture of vinegar, onion, garlic, soy sauce and little sugar.

Enjoy!

This is my simple but perfect snack this afternoon, hot choco and crackers in this rainy and cold afternoon. It was raining hard and very cold, according to news report there was no typhoon yet the rain was heavy. Nothing much to do except  watch TV and play online games. Hubby and I are getting addicted to playing poker in our social site account. We are both joining the shoot-out tournament of the poker game. Hubby is a better player than me, maybe if he is playing in the real Online Casino, we would be millionaires by now with all the chips he already won.

We also love to watch the World Poker Tournament on TV, this is where I learned how to play Poker, I used to play other card games for fun with my family but this one I really enjoy. So while waiting for other players to fold or go all-in I also play the slot-machine to win some chips on the side.

This is a rainy but not a gloomy afternoon for me definitely. lol.

ingredients:

1 kilo pork or chicken cut into serving pieces
1/2 cup vinegar
1 cup soy sauce
2 pcs laurel leaves
pepper corn
1 garlic head crushed
wheat pandesal or loaf bread

Put all the ingredients in a casserole and let boil.
Simmer until the meat is tender, about 40 minutes.
Remove meat from casserole and shred into little pieces, set sauce aside
Fry shredded meat pieces till crisp
Fill bread with shredded adobo and wrap it up. For added flavor add mayonnaise or butter.