No-bake Tuna Casserole

Having woken up at 4am yesterday, I was really beat when it was time to prepare dinner. I thought I'd make an easy no-bake casserole and got hold of the ever-present tuna and some pasta. I was inspired by this recipe, but had to adjust it, considering the ingredients I had on hand and the number of people who were going to eat.

Ingredients:
fistful of spaghetti
1 can cream of mushroom soup
handful of frozen mixed vegetables
1 can tuna, drained
1/2 C chicken broth

Cook the spaghetti and drain. Put the soup, broth, vegetables, and tuna in a pan and heat the entire mess, stirring to mix thoroughly. Mix in the drained pasta and serve. You can top with cheese if you wish.

Making Short Work of the Tagaytay Goodies

I had a salad for lunch and dinner yesterday (if you must know, I had ice cream, chips, and other junk too, so it wasn't really a healthy day, lol). Anyway, I just tore some lettuce, threw in some cucumber and tomato slices, some carrot sticks, some goat cheese chunks and drizzled that with the olive oil from the jar of herbed goat cheese.

Last night, had basically the same thing (smaller amount and I think I was too lazy to slice a tomato), but used this lime dressing instead.

Got to try the chicken and mushroom pie. It was okay. I think many people will really like it, but I would probably have liked it better if it had been cheesy.

The apple pie was good and was gone in no time. I could have gone a la mode, but I forgot that we had ice cream in the freezer, lol.

I hope you weren't expecting a proper review, lol. I usually have a great time with adjectives, but I'm pretty insecure about my knowledge of food and how they should taste.

Pies and Cheese from Tagaytay

On May 1 (Labor Day), we went to Tagaytay. We spent most of our time in Paradizoo, but we made a couple of other stops and two of them were at Thermos Bakeshop (which boasts of the best and most authentic English pies in the area) where I bought apple pies and a chicken mushroom pie, and at Mr. Moo's (right next door to Thermos) where I got a jar of herbed goat cheese in olive oil. Reviews to follow soon.

Oriental Sesame Pasta

When you're feeling incredibly lazy or don't have a lot of ingredients at hand, and pasta is your dish of choice, this recipe for oriental sesame pasta is something you should try. It's pretty tasty and reminds me of Yellow Cab's Charlie Chan Chicken (without the chicken or peanuts of course). The lack of green in the picture is brought on by the absence of scallions, which I had substituted with a regular onion.

Creamy Mushroom Sauce

I decided to get rid of the remaining spinach fettuccine so made a mushroom sauce for it using this recipe. Still too lazy to get out the Nikon, so:

Magnolia Pancake Plus

So I usually get a vanilla Pillsbury mix for pancakes (there was a time when I made my own pancake mix and will probably go back to doing that, but right now I'm always in a rush getting breakfast on the table - I spend too much time online, lol), but I thought I'd try this one of Magnolia. I don't think it turned me into a fan. This one requires you to just add water (while other mixes usually call for an egg, oil, and water). Anyway, I don't know what I did wrong, but the pancakes scorched easily (just very slightly - so might be my error somewhere) and the consistency of the batter was a little off (it crumbled a bit when I flipped it - didn't do it too soon either because like I said, the bottom part would already be dark brown, instead of golden brown, each time). It did come with its own syrup (got the strawberry and chocolate ones because we already have maple here) and it did allow for some fun (view pic). Anyway, will try the chocolate one sometime soon and see if I'll get a better hang of cooking this brand then. I'll update re this topic when I do that. Sorry about the pictures again.

Some Other Fish Besides Tuna

So another poor picture from moi. These are fish fillets I made last night. We had some labahita (mustard surgeonfish) in the freezer, so got out the cornstarch, salt and pepper. I managed to come up with this.