Cooking Adventures 1 - Pesto Pasta

Lucky us we have a good supply of walnuts. That's why last week, when I spotted fresh basil leaves at the Baguio hangar market, I bought some, boiled some pasta, chopped garlic and walnuts together in our chopper with olive oil, mixed it with the noodles and parmesan cheese and voila! My first pesto pasta!

It looks like pancit canton said my brother but all agreed - hubby, papa and brother that it was panalo!

Served with garlic bread and roasted chicken courtesy of Chic-Boy it was  a yummy Saturday night dinner :)

Fresh Picks

For the past and coming days, hubby and I have the opportunity to shop for our own food and cook them the way we want it. I took advantage of cooking recipes I have been doing during my pre-married life, recipes I learned from my own mother and grandmother and also those that I watch from the Food Network or TLC.

We also went back to juicing. And tonight, we had lettuce, carrots, cucumbers and lemons prepared. I always soak them for at least 30 minutes in water and vinegar to remove impurities and pesticides especially if I cannot avail of organic veggies.

I always make sure that there is lemon in all our juicings because of its great health benefits even if it is a bit expensive. Here they are - all juiced and ready for stirring:

Distributed in our glasses:

Strawberry prices went down from Php 200 to Php 120 pesos a kilogram so we decided to eat them for dessert during lunch and dinner. 

All sliced into manageable bites and drizzled with condensed milk:

Healthy and Yum-o! at the same time :)