👩🍳”Kamayan na”, eating by hands no fork and spoon. Fried daing na Bangus, boiled okra and eggplant, spring onion and tomato, bagoong with chilli, and basmati rice. For breakfast, rice porridge (lugaw) topped with tofu and pork loin in umami sauce. Then my sauteed chayote with broccoli, carrot and ground meat, seasoned with mushroom sauce for lunch and dinner too. I love it, very Filipino. That’s all for today’s meal prepping at home.
TAGALOG: 👩🍳Pagkaing kinalakihan kung saan naging tao. Masarap at masustansiya rin na nakakapagbigay tulong sa ating kalusugan. Huwag lamang sobrahan gaya ng bagoong. Maalat na hindi maganda kung masobrahan nang kain. Dahil sa alta presyon o mataas na blood pressure ganon din sa puso. Bawat bagay na sobra ay hindi maganda sa kalusugan. Ah! basta masarap lahat ito. Nakaka miss kumain nang ganito lalo na kapag sa ibayong dagat ka naninirahan tulad ko. Salamat at kahit papaano ay may mabibili o may pagkukunan kahit na dito sa Vienna na kung saan ako ay naninirahan mahigit tatlong dekada na. Maraming salamat sa biyaya panginoon naming mapagmahal.
👩🍳How healthy is pointed cabbage? In german “Spitzkraut” or in Tagalog “matulis na repolyo”. Healthy and low in calories. Since it contains a lot of fibre, it stimulates digestion. In addition, pointed cabbage contains a lot of so-called ascorbigen, which is converted into vitamin C during cooking. With only 20 kilocalories per 100 grams, it is also – like all types of cabbage – very low in calories. The reason why we love this type of cabbage here. Especially, my hubby, use add it in “Bulalo”, “Nilagang Karne” (Boiled Meat) or even in “sinigang na buto-buto” (Bones in sour soup). Me I love to make a salad out of it during summertime. Pointed cabbage is related to white cabbage but tastes much better. It owes its name to its shape the pointed cabbage grows pointed at the top. Today I added to glass noodle or Sotanghon mix with Udon noodle Japanese style.
👩🍳iCookiTravel‘s Noche Buena Prepping and gift giving with family, insert Ronald-Louis (son). Hope you guys had a very merry Christmas 🎄🎁 and wishing all the best for 2020. God bless us all. From my family to yours.🤗
Naples, Napoli, Neapel, Napolitana, I don’t know how you call it is the third largest Municipality in Italy. They said public health conditions in the city were poor. We are so blessed what we have here in Vienna. And was the most bomed city in Italy during world war 2. Jesus Christ! Sorry for this review.😏
Piazza del Plebiscito (picture above) is the main city square. For me was not that exciting scenery, eventhough I’m that type who has big interest with culture, history and museums what Nations matter. It is a comparison of just like an abandoned place or a dead society. I could not feel what ever excitement or interesting topics or area which derives the so called what nations matter. Maybe was not enough time to get know the place, but I tell you frankly, I don’t have any plan at all to comeback not even for a short period of time. This was only a part what we have seen, there’s a lot more about the place. The square is good used for open-air concerts. It is really huge enough to accommodate concert-goers. With my cousin Gigi and her son, during their one month vacation here in europe.
Here glimpse of Cinque Terre, Pisa Tower, Sinopie Museum, and Pisa Baptistory in 🇮🇹Italy with my daughter Diana-Grace. One among our travel diary together. Eat well, travel often folks!🤗 See the world 🌍🌎🌏
An Asian way of eating and living, learned from my parents more vegetables and fish🐟 which I strongly believe may help and prevent chronic diseases.
GULAY in Tagalog, vegetable in English.
My gulay cooked 👩🍳 with alamang (dried tiny shrimp 🍤) seasoned with patis (fish sauce) sautéed in margarine. I started using margarine because I believe it is more healthy than butter.
Here I go again with my diabetic foodie diary. This allows me to note down my food activity, which I prepared for myself- incredibly useful to keep an eye on my food or carbohydrates. Just like my food journal.
Veggiebowl – iCookiTravel
This was linner a veggiebowl my favorite healthy food, vegetarian boiled water spinach (kangkong), eggplant and chili with sour soup base seasoned with salt only. Home cooked for me.
Red Bell Peppers with beaten eggs and Whole grain – iCookiTravel
Bell peppers and diabetes, a low carb food and contain fiber an excellent addition to my diabetic diet. Sauteed it with red onion and beaten eggs with my whole grain toast for my breaky.
Fried Tofu and Water Spinach – iCookiTravel
A very good dinner kangkong adobo with lots of garlic and fried tofu. With this I ate it with a little bit of brown rice. For a change. kangkong or water spinach a good source of vitamin, iron and calcium.
Boiled saba (Banana), Empanada and creamy mushroom soup -iCookiTravel
Diabetic linner again, boiled banana saba, homemade empanada and my creamy mushroom soup with fresh parsley. Guten Appeit!
Veggies with squid – iCookiTravel
Saturday brunch with veggies and squid at home. Cabbage, carrot, onion, tomatoe and squid seasoned with vegetable broth cube. Because few things in life are better than brunch. How about you, do you love brunching at home too?
Upgrade soup – iCookiTravel
Dinner my upgrade soup with zucchini and carrot plus whole grain bread topped with curdcheese and honey. What about yours, what is your Sunday dinner?
Salmon and Brusselsprouts – iCookiTravel
Pan fried in margarine Salmon seasoned with just salt and pepper, brown rice, and brussels sprouts boiled in salt-water. Eat clean, home cooking, home made food, healthy food share, and awesome. Easy to prepare and healthy!
Cabbage soup with ground chicken patties – iCookiTravel
A very healthy soup out of chicken patties with cabbage and scallions, a vegetable base soup for a diabetic like me. Cabbage is packed with Vitamin C, helps improve digestion, keep your heart healthy, lower blood pressure, excellent source of Vitamin K and could help lower cholesterol levels. Home cook, Guten Appitet!
Smoked Trout and red rice – iCookiTravel
It was Sunday and this llunch for me. Smoked Trout and red rice from the Philippines with cucumber and tomatoe. My mind says, eat less rice overall for best blood sugar control! As per specialist, the brown rice highly prescribed for diabetics. Well it is up to you what you believe which is good for you. This red rice was only a try for me how does it taste.
Seafood and Vegetable Soup – iCookiTravel
Breaky after seven and half hour Night Duty and that’s five days a week. A huge bowl of soup with seafoods which I love most and vegetables. With shrimps, squid, carrot, broccoli, red bell pepper, cabbage, and beans sprouts spicy but good.
Mangold with Sardines – iCookiTravel
Beacause I also Love green leafy vegetables, here mangold with sardines (Ligo Sardines) the spicy one (Red one) sauteed with ginger and red onion. Huh! was good!
Pizza with Arugula or Rucula – iCookiTravel
YES! Pizza is allowed, but not offen! Here Pizza Arugula with cheese and sliced tomatoe. Arugula or Rucola is rich with calcium, potassium, Vitamin B, C and K. And boost the immune system and help fight inflammation. Guten Appetit Folks! Hope you learned something about Diabetes with all these foodie I’ve shared to you.
Longganisa and boiled Okra, tomatoe, “bagoong”, actually sauteed anchovy but spicy a pinoy (short term for Filipino) breaky last Saturday morning: dangerous it’s because of rice which is not good for diabetes and for hypertension so with “bagoong” but taste yummy and good for us Filipinos and of course lutong bahay (home cook) is the best. With Tocino, pagkaing pinoy talaga!
Whole Grain Spaghetti – iCookiTravel
Taking my lunch box for work, leftover spaghetti from my son’s dinner. In Italian— “i PESTI con BASILICO E RUCOLA” in french— “avec BASILIC et ROQUETTE”, topped with Parmesan Cheese. There is nothing wrong with reheating it in the next day. The texture will be slightly different it will very likely have lost some of its bite, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t perfectly edible and it really would be “SHAME” to waste it. Not with me, in some part of the world people don’t have enough to eat!
Boiled Beef with Corn Cob – iCookiTravel
My son’s viand Boiled Beef (Nilagang Baka) with corn cob and cabbage, family’s old time favorit. I remember my daughter the first time we flew to manila with Singapore airline, the steward asked her what she wants to eat and she said if they have rice with soup, meat and corn cob, that’s what she wants to eat! the steward answered; she had only noodle soup! 😀
Sauteed vegetables – iCookiTravel
My sauteed vegetables crisp healthy and delicious for dinner of three. With mung bean, snow peas, chinese cabbage or pechay, in a very small amount of oil over relatively high heat, with a little bit of sliced pork shoulder. On of my favorit dish at all time. Guten Appetit!
Spaghetti with Zucchini and ground meat – iCookiTravel
My son’s request of the day, spaghetti with ground meat and zucchini. If zucchini or courgette in season the price is as low as 99 cent per kilo. A summer aquash they call it in america, low in cholesterol and helps maintain a balance of carbohydrates. works great for heart because of fiber. Ihances digestion and improves eye health too. And of course hepls control diabetes.
Mussels in wine – iCookiTravel
A classic recipe for steamed mussels with white wine is a quick and easy thing to do with for Saturday dinner for two. Richer in magnesium, iron, iodine, and nitrate. Also contain high levels of vitamins A, B, and C as what studies told brought us. Mussel dish can be paired well with a refreshing salad. These can become a hearty, healthy seafood meal. Guten Appetit Folks!
Kalunay (amaranth leaves) with mung bean – iCookiTravel
KALUNAY or KULITIS (Amaranth Leaves) with mung bean and tuna flakes for weekend lucnh. For more INFO about KALUNAY and RECIPE (with cooking Video) please check it out here;
iCooked BEEF KARE-KARE for linner just for the two of us. Was craving for it since last week May, finally got time for it to cook. Hubby’s satisfaction meets, happy wife am I. Craving satisfaction accomplished. Panlasang Pinoy food Guten Appetit!
Ilocano Food – iCookiTravel
Ilocano food, grilled Mackerel with Okra, Squash flower, red Onion and Tomatoe seasoned with Anchovy Sauce (Bagoong Balayan). Yum! Guten Appetit! For more Recipe Check This Out;
Here is another RECIPE of KALUNAY with smoke salmon and red onion sauteed in a very little amount of oil seasoned with just salt. Obviously I LOVE KALUNAY very much aside from I don’t buy it here in Vienna but because of its health benefits.
BREAKY of the day – iCookiTravel
Good morning Europe! Good morning World Press People! Breaky of the day, full grain toast, beaten eggs with white onions plus my morning coffee, actually I don’t drink coffee too often. What’s yours?
Alugbati and Mussels – iCookiTravel
Vine Spinach (Alugbati) in savory mussels (Tahong) soup, craving satisfaction, I love green leafy vegetables since I was four years old, thats how I remember. With a little bit of sea foods or even a little bit of meat but not over cooking it. Should stay crunchy as you could see picture above. For more COOKING VIDEO CHECK it out here,
The psychology of menus. Trying different Restaurants in Vienna as frequent as I can with my bff, daughter and hubby. Vienna has something for every taste when it comes to what’s “In” from coffee hauses 🏘 Bars, Tavern, and Restaurants. Like from a modern European eatery, neighbourhood cafe’ or even a popular seafood restaurant which I love most. The start of my dining journey right this year.
Above here with my bff Dana, having our linner at Okiru Running Sushi 🍣 with tippanyaki buffet. Was great 👍 delicious delight and we had fun, fasting before visiting the place is highly recommend 🤣 because of “cook and eat all you can”!🍽😋✅
It is a bit expensive but it has a huge variation of food 🥘 and where the running Sushi 🍣 everything are fresh and you can also see how they prepared in the middle of the trendmill. Clean and treandy too. Most of all the staff are very accommodating and friendly.
#friendshipgoals Saturday good vibes😊 catching up with my bff Dana again as frequent as we can, at Fischviertel Restaurant in Naschmarkt. Who knows how life is in the future.
According to the owner, trust is extremely important to them – to maintain a personal relationship with their dealers and check the quality of their fishing 🎣 methods, breeding criteria and hygiene conditions on site. I mean about the seafoods they serve in the restaurant. The Crostian🇭🇷 Chef 👨🍳 of the restaurant will spoil you with the excellent dishes. It is freshly cooked from the kitchen, served by a friendly waiter, a good glass of wine 🍷 and you are happy. 😌 What I Love ❤️ most is a pot of mix mussels in white wine. Take it away from me Folks! 😊
We hardly find time to spend together.😒 But finally a mother – daughter afternoon at Crazy Lobster. Enjoyed our food 🥘 and drinks.🍹🍸🍷 Definitely we are coming back again.
Crazy Lobster is a steak 🥩 and lobster restaurant in the heart ♥️ of Vienna. It offers whole fresh Lobster, snow crab 🦀 steak 🥩 burger 🍔 soup 🥣 pasta 🍝 shrimp 🦐 🍤 salad 🥗 and cheesecake 🧀 for dessert 🍨 and many more. Ambient is great 👍 too.
Here finally! #brunching with my two kids at the Brickmakers Pub & Kitchen in seventh district of Vienna. The home of craft beer 🍻 and authentic American BBQ 🍗 🍖 near us. Brunch is usually served on weekends and holidays. They also have live band and DJ. Every Monday they have its famous Brisket serving with a side dish of your preference like potatoes 🥔 salad 🥗 red slaw, baked beans, corn 🌽 cobs, romaine lettuce, creamy Savoy cabbage with cardamom and croutons, Pilsner Urquell or Gold Fassl beer 🍻 fresh as you can get from their tanks. Go and visit them try their menus as well!😊
These are for a moment ☝️ will keep you updates on my next journey. Guten Appetit!
Photo above, this was twenty one years ago or more! Christmas is about lauhgter, love, friends and family. Don’t get lost in the greed. Instead be thankful for all of the joy around you. Merry Christmas everyone! From our family to yours.
Sentimental… when they were young they were always with us during christmas and new year time. Remembereing those days……. Now, they ‘re both grown up (adult) actually 25 and 23 years of age not even a call doesn’t take place. But anyway it is good to know that they’re both OK! And can live the life they want.
Broccoli and Nappa cabbage with turkey breast – iCookiTravel
Diabetic dinner, boiled broccoli and Nappa cabbage with red onion and turkey 🦃 breast no fat at all. I got told that keeping your fat intake in check helps you stay healthy and the low fat approach has been strongly recommended for people with diabetes.
YOU NEED…….
* 1 head of Broccoli
* 1 red Onion
* a small Nappa cabbage
* about 200g turkey 🦃 breast
* some water 💦 or soup 🍲 stock just enough to cook 👨🍳 the vegetables
* salt & broth cube to taste
HOW TO…….
Red Onion and Turkey Breast – iCookiTravel
In a pot, red onion and turkey breast
add some water – iCookiTravel
I added some boiling water 💦 or soup 🍲 stock instead.
Cooking -iCookiTravel
Let it boil…
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Then add broccoli cook 👨🍳 until half way done…
Nappa Cabbage – iCookiTravel
Add Nappa cabbage, seasoned with some salt and 1 broth cube to taste.
with fried horsemackerel – iCookiTravel
Up here is another version the same procedure but instead of meat I added the leftover fried horsemackerel. I ate with my brown whole corn 🌽 bread 🥖 just like my tonight‘s dinner. Guten Appetit!😋
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