CANTALOUPE KALAMANSI HONEY COFFEE

Cantaloupe Kalamansi Honey Coffee

Wanted to have a  healthy drink that boosts your immune system and also at the same time keeps you perky during the day?  Then prepare this   Cantaloupe Kalamansi Honey Coffee.

Cantaloupe Kalamansi Honey  Brewed Coffee

INGREDIENTS:

• 1/2 medium-size cantaloupe (honeydew melon)  peeled and cubes
• 3 tablespoons of freshly squeeze kalamansi, lemon juice will do.
• 1 tablespoon  of  instant coffee or   cap of brewed coffee
• 2 tablespoons of muscovado sugar
• 5 ice cubes

PROCEDURES:

• prepared the blender,  put the cantaloupe, then the ice cube, pour in the instant coffee or the 1 cup brewed coffee then add the sugar and lastly the kalamansi juice.
• blend  slowly the  ingredients until all the  materials are blended well, then  blend it at a higher speed for  1 minute
• pour into the class the blended ingredients and serve.
• if you opt for a warmer or hotter one, then use 2 cups of brew coffee without the ice cubes.

SPICY CLAM CURRY in COCONUT MILK SOUP

Clams are one of  best seafoods what contains a  lot of minerals and vitamins.  This cool  Holiday Seasons, this is one of the best to serve,  highly  nutritional,  economical and delicious.  To find a good quality clams in the market,  it must not very watery and smell fresh from the sea, Avoid buying it when it is  emitting a foul odor.

Spicy Clams Curry in Coconut Milk Soup

INGREDIENTS:

•              1 kilo of clams, medium size

•              1 medium size onion, cut into quarter

•              2 medium size tomatoes, cut into quarter

•              1 small, young fresh ginger, pound finely

•              4 pieces of green chilies

•              2 pieces of lemon grass, pounded and knot

•              2 tablespoon curries

•              1 cup of pure and concentrated freshly squeeze coconut milk

•              1 medium size green spring onion, cut in about an inch long

•              1 small size red bell pepper

•              salt to taste

Wine, is  recommended after having  seafoods like the clam soup after  dinner

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You can remove the shells of the clams if you wish and if you  do not to have it in your soup.

PROCEDURES:

•              wash thoroughly the clams and drain, then set aside

•              boil two cups of water in the pot.

•             add the clams in hot boiling water, then after three minutes, when clams start to open, add the onions, tomatoes, ginger, lemon grass, curry and the coconut milk, stir gently the ingredients until it is half cook

•              then add a salt to taste

•              serve while it is hot

NOTE:  you can adjust the spiciness of your soup by adjusting the number of chilies added according to your   desire taste, either you want it hotter or less spicy.

UMI-BUDO (Sea Grapes) SEAWEEDS SALAD

Caulerpa lentillifera (sea grapes) or commonly known as Lato in the Philippines or Umi-budo in Japan is a seaweed that is edible and highly nutritious. This plant grows in the intertidal at 3 to 5 meters from the surface of the sea. This highly nutritional value seaweed usually grows wild but now this is a promising mariculture farming business. Though considered an exotic food to many, this a good substitute for other sources of food that contains the needed magnesium, calcium and iodine. In fact, this recommended for people having goiter.

Below, I will be sharing to you the simple preparation of  the  Umi-budo (Seagrapes) Salad.

INGREDIENTS:

·         1/4 kilo of Seagrapes or Lato

·         1 medium size Onion , thinly slice in  cubes

·         1 medium size tomato, thinly slice in cubes

·         1 small, young fresh ginger, thinly slice in cubes

·         kalamansi or lemon juice, freshly   squeeze

·         salt to taste

PROCEDURES:

·         wash thoroughly the  seagrapes and  drain well, cut them into bite size

·         mix all the remaining ingredients well until the salt is melted

·         put  in a dry, clean  serving plate the  cleaned, drained  seagrapes

·         then add all the mixed ingredients, slowly   it with the seaweeds

·     the  serve it   immediately  in  preparing this salad with other   recipes for the meal, it is  advisable to prepare this one last.

·         enjoy your  lato, umi-budo or seaweed salad.