Chiffon Sweet Potato Tartlets

What could be more enticing than a tart or a pie with smooth sweet potatoes filling. The color and texture is so appealing and so light, it is pure indulgence. Sweet potatoes/yams are in abundance this time of the year and to keep up with the Holiday Spirit, add Holiday Spices to the tarts/pies and kick up a notch.

The recipe is HERE

Bacon Wraps

When you have a potluck dinner to attend and don't feel like messing up the kitchen with so many pots and pans to clean after the cooking.  Think of bringing these Bacon Wraps - there is not much cleaning to do except washing the baking rack and the baking sheet does not need cleaning as it has been foil lined, so just throw away the greasy foil.  Oops,  there is still the knife that is used to cut the bacon in half and a plate to be cleaned, the plate that is used to microwave the bacon . The best part in this recipe is that you do not need a grocery list - just 3 ingredients.

The recipe is HERE

High Roast Turkey - The Final Destination

The final destination for the Turkey was The Thanksgiving Potluck Dinner.  As i have mentioned before that it will take me 80 minutes to finish roasting the prepared turkey and i was right.  The turkey came out of the oven 80 minutes  in perfection. 

The color was more than golden brown and the meat temperature was the correct temperature as recommended.  I am sorry that i forgot to take a picture of the bird when it came out of the oven as a friend came and i had to help her to make her dish for the potluck.  My friend, Meow, had wanted to mashed sweet potatoes as she confessed that that was what she could come with on her own but i told her that i will guide her to something more interesting  - Bacon Wraps.  While my friend's dish was broiling in the oven, i had to debone the turkey and time was not with me at that moment. With hands full of grease, using the camera was not possible - i will be banned for life from touching the camera if i had tried to use it.  Thank goodness that when i had done cutting up the turkey, the owner of the camera appeared, all dolled up pretty and i requested for help although the plating was not compleled.  So, at least now i have a picture of my roasted turkey.  ok, time to remove the Bacon Wraps  from the oven - crispy and unbelievablly fragrant.  I will post the recipe in my next posting.

I did not make any Sausage Dressing this year but instead i cooked rice. 

For how to cook the rice, it is  HERE

Turkey Finale - The Day of Thanksgiving

Today is the day, Thanksgiving Day and to all who are celebrating with love ones - Have a Happy Thanksgiving Dinner and enjoy the warmful company especially the love ones who have travelled from afar to join your dinner table. HAPPY THANKSGIVING

The how to prepare the turkey for roasting isHERE

Happy Thanksgiving and How to Brine the turkey

There are many ways to celebrate and express thanks at Thanksgiving. Even in difficult times, there are always things for which to be grateful and thankful. It was Grand-parents Day at my grand chlidren's school and my grandson Alexander's class sang Turkey Porky - oops Popo is always associating words to food, sorry!! it should be Turkey Pokey, and wrote a note to say what they were Thankful For.

Alexander wrote in his kindergarten writing which was pretty good for just being a few months in kindy - I am thankful for my mom, my dad, my sister and my popo. How sweet?


You will not believe it, i did not believe what i saw, when he came home from school yesterday- he was holding a huge turkey which he won, . This only happens in America, you can win a turkey - in school????


HAPPY THANKSGIVING

For How-to brine click HERE

Watermelon Salad

Does anyone know how to select a really juicy, sweet and flavorful watermelon? I am never really lucky although i follow all the best ways suggested like - to look at the color and quality of the flesh, which should be a deep color and absent from white streaks. If it features seeds, they should be deep in color. Oftentimes, however, we do not have this liberty when purchasing watermelon since it is more common to buy a whole, uncut fruit. When choosing a whole watermelon, look for one that is HEAVY for its size with a rind that is relatively smooth and that is neither overly shiny nor overly dull. In addition, one side of the melon should have an area that is distinct in color from the rest of the rind, displaying a yellowish or creamy tone. This is the underbelly, the place that was resting on the ground during ripening, and if the fruit does not have this marking, it may have been harvested prematurely, which will negatively affect its taste, texture and juiciness.





Although winter is coming upon us soon, watermelons can still be found in the markets but the season for watermelon is in the summer when they are sweet and of the best quality.No other fruit says summer like the subtly crunchy, thirst quenching watermelon. This post is way overdue and i posted it so that friends from down under and the tropics can enjoy this delicious, refreshing and easy to prepare salad.

For recipe click HERE