Weekly Menu

I can't believe another week (and weekend) has flown by!  The heat and humidity have kept me a little out of the kitchen the past few days opting for some delicious local restaurant patios (in between rain storms).  But it will be cooling down a bit this week leading up to the unofficial start to summer... although it certainly feels like summer has started already!  :)

This weekend was Race for the Cure in Columbus, which is the largest in the country!  While it raises lots of awareness and brings everyone together, it always seems to fall short of reaching its fundraising goal.  If you would like to help them reach that goal, please donate here.  We have all been impacted in some way by cancer, let's find a cure...

    

After the race (well, walk), we met up at North Market, basically the best food court/grocery market ever.  Perfect for a range of dietary restrictions and tastes.  :)  I went to Hot Chicken Takeover and went with "warm" this time after having a very mild "mild" at Crew Stadium (I mean, Mapfre Stadium).  Oh man, they weren't lying when they said it's hotter than your normal medium!  Good thing I had some waffles to tone it down for my sensitive taste buds!  Grabbed some Pistacia Vera and Destination Donuts on the way out... you know, to treat myself for all of that walking.  ;)

On tap for this week, this is the plan...
lamb burgers and salad
veggie calzones
fish tacos
grilled cheese and caprese
veggie sushi

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Study Tip Sunday: Make a Study Space (or Lamp)

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Potato and Carrot Salad

This easy to prepare and budget friendly recipe will surely make your loved ones satisfied.A perfect appetizer.  Try it.

Ingredients 6-8 servings:
1 kilo potato (diced)
1/4 kilo carrots (diced)
3 hard boiled eggs ( diced)
1/4 cup parsley ( chopped)
1 cup mayonaise
1 cup all purpose cream
salt and pepper to taste


Procedure:
1. Boil the carrots and potatoes until soft (around 8-10 minutes) drain after boiling and set aside until cool.
2. In a large mixing bowl, combine all the ingredients, then chill and serve.

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"Down to the Basics" To-Do List

A few months ago, I posted on how to get an insane amount of things done in a single day. 
Sound familiar? (noooo, we never overbook ourselves, right?!). 

In that post, I mention ditching all of our fancy, cute to-do lists for a single page of notebook paper and really just going crazy writing down all of the stuff we need to accomplish. Don�t worry. I am NOT talking about throwing out your adorable planner! 

(Here's that post, if you want to read it! Project: Get Your Time Back)

I�m just talking about using this system for those crazy busy days/weeks when a simple planner isn�t enough.

Because my life has calmed down a little (a LOT) since finishing grad school, I'm kind of using a "weekly" to-do list these days <pictured above>. In fact, this is the actual one that I�m using right now! It�s still color-coded because I'm working on balancing out my life but if you want to really simplify your system, you can just use one pen for the whole thing! 

This one is in the front of the little notebook that I use to supplement my May Designs Planner because I'm a compulsive list maker. #cantstopwontstop

5 Time Management Tips for College

If you're feeling overwhelmed by all you need to get done in ONE day, here's an 8-step tutorial on how I would suggest organizing that:

1 | Get a plain piece of notebook paper 

2 | Write down hourly or half-hour intervals to the left of the red line 

3 | To the right of the red line, write down any scheduled or time-related tasks 

4 | Now look at the time you have left, start writing your other tasks down 

5 | As you write down the tasks, make sure you go high-priority to low-priority 

6 | When you start a project or task, highlight it in yellow (if you want) 

7 | When you finish it, cross it out or use a different colored highlighter 

8 | I usually keep this list out on my desk so it�s easily accessed and updated!

(I have a grueling Saturday morning planned up there, huh? Don't judge! I just used today as a layout example!)

Time Management System

It�s not the world�s fanciest system, and it�s certainly not very Instagram worthy, but it is effective. Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is just to do less. (I completely stole that from my husband, by the way. He probably tells me to �do less� on a daily basis). 

Maybe one day I'll start listening. :) 

Do you ever run out of room in your planner? Do you think this system would be helpful for you? Why or why not? 

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Scotch Egg Filipino Style

 Scotch egg, originated in London in 1738. It's my friend from London who told me about this recipe. After we talked about the Scotch egg, I was so eager to make it, because I can imagine how easy it is. I tried some and it was a success! Here is how to do it. I made mine into Filipino version by adding calamansi juice

Ingredients:

3  hard boiled eggs (remove the shell)
300 grams ground beef
2 tablespoons flour
1 beaten egg
1 cup bread crumbs 

2 calamansi

salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1.Combine the ground beef, flour, calamansi juice salt and pepper. Mix it well.
2.Divide the meat mixture into three parts . Wrap each egg.
3.Make sure that the coating is even all around the egg.
4.Roll it in beaten egg then on bread crumbs.
5. Deep Fry it until golden brown.
6. Cut it into halves  and serve it with your favorite side dish. 

This is great for family gatherings because it is easy to prepare and so affordable. 

You can replace ground beef with ground pork if you want.

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Fried Chicken

I think everybody loves fried chicken (that's my opinion). I belong to a big family and fried
 chicken is one of the favorites, buying it from KFC, McDonalds or Jollibee, will be too expensive if we will order 50 pieces for  family gatherings. The cheapest way is to buy chicken meat and cook it.  Here is my family's traditional way of cooking it. 

Ingredients:

1 kilo chicken
1 lemon or 5 calamansi
2 tablespoons Nestle Cream
1 egg ( beaten)
1 cup flour
1/2 cup cornstarch
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:

1. Mix the chicken,  lemon, salt and pepper. Marinate for 15 minutes.
2. Put the all purpose cream, mix well
3. Add the beaten egg, mix well
4. Roll over the breading.
5. Deep fry it until golden brown.
6. Serve it hot.

 

For Breading:

Mix the flour and cornstarch.

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Weekly Menu

Hope you had a great Mother's Day weekend and enjoyed the beautiful early summer weather we had!  I don't ever remember a May quite this warm, but I'm certainly not complaining!

Since the weather got me in the summer mood, I went ahead and planted my summer garden.  This is the first year I won't have tomatoes in my garden, which is the most common vegetable (well, fruit) grown in home gardens.  So it will be mainly peppers and squash this year.  Some lettuce, beans, and herbs will fill in the rest of the space.  Oh and can't forget the strawberries which are already starting to fruit in my reclaimed wood container boxes.  

After eating out quite a bit for Columbus Beer Week last week, there are a couple dinners I didn't make, so they are returning to the meal plan this week.  So without further ado...

lasagna rollups

asparagus frittata and hash browns

spring salad

veggie loaded nachos

veggie sushi

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