Archive for June, 2005

Pickled Salad with Beef or Pork

I admire the Danes for their disciplined life. They walk or bicycle their way to the office and just about anywhere. They have bread and milk for breakfast, salads at any time of the day, and they never seem to fry their meats – all fish are meant for steaming or smoking, while beef, pork and chicken are meant for roasting or grilling.

It’s a healthy and fit life that I wanted to adopt (at least for the time I’m here haha..). I also decided I still needed to lose a few more pounds. Since I dislike unnecessary exercise, that meant I would start with the food.

This is salad that I copied from a Vietnamese restaurant that we frequented. I may have been a bit addicted to this dish because I ordered it on 4 consecutive visits. At first, I thought it odd that a salad should be paired off with rice, but it really has a way of growing on you.

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Homemade Pancakes

This is our staple breakfast every weekend. Back in Manila, I never made pancakes from scratch as the boxed kind was readily available in most grocery stores. However, I couldn’t find any of those here; what I usually spot are the already-cooked, frozen kind (I shudder to think what those might be like – reheated pancakes???)

These are light and fluffy pancakes with a crepe-like blandness that is yummy with just anything (we like ours with more butter and strawberry jam!).

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