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Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Roasted Chicken and Broccoli with Lemon

I have no idea why hubby and I are lovin' the chicken so much! Well, to be honest, I love chicken ever since when I was a child.
Even when we dine out, if not fish or vegetables or other viands, what we commonly order is chicken. Well, yeah. 
Aside from the world's most common type of poultry, chicken has a good supply of protein content and it also has vitamins and minerals. Why am I saying these? 
Anyway, enough of my short introductory health talk, somehow, it's what I know about chickens. It's good to insert that here, though. So that I have an excuse why I love to eat and eat and eat! *covers eyes*

Without further ado, I'd like to introduce to you my new venture of Roasted Chicken and Broccoli with Lemon. 

 I normally cook and bake good choices of food for dinner before my hubby gets home from work. He is a very responsible and workaholic person and I am the sort-of-plain-housewife-cum-entrepreneur. I have most of my time at home and always looking for something new to eat for dinner with hubby. I make sure his tummy gets full with healthy and tasty and not boring foods. ;)

Today, I'll be sharing with you my newest collection of recipe. Easy, fuss-free and tasty.


Let's get started! ~



Ingredients: 

  • 1 medium broccoli, cut into bite-size florets
  • 2 tbsp. olive oil 
  • 1 tbsp. water (you may use chicken broth) 
  • 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped 
  • 1/2 tsp. ground assorted spices (I bought it at the grocery store) 
  • 4 chicken thighs
  • 1 tsp. salt 
  • 1 tsp. pepper 
  • 1 1/4 tsp. lemon zest (1 large lemon) 
  • lemon wedges for serving 

Directions: 

  • Preheat oven to 425F degrees. 
  • Line baking sheet with tin foil. 
  • On a large baking sheet, combine the broccoli with half of olive oil, water, half of the garlic, ground assorted spices, half of salt, half of pepper. Toss to combine and coat.  

  • Place in the oven and bake for 8 minutes.
  • In a separate bowl, combine all the remaining ingredients to the chicken thighs, including half of the lemon zest (except the lemon wedges).  

  • Remove the baking sheet from the oven, add the chicken thighs and toss together with the broccoli. 

  • Place back in the oven for about 10-15 mins., tossing halfway through the cooking time until the chicken is cooked and the broccoli is golden around the edges. 
  • When done, squeeze the lemon zest all over the chicken and the broccoli just before serving. Serve hot with the lemon wedges on the side.

Roasted Chicken and Broccoli with Lemon

There you have it! Sumptuous dinner is ready and served.



Total Cooking Time: 20-25 minutes



I hope you will try this in your humble abode, too. Share it to your family, relatives and friends. 

Let me know if you give this a shot! I love to hear from you. 
Send in your comments below. ;) 
 
P.S. Hubby loves it! I'm really glad he loves what I cooked. Happy wifey! Yay! :) 

Thank you so much for dropping by! xoxo. 


 Love lots, 
Eiya 




Friday, September 23, 2016

Baked Chicken in Red Wine and Garlic with Rosemary

Hey fellas! It's been a long time I've been hiatus in my blog. A lot happened previously but other than that, I am so back to be with you.

With my new post, I will be sharing a very easy, juicy, tender and infused with flavors chicken dish.
Well, I am not really the type of person who doesn't enjoy experimenting foods - in a good taste, of course! Whatever we have in our chiller, any leftovers, I always make sure to do something about it, hence, the experimentation. :)

So now, I will be sharing with you my latest food venture and it's called - Baked Chicken in Red Wine and Garlic with Rosemary. Even newbies in cooking and baking can definitely give this a try too. Trust me, it is very easy.

A view of the delish baked chicken! Oh lala!

So, let's get started! ~


Ingredients: 
  • 4 chicken thighs - I used medium-sized (You may remove the skin, it is optional)
  • Ground Assorted Spices such as: cinnamon, cloves, starani, cummin and fennel seeds - I bought mine at the grocery store. 
  • Red Wine & Garlic 'Ready-Made' Marinade - also available at the grocery store
  • salt and pepper 
  • rosemary leaves 

Directions:  
  • Preheat oven to 375F degrees.
  • Prepare chicken thighs. Wash and pat dry. 
  • Line baking sheet with tin foil. 
  • Place the chicken thighs on the prepared baking sheet and sprinkle all the dry ingredients on each side of the chicken. 
  • Place in the oven and bake for 10 minutes. 
  • Remove chicken thighs from the oven, turn each piece over. Place it back in the oven for an additional 10 minutes. 
  • After 10 minutes, remove chicken thighs from the oven, take out all the liquid fats and brush chicken with ready-made red wine and garlic marinade. 
Take out all the accumulated liquid fats.



Brush the red wine and garlic ready-made marinade. 


  • Place in the oven for another 10 minutes, then remove again the chicken and turn each piece over and brush the marinade to the other side. 
Brush the marinade onto the other side of the chicken.
  • Place back in the oven for another 20-25 minutes. 
  • Serve hot. 

 Total Cooking Time: 45 minutes.


And, here they are:

 


Dinner is ready and served! Glad that hubby loves it and even requested for more. This is great for family/friends dinner and gatherings. Kids will surely enjoy it.  


As in Filipino expression - 'Kilig to the bones!' 
'Kilig' - meaning, it is the highest form of an inexplicable joy that a person gets.




Let me know if you give this a shot! I love to hear from you. 
Send in your comments below. ;)


Thank you so much for dropping by! xoxo.



 Love lots, 
Eiya 

Saturday, August 13, 2016

Marcos should be buried at the LNMB: A Bystander’s Perspective

Marcos should be buried at the LNMB: A Bystander’s Perspective 

I was born a month after President Corazon Aquino issued Proclamation No.3 that revoked many of the provisions of the 1973 Constitution, paving the way to creation and ratification of the 1987 constitution – the same year the world applaud the heroism of the Filipino people by demonstrating the true power of democracy through ‘People Power Revolution’. It has been said, or at least what the school has thought me, that the 1986 people power revolution was the result of long oppression, abuse of power, extrajudicial killings, and human rights violation orchestrated by the Marcos administration through Proclamation 1081 or popularly known as the declaration of Martial Law.

Fortunate enough not born on the year of Martial Law, I was led to believe that it was the year of great turmoil, lawlessness, inconceivable violence, and death of freedom that rightfully brand President Marcos as dictator, corrupt, thief, traitor, greed of those in power, and worst (in every imaginable way) president the country has ever had. This belief has been the public outcry of many over the burial of President Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB). 

But few of those who are born before the year of Martial Law believes that President Marcos should virtuously be buried at the LNMB because he is a war veteran, he has done good deeds to the country that far outweighs the effect of Martial Law, he was a president of the Philippines, and for others he was simply a hero.

I do believe that he is not a hero (a word that has been loosely used for decades), nor do I agree that Martial Law was solely imposed to feed the greed for power. I always wanted to believe on the good side, but who am I to judge? I did not personally experience it. When it comes to Martial Law, I am just a bystander hearing two sides of the story. But this does not give me less of a right to decide whether President Marcos should be buried at the LNMB.

So let me cast my decision grounded on the interment policy and the rule of law. I firmly believe that President Marcos should be buried at the LNMB, simply because he is a Former President of the Republic of the Philippines (period). If we strictly follow the interment policy of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) regulation on the allocation of cemetery plots at the LNMB, the following persons are entitled to be interred at heroes’ cemetery:
1. Medal of Valor awardees
2. Presidents or Commanders-in-Chief
3. Secretaries of National Defense
4. War Veterans
5. Government dignitaries, statesman and national artist
6. Former Presidents and widows of former Presidents

It is undeniably clear that grounds 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 entitled former President Marcos’ remains to be laid down to rest at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. Others might argue that because of the wrong doings of President Marcos, this right has been stripped off in him. But I would counter argue that committing suicide is equally worst than violating the human rights, corruption, greed of power, being a dictator, and yet we openly allow Angelo Reyes to be buried at the LNMB.

The point I am trying to make here, as much as I cry with you for justice of Martial Law, is that we should not be held back by the cries of our past; instead, we must learn to forgive. Forgiveness of ourselves and of others releases us from the past. We can’t have a better tomorrow if we are still thinking about yesterday. So for the sake of our new generation and for the generations to come, let us unite, give forgiveness, and bury the cries of our past together with President Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.

Let us now forget what hurt us in the past, but we should never forget what the past has thought us – we where once applauded for our dignity, heroism and love for our country!

- Law Abiding Citizen: Rexter Retana


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