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Pancit Molo Soup

Okay, I never knew the name of this recipe until I saw it on my good ole’ friend – Philippines Foods & Recipes – it looks easy enough to make, I might want to try to make some. I just did my grocery shopping for the week, so I will have to put this on my menu for next week.  It should last about 2-3 days worth of meals or even a snack.  So here is another authentic Filipino foods that can be classified as comfort food.  Give it a try you just might like it! ENJOY!! =)

Here is the little bit information about Pancit Molo Soup:

Pancit Molo Soup is one of the simplest and popular authentic Filipino soups. Pancit molo soup don’t have pancit on it. Confusing, I know. This dish is made with dumplings and meat broth. Similar to siomai soup, except that the dumplings in pancit molo are not steamed but cooked in the broth itself.

Pancit Molo Soup Recipe Ingredients :
* 400 g. of ground lean pork
* 1 onion, finely chopped
* 1 carrot, grated
* 1/8 c. of finely chopped onion leaves
* 1/4 tsp. of finely grated ginger
* 1/2 tsp. of soy sauce* 1 tsp. of salt
* 1/2 tsp. of pepper
* 1 egg, beaten
* 6-8 c. of meat or chicken broth
* 1 tbsp. of cooking oil
* 1 tbsp. of minced garlic
* 1 onion, sliced
* chopped onion leaves for garnishing
* salt and pepper to taste
* 50-60 pcs. of wonton (siomai) wrapper (sizes vary)
Pancit Molo Soup Cooking Instruction:

1). Mix together the first nine ingredients (from ground lean pork up to the beaten egg).
2). Put a teaspoonful of the mixture at the center of each wonton (siomai) wrapper, wet the edges with a little water and gather them to form parcels. Make sure that the edges are well sealed.
3). Heat the cooking oil in a large saucepan or casserole.

4). Sauté the garlic until golden. Add the sliced onion and continue sautéing until soft.

5). Pour in the broth and bring to a boil. Drop the dumplings, one at a time. When the broth starts to boil again, lower the heat, cover and simmer for 12 minutes.
6). Turn off the heat and season with salt and pepper. Transfer to a soup tureen and sprinkle the chopped onion leaves on top.

Serve while its hot.

REMINDER:
* Season the broth after the dumplings are cooked.

* Do not simmer the dumplings for longer than 12 minutes.

Miss Universe ~ 2010 ~ Mexico

Oh well, another year pass and we can hope for 2011.  I was watching the show as almost as everyone around the globe doing the same.  I would have loved to be in Vegas to watch this event, but I think almost the whole state of CA & NV was there to help support Miss Philippines to vie for her the crown of Miss Universe!!

She got high marks  in total, but Mexico was just a tad higher and I was hoping that the question-answering time would be the ultimate points scored!  Ah, but not so, it was disappointing that the question asked by Judge William Baldwin – her answer was not as strong as Miss Mexico… it was rather disappointing but ya know… we got 4th and we made it to the top 5 finalist, but hopeful that next year just might be our year!

Immigration – USCIS + ICE = Cooperation/Coordination

As I was researching for articles to post on my blog, I came across an article that was published on LA WEEKEND ASIAN JOURNAL, dated July 31 – August 3, 2010.  This article talks about the Immigration processes and of “illegal aliens” vs the criminals that are waiting to be processes and eating our tax dollars while they wait.  This article was written from a lawyer – Atty. Michael Gurfinkel

In his article he stated that ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) issued a memo noting that since they have limited resources, they (ICE) needed to prioritize the use of its removal/deportation resources – “to ensure that the remova?ls the agency does conduct promote the agency’s highest enforcement priorities, namely national security, public safety, and border security”.   Which means that since they have the authority to deport all illegal aliens, they would focus on criminal aliens i.e..(terrorist, convicted of crimes with outstanding criminal warrants, etc..) recent illegal entrants and aliens who are subject to final order removal.  ICE can’t put all their time and resources to go after every illegal aliens.  I do understand that for someone who has overstayed and is “out of status” is subject to removal, but come one people, there are alot of criminals and bad guys who should be the first to be processed out.. and also some of them have been in confinement for years and it’s costing us tax payers at least $125/day because the immigration courts are backlogged with “low” priority removal cases.

So what is it going to be .. keep paying $125/day for those people who are staying in jail cells and feed them while we go after those other cases who really is not any threat to our society.  That’s why ICE sent out a memo to prioritized the removals that way we don’t have to spend so much money of putting a roof over their heads and feeding them!  Why is that logic not clear enough?  Actually to put it bluntly why can’t USCIS and ICE work together and both entities to communicate?  Instead of USCIS issuing all these NTA’s to low priority cases who are not any treat or danger to our national security that is filling our courts and creating extra work for ICE?

I hope that they get those criminals or the other bad people who are here either in detention and instead of deporting/removing every alien whose case is momentarily denied.  Thank you for reading and any comments or opinions is greatly appreciated.  =)