Filipino Chicken Potato Salad

Now, I’m not sure if we ever made this, but the ingredients sounded familiar…we might have made it to one of the many pot luck family gatherings when I was younger! Oh, how I miss those days!  We still do that to this day, but am so far away from them that…I have made a goal to make to one of these holidays!  I hope you enjoy all the recipes so far and I thought it fitting to post them at this holiday season!  Hope all your family are well and have a great holiday!  I should really start to put up some Christmas decors, so that means that I am going to the storage and get them out, I really don’t have much, to put up…our roomies are going to get a live xmas tree and I can put up some of my decorations.  😀 WOW, where the whole year go?  The description of this dish = is just what it says….Thank you Filipino Recipes! 🙂

Filipino Chicken Potato Salad Recipe

Estimated cooking & preparation time: 1 hour

• 1 kilo potatoes

• 1 big chicken breast

• 3 pieces medium sized carrots

• 500 ml mayonnaise

• 1 can (836 g) pineapple tidbits or chunks

• 1/2 cup sweet pickle relish

• 1 cup cheddar cheese, diced (optional)

• 3 tablespoons of chopped spring onions (optional)

• Iodized salt to taste (pepper, optional)

• In a big pot, boil potatoes and carrots (covered with water) for about 15 to 20 minutes or until cracks on the potato skin appears. (tip: pierce a potato with a toothpick. If you can pierce it with little resistance and the toothpick comes out clean, the potatoes & carrots are cooked).

• Drain potatoes and carrots, let cool.

• Once cooled, the skin can be easily be pealed by hand.

• Dice the potatoes and carrots (about 1×1 cm)

• Boil the chicken breast in water with some salt. Let cool, then shred the chicken meat in 1 inch lengths

• Drain pineapple chunks or tidbits.

• Combine all ingredients (potatoes, chicken meat, pineapple, carrots, pickle relish, mayonnaise…) in a big bowl and salt to taste. You may add pepper if you wish.

• Refrigerate before serving.

• You may add the optional ingredients (diced cheese, chopped onions, spring onions) or a handful of raisins for added flavour.

Pearl Harbor ~Dec 7th ~ 68th Anniversary

I would like to THANK ALL THE WWII VETERANS who sacrificed their lives for our lives today! There’s not very many left of the WWII vets alive, but we will always remember them in our hearts…. 🙂 This day was the day that America was in war with Japan when they did the most horrible thing bombing Pearl Harbor….this is the quote that I remember from FDR ~ Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – a date which will live on in infamy – the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941

Thank to WIKIPEDIA for the information below and the quotation from The Quotation Page

A series of historical events leading to the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred that contributed to the actual attack. War between Japan and the United States had been a possibility that each nation’s military forces planned for since the 1920s, though real tension did not begin until the 1931 invasion of Manchuria by Japan. Over the next decade, Japan expanded slowly into China, leading to all out war between the two in 1937. In 1940 Japan invaded French Indochina in an effort to embargo all imports into China, including war supplies purchased from the U.S. This move prompted the United States to embargo all oil exports, leading the Imperial Japanese Navy to estimate that it had less than two years of bunker oil remaining and to support the existing plans to seize oil resources in the Dutch East Indies. Planning had been underway for some time on an attack on the “Southern Resource Area” to add it to the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere that Japan envisioned in the Pacific.

The Philippine islands, at that time an American territory, were also a Japanese target. The Japanese military concluded that an invasion of the Philippines would provoke an American military response. Rather than seize and fortify the islands, and wait for the inevitable US counterattack, Japan’s military leaders instead decided on the pre-emptive Pearl Harbor attack, which would negate the American forces needed for the liberation and reconquest of the islands.

Planning for an attack on Pearl Harbor had begun in very early 1941, by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. He finally won assent from the Naval High Command by, among other things, threatening to resign. The attack was approved in the summer at an Imperial Conference and again at a second Conference in the fall. Over the next year, pilots were trained, and ships prepared for its execution. Authority for the attack was granted at the second Imperial Conference if a diplomatic result satisfactory to Japan was not reached. The order to attack was issued at the beginning of December.

The attack on Pearl Harbor (or Hawaii Operation, Operation Z, as it was called by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters)^[6] was an unannounced military strike conducted by the Japanese navy against the United States‘ naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941 (Hawaiian time, December 8 by Japan Standard Time), later resulting in the United States becoming militarily involved in World War II. It was intended as a preventive action to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from influencing the war the Empire of Japan was planning to wage in Southeast Asia against Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States. The attack consisted of two aerial attack waves totaling 353^[7] aircraft, launched from six Japanese aircraft carriers.

Pancit Bihon

This is one of my many favorites filipino food!  I am going to try to make this for our Christmas get together here in Summerville.  I didn’t know what kind of dish to bring and saw this and right then, I knew what I was going to make! This is really easy and tasty dish to make and you can add chicken, pork or shrimp – depends on what you feel like. Of course, chicken is cheaper to do, but we will see what I do :).  The description for this dish = Pansit Bihon – a thin white rice noodle dish with chicken, scallions, carrots, soy sauce…

Thanks again for Filipino Recipes 😀

Pancit Bihon Recipe

Estimated cooking & preparation time: 45 minutes

• 1 8 oz. pack pancit bihon noodles

• 1 cooked chicken breast, shredded

• 2 cups of chicken broth or 2 chicken bouillon cubes dissolved in 2 cups of water

• 1/4 cabbage, sliced into strips

• 1 onion, pealed and sliced

• 3 cloves of garlic, crushed and minced

• 1/3 cup scallions, cut into pieces

• 1 carrot, sliced into strips

• 2 tablespoons of cooking oil

• 3/4 cup diced celery

• 3 tablespoons soy sauce

• Salt and pepper to taste

• 5 pieces of calamansi or 1 lemon, sliced

• Soak the pancit bihon noodles to soften for 10 minutes

• Grease a large pan or wok with oil. Sauté garlic and onions.

• Add the chicken broth, the shredded chicken breast and all the vegetables until cooked.

• Mix in the pancit bihon noodles and add the soy sauce, cook for about 5 minutes or until the noodles are soft.

• Salt and pepper to taste.

• Serve hot with sliced calamansi on the side.

• Calamansi or lemon is to be squeezed into the pancit bihon before eating.