My mother's BBQ recipe

Yes! nothing beats my mom's bbq recipe. It's her home cooking that brought me to curiosity and passion of cooking. When I was still a child, I just love to eat and eat. And now that I have gained a good amount of knowledge on cooking, I just can't stop cooking. So today, I will share my mother's bbq recipe. I cooked it today and my mother in law told me I just gave her a treat.

If you've been wanting to eat a tender and juicy and well seasoned bbq, well.. as I often say it. You are in the right place.

What you need to have are the following:

For marinating sauce:

• 1/2 lbs of chicken thigh- Di- boned.
• minced garlic
• chopped onion
• Kikko man soy sauce
• Rice vinegar
• Sugar
• black pepper
• Sprite soft drink


Put the chicken and mixed all together. Balance the taste that suits your taste.
Marinate the chicken for 24 hours.


For the BBQ sauce:
• minced garlic
• chopped onion
• Kikko man soy sauce
• tomato catsup
• Rice vinegar
• Sugar
• black pepper
• Sprite soft drink
• dash of flour



Mixed all the ingredients and heat it up. While heating up, add the flour little by little until it blends and transform the mixture into a saucy mixture.



To Barbeque:

• Start up your grill. And wait till it is hot enough to start cooking.

• Get a small amount from the sauce mixture and add some oil.
And while barbecuing apply this mixture onto the meat.

• Let the meat sits for like 15-20 mins and flip the side until the outside color of the meat is alike.
Flip once in a while to cook meat evenly. After you flip the side, keep brushing the sauce mixture onto the meat to retain the flavor.

Refer on Picture 1 for a desired color.

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Keep flipping the meat for at least 10 more minutes until your barbecue is ready to be serve.

Here is your tender, tasty and sumptuous Chicken barbecue!!!

Gift of long life.

Isn't amazing to know that there are some people who has lived a healthy lifestyle? I am here to testify and answered this question.

My mother-in law is a traveling nurse of a home health company. I drove around with her to see her patients today. To my amazement, I met these brothers and sisters of 12 and just 7 of them left, I met the 3. Namely, Stephen Richards, Lily Richards, Joseph Richards. Stephen is turning 100 years old this April, and Lily is turning 94 on the 3rd week of this month and Joseph is 86 years old. Isn't great!!?


I was able to meet Mr. Stephen Richards, a 99 year old man who is STRONG LIKE A HORSE. No hurting fingers, No hurting muscles, just a vague eyesight. Would you believe that!? And I'm not finished yet. He still cut his grass at his backyard, walks 1 mile everyday, go out with his grand-grand children and RIDES A ROLLER COASTER! When he celebrated his 94th birthday, he was swimming in the swimming pool just as no other. As we were talking, I asked him what was his secret why he has lived this long. A brief answer.... Take 1000 mg of Vitamin C and a jigger of gin everyday. He worked in farms all his young days.
Kudos Mr Stephen!!! Cheers for longer life!


(Me and Mr. Stephen Richards)



<--(Ms. Lily and Mr. Joseph)

Let's talk about Ms. Lily Richards. The feisty Ms. Lily. At 94 years old, She is not a typical 94 years old woman who would just stay at home and just watch TV or not doing any locomotive movement. She walks and moves like a rushing leopard. She goes to the fitness gym when its not that cold, has a regular appointment in her hairstylist and she travels. She is once piece of a character. She says what she wants, she is frank, and she says what she thinks you deserve to hear. Ms. Lily is such so fun to be with. In my few minutes I spent with her, I would love to come back.
I know it sounds unreal but I'm talking about these perfectly healthy people!!!. Mom just need to check her blood pressure and weight so to make sure she is getting proper care at her age. She has vague eyesight too though.
When I asked her what was her secret of living this long, she said... CAJUN FOOD HONEY!



Mr. Joseph Richards, 86 years old. A PEARL HARBOR SURVIVOR. He worked as a marine service man and a welder in the US marine ship Oklahoma. He has appeared in several TV show for recognition for his bravery. Ms. lily has told me one of the greatest stories I have ever heard in my entire life. Listen to this...

Mr. Joseph attended a convention in Las Vegas several years ago with all the Pearl Harbor survivors. He was seating in this banquet (long table), eating with all the fellows when he started to hear a man, telling story how he survived on that horrible day. He said, there was this man who help him and his 4 more fellows get out of that sinking ship. A man who welded and create a hole so they can all go out of that sinking ship, as Mr. Joseph listens to the conversation, he could not stop thinking and mesmerizing about a certain happening that is exactly what had happen on that very same day. That he helped out 5 men drowning in the ship but he wasn't able to get all those names of that 5 men as he was moving furiously to help others too. As the man continues to tell the story, that he wished he was able to get the man's name who helped him so he could have thanked him, Mr. Joseph asked the man's attention who was telling the story and said,

"What ship were you in? ..
The man answered.. Oklahoma.

Mr Joseph told the guy with a a humble tone... I WAS THE ONE WHO HELPED YOU TO GET OUT OF THAT SHIP.

The man hugged Mr Joseph very much with tears falling on his eyes.
After so many decades had passed, these men had finally able to grasp the answers to their curiosity. What a story!!!

He was also stationed in the Philippines several times.


I could not imagine myself getting so old like their age. I don't know if our generation can still have such a long life span where all our food already comes in can, preservatives mixed in the food, the pollution and the way we live with all these machines to make our life easier and quicker. And also radiation from cellular towers and so many more factors.

All I can suggest is to live and maintain a clean living. We may not have a life until to our 100's, at least we are so lucky enough to be able to live and rip the hard work that these older people had contributed to make our planet have this innovation and technology that they didn't experience.

Cathy's fried Rice

Got some rice and cooked meat leftovers that you just can't get rid off? Then you reached my place wherein I will teach you how to make a sumptuous friend rice that you'll craved in this cold weather.

Most of the time, when mom-in law cooks, there will be some meat leftovers that would stay in the fridge for couple of days. I feel bad that once its kinda old to eat, we'd have to throw it away. When I was still in the Philippines, my mother would usually cook the rice and some meat, carrots, peas, and corn altogether for us to have a complete breakfast treat, so I am doing the same thing here. But since Greg and Mom don't like peas and corn cooked together with rice, I came up with another way to cook it best. Let's start the cooking!!!

Refer to the picture below the list of the big time taste givers I used to have a wonderful taste for my friend rice.
















This is the complete list of ingredients.

•cooked rice (2-3 cups)
•smoked bacon
•smoked ham
•sausage
•ground beef
•some leftover cooked meat you have in the fridge.
•butter/oil
•garlic
•onion
•black pepper
•Slap ya momma seasoning (or you can use msg as an alternative)
•and the (Nuoc Nam nhi Vietnam flavor) FISH SAUCE!!! this is the key to killer taste!☺

Tip. Put as much as bacon, ham, meat with your rice. Wink*

How to cook:

•Fry first the bacon, and the ham. Once fried, set aside and drain it with a tissue paper.

•From the bacon's oil in the skillet, if its too oily for you, then decrease the amount of oil enough to stir fry remaining ingredients.

•Put on the garlic, onions, and stir fry the ground beef, sausage, meat leftovers. If you think they are cooked already, then put in the rice.

•Tear the bacon and ham to small pieces and add it together with the frying mixture.

•Season it with fish sauce, pepper, Slap ya momma (or msg).
Be sure you put enough fish sauce that will serve as the base seasoning. it'll give your rice a tangy taste. I didn't mention salt so its the fish sauce that will give your rice the taste.

•keep stirring for like 10 minutes in a medium fire.

And Viola!!!! here's your fried rice.