Nicquee's Nook

  • Home
  • About
  • Free Printables
  • Cook with Me
  • Contact
  • Disclosure Policy

Jolly Empowers Home Cooks By Feeding Their Creativity In The Kitchen

They say the easiest way to someone’s heart is through the stomach. For many homemakers, especially moms, this is very much true the moment they step into the kitchen. One simply gets an unexplainable feeling when you put the time and effort into preparing something special for the people who matter to you the most. The same also goes, of course, if you’re at the receiving end of such a selfless effort.

While moms are real geniuses in the kitchen, however, there are also some downtimes when inspiration can run low. Fortunately, Jolly is here to curb that challenge for our home cooks. As the leading brand of packed fruit and vegetable products, Jolly brings convenience straight into our pantries by giving us easy access to fresh ingredients. The brand — which was born from the vision of empowering homemakers and unlocking their creative potential in the kitchen — has continuously enabled this by providing freshly packed fruits and vegetables straight into our pantries. This convenience, combined with the high quality of its products, has made Jolly a market leader in its industry and a top choice among home cooks.

[Read more…]

Leave a Comment Filed Under: Food, home and living, Products We Love

Yan ang Jolly Love: 5 Recipes that are Sure to be Your Family’s Next Favorites

Do you know what your love language is? For those of you not familiar with it, a love language  refers to the ways that we prefer to give and receive affection. There are five different types of love languages—words of affirmation, receiving gifts, quality time, physical touch, and acts of service. All these are very different from each other, which can also make one think: is there one particular love language that can encompass all these five and roll them into one? 

Well, the answer is yes. Shockingly enough, this type of expression of love is something you might be doing on a regular basis. What is it you might ask? 

It’s cooking, plain and simple. 

For a culture that is so centered and grounded in family and community, Filipinos have always used food as a direct way to show their care for their loved ones. Cooking is so common and mundane that it can sometimes come off as routine, but you can see how love is woven through every step of doing it. When you think of a good recipe to make for your family, that’s a sign of love. When you put the time and effort into making a dish healthy and delicious, that’s a show of affection. When you put great food on the table for the rest of the family to enjoy, it’s a gift. And finally, when your loved ones let you know how much they appreciate all of it, that’s affirmation. 

One brand that perfectly encapsulates this love language is Jolly. As a consistent leader in the packaged vegetables category, the brand has made it easier for homemakers to be more creative with their cooking by making freshly packed ingredients accessible to everyone. Now on its 25th year, Jolly offers a wide range of kitchen pantry favorites from their best-selling canned mushrooms and corn, packaged fruits, to their canned soups and other condiments. 

For Jolly, love can be felt the most in actions. ‘Yan ang Jolly Love’ is when you take the time to cook delicious and healthy dishes for your family. It’s when you take the extra mile to make sure that you never run out of ideas in the kitchen and when you use your creativity to create the most amazing recipes. As a kitchen favorite, Jolly  wants to help every homemaker who wants to express their affection by providing products that they can turn into delicious expressions of love. 

And since we’re already talking about food as the best way to touch someone’s heart, here are some recipes that you can create for your family as a show of your affection. Fair warning: they are so easy to do and so delicious that they are most likely going to be your next meal favorites! 

[Read more…]

Leave a Comment Filed Under: Food, home and living, Kitchen Tips, Products We Love, Recipe Tagged With: cooking

Christmas Feast That You’ll Love

There are two traditional feasts that Filipino families often look forward to during Christmas time: the Christmas Eve Noche Buena and the one that follows on the 25th itself, which is often held as part of a festive family reunion. Either way, expect those in charge of preparing the dishes to pull out all the stops to serve the most delectable food on the table for everyone to enjoy.

And if that happens to be you, chances are high that you already have some recipes in mind to make each of these feasts a gastronomic delight to remember. They might even be all-time family favorites, or even hand-me-downs from your great-great grandparents. Having said that, it certainly wouldn’t hurt to learn a few more recipes just to keep things fresh and put something different on the table for Christmas. Two that are guaranteed to make you look like Master Chef are Meatballs in Black Truffle Sauce and Three-Cheese Truffle Macaroni and Cheese.

The recipes are as follows:

Meatballs in Black Truffle Sauce

Ingredients

2 slices white bread crusts removed, broken into pieces
scant 2/3 cup whole milk
2 1/4 cups finely minced ground beef (or a mixture of meats, such as pork, chicken or turkey)
1/2 cup meat pâté
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Plain all-purpose flour, for dusting
Olive oil for frying
FOR THE BLACK TRUFFLE SAUCE
1 tablespoon + 2 tsp butter
A drizzle of olive oil
1 bunch spring onions scallions, finely chopped
1 carrot finely chopped
1 heaped cup button or oyster mushrooms finely chopped
3 1/2 tablespoon plain all-purpose flour
1/4 cup white wine
2 cups beef chicken or vegetable stock
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon finely chopped rosemary
1/2 cup double heavy cream
1/2 teaspoon Umbria Black Truffle Sauce

Preparation

  1. Place the bread in a bowl and pour over the milk. Set aside to soak.
  2. In a separate bowl, mix together the meat and the pâté. Add the soaked bread and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Mix until smooth and well combined. Form meatballs by rolling walnut-sized pieces of the mixture between your hands. They should be about 1oz each. Dust the meatballs in flour.
  3. Heat some oil in a shallow pan over a medium-high heat and fry the meatballs just until they are golden. Do not overcook at this stage as we are going to finish them in the sauce. Set aside.
  4. To make the sauce, heat the butter and olive oil in a pan over a medium-low heat and add the finely chopped spring onions, carrot and mushrooms. Cook for about 10 minutes, until the onion is transparent. Reduce the temperature to low and add the flour to the pan, stirring with a wooden spoon to make a roux. Cook for about 4 minutes and then add the wine, continuing to stir until you get a paste and the alcohol has evaporated, then add the stock with the salt and rosemary. Keep stirring and cooking until the sauce thickens, then add the cream, stirring so that the mixture doesn’t split or curdle. Add the meatballs to the sauce and cook for a further 5 minutes.
  5. Put Umbria Black Truffle Sauce into the sauce, mix and fold and serve hot.

Three-Cheese Truffle Macaroni and Cheese

Ingredients:


1 tablespoon butter, divided
1 cup mushroom (75 g), sliced
1 pinch salt
1 pinch pepper
2 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk (240 mL)
1 cup shredded parmesan cheese (110 g)
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese (100 g)
2 cups shell pasta (400 g), cooked
TOPPINGS
½ teaspoon Umbria truffle oil
1 tablespoon fresh chives, chopped

Preparation

  1. Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a medium pot over medium heat. Add the mushrooms, salt, and pepper and cook until the mushrooms are softened. Remove from the pot.
  2. Add the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter and the flour to the pot. Whisk until the flour is toasted, approximately 2 minutes.
  3. Add the milk while whisking continuously to avoid lumps. Cook until the sauce is thickened.
  4. Whisk in the Parmesan and cheddar cheeses and season with salt and pepper.
  5. Add the cooked pasta and mushrooms. Mix until the sauce coats the pasta well.
  6. Top with Umbria truffle oil, fold and add chives.

Of course, it’s understandable that you’d stop at nothing to make these year’s Christmas celebrations as grand as possible. After all, last year’s Holidays were mostly muted due to the pandemic. Now, the scourge that is COVID-19 is still here, but the country is showing signs of recovery and the quarantine restrictions are easing as a result.
However, that doesn’t mean you and your family should be letting your guard down. Rather, continue to be vigilant even as you think of ways to gather everyone this Christmastime—ideally, sharing some sumptuous Meatballs in Umbria Black Truffle Sauce and servings of mouthwatering Three-Cheese Umbria White Truffle Macaroni and Cheese.


Merry Christmas!

Leave a Comment Filed Under: Food, Recipe

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 8
  • Next Page »


Hi there! I'm Nicquee and this is my little space in this world wide web. I'm a mom of two and is happily married. I started this blog as literally my online journal where I dump my emotions. Over the years, I realized that there is more to write about. Feel free to browse through and I hope you find a thing or two that is relatable to you. If that happens, give me a shout-out!

Stay Connected

Get Updates Via Email

Recent Posts

  • Jolly Empowers Home Cooks By Feeding Their Creativity In The Kitchen
  • Intellectual property law enforcement, student academic groups, publishers sign statement of cooperation against content piracy
  • Sterling Bank of Asia visits Masungi Georeserve for its Environmental Campaign
  • Yan ang Jolly Love: 5 Recipes that are Sure to be Your Family’s Next Favorites
  • These Wais Moms are now ready to put up their own business — here’s their journey to self-confidence and financial freedom
  • This 24-hour Foundation lets you stay fresh through heat, humidity, and non-stop activity!
  • Cetaphil partners with Watsons for the National Healthy Skin Mission
  • “Your Song of Excellence” is back for a much bigger and better Season 2
  • At 21, fashion designer Ellis Co breaks away from traditional runway shows
  • Transition smartly and level up your face-to-face classes with Rex Education’s Schoology

Categories

Archives

Popular Posts

  • Claiming SSS Sickness Benefit
  • Review: 3W Clinic Intensive UV Sunblock Cream
  • Jolly Empowers Home Cooks By Feeding Their Creativity In The Kitchen
  • Cream Dory in Garlic Butter Sauce
  • Hep Hep Hooray!

Copyright © 2023 · Design goodness from Squeesome!