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My daughter and I recently attended Samsung Digital Appliances event called Saturdate with Mom. This is by far one of the better events I have been to, because I was able to bring my youngest daughter with me who, along with other kids, immensely enjoyed watching the chefs husband and wife, the Laudicos, whip up delicious food using the Samsung Smart Oven.

And yes, we want one for our home and I’m sure, the food blog will have more entries 😀

Anyway, one of the dishes prepared was Chef Lau’s Chicken Katsudobo:

My not so clear photo.

Ingredients:

•  600 grams Boneless Chicken Thigh

For the Adobo marinade:

• 1 cup Soy Sauce
• 1/2 cup Coconut Vinegar
• 1 cup Water
• 4 tbsp. Garlic mince
• 4 Bay Leaves
• Pinch black peppercorns

For Katsu Coating:

• 1 cup Flour
• 2 Whole Eggs beaten
• 1 cup Panko Bread Crumbs
• 3 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil or any healthy cooking oil

For the Katsudobo:

• 4 Bowls of Cooked Rice ( please use Microwave safe bowl)
• 4 Eggs (Whole, raw)
• Simmered Left Over Adobo Sauce
• Cooked Katsudobo Chicken (sliced in thick strips)
• chopped spring onions (garnish)

How to Prepare:

1. Marinate chicken overnight or at least 5 hours. Simmer left over adobo marinade for at least 5 minutes. Coat adobo marinated chicken with Katsu coating
2. Lightly Coat chicken with flour then dip in beaten egg and coat with panko breadcrumbs. Brush lightly with Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
3. Put chicken skin side down on the non-stick plate of the Samsung smart oven on top of the low rack. Set Samsung Smart Oven to Slim Fry until you see number 8 setting. Press start and cook chicken 15 minutes one side then turn the other side after 15 minutes for 30 minutes total. Assemble the Katsudobo
4. On the Rice Bowl add the adobo sauce around the bowl then break the whole egg on the rice.
5. Set Samsung Smart Oven to microwave 700 watts then cook for 4-5 minutes or until egg is cooked but still soft.
6. Top with Cooked Chicken Katsudobo then top with chopped spring onions. serve hot!

More  photos here.

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Electrolux will launch Delightful-E Simple to Save contest  that will run from August 11 – September 15, 2014

“Electrolux understands that every peso and second counts,” said Andrea Pionilla, Marketing Manager of Electrolux Philippines. “This is the reason behind Delightful-E Simple. We want to help moms save not just money but also their precious time by making their everyday tasks delightfully simple and easy.”

For every money and time well-spent and save, we feel good, right? Imagine how, with the chores we (love or dread to) do, we are able to save BOTH money and time, wouldn’t you just say “It is indeed Delightful-E Simple to Save“.

With this in mind, Electrolux Philippines Facebook Page has created a Savings Calculator app where you get help in adding up your savings. It also enables you to keep track of your laundry expenses and savings at the same time.

What more, this Savings Calculator is very easy to use. It can help you track down your weekly laundry expenses based on a few things: number of family members, average weekly load and how you wash your clothes.

After tracking your expenses, the Savings Calculator will show you how much you can save in a year when you use an Electrolux washing machine.

And what do you do with the money you saved for a year?

If you are a mom or a dad, you might think of school expenses, a weekend family getaway, utility bills and grocery items with which those savings might go to. If you are single, then perhaps you can now get that new pair of shoes you have been saving up for, a new gadget perhaps or a weeklong vacation?

Wait… didn’t I just say how much you can save when using an Electrolux Washing Machine and you say you don’t have one?

HERE IS THE GOOD NEWS:  Electrolux is giving away not just one but 4, yes FOUR!! washing machines to four very lucky people.

Here are the four easy steps on how you could be one of those four winners (claim it now!)

1. Like the Electrolux Facebook page facebook.com/thelittlewhitebook

2. Calculate your laundry savings using the Savings Calculator

3. Hit the Share button found in the result page

4. In the caption, type in what you plan to buy using your laundry savings and do not forget to include the hashtags #DelightfulE and #SimpleToSave and post it on your Facebook page.

Follow ElectroluxPH on Twitter and Instagram.

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We have been HP printer users for years now. As of late, we use HP Deskjet F2480 at home and before that an HP printer that uses a toner which we used for a good number of years.

With the introduction of new and high tech HP Printers, owning a printer for home-use has never been exciting! This techie mom with a super techie husband and equally techie kids who rely on printers for their projects, homework and portfolio requirements sure can benefit from the new features of our well-liked HP printers.

Here are the reasons why these HP Ink Advantage Printers are useful in more ways than one:

1. HP Ink Advantage printers allow users to download pre-designed templates from content providers in the web
2. HP Ink Advantage Printers deliver high-quality prints with low running costs (now, this is what we money watchers-economode printing setting need, LOL)
3. The print apps provide users the ability to download templates and other printables and install them in the printer for access or via deliveries directly to their printers HP scheduled delivery  at a specific day and time of the week.
4. HP has also underscored the value of productive print apps to enhance children’s learning with the inclusion of education apps from Singapore’s leading education publisher, Singapore Asia Publishers Pte Ltd (SAP), and proprietary brand owner of renowned Primary Math programme in Singapore, onSponge Pte Ltd, (We have SAP books at home on reading, Science and Math, so woohoo!)
5. Designed to enhance the learning experience of young students, the print apps provide busy parents and their children with direct access to educational content that spans across pre-school and primary school levels, and is delivered directly on their HP Deskjet Ink Advantage 5525, 6525 e-All-in-One printers.
6. The HP Deskjet Ink Advantage portfolio allows for affordable printing with Original HP inks, which produces high-quality prints reliably, without the cost and hassles of printer damage, messy leaks, spills and clogged cartridges when using alternatives.

HP Ink Advantage 3515

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HP Ink Advantage 3525

HP Ink Advantage 5525

“Busy parents and young students often spend time finding good education content and accessing this content,” said Albert Mateo, Jr., general manager, Printing and Personal Systems, HP Philippines. “The education print apps on HP Deskjet Ink Advantage series will leverage HP’s leadership in cloud technologies and high-quality printing to deliver new learning experiences for families, who can now directly access education content and low-cost printing without having to worry about costs or wasted prints.”

Here is more information about HP Ink Advantage Printers:

This content service is offered in addition to a broad range of mobile printing solutions that HP pioneered, allowing customers to print from virtually anywhere, anytime and from the widest range of mobile devices.

HP’s mobile solutions span HP ePrint, HP wireless direct and HP Printer Control.

There are more than 46 million web-connected HP printers worldwide that have access to HP’s suite of mobile printing solutions. Notably, there are now more than 8 million downloads of the HP ePrint app globally

Delivering premium content to support the preschool to primary academic journey

Developed for young learners across pre-school and primary school levels, the new HP print apps deliver premium education content from the following providers:

• SAP Education Print App complements in-class learning with content that is selected from SAP’s best-selling primary school assessment books, delivered on a daily or weekly basis. Bite-sized practice materials are delivered to encourage good study habits and positive learning by pacing children’s learning through daily practice. The SAP Education Print App now offers assessment content for English, Math and Science. SAP plans to offer content for Chinese language later this year.

• onSponge Learning Print App provides access to the proprietary +hinkingMath™ resource – a flagship product line of the company. Each week, a series of practice problem sums for students in Primary 3 to Primary 6 levels will be made available through the print app, helping young learners to hone their problem-solving skills with core techniques and develop their reasoning abilities. Users can access the step-by-step solutions of the problem sums on www.onSponge.com, where they can also post questions at the Forum for online help.

The print apps offer anything from family activities, business, marketing, home, travel and other interests. Calendar templates, photo albums, coloring pages and signs, game pages, maps and even recipes are just some of the myriad downloadable printables.

Most of the applications from a wide array of choices are free of charge and may be accessed through the HP ePrintCenter.

ABOUT HP:

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.

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Are you fond of taking selfies? If you are living under a rock for the past year or so and ask what on earth is a selfie, this is what a selfie means:

Selfie means “taking a photo of oneself.” To take your own picture, you either extend your hand to make sure your face is within the frame of the front-facing camera or you stand before a mirror and take a shot of your reflection. – Taken from this article I wrote.

I’m sure all of us have taken selfie photos at one time or another and with one that we publish online or have brochure printing companies print, there are probably ten more we have in our files. How do I know?

I just know, lol.

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Been reading a series of ebooks by J.D. Robb or Nora Roberts called “In Death” with a futuristic setting where droids serve the people and where cars can fly and move on land. Oh yeah, intergalatic space travel is very easy to do.

What got me curious was the home security setting where everything is computerized, including camera settings, car settings and entries and exits on homes. No wonder people in the series are confident to keep their valuables like real precious stones, maybe even gold ounces as well as antiques which are what we currently use these days like guns and weapons.

I’d like something like that at home to keep out the unwanted intruders.

But even the most secured premises are vulnerable to people who are desperate to go inside where they are unwanted.

Ok, going back to the series. I just love Eve Dallas and Roarke.

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I edited this to make it look like the doors or the house itself was photographed a few decades ago.

It sure makes one reminisce about the times when our great grandparents were still alive.

This is a perfect setting for a big polished car to come and and stop to collect a lovely lady all dressed up to go a ball while her dad (who loves the best maduro cigars) look on with worry that his little girl is growing up too fast.

I think I’d like to live in this kind of generation, possibly 30’s to the 50’s where dressing up is a big thing.

I just don’t know if I can survive without my smartphone though, 😀

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