Tsokolate-e is one of the best beverages to have during the months when the cool Northern winds are working its chill to our bones.
These found its way on our breakfast menu one cool morning after Christmas.
Have you tried this with suman and ripe mangoes?
If you haven’t, well, do try it as soon as possible 🙂
If you have, well, what do you think?
The suman (PhP 12/5 pieces) and mangoes (Php60.00/kilo) were bought from the nearby wet market while the tablea was given by MIL and bought in Bohol. Get this in a resto and you will pay a lot more than the kilo of mango for a few slices of the suman and mango cubes 🙂
Tags: food, food photos, Lasang Pinoy Sundays, ripe mangoes, suman, tablea, tsokolate-e
Ever wonder how restaurants and public places treat their floors especally when its wet?
They use anti-slip treatment on the floor so that those who walk on it will not slip and cause accidents.
Here in the Philippines, GlobalSafe Philippines provides these services. They not only will treat the floors to make these anti-slip, the company also sells multi-purpose cleaner that will do wonders on your floors, especially in the kitchen where the utmost care is given to sanitation.
Tags: anti-slip treatment, floor safety, GlobalSafe Philippines, safety
For the FMB Lunch Meme, we had lechon kawali as viand for our Monday packed lunch. The lechon meat was from the post-Media Noche lunch we had last Saturday.
I am not used to cooking lechon kawali so I just had to rely on my instinct and taste buds as to what I will put.
Here was how I did it:
- In very little oil, I sauteed lots of garlic and onions.
- Then I put lechon meat in the pan.
- I then put on some (strawberry cider) vinegar, a little (muscovado) sugar, a little soy sauce and a little bit of (less sodium) oyster sauce.
- A dash of ground pepper (cracked peppercorns are not used since there are children who will eat the dish), half a cup of commercially bottled lechon sauce and a bay leaf completed the recipe.
I cooked in slow heat for several minutes.
No, sometimes I don’t follow certain measurements when I cook. Photo here.
What else have I forgotten?
Tags: Filpino food, FMB Lunch Meme, lechon, lechon kawali, left-over food, recipe
Almost everyone I know loves coffee.
Why, even my 7 year old son would declare that “coffee is his favorite smell”. Really.
I love coffee too though I can survive the day without drinking a cup. My hubby makes a wonderful cup which I love to drink.
We rarely use coffee makers since we use instant coffee drink. In fact our coffee maker has been unused since we got it five or so years ago.
Coffee shops have grown exponentially for the past year.
These are sprouting like mushrooms, they are almost everywhere! Proof that this country loves to drink this beverage or just want to hang out with friends holding on and drinking a cup of coffee for two hours. Ugh.
UPDATE (Feb07,2013)
Since this blog post, we started on drinking brewed coffee and has not gone back to drinking instant coffee.
Tags: coffee, drinks, food, food and dining
I have read about the wonders of vinegar as a cleaning agent. In fact, a good friend even blogged about it in our group blog.
Of course, this being an environmental friendly cleaning agent, I had to give it a try.
A few weeks ago, I tried it for the first time. I used the vinegar in cleaning the bathrooms and kitchen. What I did was spray on the tiles and leave the vinegar for a while. Then I brushed using a tile grout brush. It worked! Even the bathroom faucets got shiny after the cleaning was done.
I smelled like vinegar after the cleaning was done but I didn’t mind at all because I can wash up and have the smell removed.
What made me appreciate using vinegar were the benefits: environment friendly, affordable and not chemical-based.
Tags: cleaning up, home, housework, vinegar
This is one of the absolute favorite snacks my children love, Kraft Jet Puffed Mini Marshmallows.
At times they use these jet puffed mini-marshmallows in their hot chocolate drinks, which are just perfect especially when the mornings are chilly.
More often they just get a few scoops and put these in a small bowl for their snacks.
Now that we are exploring our options and starting to bake our own goodies, I think, these Kraft jet puffed mini-marshmallows are great as toppings to brownies. There are so many possibilities to have these in the baked goodies.
One time we even topped our pancakes with these yummy mini marshmallows.
Continue Reading »
Tags: baking, Christmas, cooking, Kraft, Kraft Jet-Puffed Mini-Marshmallows, marshmallows, pancakes, products
