Treasure Jar

Whenever I see food photos, I feel like grabbing these yummy food and have a bite. Or two.

I am constantly telling myself about the need to eat healthier, well, i do but knowing about the many food saboteurs around me  doesn’t really help.

I remember someone who has been taking appetite suppressant as a way to not give in to the temptation of taking too much food.

Personally, I believe that self-discipline is one of the keys to keeping the weight off and with  everything else, change start with the self.

Tags: dining, eating, food, weight

Saucy.

What comes to mind first?

For me, this:

Sweet and sour pork. Yes, a Chinese recipe but it has come to be a Filipino dish that we love.

I love this but honestly, I haven’t tried cooking that. Maybe because we haven’t had pork for a long time (except pork steak cuts for baon). I tried sweet and sour sauce with fried tilapia though.

That by the way was an order from Chowking 😉 Tastes good but a tad too sweet. I could do with more lean meat than fat and more vegetables in the dish.

Tags: dining, family, food, Lasang Pinoy Sundays, pork, sauces, vegetables

Every Saturday, participants post photos based on a theme. The theme for this Saturday is BREAKFAST.

See a Filipino breakfast here.

Young and old alike, pancakes are breakfast favorites. From those plain pancakes to those fancy pancakes with add-on like chocolate chips or marshmallows on top, these are on the top of the list of must-haves for breakfast or even any time of the day.

Pancakes as my children’s heavy snacks served one cool afternoon 🙂

photohunt

Tags: dining, family, food, kitchen forays, pancakes, Photo Hunter

Lasang Pinoy Sundays theme for this week is all about the “walang kamatayang” SILOG.

The more popular terms are tapsilog, longsilog and tocilog.

But now there are different varieties like hotdogsilog, Ces’ entry pusitlog, danggitsilog, spamsilog, cornedbeefsilog, friedchickensilog, hamsilog and anything and everything that catches the fancy of the one preparing the food or the one who will eat the preparation.

Imagination has no limitation when it comes to the silog combination.

Below is our all-time favorite Rodic’s tapsilog, which I also featured several times in my blogs with the tapa already flaked for easier chewing 🙂

Rodic’s tapsilog on our picnic mat.

When my hubby had our photo taken, our son didn’t look at the camera because he was busy eating his tapsilog. When asked why, he said he missed eating the combo 😉

Tags: dining, family, Filipino food, food, Lasang Pinoy Sundays, Philippines, Rodic's tapsilog, silog, tapsilog

Grilled Stuffed Squid

I haven’t tried doing this at home. I have tried grilling squid, yes, but not stuffed.

This seemed difficult to do, with the cleaning of the squid and thinking about the stuff to out inside. Of course, there is the trusted Google that will spit out probably hundreds of ways that this can be done, and yeah, there 46,700 posts about “grilled stuffed squid”.

My student GG loves havng this grilled stuffed squid. To think that he is a picky eater mean that this food is really special to him.This may not look too appetizing to some but to me, this is tops.

Naku sa totoo lang, masarap ito kainin ng naka-kamay at me kasamang hilaw na mangga at bagoong. Wagi!

Tags: dining, food, grilled, Lasang Pinoy Sundays, Philippines, seafood, squid, stuffed

Last April when we went to do restaurant-hopping at Serendra for Spot.Ph, I have forgotten to write a post about it, one of the more memorable experiences for me was sampling the Dark Chocolate Sans Rival from Mamou, the Home Kitchen of Malou Fores.

Coupled with the fact that she was there to personally supervise the bloggers visiting her place, it was an experience that one would really feel at home and welcomed.

Anyway, for two-tone (even if its technically three-tone), I present Mamou’s Dark Chocolate Sans Rival.The topmost part is the dark chocolate and below it, the things that make a sans rival, well, sans rival.

The photo may be a bit blurry because I was already a bit tired here (photo below is #1103 whereas #0926 is the first photo) because we have walked from the other restaurants and sampled other food as well.

Dark Chocolate Sans Rival, so delicious, its like a melt-in-your-mouth experience which will not make you desperate for a glass of water because its not too sweet. Instead of water, one would probably get another bite 😉

There were different food preparations they have prepared for us. I must say these were good too. In fact, Market Manila named it best restaurant meal in Manila.

Tags: chocolate, dessert, dining, Filipino food, food, Lasang Pinoy Sundays, sans rival, Serendra