food meme

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Copy and paste each of the URLs in the Mosaic Maker

And, of course, the questions:
What is your favorite restaurant?
What is your favorite type of cuisine?
What is your favorite comfort food?
What is your favorite childhood food?
What is your favorite dish to prepare for company?
What is your favorite wine?
Who is your favorite chef?
What is your least favorite food?
What is the most adventurous food you’ve eaten?

LP # 3 - a perfect meal is a happy meal

Waging wagi sa akin ganitong almusal. Kapag binigyan mo ako nito isang umaga, mamahalin na kita habambuhay. Ganyan lang naman ako kababaw. Basta ba makain ko lang ang gusto ko kainin at mainom ko ang gusto ko inumin ay masayang masaya na ako. Ito lamang ang katapat ko.

This is a perfect breakfast for me. If you give me this in the morning, I will already love you forever. This is to show how shallow of a person am I. If you just let me eat the things I want to eat and drink the things I want to drink, I will be fine. This is it.

You can find my other entry here.

ww 6 - soup in a bread bowl

I am pretty sure all you here who eats at French Baker has tried this, in one way or the other. This has been my all time favorite everytime we dine at that restaurant. It removes the guilt of eating too much yet leaves you really stuffed. What do you think?

5 for wednesday

1. What food are you craving right now?
>>>I want something sweet right now. I feasted on seafood at the party a few hours ago and I need something to bring down the saltiness of what I just ate...

2. Which fast-food chain serves the best Chicken?
>>>KFC, Bacolod Chicke, Inasal and El Pollo Loco

3. What type of meat do you generally prefer?
>>>I never really liked pork so I would say, I prefer beef over pork.

4. Do you save the packets of condiments that come with take out food for later use?
>>>Of course! Sayang naman noh. The maids pack it in my lunch box if my "baon" is fried.

5. Are you the type that can freely put a lobster in boiling water and not feel any guilt?
>>>yeah ;)

a nice check list

Snagged this from someone's multiply. Someone because I don't consider him a friend but decided to add him as a contact because of his eagerness to add me as his. Long story but I won't dwell on that. Just want to post this very nice checklist. :)

1. Watch the sunset together.
2. Take showers together.
3. Back rubs/massages.
4. Listen to classical music and cuddle in the dark or with blacklight.
5. French Kiss.
6. Hold hands with her inside the back of her shirt.
7. Whisper to each other.
8. Cook for each other.
9. Skinny dip (discreetly).
10. Make out in the rain.
11. Dress each other.
12. Undress each other.
13. Kiss every part of her body.
14. Hold hands.
15. Sleep together. (Actually sleep with each other…not sex)
16. One word…Foreplay.
17. Sit and talk.
18. Buy gifts for each other.
19. Roses.
20. Wear her cologne everytime you're together.
21. Wear your her clothes - only those that fit
22. Find a nice secluded place to lie and watch the stars.
23. Incense/candles/oils/blacklights and music make for great cuddling/sex.
24. Kiss at every chance you get.
25. Don’t wear underwear and let them find out.
26. Kinky is bad…Blindfolds are good.
27. Lightly kiss her collarbone and her jawbone just below the ear, then whisper “I love you”.
28. Bubble baths.
29. Go for a long walk down the beach at midnight.
30. Make love.

31. Write poetry for each other.
32. Kiss and smell your her hair.
33. Hugs are the universal medicine.
34. Say “I love you”, only when you mean it and make sure they know you mean it.
35. Give random gifts of flowers/candy/poetry, etc.
36. Tell your her that she’s the only girl you ever want. Don’t lie.
37. Spend every second possible together.
38. Tell your her that she doesn’t have to do anything she doesn’t want to. And mean it.
39. Look into each other’s eyes.
40. Very lightly push up your her chin, look into her eyes, tell her you love her, and kiss her lightly.
41. Talk to each other using only body language and your eyes.
42. When in public, flirt with each other.
43. Walk behind her and put your hands in her front pockets.
44. Put love notes in her pockets when they aren’t looking.
45. Clothes are no fun.
46. Buy her a ring.
47. Keep something special of her somewhere where you see it everyday.
48. Sing to each other.
49. Read to each other.
50. PDA = Public Displays of Affection.

51. Take advantage of any time alone together.
52. Tell her about how you answered every question in math with her name. (Assuming you’re continuing your education).
53. Draw. (If you can.)
54. Let her sit on your lap.
55. Go hiking and camp out together in the woods or on a mountain.
56. Lips were made for kissing. So were eyes, and fingers, and cheeks, and collarbones, and hands, and ears.
57. Kiss her stomach.
58. Always hold her around her hips/sides.
59. Guys like half-shirts.
60. Take her to dinner and do the dinner for two deal.
61. Spaghetti…(Ever see Lady and the Tramp?)
62. Hold her hand, stare into her eyes, kiss her hand and then put it over your heart.
63. Unless you can feel their heart beating, you aren’t close enough.
64. Dance together.
65. Sit in front of a roaring fire and make out/make love.
66. Tell her you love the way they look right after they’ve fallen asleep, with their head in your lap.
67. Carry her to bed.
68. Waterbeds are fun.
69. You figure it out.
70. Do cute things like write “I love you” in a note so that they have to look in the mirror to read it.

71. Break every one of your ’safe’ relationship rules for your lifemate.
72. Make excuses to call your lifemate repeatedly in one day.
73. Even if you are really busy doing something, go out of your way to call and say “I love you”.
74. Call from your business trip to tell your lifemate you were thinking about them.
75. Remember your dreams and tell your lifemate about them.
76. Drive home from work just to see her, before turning around and going back to a business meeting in the evening.
77. Sit in your car in the driveway, honk, then blow your lifemate a kiss as you leave for work.
78. Tell each other your most sacred secrets/fears.
79. Share your deepest convictions.
80. Be Prince/Princess Charming to your lifemate’s parents.
81. Act out mutual fantasies together. (Not necessarily sexual)
82. Brush your wife’s hair out of her face for her.
83. Stay up all night to think of 101 ways to be sweet to your lifemate.
84. Hang out with your lifemate’s friends, too.
85. Learn to listen.
86. Take your wife to see a romantic movie and remember the parts she liked.
87. Cuddle together under a full moon on a clear night.
88. Learn from each other and don’t make the same mistakes twice.
89. Everyone deserves a second chance.
90. Describe the joy you feel just to be with your lifemate.

91. Make sacrifices for each other.
92. Really love each other.
93. Write a fictional story about how you met/fell in love, etc. and give it to your lifemate.
94. Let there never be a second during any given day that you aren’t thinking about them, and make sure they know it.
95. Hot tubs are great.
96. Learn to say sweet things in foreign languages, including sign language.
97. Dedicate songs to them on the radio.
98. Fall asleep on the phone with each other.
99. Sleep naked together.
100. Stand up for your lifemate when someone says unkind things about them.
101. Never forget the kiss goodnight. And always remember to say, “Sweet dreams.”
102. Groom your spouse. Ask to brush your wife’s hair when she gets out of the shower. Shave your husband’s face.
103. A Short Story - You know the guys that go around in restaurants and bars with the basket of roses selling them? My husband sought him out one evening before coming home from work, bought the entire basket of roses, and left them on my doorstep, then called me and told me to go to the front door! That was so romantic!
104. Be waiting at your mates car when they get off work, out of the beauty salon, get done grocery shopping…be creative!
105. Buy 11 real roses and one fake one…leave a note that says I’ll love you until the last rose dies… -Mark Ansley
106. Kiss your mate on their forehead.
107. While your lifemate is out. Put a bag of Hershey hugs on the door knob. Put rose peddles mixed with Hershey kisses on the floor leading to the bathroom with lights off. Candles for your light lined up all the way to the bathroom also. Two dozen roses lined all over the bathtub. With a card in plain view. And on the card write ” Now that I have hugged u before u walked in the door, kissed the ground that you walk on, and showered you with roses. Will you be mine 4-ever.” - Joseph Wade Stepp
108. I am in the military so for anyone that has a long distant relationship with their spouse. They can create a jewelry box, you can buy all you need at an inexpensive gift shop store, and decorate it with the things she likes to send you in her letter or emails, for example hearts and stars and stick them all over the box. Then inside the box you can write a thought for every day of what you remember as your great memories with her in your relationship, or things you like about her, reasons why you fell in love with her or even things you want to plan with her for the future. Then tell her when she receives this magic box that when ever she feels lonely like me when I am not with her or thinks of what I am thinking about throughout the day, she can open the box and be reminded that she is all I am thinking about.
109. Take a latex balloon (not inflated) and fill it with some confetti, a love note to your lifemate and a photo of yourself. Take the balloon to a balloon shop and have them fill it with helium while the items are still in the balloon. Attach a pin and a note that says; “Please pop” to the balloon string. Leave the balloon by your lifemate’s bedside before he/she wakes up in the morning. My husband really enjoyed this romantic action.
110. Post a Lovenote to her, even if she is with you, using her office/house address or care off her friend’s postal address.

my comfort food

This is my idea of a happy meal. Feed me with this everyday and I will never beg off, promise. The red drink is the newest they offer at McDonalds here in the Philippines. Called the Wild Watermelon, I just had to let them take off the ice cream on top as I am not really a fan of soda floats. I don't like the taste of ice cream on my soda.

My comfort food.

10 health benefits of apple

We're told that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but what exactly are the health benefits of apples? Here are ten reasons to heed the advice of that old proverb.

Bone Protection
French researchers found that a flavanoid called phloridzin that is found only in apples may protect post-menopausal women from osteoporosis and may also increase bone density. Boron, another ingredient in apples, also strengthens bones.

Asthma Help
One recent study shows that children with asthma who drank apple juice on a daily basis suffered from less wheezing than children who drank apple juice only once per month. Another study showed that children born to women who eat a lot of apples during pregnancy have lower rates of asthma than children whose mothers ate few apples.

Alzheimer's Prevention
A study on mice at Cornell University found that the quercetin in apples may protect brain cells from the kind of free radical damage that may lead to Alzheimer's disease.

Lower Cholesterol
The pectin in apples lowers LDL ("bad") cholesterol. People who eat two apples per day may lower their cholesterol by as much as 16 percent.

Lung Cancer Prevention
According to a study of 10,000 people, those who ate the most apples had a 50 percent lower risk of developing lung cancer. Researchers believe this is due to the high levels of the flavonoids quercetin and naringin in apples.

Breast Cancer Prevention
A Cornell University study found that rats who ate one apple per day reduced their risk of breast cancer by 17 percent. Rats fed three apples per day reduced their risk by 39 percent and those fed six apples per day reduced their risk by 44 percent.

Colon Cancer Prevention
One study found that rats fed an extract from apple skins had a 43 percent lower risk of colon cancer. Other research shows that the pectin in apples reduces the risk of colon cancer and helps maintain a healthy digestive tract.

Liver Cancer Prevention
Research found that rats fed an extract from apple skins had a 57 percent lower risk of liver cancer.

Diabetes Management
The pectin in apples supplies galacturonic acid to the body which lowers the body's need for insulin and may help in the management of diabetes.

Weight Loss
A Brazilian study found that women who ate three apples or pears per day lost more weight while dieting than women who did not eat fruit while dieting.

source.

give us this day.

Nike - Manny Pacquiao vs Oscar dela Hoya Print/Billboard Collaterals

On the 6th of December, we will fight the good fight once again.

Go PacMan! Go Pinoy!

too much for my taste

1. What’s too spicy for your tastes? None. I grew up believing that chili can be eaten with rice, and rice alone. A Bicolana by heart.

2. What’s too sweet for your tastes? Leche flan. Although I love it's creaminess, I feel its too sweet for me.

3. What’s too salty for your tastes? I love salty food. I don't remember any food that's salty :)

4. What’s too bitter for your tastes? Medicines in capsules are bitter for my taste.

5. What’s too sour for your tastes? Tamarind but I love them!

Snagged from Yen.

Saturday 6 - all about coffee

1. How often do you visit a coffee shop? If you do, do you drink coffee there, or just pick it up to go?
>>>Everyday? Heheheh. I am one coffee addict and coffee is my jumpstarter. It depends really, if the day started to be messed up already, I stay in the coffee shop for a while but if I really need to go back to the office, I just grab a cup and leave.

2. What is the latest time of day you can drink regular coffee (or tea) without messing up your sleep?
>>>Coffee for me has no boundaries :)

3. What is the highest number of cups of coffee (or tea) you’ve had in a single day?
>>>4-5. Believe it or not.

4. Take the quiz: What flavor of latte are you?

You Are a Hazelnut Latte

You often having the craving for something exotic. You get bored easily. You are a true adventurer. Nothing makes you happier than traveling. You're a very cosmopolitan and worldly person. You have sophisticated tastes. You have a keen attention to detail. Little things matter to you - you are a bit of a perfectionist.

What Flavor Latte Are You?

5. Consider the highest price you’ve ever paid for a cup of coffee and the highest price you’ve paid for a gallon of gas: which of the two items was more expensive?

>>>THE COFFEE :).

6. What is your favorite holiday-flavored coffee?

>>>Toffee Nut Latte, Praline Mocha and Dark Cherry Mocha only from Starbucks.

lasang pinoy, sundays week # 2

I don't always see pasta which is colored green so when I chanced upon this dish at French Baker, I immediately ordered one. The name slips my mind at the moment but the flavorful taste is something I won't forget. I love this nameless pasta to bits (like the bacon bits!)

my brother the chef

My brother came by for a quick stop last weekend and while here, I grabbed the opportunity of letting him cook the 2 food Bicolanas are knows for --- Laing (or Natong) and Bicol Express. I really envy his talent for cooking. He can whip up both in 30 minutes tops! While he cooked, I was telling him stories about our friends, cousins... in short, I was being my chika self. He would ask me to watch him so that next time, I can make my own meal but the better (and lazier) part of me opted to just lie down in the couch and blabber away... LOL.

Don't get me wrong. I also know how to cook. It actually runs in my family. It's just that among all of us, I am the worst in the kitchen!

Check out the food prepared by my brother R. Maybe in time, I can start cooking my own version of Laing and Bicol Express. Who knows?

R's famous laing (a hit to my in laws!)

R's manila version of BicolExpress (manila version because the alamang here are way different from the ones we have back home)

R's concoctions Ü

Thanks so much, Bro. You really really rock! Now, where's the water? ;)

are you sweet or salty?

You Are a Salty Person

When it comes to snacks, you're more likely to grab a bag of chips over a bag of cookies. There's a good chance you're male (men prefer salty snacks)... Or at least, you feel very comfortable in male dominated environments. Your taste tends to be complex, sophisticated, and adult. You tend to crave your favorite restaurant meal... or mom's cooking.

Are You Sweet or Salty?

what your fridge say about you

What Your Fridge Says About You

You like to be surrounded by things you love. You aren't exactly greedy, but you can be materialistic at times. You are a very thrifty person. You don't like to waste money... or food. You don't tend to be a very adventurous person, but you do surprise everyone now and then. You have a bit of a wild side. You are responsible, together, and mature. You act like an adult, even when you don't feel like it. You are likely married, possibly with kids.

What Do the Contents of Your Refrigerator Say About You?

pretty purse

This little purse is made from suede and is embroidered and beaded by myself with a table of lotions and potions.

It is lined in silk.

The products are handmade so to those who want to order, please allow up to 3-4 weeks for delivery. This is from Etsy.

How pretty it is.

escape to africa

As planned, we all trooped to the mall tonight to watch Madagascar. It was a promise we made to the little girl after watching High School Musical 3 last week. It was of course, a ver entertaining flick and we guess, we enjoyed it more than she did.

Read more of the story here.

food for thought friday

Breakfast
What are you looking most forward to in the next week?
>>>Grocery day and some cash for Lizzie from my dad heeee!!

Lunch
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
>>>Just continue to have faith in Him.

Dinner
If you could choose to get rid of one animal on earth, what would it be?
>>>Rats. I am seriously scared of them!! And monkeys too...

Midnight Snack
If your life were a made for TV program, would it be a reality show, documentary, sit-com, cartoon, drama series, or a talk show?
>>>I want it to be a documentary so schools can require their students to watch it hahahaha!

Recipe for this Week
(instead of your recipe for life - what is it for just this week?)
>>>"I have a primary responsibility to myself: to make myself into the best person I can possibly be. Then, and only then, will I have something worthwhile to share."(from Living with Sobriety)

5 for Wednesday

1. Do you like to share your recipes? If yes, share one.
>>>I keep my recipes in notebooks. I like them handwritten. But I have a few recipes posted in this blog. Check here.

2. If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?
>>>crispy hito with buro.

3. Do you like a porridge for breakfast?
>>>I don't eat breakfast.If I ever do, expect it to be really weird.

4. What’s your favorite restaurant? What kind is it?
>>>I can eat at House of Minis at least once a week, Dampa is my favorite too. And Sugi.

5. Do you eat from the container?
>>>Nope. My mom always tells me that the food will never go away so I have to be patient and put it first on a plate.

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ww 5 - sweets on sticks

manic monday # 1

What was the first thing you thought when you looked at yourself in the mirror today?

>> When will this pimple ever go?

Do you have a recurring nightmare? If so, explain.

>> Thankfully I have none. But lately, I have been dreaming about my staff at work. They have not been performing well and that makes me really sad and mad. I bring the sadness and madness even to my sleep. Loser.

heavenly soaps

This one wants me to rush to The Block at SM North. I chanced upon these photos at chuvaness' blogsite and spent more than 2 hours checking if they have their own website. My daughter will love these creation. Will probably give this away as Christmas gifts too. Woohoo!!

what does your favorite candy say about you?

What Your Love of Snickers Says About You

You are a very popular person. People can always find something about you to like. You are friendly and approachable. It's easy to feel comfortable around you. You are lively, playful, and sweet. But you are also substantial too. No matter what the situation is, you are good company... and the ideal best friend.

What Does Your Favorite Candy Say About You?

Food Friday

The collection of french wines at seven corners.

Change has come

"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
"It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different; that their voice could be that difference.

"It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled - Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America."

Change has come to America. I am elated. Thank you Lord.

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5 for wednesday

1. Does drinking too much coffee make you nauseous?
>>No way! I get my daily boost in coffee so how will that make me nauseous? :) I actually get nauseous without my coffee fix.

2. When eating a meal, do you eat the yummiest part first, or save it for last?
>>I eat the yummiest part first. I am very impatient when it comes to my food.

3. Tell me what kinds of foods just don’t taste good when reheated.
>>Soup!

4. Are there any strange food or drink combination that you like?
>>None that I can think of at the moment. My bestrfriend Janet and I love our McDo Longanisa swimming in vinegar though =)

5. What would you say is your idea of fine dining?
>>Anything that requires me to dress up to the nines and has lots of cutlery and wine is fine dining for me.

Join the fun here.

ww 5 - steak galore

A steak is best eaten with....

..a scoopfull of creamy mashed potatoes.

Yum!

Lasang Pinoy, Sundays Week # 1

This is my first time to join LaPis Sundays and I am giddy with excitement (as usual). I hope you'll like my entry for this week ---

This is the spices that Greenwhich offers to their customers. The orange liquid my husband thought, was vinegar. We just realized after a few seconds that it's not because the FF chain doesn't serve food that needs vinegar heee! Both are so-so in terms of spiciness :) Bicolana ata to! Hehehe!

These on the other hand are real bellpeppers that were handpicked. So, can you imagine the freshiest, spiciest spices available at 7 corners?