a bowl of fun

Lasang Pinoy, Sundays: hip to be SQUARE.

Posted on March 29, 2009 by adminComments Off

Waffle from Starbucks. With bites on the sides, too.

Food Friday.

Posted on March 29, 2009 by admin1 Comment

I so love Selecta’s Mantecado Macaroons. This was an old flavor they released a few years ago especially for Valentine’s. So when they released this new flavor, Vanilla Macaroon, I immediately grabbed one. Very timely too and a very good excuse to get an ice cream since it was my son’s birthday. It was yummy as always however I would have wanted MORE macaroon pieces.

Four Foods On Friday 71.

Posted on March 29, 2009 by adminNo Comments

1. What’s your favorite cereal? I like the usual cornflakes, sometimes I eat my son’s honey stars and koko krunch.

#2. What do you use to flip food on the stove? Tongs. I use the cheap silver one. DH bought me a Rubbermaid but I find it too big for my hands.

#3. What’s your favorite type of donut? The plain ones.

#4. Share a rice recipe. I only do the usual steamed rice.

Food Choices #12.

Posted on March 28, 2009 by adminNo Comments

1. Which kitchen gadget would you need for preparing meals for the family (except the usual stove, microwave, knives, etc) and why? I badly want the garlic chopper used by Chef Rosebud in Quickfire. I am ma-garlic, especially when cooking pasta, so a chopper would be a very big help. Plus that particular chopper is so small, cleaning up after will be easier compared when using a bigger gadget.

2. What is your easiest and fastest meal in terms of preparation? Care to share how you do it? I think chicken tinola is easy as it has few ingredients. I am so OC when washing vegetables and I spend so much time washing them, so I usually prefer viands with less ingredients.

3. Do you cook everyday? In batches? Please tell me your cooking schedule. I usually cook everyday. The viand is good for 2 meals. So if I cook in the morning, the food is good for lunch and dinner that day. If I cook in the afternoon, the food is good for dinner and lunch the following day. Same goes with our rice. Sometimes when I cook a big batch of adobo or adobo sa gata, I freeze them in batches and I just reheat it. For breakfast, sometimes I cook, usually fried egg, hams, hotdogs, pancit canton, champorado. But more often, Jollibee and McDo come to the rescue.

4. Please share a recipe you have done. I don’t have a recipe of my own. I just get them from books or the internet. Or maybe this Lemon Tuyo Pasta will do.

5. Any advice on which seasonings I should have at all times? I just use the usual salt and pepper. I do have a stock of dried basil but I usually prefer the fresh basil leaves for pasta.

Lasang Pinoy, Sundays: One Fine Dining.

Posted on March 23, 2009 by admin6 Comments

I am not sure if this will pass for fine dining. This was taken in a restaurant in Makati a long time ago {the name I couldn’t recall as of the moment} when a friend came home from abroad. Excuse the food as they don’t look so appetizing. But that’s expected when hungry friends get together, right?

Food Friday.

Posted on March 21, 2009 by admin2 Comments

Donuts. From Gonuts Donuts. My son’s class had a field trip at the store. The kids learned about the process of making a donut and they got to decorate their own donuts, too.

Four Foods On Friday 70.

Posted on March 21, 2009 by admin1 Comment

1. What’s your favorite green food? Vegetables. I love vegetables.

2. Do you eat anything special on St Patrick’s Day? No, because we don’t observe that from where I’m from.

3. Do you drink any Irish beverages – tea, coffee, ale, beer, etc? Not so much. I am more into water and Coke.

4. Share a recipe for corned beef. My all-time favorite corned bees recipe is the omelette. I cook diced potatoes in oil first. Once cooked, I allow the potatoes to cool. Then I mix the potatoes, corned beef and eggs in a bowl. I then fry them in pancake-size omelette.

5 for Wednesday.

Posted on March 21, 2009 by adminNo Comments

1. How many servings of fruit do you have on average most days? I am trying to have at least 2 servings each day. But since I am really fond of fruits, there are days that I forget.

2. Do you like garlic in food? Yes.

3. Does the name of a food ever turn you off to it? Not really.

4. Which foods that you believe are good for you do you stubbornly refuse to eat? I don’t like yoghurt and yakult.

5. Do you walk away from your meal still chewing your last bite (or two)? I tend to do that especially when I am busy.

Food Choices #11.

Posted on March 21, 2009 by adminNo Comments

1. My son is now at home most of the day and by next week it will be his summer vacation already. Lately, he would request all sorts of snacks from me in the afternoon and it’s driving me crazy! He doesn’t want to repeat a snack twice in a week. What snack would you recommend – hassle free, easy to cook, etc? I don’t usually prepare snack for DS. If he gets hungry, he usually gets whatever’s available in the pantry – koko krunch, honey stars, bread sticks, yakult, bread, etc.

2. I’m on a mission to fatten up my kids this summer. Which foods would you recommend that are fattening? Any special tips? Scratch off soda and sweets from the list because I don’t want them to be hyper – I’m going to be stuck with them ALL day. I don’t know. I can’t seem to fatten DS, too. Even if he likes the food, he stops eating once he’s full, unlike other kids who can’t seem to stop whenever’s there’s food around.

3.It’s officially summer with the number of degrees outside. What would you be dying to have right now? Not necessarily food. A trip to the beach, of course.

4. Anything iced! What food will you always have cold? Coke.

5. Halo Halo – describe your favorite halo halo treat! Right now, may favorite is the halo-halo ice cream from Selecta. I especially love the frozen leche flan in it.

Martha’s Kitchen.

Posted on March 21, 2009 by adminNo Comments

Here are a few photos of Martha Stewart’s kitchen at her home. I snagged these from The Martha blog.

You cannot have too many measuring utensils.

And these I envy. I want lots of stainless steel pots and pans.