Archive for the Food Choices Category
Posted on March 28, 2009 by admin
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.
Posted on March 21, 2009 by admin
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.
Posted on March 13, 2009 by admin
1. Are you giving up food for Lent (if you are practicing abstinence)? Which one do you like and hate the most? We usually try not to eat pork on a Friday. Lately though we are not eating pork because of the ebola-reston scare so pork is out already. Maybe I’ll try to serve more veggies instead. This isn’t abstinence for me though as I love veggies. But this will surely be an abstinence for my boys.
2. Which food do you abstain from and which do you replace it with? Pork usually. We eat fish instead.
3. Which food (fruit, delicacy or cooking) is your hometown proud of? My original hometown of Lumban is known for its barong Tagalog. The town where I reside now is known for its puto binan {rice cake}.
4. I actually am craving for some meringue right now, what are YOU craving ? I am craving for the salad from Sonya’s Garden.
5. I’m going on a Sunday lunch date with friends, if you are my friend, where would you take me that you are so sure that we are going to be eating the best meal? Sonya’s nga!
Posted on March 8, 2009 by admin
1. Are you a fan of veggies? Which one do you like and hate the most?
I love veggies. I am not sure if there is one I hate. Probably those that I haven’t tried yet. Even with pizza, I prefer the all-vegetable toppings. My fave is Yellow Cab’s Gourmet Garden pizza.
2. What’s your usual breakfast?
I have a stock of oatmeal and cereal drink, but I usually have either breakfast from McDonald’s or Jollibee.
3. What food can you not live without?
Vegetables.
4. Are you a water drinker? If not, which drink do you often replace with water?
I am. I drink water a lot especially during meals.
5. Summer is here! Name one tropical food you look forward to eating!
Melon.
