Holiday Foods

When you are in Pinas, you need to eat these:

Puto Bumbong
Puto Bumbong

Bibingka

Bibingka

I discovered there is BibingkaKo in SM Dasmarinas and whenever we are there, me and Martha can eat 4 small pieces. Martha can eat 2 cheese flavored ones easily.

Of course, if you love Starbucks, you need to drink their holiday coffee: Dark Cherry Mocha, Praline and Toffee Nut. Out of the three, I havent tasted Praline yet. Im bummed they phased out Peppermint Chocolate. Nakakainis.

Organic Meat

The advancement of science and technology has its uses but disadvantages as well. Cloning of animals have been controversial as well as injecting animals and plants hormones and antibiotics to make it larger, stay fresh longer and boost its market price. It comes with sacrifices though. Processed foods are never safe nor healthy.

Niman ranch
Natural Meat
has been provided by Niman Ranch for over 30 years. They raise their livestock traditionally, ensuring its meat will have the meatiest and natural taste. They market beef, pork, lamb and poultry and this is sustained by 650 independent farmers and ranchers.

Here are their best-selling products:

They use their own superior beef, pork and lamb to produce these. They offer a full line of uncured items containing no added sodium nitrate or sodium nitrite.

- Applewood Smoked and Uncured Hams
- Dry Cured and Uncured Bacons
- Fully Cooked Dinner Sausages
- All Beef and Beef/Pork Franks
- Dry Salame
- Fully Cooked St. Louis Ribs with BBQ Sauce
- Seasonal Items (Spiral Hams, Corned Beef)

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Smores

 
SmoresSmores is a sure fire way to get my kids all excited to go camping! We haven’t really camped outdoors in real life but we pretend play about camping all the time – complete with
sleeping bags and backpacks! (We just camp out in the living room complete with TV, a fan, and a bathroom and toilet!).

We also have tried camping at the back of our house. Plastic Play Centers are a great way to let the kids pretend that it’s truly a jungle and they are making their way through a maze of trees and vines (like Tarzan and Jane). I remember me and my cousins used to do this a lot.

And of course at the end of our camping at night, just before we go to sleep, we make sure to start a bonfire and cook up some smores.

INGREDIENTS

  • 1 large marshmallow
  • 1 graham cracker
  • 1 (1.5 ounce) bar chocolate candy bar

DIRECTIONS

  1. Heat the marshmallow over an open flame until it begins to brown and melt.
  2. Break the graham cracker in half. Sandwich the chocolate between the cracker and the hot marshmallow. Allow the marshmallow to cool a moment before eating.

 

Isn’t this inviting?
smores

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Korean Cuisine

I love to experiment and try out different cuisines once in a while. I pretty much eat anything so you wont have trouble pleasing me. But let me eat something sweet (Im a dessert lover) and you will please me more :D . Ever since my obsession with Korean soap dramas started, I became curious to Korean food. Korean soaps involve a lot of scenes where talking takes place when they are eating and I got curious with all the food they eat sometimes. I just know Korean kimchi and that’s it! I would love to try out an authentic Korean restaurant here in our area but the problem is, Koreans (most of them anyways) speak very little English. And well, I speak nada Korean that I would need a language translator to understand what they are saying. Too bad there arent any subtitles in real life, eh? Here are some foods Id like to try:

For Appetizers:
Hae-mool Pajun, Gogi Wan-ja Jun, Kimchi Jun, Dal-gyal Mal-e, Kimbap/Gimbap

For Main Dish Recipes:
Ddok Kalbee, Kimchi Chigae, Soondubu, Kalbi Jjim, Dwaeji-dwen-jang, Sam-gyae-tang, Nuhbi-Ani Gu-e, Dwaeji-Bulgogi, Dak bulgogi, Dak Kang-jung

They are quite a handful to pronounce huh?

Starbucks’ New Coffee-Drink Ice Creams

I need to taste this!

Starbucks Coffee ice Cream Caramel Macchiato

Starbucks recently launched their coffee-drink ice creams last Spring and feedback has been going pretty well. The only drawback? Customers are complaining why there aren’t offered in actual Starbucks outlets.

Among friends who sampled the Starbucks: Mocha Frappuccino, Java Chip Frappuccino, and Caramel Macchiato (each is $3.99 per pint), the Caramel Macchiato stood out the best. What can I say?! I LOVE CARAMEL!! 

However  the old flavors including Mud Pie, Coffee Almond Fudge, Low Fat Latte, and Caramel Cappuccino Swirl are no longer available.

Here are some feedback I got online:

The Caramel Macchiato had the boldest and most intense coffee flavor, as well as luscious thick swirls of sweet caramel, which contrasted nicely with the creamy vanilla ice cream.

The Java Chip Frappuccino, which was a touch creamier than the others, had nice bittersweet chocolate chunks. But there were criticisms: "This is not as coffee flavored as I would have imagined," announced one editor. Many agreed that this would be the ideal choice for someone who likes their coffee mild and not too sweet.

The Mocha Frappucino, comprising coffee and chocolate ice cream, was ultimately the most appealing to the eye because of its dark and tan contrasting colors. It also had editors commenting on how they prefer the ice cream version to the actual drink. On editor said, "It tastes like a Mocha Frap, but it’s not as dramatically sweet…it’s perfect."

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Recipe: Buffalo Wings

The boys in the family are suckers for anything spicy. I am sure they will enjoy this one very much.

Buffalo Wings

Ingredients

* 1/4 cup butter
* 1/4 cup louisiana hot sauce
* 1 dash pepper, Ground
* 1 dash garlic powder
* 1/2 cup flour
* 1/4 teaspoon paprika
* 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 10 chicken wings
* bleu cheese salad dressing
* celery
* vegetable oil, for frying

Directions

1. Combine the flour, paprika, cayenne pepper, and salt in a small bowl.

2. If the wings are frozen, be sure to defrost and dry them.

3. Put the wings into a large bowl and sprinkle the flour mixture over them, coating each wing evenly.

4. Put the wings in the refrigerator for 60 to 90 minutes. (This will help the breading to stick to the wings when fried.)

5. Heat oil in a deep fryer to 375 degrees.

6. You want just enough oil to cover the wings entirely — an inch or so deep at least. Combine the butter, hot sauce, ground pepper, and garlic powder in a small saucepan over low heat. Heat until the butter is melted and the ingredients are well blended.

7. Put all the wings into the hot oil and fry them for 10 to 15 minutes or until some parts of the wings begin to turn dark brown.

8. Remove the wings from the oil to a paper towel to drain.

9. But don’t let them sit too long, because you want to serve the wings hot. Quickly put the wings into a large bowl.

10. Add the hot sauce and stir, coating all the wings evenly.

11.  You could also use a large plastic container with a lid for this.

12. Put all the wings inside the container, add the sauce, put on the lid, then shake. Serve with Bleu cheese dressing and celery sticks on the side.

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Food and TV

 

What is one thing that would make my husband glued to TV aside from giving him food every hour so he would not need to get off the couch?

Especially when its NFL Sunday! It is no wonder bars, restaurants, casinos and coffee shops subscribe to Direct TV Business. Because with Directv Business, no matter what their customers’ favorite sport or team, they can watch them play with Direct TV for Business.

Direct TV

Commercial Direct TV are open for subscriptions for business owners, do check it out. It shortens your customer’s perceived wait time, thus enabling you to make more money!

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Chemistry

Growing up, I was already a lover of the sciences. In high school, my most favorite subject was, believe it or not, Chemistry. I may have just been part of the 1% of the total population who loved it. I remember that the Chemistry Department at school even enlisted Chemistry Tutoring as part of the Chemistry Help program they launched to help students cope up with the lessons and pull their grades up.

Tutor Vista is one of the programs which has Online Chemistry Help. They provide Online Chemistry Tutoring for students and their Chemistry Tutors are familiar with the National and State Standards required across grades in the US.

The Online Chemistry Tutor will be involved with their Chemistry program  which includes:

  • Unlimited online chemistry tutoring
  • Practice problems
  • Text-based tutoring
  • homework help