Blog?

What the? I almost forgot I have some space in here. LOL A lot of things happened in my life lately and almost everyone knows I'm having a baby in September! YEY, that this is going to be fun but BOOHOO because I am actually having a hard time having this lil kid inside my womb. I resigned from work since my obstetrician let me to for I am suffering from threatened abortion. OK do not panic! Everything's fine now. I actually wanna go back to work, prolly working from home but I guess it's not yet time. I still feel dizzy at times especially when I use my lappy. Hopefully I could continue this blog til the end of my story, coz yea, I got a lot of stuffs to tell. Everything and anything happened to me since the day I knew I was pregnant. :) So there's gonna be no outfit shot starting now. haha. it's just that, I'm too shy to show off how I look now. I tell ya what? Even a lot of people tell me I'm so blooming and looking awesome (NAKS! HAHAHAH) I still opt to stay away from the camera LOL. Pregnant women are prolly this insecure because of all the weird stuffs we are encountering. I mean there's a lot! Like the uneven skin, the what-the-fuck-hair, the big belly obviously, and a lot more!! haha.

I have another blog entitled You & Me + Baby... I'm thinking I should probably use that one instead, for I'll be continuing all my rants about another chapter of my life. Friends, I'll see you there! :) Hopefully, if my mood permits me, I could post a picture of myself having this heavy belly :)

CIAO!

Time Machine

When I was a lil kid, the only problem I had was, I don't have money to buy lollipops. When I was in school, the only problem I got was my 'rents don't allow me for over nights and cheering competition practices in 2D. When I was in college, the only problem I had was almost failing grades. When I was working, the only problem I had was the power tripping of some superiors. I was that worried then. I didn't know it would be harder and it would get really worst when you reach the adulthood. I wish I could turn back time. If I could, I'd choose to be silent. I'd rather choose not to be me.

Chicken Curry

If you'll notice, I've been cooking mostly chicken recipes. Ironic about it, I have some sort of allergies in chicken. LOL well, allergies attack if I'll have chicken UBERLOAD! hehe :)

Chicken Curry

Ingredients:
1. 2-3 tbsp. oil
2. 3 potatoes, peeled, quartered and fried
3. 1 lb. chicken, cut into serving pieces
4. 3 cloves garlic, minced
5. 1 large onion, quartered
6. 1 tbsp. patis (fish sauce)
7. 3 tbsp. curry powder
8. salt and pepper
9. 1 cup water
10. 1 red bell pepper, cut into big squares
11. 1 green bell pepper, cut into big squares
12. 3 celery stalks, cut into 1-1/2” long
13. 1 cup coconut milk or evaporated milk

Cooking Procedures :

1. Pan fry potatoes. Set aside.
2. In the same pan, fry chicken pieces and brown a little.
3. Add garlic and onion. Sauté for a few minutes until soft.
4. Pour in patis and season with curry powder, salt and pepper. Stir for 2 minutes.
5. Add water. Cover and bring to a boil. Lower the heat; add celery, bell peppers and fried potatoes. Simmer for 3 minutes or until half done.
6. Add milk and stir occasionally. Cook for another 7 minutes (or lesser when using evaporated milk because the liquids will curled).
7. Remove from heat. Serve hot.

Sweet and Sour Dalagang Bukid

This is our main course last Christmas Eve. Everybody loves it! AHEM! I'm a proud chef wannabe! :)

Sweet and Sour Dalagang Bukid

Ingredients:
1. garlic
2. onion
3. ginger
4. red bell pepper
5. green bell pepper
6. 1 cup vinegar
7. 3/4 cup of water
8. 1 cup brown sugar
9. 2 Tbsp soy sauce
10. 2 tsp. salt
11. 1/4 tsp paminta
12. 1 1/2 tbsp cornstarch
13. pineapple

Instructions:
1. Saute garlic, onion, ginger, red and green bell pepper
2. add vinegar, water, brown suagr, soy sauce, salt, pepper
3. stir the mixture
4. add cornstarch
5. boil for 15 mins
6. add pineapple

Chicken Adobo (Pinoy fave food)

This one's so tasty! My adobo is a lil bit sweeter than any other ordinary adobo out there!

Chicken Adobo

Adobo Ingredients:
1. 1/2 kilo pork cut in cubes + 1/2 kilo chicken, cut into pieces or
2. choice of either 1 kilo of pork or 1 kilo of chicken
3. 1 head garlic, minced
4. 1/2 yellow onion, diced
5. 1/2 cup soy sauce
6. 1 cup vinegar
7. 2 cups of water
8. 2 Tbsp. sugar
9. 5 laurel leaves (bay leaves)
10. 4 tablespoons of cooking oil or olive oil
11. 2 tablespoons cornstarch
12. Salt and pepper to taste
13. 3 tablespoons water

Instructions:
1. In a big sauce pan or wok, heat 2 tablespoons of oil then sauté the minced garlic and onions.
2. Add the pork and chicken to the pan. Add 2 cups of water, 1/4 cup of soy sauce, vinegar, and the bay leaves. Bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes or when meat is tender.
3. Remove the pork and chicken from the sauce pan and on another pan, heat cooking oil and brown the pork and chicken for a few minutes.
4. Mix the browned pork and chicken back to the sauce and add cornstarch dissolved in water to thicken.
5. Add salt, sugar and/or pepper if desired
6. Bring to a boil then simmer for an additional 5 minutes.
7. Serve hot with the adobo gravy and rice.

Chef wanna be

Yes, I know! It's so not me. But lemme just share you the first menu I did:

Chicken Afritada

Ingredients:
2 lbs chicken, cut into serving pieces
1 large potato, quartered
1 large carrot, sliced
1 large bell pepper, sliced
1 cup green peas
8 ounces tomato sauce
4 cloves garlic, minced
4 pieces hotdogs, sliced
1 medium onion, diced
1 1/4 cups chicken broth or stock
2 pieces dried bay leaves
1 teaspoon granulated white sugar
4 tablespoons cooking oil
Salt and ground black pepper to taste

Cooking procedure:

1. Pour-in cooking oil in a cooking pot or casserole then apply heat.
2. Pan-fry the chicken until the color turns light brown (about 3 minutes per side).
3. Remove the chicken from the cooking pot.
4. On the same cooking pot, sauté garlic and onions.
5. Put-in the sliced hotdogs and pan-fried chicken then cook for a minute.
6. Pour-in tomato sauce and chicken stock then add bay leaves. Simmer for 30 to 40 minutes.
7. Add the potato and carrots then simmer for 7 minutes or until the vegetables are soft.
8. Put-in the bell pepper, green peas, salt, sugar, and ground black pepper then cook for 3 minutes more.
9. Turn-off heat then transfer to a serving plate.
10. Serve with steamed rice. Share and enjoy!

It was fun cooking and I swear, there are tons of recipe I am saving in my iphone for future use :) be with me as I share with you all my recipes!

Bon appétit!

Baby Wallnut

I have this new friend, well, not a friend, actually I adopted her. I called her baby wallnut. She's just too cute that she (I know, SHE, because, for me she's a girl) makes my day always easy and brighter. My day's not complete without you, my baby. :) Okay, i'm being crazy again. haha


Isn't she adorable? Ahhh. cute cute.

Last hair treatment for me until september

It's been a month now since I'm wearing this new hairdo. Before Christmas, I had a hair treatment, hair coloring, hair spa, and hair cut. I had to chop my hair because split ends are everywhere. Color is light mahogany. The first week after the treatment, the color is very very striking. Some doesn't like it, i dont care coz i feel pretty wearing it. LOL So yea, here's the color:




Good thing I had this treatment before Christmas, I'm sure I'll be missing the ambiance of salons, the feeling of being pampered and all. Being pretty because of rebond and hair treatment, all those stuffs, I'll miss. Rebond, I'll have you on October. Can't wait! :)

What's up?

Wow! It's been a month since my last post. I wasn't really busy with work and social life. I was actually busy focusing with my personal stuffs.

Let me share what happened to me after Nov 24 :)

My Birthday passed without anything special. I celebrated it alone. Shopping for 2 pair of shoes at Celine, had diamond peel at Flawless, and had footspa plus pedicure at NuStyle Salon. I was contented then. I've been praying for a ME time and yea, I finally gave myself one, until my closest friends texted me and asked to chill out at Kai's crib. So there, even I had a very oily face, I still manange to went over my friend's place.

I grabbed some 20 pcs of Antonov Vodka from Puregold, Sr. Pedro's Lechong Manok and some chips. My closests friends got me cake from Contis. Thanks mga chong. :)

Sorry for the crappy pic, hehe. just had my diamond peel.

So after Birthday, we had a lots of holidays. Christmas, New Years, and there were tons of reunions, food, and booze everywhere! Naumay ako sa handaan. hehe

I was feeling happy closing year 2010. Hoping for best 2011! Love. Peace. Happiness. Bring it on, 2011! :)