We spent our Sunday giving our house a thorough cleaning, and it was already 6pm when I realized we had zero snacks for the kids’ school baon. We could make a quick dash to the grocery, but my husband and I were too tired to leave home.
So I decided to bake. I looked for a quick and easy recipe, and with few ingredients as my baking supplies were also running low.
Then I found an easy peasy recipe for Oatmeal and Raisin bars in Martha Stewart’s site!
Posted in In the Kitchen.
– August 23, 2010
A friend gave us a bag of puto. It is my first time to eat a rice cake like this, brown and bite-sized, and I say it is one of the yummiest, most heavenly puto I have ever had. My only complaint is that there were so few!
Posted in In the Kitchen.
– August 22, 2010
For dinner, we had porkchops paired with upo soup.
I thought of adding it in the menu when I saw this beautiful bottle gourd in the market for only Php 20!
Posted in In the Kitchen.
– August 20, 2010
Kuya is hard at work, drawing the humongous slides, his favorite part in what he would call the most fun place in SM North EDSA Annex, Active Fun.
Posted in With the kids.
– August 17, 2010
Nine-year old Kuya was sitting cross-legged on the floor of our storage room, reading an old magazine. Beside him was a pile of more old magazines and books. I found that scene so beautiful because he reminded me of me! When I was his age, I would also leaf through my old books and magazines for want of something new to read, or to go back and relish the story all over again.
So we headed to the bookstore for new finds, and to nurture the bookworm in him.
Posted in With the kids.
– August 14, 2010
For breakfast today, I made bread pudding. I’m calling it a Lazy Mom’s pudding because I was greeted by rainy weather when I woke up, thus the bed was more inviting than the kitchen. But I got up anyway despite wanting more shuteye, looked for bread pudding recipes and was discouraged to see most recipes requiring creaming and caramelizing. Aak! So much work for what should be a lazy Sunday morning!
So I cut up day-old bread, mixed together a cup of melted butter, 2 cups of sugar, about 2 tablespoons of vanilla, 2 cups of milk, a handful of raisins and dumped them all on the bread. Yes, dumped. This mom didn’t want to do anything harder than that today.
Posted in In the Kitchen.
– August 8, 2010
The other day I was in SM Hypermarket. I was about to pay for my groceries, saw an open counter, and went there right away.
A male employee in an orange apron came to me and said, “Ma’am dito na lang po kayo pumila.” With a polite hand gesture, he showed me the counters with a long line of customers, about 4-5 head deep.
“Ang haba ng pila dyan, dito wala namang pila, ” I protested. Then the employee showed me this “Big Cart” sign, and since I was using the orange cart – which by the way was full of groceries – I was in the “wrong” lane.
“Hindi naman po mahaba ang pila,” the employee said. Continued…
Posted in Thru life.
– August 2, 2010
I saw a recipe for Whole Orange Cake and I was like, really? A whole orange, including the peel, in a cake? I got so intrigued, so I bought some seedless oranges and got to baking.
The recipe calls for pureed 1 whole orange, but I used a half more. 3 eggs, 180 g of butter, a cup of sugar, 1 1/2 cup of self-rising flour, or 1 1/2 cup of all purpose flour sifted with 1 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder.
I mixed them all together, put the batter in a greased loaf pan, and baked at 180C for 40 minutes. While waiting for it to bake, I enjoyed the yummy smell from the oven filling up the kitchen.
And there you have it. It’s yummy and moist, and so easy to prepare too. Since I added extra fruit in it, the cake screams orange at the first bite. Yum yum! Eaten best with a cup of coffee and good company.
I was going to top it with some icing, but hubby and I love it as it is. Maybe on my next attempt.
Posted in In the Kitchen.
– July 29, 2010
Bunso contracted a rare disease last March. It was a harrowing experience for us, one minute he had fever, the next we thought it was a typical summer phenomenon, then we found ourselves whizzing our way to a tertiary hospital in Manila. He could not be admitted in our neighborhood hospital, he had to be in one of those big ones.
The needle was first in his hand, but Bunso kept removing it so it was re-inserted in his foot, secured with a small glass bottle, and wrapped in a diaper. But that didn’t prevent him from kicking it off anyway. I salute the very patient nurses.
Fortunately, that is all over – for now. Upon his first take of a “miracle drug,” Bunso was back to his usual playful self. We were discharged after a couple more days, and he seemed to be doing well based on his last check-up. We have to keep coming back to the doctor though, to make sure it will never strike again, as itself or in other possible forms.
I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to our family and friends who were with us in those dark days. You know who you are. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the emails, the text messages, the phone calls. Thank you for the love, the never ending offers of prayer brigades and novenas and even financial assistance. You know that we may never be able to repay your generosity but you opened your doors anyway for our refuge. For that, we will never forget you.
Posted in With the kids.
– May 30, 2010
We have a lot of green mangoes and to avoid having them go to waste, I decided I will make burong mangga after writing this post. I also plan to finish some work for Philippine Online Chronicles, and do some reel baking over Baking Life in Facebook before I go to bed (I intend to go to bed late tonight), and I’ll do some real baking early tomorrow morning.
I am filling my hours because…because… my husband is not here. He is away on a business trip, but he will be back here tomorrow. With a bag of fresh strawberries and good news, I hope.
This sounds cheesy and mushy, but I miss him right now. I know, we’ll be apart for only 24 hours, but I really do miss him. But instead of moping, I’m going to make burong mangga, do my online job, and bake.
Posted in With hubby.
– May 28, 2010
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