Category Archives: All About Food

For all my fellow coffee lovers out there, here’s great news from McDonalds. Get a cup of free McCafe Premium Roast Coffee from 4:00 am to 10:30 am from August 8-12 for free.

I often McDo every morning before going to work because they offer good tasting cup of brewed coffee. Their MCcafe premium roast coffee is made up of 100% pure arabica beans. Its smooth full-bodied flavor and nutty toasty aroma, just perfect to jumpsstart my day.

Now to to enjoy the free coffee this coming Aug 8-12, Be on the lookout for the McDonald’s crew who distributes the coupons in selected offices, universities, colleges, terminals, churches and even outside the McDonald’s stores nationwide. They started giving away those coupons last August 5.

For more details, head on over to McDo’s Facebook page and see how you can avail of this offer.

Super love ko toh!

* this is not a paid post

I still have quezo de bola inside my fridge from last Christmas. So I’ve been adding it a lot in most of my weekend cooking like caldereta, pasta and pies. 

Like last weekend, I added shredded quezo de bola over my  nachos and cheese sauce. Yumm…

The husband and I enjoyed watching our favorite tv show while munching these cheesy chips. Sarap nya in fairness. Kahit cheese lang on top. Plain, simple and good.

Next time, will add ground beef and veggies to make it more yummy….oh men calories hahaha!

Nachos and cheese anyone?

I have to thank Bley  for introducing The Cake Planet Cafe in her blog. She was so right about this coffee shop. It serves finest lavazza coffee and yummy cakes.

So last weekend, after paying a visit to my in-laws, we headed straight to Cake Planet Cafe. Upon entering , hubs and I was greeted with nice hellos  from the two barista. While I was looking at their cake rack, the barista suggested their best seller Chocolate Macadamia Sansrival and the turtle pie. I remembered, that Bley order this both. So I gave it a try.

Chocolate Macadamia Sansrival

Turle Pie

I also ordered a plate of  pasta.

I must say, they not only serve good cakes but yummy pasta too. Hubs and I shared this plate of puttanesca. The pasta was firm, the sauce was perfectly blended. Yum yum.

Oh wait…dont forget to ask for their wifi password to get connected.  (I think, there is a minimum amount of purchase before they will give the password to customers).

Of course, my 1.5 hour travel from quezon city to bicutan wouldn’t be complete if I wont have a good cup of brewed coffee

Simply heavenly…

From the love of drinking Lavazza coffee to trying their desserts,  I must say…it’s a win…win place. This totally changed the “just another coffee shop – thing” to being a regular customer, too bad  Cake Planet is too far from our place, nevertheless, I told hubz to visit it whenever we visit the in laws.  

I have always loved Chinese food kaya after that bad experiene with this chinese fastfood,  I was really in dismay. Why you may asked…

Because whenever I have this craving over chinese food, that Imbyerna Fastfood  is my fix. But after of that bad experience, I promised my self not to set foot on that branch (infront of farmer’s Cubao) again and slowly trying to avoid to eat in all it’s branches.  Yun na!

Anyway, as I’ve said, I would always love chinese food, kaya last week hubz and I had dinner at North Park. 

Because it was raining that time, we opted to have noodles.

Left was my bowl of Nanking Beef & Aniseed Beef Tendon.   The soup is amazing. You could really taste the beef in the soup. The Nanking beef and Beef Tendon (litid) was tender and flavorful. I loved it. With this soup you could never go wrong.  The other serving was Hubz choice, Fresh Prawn Dumpling & Nanking Beef . According to him, it tasted really good. Like the noodle soup I had, he enjoyed the hefty serving. :-)

Hubz also ordered chicken feet.

Well, I am not a fan of chicken feet. So he finished everything.  Masarap siguro kasi naubos nya.

We don’t usually order any drinks except water. It added fullness sa tummy kasi but, there is this drink that captured my attention so I ordered a glass of cold Chrysanthemum Juice.

After my first sip, I just made a mental note, not to try the Cold Chrysanthemum Juice ever again, quite a waste of excitement. It tasted like brown sugar dissolved in cold water hahaha.

Then after 2 days we went back to North Park to have dinner again, I just cant get enough. This time, we had a full dinner, as in full talaga.

We had fried rice with special sauce.  I think this is the most budget-friendly item in the North Park Menu. Priced 203 pesos, it includes a huge serving of fried rice that can be good for 3 people, and the sauce to be served separate from the rice, can be your viand already. The sauce has sliced mushrooms, asado strips, fish cakes, and vegetable in there.  Actually I did not know that this would a big serving so I ordered more…takaw!

Left… is the lechon macau.  The skin was really, really crunchy and the meat was deep fried, cholesterol pero how can I resist such goodness.

at the right naman  is my personal favorite Fried Beancurd Skin w/ Shitake Mushroom in Soy Sauce.   I love tofu kasi, though this dish is just like fried tofu, yun nga lang, eto yung skin ng tofu, deep fried then topped with shitake mushroom. Masarap pa rin sya sa akin.

Overall, we had our tummies filled, warm, and happy. Cannot wait to comeback to try their other dishes.

I love breakfast. Good breakfasts make my day right. Kaso lately I’ve been eating breakfst at Jollibee or Mcdo. Nakakasawa na. So I decided to woke up a bit early to prepare breakfast today. Minsan, minsan ko lang magawa ang mag breakfast sa house, extra effort kasi talaga ang pag gising ng mas maaga.

Anyway, here is today’s breakfst – hotdogs, sunny side egg and 2 slices of wheat bread.

Worth ang pag gising ko ng mas maaga.

What is your breakfast today?

….that Bicol express was popularized by Cely Kalaw, a native of Laguna and an owner of a restaurant in Malate, Manila. Kalaw’s family moved to Naga when she was three years old. When she grew up and returned to Manila, she invented the dish that became known as Bicol Express,  named after the train that travels from Paco Station to Bicolandia. Now ths dish is very popular and a favorite of most Pinoy.(Source: wikepedia.org)

We had this for dinner last night, If you want to try this easy version f Bicol express, hop on to my food blog.

It was a vegetable kind of day – and I end up cooking gising gising for dinner. I first tried this at Cafe Metro some years ago and really fell inlove with it. Since then, I learned the dish and cooked it often at home.

Gising gising is an easy-peasy dish, no special cooking skills needed. The recipe claims, it takes 20 minutes to prepare but I found it to be slightly quicker and still ended up being tasty!

If you want to try making this veggie dish, the recipe is posted  here

Thank God It’s Friday!!!!

For the last two weeks, I’ve been cooking ahead of time for weeknight dinner. I prepare the meal during Sundays, put the meals in a not spill container, place inside the freezer and warm them up when they are ready to eat. Save time for me.

I made some researching over the net and here are some info I got in storing  food in the freezer.
the food is best to eat for at least 7 days. Food like potato salad with mayo in it 6 days. Sauces like tomato sauce with a lot of acid in it are good for 10 days.
Hmm…I have to keep this in mind.

Well this was our dinner last night. Sweet and Sour Pork. If you intend to cook this ahead of time, I suggest that you separate the sauce and pork when storing so that the pork wont get soggy

By the way, the recipe for easy sweet and sour pork  is posted is my other blog.

I might not do this regularly but atleast somehow doing this saves me time and money.

Have a wonderful dinner everyone

I love mornings. It’s when the warmness of the sun starts to ooze into the sky.

I love mornings, I love sunshine. I love it when the sun touches my skin and makes me feel better throughout the day but….. there are times when I hate getting up from bed. You know the feeling that you have to wake up and leave dreamland and you don’t want to. Alright!

On mornings like that whenever I feel so grumpy, I make a hot cup of instant coffee to perk me up. Yes, you read it right… instant coffee. Most of my friends knew that I am a brewed coffee lover but just few weeks ago I found an instant coffee that suits my taste. Got to thank hubz for introducing me to this instant coffee which by the way is my favorite now. It’s creamy, it has this bold coffee taste and the caramelized sugar flavor made it unique to the taste. Just perfect!

Nothing like a one, big, hot cup to start my day right.

C’mon share a cup with me.

Morning everyone!

I am having pancakes. Fluffy, creamy pancakes with melted butter and drizzle with syrup on top. Of course will pair that with a cup of brewed coffee. Yumyum.

what about you ?

“Learn how to cook — try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun”
-Julia Child

So here goes…. 

Kimchi Fried Rice

Beef Bulgogi

Last weekend I decided to cook something new for breakfast. We had Kimchi Fried Rice and Beef Bulgogi.

The  Kimchi Fried rice was really good, according to hubz. But I think, adding more kimchi and kimchi juice will make it even better.  The beef bulgogi was also good but next time, I will sliced the beef thinner for easy cooking. 

So yeah…I enjoyed and learned something from trying these two new recipes.

Oh I posted the kimchi fried rice recipe here. Will post the beef bulgogi recipe soon.

Have you tried experimenting in the kitchen lately? Care to share the experience.

Happy New Week!

PadThai

This weekend I felt inspired to cook something new in my kitchen. For me PadThai (or any other Thai dish) is a complicated dish to make, but when I did the cooking of the PadThai, it’s not that hard after all.

Like what I did in cooking my paella, a little more practice will make me master this dish.

Oh I’m sharing again the recipe here

How’s the start of you week by the way?