WEATHER KINDS OF FOOD

It's not a big surprise that Filipinos love to eat. No wonder, according to the latest survey of  National Nutrition Survey (NNS) conducted by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI), there are 3 out of 10 Filipino adults are more likely overweight or obese. 

It is not bad to eat or taste delicious food in our daily lives, what makes it bad is how much and how often you eat them. For these past days that we just stayed at home because of the bad weather, (there were actually 3 typhoons) classes were suspended most of the time. So more or less, it was really a grandiose vacation for my daughter and for my youngest brother, and since it wasn't good to go out to go to the mall, do other things, etc. I've came up with a very good idea to prepare sumptuous meal for the family and try new foodie out there! Let's start with this meal below:

                                               Buttered shrimp in oyster sauce and garlic

My loving mother-in-law went to Zamboanga a few weeks ago to visit her father there and went back home with these lovely, huge, and very mouth watering shrimps. There is no perfect way to cook it but to saute it with a little bit of butter, Sprite, garlic, and oyster sauce. Believe me, you'll forget your name when you taste this dish that I cooked. :D

Pakbet Tagalog

There are so many varieties of Pinakbet all over the country. Actually, this dish is very easy and simple to cook but I prefer to only have several kinds of vegetables such as bitter gourd (ampalaya), okra (lady finger), eggplant, and string beans (sitaw). Do not also forget tomatoes, garlic, and some pork to make it tastier. What makes this dish taste differently is it's sauce. We usually add a little bit of fish sauce to add flavor. Make sure you don't put too much water because it's not a Sinigang that we are cooking. ^_^

Scrambled eggs, fried tuyo, and sinangag (fried rice with lots of garlic)

I don't know anyone who wouldn't like to eat these kind of food most especially during rainy weather. This is one of the ultimate foodie that you can have in bed weather like these days. Make sure you'll have a hot cup of your favorite coffee beside you when you eat this meal either for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. 

Nilagang Baboy

This dish isn't good for a faint-heart-ed person obviously because its main ingredient is definitely PORK!!! So if you're on a diet, this is not a good meal for you. Warm soup for a warm soul. :D

Pandesal, corned beef, egg, pork chop

This one is kind of a weird combination for a meal but it isn't bad for a brunch though. I don't regret having this meal because I am really a meat lover. Peace y'all! 

Champorado or Chocolate Rice Pudding

This is good for snack or for breakfast. It's simply made of sticky rice and some chocolate powder (cocoa), sugar and condensed milk for additional sweet taste. Again, if you're on a diet, please be advise that it has 97 calories for 1 serving of this very delicious snack.

Menudo

This is all-in-one kind of dish. It has pork, hotdog/sausage, vegetables, and other spices on it. One word that could describe this dish is.... AWESOME! You can have it with a rice or you can eat it as it is. Yum yum!

Pansit Bataan (as they call it)

I haven't got an idea why they call it like that but one thing's for sure. It was one of the best pansit I have ever tasted in my life aside of course for my mother's home-cooked pansit. As you can see, it was rich in a lot of seafood ingredients such as squid, tinapa (smoked fish), shrimp, tahong (mussel) and egg. It was served with a pita cracker that created a good taste of heaven. This is a must-try dish. By the way, we ate this dish at Pansit Bataan in SBMA beside Pizza hut. Their prices there are very reasonable for a very taste meal.

So that's it... Those are the food I have eaten so far for the past few days. I am very glad to have taken pictures of them before indulging myself on their incredible taste! Like what a quote says;

LAUGHTER IS BRIGHTEST, where FOOD is BEST

-Irish Proverb

Bon Appetit! 

Reflection

This is the typical scenario when we go to Sto. Nino Dinalupihan, Bataan in observant of Good Friday as part of the holy week. Lots of people will sacrifice walking on bare foot while hitting themselves with something that will make them bleed as their act of penitence. 

We really enjoyed at the same time lament within ourselves as we see people passed through us doing this. We see people willingly surrendered themselves to the heat of the burning sun with dripping sweat and blood all over their bodies and hearing no complains coming from them. 

One good reason of having this reflection helps us to go over within ourselves. If we did something good for the past days, months, and years? If what kind of person we become as of now. No matter how many of us celebrate or see this holiday, I think what's matter the most is the acceptance that Jesus lives and dies for saving us from sins. 

I hope everyone got a meaningful yet full of fun observance of the holy week.

May God bless us all!

Celebrating HOLIDAYS: The Filipino Style!

 This is how we usually celebrate holidays in my family.  We make sure to prepare delicious food in welcoming the most important occasion of the year. Not all people in the world celebrate Christmas. But here in the Philippines, most of the people (like around 90%) make sure that they make the most of it because it's just once a year.

 Mom cooked her very own specialty CALDERETA.

As a neutralizer, I made some vegetable salad because I know holidays are time we tend to eat a lot of meat.

Of course, this native delicacy never fails to attend the occasion.

Spaghetti is overrated so we tried to have Carbonara.

Who wouldn't like sweet like this little mouth watering desert LECHE FLAN!

Another familiar face of the night. BIKO (rice cake in brown sugar and coconut milk)

Barbecue for everyone!

The traditional fruit basket. But ours was kinda different because there's a small head of lettuce on top of it. ^_____^


Basically, December is really the month of celebrating a lot of occasion. From weddings, to christening, to birthdays down to Christmas. I pretty guess all really enjoyed their holidays as we can feel it around our belly. May 2015 be as prosperous to everyone. We may call it a new year but it all down to ourselves if we will make it as good as before.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! HAPPY NEW LIFE!

FRIENDS IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED!

Nakakatawang isipin na yung mga itinuturing mong kaibigan ay siya pang unang babalewala sa'yo. Well, it's not my lost anyway. Nakakapanghinayang lang isipin na I've wasted my time and effort making friends with people who don't deserve my friendship.

2014 taught me and made me realized a lot of things most especially when it comes to friendship and family. You can call other people "friend", "sister", and other endearments about friendship, but the question is, are you worth of being one to be called that way?

This 2015, I will let go and move on. If one person doesn't want me to be his/her friend so be it. I don't want to live with hatred, frustrations, and disappointments anymore. Nakakawalang gana lang. Sila na nga ang ginagawan mo ng favor but what happens at the end is you are the one hurting.

I promise myself to become happier as I can be with people who appreciates me the way I am and who I am.

LESSON LEARNED: It's not important how many friends you make, but rather how long you can keep the friendship going.