long weekend towards my hunny's birthday

we'll go on a long holiday. labor day on monday and it is the birthday of my baby!!! i love you baby!

surviving on food from nowhere:mushroom and cornedbeef

we rummaged again our food cabinet and found the following:
1 90 gram can of corned beef
canned straw mushrooms

in our ref we found the following:
a leftover half onion
half clove of garlic
a week old pork adobo (i'll share adobo recipes soon!)
used oil from past 'fry-days'

chop the onions and garlic. chop the pork from the adobo. drain the mushrooms and set aside the water from the mushrooms.

fry the garlic in the used oil till golden brown. add the onions and saute.
add the chopped adobo pork pieces together with its old adobo sauce.
add the corned beef and simmer for about 5 minutes.
add the drained mushrooms.

if you want it a bit saucy, add the water from the mushrooms. add salt and pepper to taste.

this is really good. my hunny said that this is a jurassic food but full of flavor! i served this with rice together with the leftover sotanghon soup on my previous blog.

surviving on food from nowhere:sotanghon soup

we're now eating lean. trying to make good food out of stocks left in the cabinet. last night we had nice hot vermicelli soup.

Ingredients
1 small canned sardines in red tomato sauce found deep inside our food cabinet
1 small vermicelli dried noodles in a single serve pack
1/2 an onion found hidden in the vegetable crisper
used oil probably came after frying dried squid
3 fresh eggs donated by my good brother in law
somewhat ok small cabbage. old and darkened outer leaves pulled out.

Slice the onions. Saute it using the used oil.
Add the found sardines. Add ample water for you to have good soup.
Add the vermicelli and simmer it till soft.
put the cleaned eggs with shell in the soup. make sure it's very clean.
Add the sliced recovered cabbage.
Boil till the eggs are hard boiled, the noodles are soft, and the cabbage is good...about 10 minutes.
remove the eggs with shell. wash the eggs in running water. peel the shell. throw back the eggs into the soup. Season with salt and pepper. Serve very hot!

We again survived one day through the little blessings scattered in our humble kitchen.

new printer for the office

The new printer from our suppliers arrived. I hope that the management approves the deal. This printer is free. We would just need to purchase the consumables from the supplier.

power dressing

I will be wearing all barongs for the whole week!

My hunny ironed them well last saturday.

Barongs are worn on formal occassions and in business organizations here. Designs vary. Barongs on formal occassions vary from barongs from business environments.

Barongs are the national wear for Filipinos. This unique attire originated from China and was adopted here.

Barongs are statements of power dressing here in manila.

met hunny's old friends

malung and her brother visited us. they came straight from pampanga. we treated them at a local resto.

malung gave us good mangoes. green and yellow. maybe there are about 10 kilos of them!

bubba gump

my hunny and i went for a light snack at bubba gump. had about 6 big glass servings of iced tea, nice chips with a good dip, chicken popcorn, fried shrimps, chilly shrimps and chicken fingers.

choco for my tummy

i got some chocolate drink for my tummy. i'm constipating. I'll get my second glass of choco later and hope my tummy would be back to normal.

kaya resto

we had dinner last night at kaya restaurant.

this is a cozy korean restaurant that offers good korean flavors served in no time.

although the restaurant only prepares easy and simple korean food, the flavors they use are very good.

they have a bigger branch on the other side of makati that offers a more complete line of korean delicacies.

price is very reasonable. we plan on dining on their bigger branch soon!

birthday! anniversary!

it's my birthday...it's our anniversary....
it's my day...it's our day....
it's me...it's us....
it's a happy day...it's a very happy day!!!!

holy week prayers

we'll go to sta. rita this holy week. we'll have our visa approval prayers for the lenten season.

cd installers

i got new cd installers. got them at low prices. i hope the quality is not the same as the price!

nicanix birthday

we went to san luis to be with our niece's birthday.

food was great. had kare-kare, fried sandwiches, shawarma, asado, sinigang na pakpak, and sisig. There are spaghetti and balloons for the kids!

one of the better food gatherings i attended!

12 o clock nap

i had a nice 30 minute deep nap. i guess i didn't budge a bit for 30 min straight. as i woke up, can't move freely as my muscles are very numb.

boss is out

boss went out of the country. we're free!

now we can work at ease and finish what needs to be done.

simply congee

we had a nice and simple congee last night.

this dish is called here as arroz caldo. aka: congee, rice porridge, lelot manok, or lugaw.

we had a reserved chicken broth when we boiled chicken for a nice chicken sandwich.

used the broth to boil the sticky rice or the malagkit.

the congee was sauteed on garlic, onions and fresh ginger.

the sticky rice is then sauteed too for a couple of minutes then added the broth.

boil the rice till soft and fluffy. add water if needed till it reaches your desired consistency. we made ours a bit thick. but we will dilute it some more with soup stock for dinner tonight.

tootie's graduation

my sister graduated from bachelor of science in nursing. this is her second course. i hope she excels in her field.

ice age 2

my brother treated me and my hunny to a nice movie Ice Age 2. very funny. my hunny remembered that it was also my brother who treated us before whe Ice Age 1 was shown.