My Pink Shoelace

I was sick last 22 and on the 23rd, so much for a happy birthday but all’s well now so here’s a few tidbits. On the 24th Bena, Diva and I met up for lunch after my appointment with the quack. I decided that since we’re all food people we’d better go for eat all you can and we did at Family Choice. There was not that many people [must be coz of the rain] but the food was good and so was the company. It was fun!

- moi, or shall I say yours truly -

- Diva -

- Bena of bena-yot.com -

- Bena, Diva and Moi -

It was a good choice to go for eat all you can, I had two rounds lol but the bayot had 3! Waaaaaaaa lol. Till next time

MJ and I have close to similar rest days and we’ve hanged out couple of times in the past just last Friday we decided to go to Ayala to buy scrapbooking things and writing papers. MJ has gotten an all in one printer and because of me (that’s what she said) she’s back into the penpalling and swapping hobby. lol. I never thought I’d meet someone who’d be into making and swapping of fb’s, decos, label bags and what have you but I discovered she is and now she’s back on track. Weeeee

I’ve created a different blog about it on blogspot, you guys can check it out @ Of Letters and Beyond. It’s still fairly new but am working on it the same way I am working on my scrapbooks and a whole bunch of other stuff.

MJ

Moi

Caesar Salad

Pasta w/ Giant meatball

Norwegian Salmon

After buying a whole lotta stuff from National Bookstore we ended up dining at Spaghetti House, MJ ordered that pasta with the giant meatball and I ordered the norwegian salmon which was really yummy, the caesar salad was well nevermind. lol. After Spaghetti House we headed to Maze where I bought another case for my iPod Touch, a black leather from Capdase, we then headed to iStore where I purchased a new set of earphones, the original ones that came with my iTouch is still functional, no issues with the sounds but boy it looks awful and dirty, tugs, certainly needs replacement.

We were roaming around Ayala as it was raining heavily, we met two of MJ’s classmates back in Med School they chitchatted for a bit then we proceeded buying or shall I say I proceeded buying more scrapbooking stuff from Arts and Crafts and a few more from Metro Ayala’s bookstore. Should I change the title to Friday Shopping Galore??? toinks!

When Judai lost tremendous weight it shocked people worldwide, I mean she was not really big but more on the chubby side but now after inculcating what they call South Beach Diet she has lost weight and now looks super stunning ang not to mention sexy. Lol and envy from both A and I. Maybe I should try it … maybe not. Oh well, we’ll see.

23 on the 23rd … presents are very much appreciated. lol!

Yummy right? Any idea on what it is? Was browsing through the many food blogs and recipe sites when I ran into this. Its called cornbread dressing and the recipe’s as follow:

Preparation

Place 1/2 cup butter in a 13- x 9-inch pan; heat in oven at 425° for 4 minutes.

Combine cornmeal and next 5 ingredients; whisk in 3 eggs and buttermilk.

Pour hot butter into batter, stirring until blended. Pour batter into pan.

Bake at 425° for 30 minutes or until golden brown. Cool.

Crumble cornbread into a large bowl; stir in breadcrumbs, and set aside.

Melt remaining 1/2 cup butter in a large skillet over medium heat; add onions and celery, and saute until tender. Stir in sage, and saute 1 more minute.

Stir vegetables, remaining 4 eggs, chicken broth, and pepper into cornbread mixture; pour evenly into 1 lightly greased 13- x 9-inch baking dish and 1 lightly greased 8-inch square baking dish. Cover and chill 8 hours.

Bake, uncovered, at 375° for 35 to 40 minutes or until golden brown.

*1 tablespoon dried rubbed sage may be substituted for fresh sage.

Andouille Sausage, Apple, and Pecan Dressing: Brown 3/4 pound diced andouille sausage in a skillet over medium heat; drain. Add sausage; 2 Granny Smith apples, chopped; and 2 cups chopped toasted pecans to dressing. Proceed as directed, baking 40 to 45 minutes or until done.

Source: myrecipes.com

I’ll probably ask Mitchy to do this on her birthday or on Aisat’s or on mine, cooking has never been my forte … all I know is devour the good food prepared by skillful people.

23 on the 23rd … presents are very much appreciated. lol!

If there’s one vice I can’t seem to stop that’d be my addiction to the aroma of coffee. That’s the reason why when am facing my notebook there’s always that huge mug filled my coffee right next to my mouse. I sip coffee while working on my tasks online not only does it keep me awake but it just complete me *sigh*. Now Lee once said instead of buying those ready made coffees in groceries why don’t I just buy wholesale coffee beans and prepare them myself so I can make use of my coffee maker. Hehehe I’ve purchased this black coffee maker long time ago but up till now its still in its box, so now am considering buying bulk coffee beans online and see if I can get any sort of discount.

A friend of mine is selling discount bulk coffee but these are the ready made ones, am not so sure if I’ll go for it, price is reasonable and the brand is ok but we’ll see.

Monday Shift , there was low call volume as expected and with the day shifters coming in at 7 and 7:30 the avail time was really long. So as expected there was VGH, they laughed at me when I said am a changed person lol! Told them I won’t go VGH and this time its for real and am sure of it. But when the offer arrived damn!! ’twas so hard to refuse. So the three of us (moi, bena and diva) went on VGH and together with Jao and April went on another series of food trip.

First stop was McDonald’s were we had our fill … we’re s’pose to go to Madeleine’s in Waterfront but changed our minds and decided to head on somewhere in the Fuente Circle to eat “ginabot”. Diva has been craving for it for weeks and finally he’s getting it. From McDonald’s we went to Fuente were there’s the infamous pungko-pungko, the same spot where Kitoy and I ate once and where Daddy Joe, Jep-Jep and I ate once too.

So the 5 of us ate like there’s no tomorrow … foodtrip at its height and I’ve never felt so full and so heavy. Whew!!

Till next time mga vayyyeeeettt …

This is a bit overdue I’ve been feeling terribly busy these past few days so uploading these photos went off my head. As I was cleaning my bag I saw Ed’s memory card reader which triggered the fact that Diva’s mini SD is with me … so I finally got them uploaded. This was right after our shift as all three of us work from 1:30 AM to 10:30 AM … we decided to go eat somewhere and the nearest fine dining was Golden Cowrie. My first to eat there and it was “swell”. If Mitchy was with us she would have asked for the recipe of their dinuguan … it was very very yummy. Too bad we didn’t have a photo of it.

Sa uulitin mga vayyyyeeeetttt … with Diva and Bena.

~ Garlic Rice ~

~ Pork Belly ~

~ Fried Kangkong ~

~ From left to right: Bena, Diva, Yours Truly ~

Images : Courtesy of Diva … tosha yotch

I can no longer remember the number of times I’ve been to Cafe Georg but last night I find myself there again for the nth time with Doi and Eds. We had a busy afternoon taking pics of the stocks and we rewarded ourselves with good food.

- Cafe Georg’s Logo

- the menu

- the lights

- the couch

- yummy

- the counter

- Moi and Doi

- Doi’s Lychee Fruit Shake

- Moi Coke Float

- Drinks

- Chicken with Pesto Sauce

- Red Saigon Pork Belly

- Singaporean Style

- Oreo Cheesecake

- Swiss Choco Mudslide

- Choco Mint Chip Cake

Food – courtesy of Doi

Images – courtesy of Eds

Moi? – Nah just tagging along.