July Celebrant

Told you, we had two celebrants this month, this time it's all about Mickee's lunch treat.

He made our tummy perfectly content on a Monday, his actual natal day, and we bought him his cake on a Tuesday, the financier was absent so there was a minor setback, hehe.

Mango Chantilly Cake from Goldilocks

Three viands - Lumpiang Shanghai, Pickled Pork and Liver and Chicken Feet Asado, one noodle dish - Pancit Canton and the ever-present Yang Chow Fried Rice were more than enough to feed us to near ecstasy.  As usual Tita Fely showcased her awesome cooking skills, ala masterchef *grins*!

The Boss' Birthday

We welcome July with a bang! Imagine two office celebrants in a month, and you know what that means right?  Okay, I'll spell it out for you, it means we get to eat for free and we get to eat cakes twice in a month, woohoo!  Yes, I'm that babaw, haha!

First off, it's the boss' birthday!  Last year, she celebrated grandiosely but this year she decided not to waste her hard-earned money, hurhur, and just have various small celebrations with her fam, friends and co-workers.

A week before her birthday we already know that she's going to throw us some free lunch, how do we know, of course we'll know, what's the point of office gossip *lol*.  Anyway, as she's going to feed us and because she's always 'taya' on cakes during our birthdays, we decided on giving her a surprise of our own.

First surprise, banana arrangement and centerpiece!  What's the story?  Well, she told the PIO girls that we should have banana as dessert on her birthday lunch treat, so we made it happen... with a happy twist!

Surprise no. 2, her birthday cake!  We ordered a chocolate-based, egg-white icing coated cake from Betsy's, you see, most of the cakes in the market today are commonly coated with butter icing, the same goes at Betsy's, if you want their famous white icing, you have to order in advance and that's what we did!

Twice the Fun!

By the number of times I had posted birthday celebrations of colleagues here in my blog this year alone, I assumed you already deduced that we do love to celebrate each others natal day.  Let me enumerate why:  first, there's free food, whether it's home-cooked or ordered someplace, whether there's aplenty or just enough to satisfy a normal person's appetite (I am the standard here, hehe); second, our boss never fails to surprise us with a cake (it's a little late sometimes but she always make an effort *grins*), so the celebrant can blow his/her cake and throw a wish in the universe, but more than that (yes, I'm sort of selfish *tongue out*) we all can enjoy a slice of that sweet treat; third, we get to spend an hour or two bonding and hanging out, free from work and the daily struggle of office politics, phew (for me, reason number 3 is the best!).

Chocolate Cake

Cravings: Tikoy

An all-time favorite Chinese delight, I think I had been eating and enjoying the taste of Tikoy since childhood when every Chinese peep that we know of only give Tikoy as a gift, haha.  I enjoy it raw, yes I do eat the white variety as is, or coated in egg and fried, or wrapped in molo or lumpia wrapper like turon, I haven't tried it in stir-fried veggies yet but I heard it was yum.  Someday...

So, it wasn't a surprise when I suddenly had a craving for Tikoy in the middle of summer when the Tikoy season (Chinese New Year fever) was over.  I didn't know I was pregnant then but hey, if me wants tikoy, I should have tikoy *grins*.

What happened to these boxes?  I asked hubby to cooked it for breakfast, mid-morning and bedtime snack everyday until there's none left.  I assure you, I didn't stop there, I think I got to finish  3 more boxes before my tikoy fixation finally ended.  What a tikoy journey, haha!

Baker's Fair Original Tikoy

Chinese Cuisine Month

Two months ago, I blogged about our office's second attempt at eating lunch together without any reason except for wanting to eat, well now, here's out third.  March is Chinese Cuisine Month for PIO.

First of, I, in behalf of the PIO-Navotas team, wanna thank Mickee's mom, Tita Fely for generously agreeing to cook for us (and possibly shelled out a bit more than our budget), sobrang salamat po!  Ang sarap n'yong magluto, bakit di po kayo magpa-order ng food dito sa city hall, sure po ako maraming bibili, kami lang po dito sa PIO, ilan na *smiles*.

The menu:  Pork Meat and Intestine Asado, Sweet and Sour Fish (Cream Dory), Stir Fried Clams in Black Bean Sauce and Garlic-Ginger Sauteed Clams.

"A picture tells a thousand words."  

So yeah, look on people and drool!

Pork Asado