11 na si Kuya E!

I haven't been back in the food trippin' and food findin' grind yet, having a baby and rearin' one is very time-consuming, add it to the fact that I was forced to come back to work earlier than I wanted and planned to.  But I have several posts waiting to be published, with birthdays and holidays, and feasts and celebrations.

Here's Kuya E's 11th birthday celebration.

Choco Bliss

One of his birthday cakes, courtesy of Kuya B, Choco Bliss cake from Sugarhouse.

Baby A's 1st!

Baby A celebrated her 1st month with a bang, with two chocolate cakes (with her name on it) to boast of.  Thanks sponsors!

birthday feast

Cravings: Ice Cream

I began craving stuff mid of April, the month when we all suffer the monstrous heat of summer 2014, I wasn't even aware that I am carrying Baby A back then, I was just always, always gushing about all the ice cream commercials and I can't ever stop asking for ice cream.  

I blamed it on the scorching heat, not that I had changed my mind *grins*.

Nestle Temptations - Flirt with Chocolate

best sandwiched in a hot monay, hehe

Nanay and Tatay's Day Again!

Another March celebration?  Not really!  It was just sweldo (salary) day and as it was still, officially, Nanay and Tatay's birth month, bro and I decided to have a joint celebration of their birthday, in an effort to shroud and justify our need to eat Crispy Pata on a Monday night, hurhur!

Baby's Crispy Pata

It's Tatay's Turn!

Have I told you that my Nanay and Tatay have the same birth month?  I guess I did huh, and even if I didn't, yet, my last year's post would have more than suffice to fill in the details, right *grins*?

Anyways, we didn't had that big of a celebration, it was just us! We had our usual Sunday family dinner but we sort of prepared dishes that pops like, it was his special day afterall *winks*. 

Tatay used to work as a chief cook in an international cargo ship, so imagine the gamut of dishes he had sampled and tried to create, add it to the fact that his love of food never falters.  But as we all know, age brought about ailments, whether we like it or not, and aside from the usual maintenance meds that oldies had to take, moderation or, unfortunately, sometimes a total ban from eating specific kinds of food have to be implemented.  But for his birthday, we let him have what he wants!  We bought two kilos of Lechon from Concepcion (Malabon) Market and transformed it into a Lechon Paksiw.  Sisiw lang pala magluto n'yan and believe me ang sarap ko magluto, hahaha!

Easter Egg Hunt

We had our yearly celebration of Easter and we (our family) were tasked to make and decorate the Easter eggs.  Photo below was the result of our (hubby, son, brother and moi) collective efforts, but mostly it was hubby's, we're not all born artist you know!

We were supposed to start early morning but  because we're us (nocturnal beings and all), we were able to start an hour before lunch, hurhur!  We'll make Grandfather Time proud *grins*.

Calm after the storm, believe me it was pandemonium, I don't think anything in Tita Belle's house was left untouched.  They were looking for eggs like they'll win a million bucks for it, that's how game (and competitive) our family is!  Fun, fun, fun!

Selecta Christmas Flavors

Alam ko napanood nyo na ito at natakam din kayo, hehe...

  

One of Selecta's Christmas flavors - Ube Keso, well, as always with Selecta the products on their commercial looks better than the actual ice cream that you'll find in the market, in this case, the cheese on the commercial were super generous compared to the real one.

Anyway, highway, it was affordable and a flavor I can share with my son, so, I'm fine with it.  A 750ml tub will cost you 120 pesos, the bigger one sells at 240.

One Saturday Afternoon

I do work a lot during weekends, one of my occupational hazards *smiles*.  But everytime I get to stay home, I make it as worthwhile as I could, for my family and for myself.

One Saturday afternoon,this was what I decided to do, street food tripping, with my mother, my son and husband.  Yumminess!

Street food galore, clockwise from top:  Captain's Burger (the 10 peso, buy 1 take 1 kind of burgers), grilled chicken intestine (commonly known as IUD, isaw, bituka ng manok), Selecta Overload ice cream - Chocolate Chip flavor, Ensaymada and Kababayan.

Selecta Oreo Cookies & Cream

Photos taken with a Samsung camera phone.

We visited my in-laws computer shop some months ago, wala lang, nanggugulo lang, hehe.  We hoodwinked hubby's elder sister to buy Selecta's Oreo Cookies and Cream ice cream and his niece to cooked some homemade fries for merienda, yes we're awesome (parasites) like that, hurhur!

Selecta Blasts! Ice Cream

E's 9th! (Part 3)

E's third and last 9th bday bash, this time it's with his family naman, syempre need din namin kumain at maki-happy-happy di ba?

It was a simple feast, as his birthday falls on the day before Christmas we just celebrate it with no fuzz or most of the time we just make it sabay sa noche buena para tipid, hahaha.  I remember E celebrating his birthdays in a grand way when he was 1 to 3 years old but then I got old and tired of all the hassles and aftermaths of December 24 parties, after those three years it just became children's parties at school with his classmates and birthday con noche buena celebration at home.  Then he got older (he's 9!) and it became a cake-blowing affair with his classmates and simple birthday dinner with us.

Ha, how time flies?

thanks to pizza deliveries life is a beach *grins*

Bacon Cheeseburger 

Day 2 at the Crib

Birthday celeb no. 2, this time, it's my real natal day *smiles*.  I celebrated it with my family, of course.

We bought to go goodies, you know me, I'm not the so-domesticated kind and I'm totally lazy *grins*.  We had Baby's Crispy Pata (BCP), as in the real one (story will be provided some other time) with steaming white rice, syempre para carbs and protein galore.  Then we doused the cholesterol with Veggie Salad (lettuce, cucumber, onion, tomatoes and commercialized salad dressing) and my very own Spaghetti (hotdog lang ang halo para sa baby boy ko).  Then there was cake and ice cream, simple and fun!

Baby's Crispy Pata (BCP)

Late Post: Family Dinner on Nanay's Birthday

Another late post, teehee, this one was during Nanay's 50th, don't ask me when it was, you may faint from apoplexy, nyahahaha!

We had a simple family dinner at the exact date of Nanay's natal day and had a bigger one for the rest of her fam which I will post sometime this year *tongue out*.

Anyways, till next time *grins*

Baby's Crispy Pata 

(one of Navotas' finest)

Late Post: Granny's Birthday

Warning:  Another super late post :)

We celebrated granny's birthday with lots of food, she's in heaven but I know that she's always with us in spirit, she could even be sampling our feast from time to time *grins*.

Seafood Rice

Late Post: A Year Ago, A Feast

THIS IS A SUPER LATE POST!

What's that? You're asking me how late? Uhm, would you believe me if I say that this post is more than a year late in posting *awkward smile*.  It's true though, all photos were taken the 1st of January 2012 *grins*, so yeah, here's me presenting our New Year's Eve feast a year ago, hurhur.

Calamari

Fried Prawns

Selecta Overload - Quezo Real Ice Cream

Post No. 3, I'm on a roll baby :)

Icy, creamy ice cream. Cold and sweet.
Icy, creamy ice cream can't be beat.
Icy, creamy ice cream. I giggle when I eat my
Icy, creamy ice cream. What a treat.

Selecta Overload - Quezo Real - P120.00

Sa dinami-dami ng flavors ng Selecta na nakain ko this summer, eto lang yata ang nagsabi ng totoo, marami talaga sya cheese *tongue out*

Selecta Overload - Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

Post No. 2

Hooray for summer!  Dahil mainit ang panahon, walang rason para di tayo kumain ng ice cream di ba?  And because I love ice cream, it's an indulgence I cannot ever resist.

Selecta Overload Chocolate Chip - P120.00

Pansin ko lang ha, sa commercial lang maraming toppings ang ice cream *sad face*.

E's Simple B-day Celeb

To those who knew me, at least, even a little, would have to know that my son celebrates his birthday every 24th of December, thus seeing the title means that this post is almost nearing its anniversary *grins* and because you already knew me, you won't feel even a bit of surprise and will just shrug your shoulders and say, "it's a late post, nothing new", hahaha, a very palusible scenario, right? :))

As per titled, E's simple 8th birthday celeb...

Manager's Choice Pizza by Shakey's

Pepperoni Pizza by Shakey's

Selecta Pinoy Sorbetes

I don't think I had blogged about this yet? And even if I had, wala naman kayo magagawa kasi naka-post na, hahaha...

One Sunday night, on our way home from church, my son just randomly blurted out 'ice cream' and I just randomly answer 'keso' (cheese), and my nanay randomly butted in 'Pinoy Sorbetes mura lang'. The End.

Hahaha, that's the story behind this frozen delight, sorry, the storyteller in me is alive but not conscious of what she is doing *lmao*.

A Feast, Almost!

We (I mean the admin and officers of Batch 90) were supposed to have another meeting last May 6 but due to some unavoidable circumstances, it was canceled the same day it was supposed to happen, so I together with another classmate already bought and prepared what we would bring to the event, it was a pity that our grade school friends didn't get to taste what we bought and cooked but other people were happy as they were the ones who reaped the good fortune *grins*.

This Almond Java Mousse was from Gina, we didn't get to taste it but her officemates did *grins* and based on their FB comments, it looks like they had fun eating it. Goldilocks described it as a two layered moist chocolate sponge cake with rich java mousse filling. The whole cake is iced with mocha butter icing and coated with coffee ganash and sprinkled with sliced almond nuts.

Birthday One

My nanay celebrated her --th birthday last March 17, we had an early dinner at Hap Chan - Harbour Square but I kind of, sort of, stupidly left my camera and cellphone at home, so I had no way of taking any pics *sigh*. I guess, you have no choice but take my word for it, the food was great as always, Hap Chan never disappoints (I sound like a biased marketing rep, hahaha).

Anyways, photos below were the pansit given away to neighbors (you know, the tradition of cooking noodles for long life and sharing it with others), the cake that my son forced my mom to buy so she can blow the candle, but it turned out, teddy bear was the one who liked to do the candle blowing, and the ice cream that he picked, for his personal consumption, hahaha. Love of food runs in our blood.

Dulce de Leche by Red Ribbon