Carbonara ala Jem

Today's the first time I tried cooking carbonara for the family for my baby's birthday. Excited and nervous coz I don't know how this will go. I just searched for the easiest recipe on the net with the ingredients that I'm familiar with. Sorry at times there are names of ingredients that are just out of this world for me.

With some mixing, loving and praying that it will taste good... Well what do you know, it did taste good! As for my Nanay who is my ultimate critique, my Tita and my cousin. Achievement unlocked!!!

Picture to follow, since this is the first one of course there's a picture 😊

Long Weekend: Feast of Sacrifice

Sunday is family day as always. And since it's going to be a long weekend, plus Yuna's post speech festival victory, we went out for lunch and some playtime.

For lunch we ate in Mang Inasal. An affordable way to eat chicken plus free soup and unlimited rice. As always my order is pecho meal 😁

Here's our group shot! tried to fit everyone in hehehe.

After lunch we went to Austin Land to play. Jenene rode this car first and spent more than 5 tokens just riding this.

Here's the first thing that Jenene rode inside happy city while I watch frozen movie. I let her play for one hour and that costs 150 pesos (that is their weekend and holiday rate).

Then she went to her playhouse and she has it all for herself.

While we were in the happy city, my mother-in-law, hubby and Yuna was playing this game where you'll bet for a character and if thhat character wins the race you'll get tokens (they actually won 210 tokens just playing this game).

Look at Jenene shooting some hoops! I played this game too and the number of shots I made, made me sweat (wooh workout!) 😂😂

All in all we had fun, just a simple and nice way to spend the long weekend. 

Food: Home Made Pastillas

I used to order pastillas from a friend, however, for so many reasons, the pastillas that I ordered, they weren't able to deliver it to me after several follow ups... shame I know.

Yuna was the one whoa sked for the pastillas, so Tuesday afternoon, while buying grocery items, I decided to just buy powdered and condensed milk for my project.

Wednesday, with continuous mixing of milk, here's my finished product!! Just added some minty chocolate at the top for a little twist 😉

Yuna loved it! and she's even asked me to do it again.. If she loves it then there'll be another batch of these for my babies 😊

Happy that they loved it! 😘

7th Wedding Anniversary

We had a simple wedding anniversary celebration. No fancy gift giving since we're saving up for the final part of our house.

March 22, I ordered Yellow Cab pizza for merienda. That's my treat for the family since we've always wanted to eat in the newly opened Yellow Cab restaurant near our place. We just had it delivered.

The girls are excited to eat the pizza!!

fries and some buffalo wings...

why have one if you can taste four??

March 23, since the very day of our anniversary, hubby was called for work, the next dayw as his treat. We went to Giligan's for lunch.

Here's my mom-in-law with the girls...

food was great! we were soooo full!

Hoping, well looking forward for more anniversaries to come ❤️👍

Cute Merienda

Look at these cute merienda treats from Chowking! Panda with chocolate filling and pig with asado

#foodporn 🐼🐷

ibt t k b ik  

Italian Style Merienda

My favorite pasta?? baked zitti with white sauce!!

Our Sunday Family day, Italian style at Sbarro 😝😝

Let's Boodle! Seafood Island

It's Sunday! And Sunday is family day. We did the usual, went to Sta. Clara church to give thanks, then we went to SM Masinag for lunch. We haven't tried Seafood Island so we did earlier and ordered Dagupan's meal good for 5-7 pax (worth around 1,200 ++).

It was ok, the usual grilled stuff plus plenty of rice. I was sooo full earlier but loved eating those crabs, yummy as in!

Well I hope you all had a great Sunday! ☺

The J.Co Experience

So I've been hearing a lot about this new donut store in town... J.Co Donuts.

My sister Awi once brought home a dozen but wasn't able to taste it since Nanay ate all of it. So I decided to have a simple donut party for my birthday. After going to the hospital (totally not included in the plan since Jennela's sick with cough and colds), we went straight to Eastwood City to buy donuts.

I know many people are saying that the lines are crazy and that sometimes it'll take hours before you'll be able to place your order coz people are buying in bulk. One reason is because it's cheaper than Krispy Kreme (You can buy 2 dozens for just P500++, compared to Krispy Kreme wherein a dozen already costs the same price).

Well when we went to the store, there's a line alright! So we watched while they keep on producing donuts, luckily I was able to place my order just right before they stopped the queue (since they're trying to make more donuts, they asked those who were in line if it's okay for them to wait for about 30 minutes so that they can prepare the donuts).

We bought 2 dozens of just pure Alcapone donuts, 1 dozen with just Alcapone and Mr.. Green tea donuts, 3 dozen of assorted donuts and I bought half dozen of assorted donuts for my in-laws.

What can I say? My family loves it! Not too sweet, however the bread's still different compared to Krispy Kreme, but the donut's good not to mention affordable. I hope they'll put more branches especially here in the east side.

Banana Split

I've been craving for this for a week now, good thing Congo Grille sells one. Cravings satisfied! :)

Max's Meringue

I've always loved meringue ever since I was young. I remember buying this wherever there's a store selling one. So when I passed by Max's Restaurant, I decided to buy one for myself.

Yummy!

Boodle on an Easter Sunday

We were supposed to go out of town to a beach resort for Easter Sunday however, due to the sudden change of plans, we just decided to have a feast in our compound with the whole Velasco clan.

Let the boodle fight begin!!

Let's eat!

Ready to fight!

Smile!

The other side of the table..

And here's the other side..

Even the kids has their own version of boodle fight

Distrito Makati

New food choices!!! That's good news to us people who work at night and usually eats tons of carbs from fast food chains.

It's me posing infront of Distrito's board :)

Presenting... Distrito Makati! Opens the whole month of December every Wednesday-Friday near Makati Medical Center in Amorsolo parking lot.

My Breakfast

Coffee and crackers on a fine Sunday morning /hihi

Despedida at Something Fishy

It's my last day on my old job that I loved (and still and always will love) for more than 2 years. This is a big step for me for this will be something new. It's not that I'm afraid of challenges or change, it's because I will miss the people that I've worked so closely with. :(

If I love my job, why apply for another position? Here are my reasons:

1. Job Security - We've lost our colleagues in Canada and US, and we can't see any future right now when it comes to the stability of our position.
2. I don't like my Manager and the changes that he is doing sorry just being honest here.
3. Probably it's time for growth.

Since I got the new position as a Scheduler and the idea that I'll miss my peers, I setup a despedida party for them. Before my shift ends, I also got a surprise from my IDC team. They created a presentation for me (and this one made me cry a lot /no thanks guys!! IDC team is the greatest team EVER!!!!!!!!

After shift, we went to Somethin' Fishy, Eastwood Libis for a buffet breakfast. We had a great meal and great conversations as well. I love moments like this. Sad when it comes to goodbyes, however still happy and hopeful for new beginnings.

Here's our picture with the crew:

The reports team (L-R: Bong, Dick, Rico, Mike, April, Jem)

The IDC Team! (L-R: Jem, Josh, April, Mayor)

 Team Mikee! My team mates and friend ever since my work life began.

FYI: We're trying the Lady Gaga fierce pose /wahaha

(L-R: April, Dick, Jem)

Thanks everyone and see you around!!!

Hap Chan

It's Nanay and Tatay's wedding anniversary, and we decided to go to Hap Chan SM Masinag to celebrate.

Hap Chan SM Masinag

Wacky!

Here we are with the food

The Celebrant

And here's my favorite menu of them all... MANGO TAHO!

Happy anniversary Nanay and Tatay! And a lot more to come!

Bake and Churn

We went to the mall today so that Yuna can go ride the carousel. While we were on our way to the 4th floor, I saw this stand for Bake and Churn. Actually I learned about Bake and Churn when I was watching Kids on Q and that establishment was featured.

They sell ice cream cakes and we thought of trying it out. I bought 2 rolls of their caramel cake 150 Pesos each. Not bad, there's also an additional fee for the box I can't remember if it's 30 Pesos (the box is cute so what the heck). the sales lady said the cake can last upto 4 hours if you don't refrigerate it.

It was less than 3 hours before we tried eating the cake and it was soooo delicious. It's not that sweet, it's cold and yummy! I love it!


The Caramel Cake

They also have some other flavors and the round cakes that costs 400+ Pesos. They also have ice creams, so if you want it per scoop it'll cost you 30+ Pesos.

A must try specially for summer and a special treat for those who have sweeth tooth. Ice cream plus cake equals heaven.