working weekend

Last weekend was a working weekend for me, we have a shoot in Batangas. We left Quezon City Friday night, around 6:00pm and the traffic was horrible, from C5 to Expressway. We arrived at Caltex gas station past 8:00pm and had dinner at Tokyo Tokyo restaurant. We were hungry na and the sumo meals we ordered barely kept us full hehehe...we arrived in Tagaytay past 10pm.

With my cousin, Nessan and nephew Miggs

There was nothing to do much in Tagaytay, while my Dad and I went to Batangas for the shoot, my mom, sister, cousin and nephew ate, slept, watched dvds, and walked around the subdivision. The weather was really nice, not too cold but not too hot, tama lang. Temperature drops in the wee hours. My nephew really liked the fog that appears early in the morning, it was his first time to walk in a fog kasi hehehe...


My family eating, doing nothing....just eating : )

We went back to Manila on a Sunday, after lunch. This time traffic was a breeze that we decided to drop by at Serendra at the Fort. We did some window shopping and my ever hungry nephew bugged us to eat, after buying some doughnuts at Krispy Kreme, we ate at Brother's Burger. Good thing there wasn't much of a crowd that day, we were able to get a table, some days it gets crowded there its impossible to get a table. After merienda, we went home na...tired of driving around, we slept the whole afternoon.

Photos taken at Serendra "under" a fountain

yummy goodies

some yummy goodies i've had in the past days...

below, Sapin-Sapin from Aling Kika's authentically from Cainta, Rizal. Very well-known in the area when it comes to native delicacies. My mom asked a helper to buy this for my nephew's school assignment --which is to bring any filipino food for sharing with his classmates because it was Linggo ng Wika. I am not really fond of kakanins because I find it too heavy for my tummy, a small slice is more than enough for me. This Sapin-Sapin is okey, not too sweet and a thin strip of langka gives a different flavor. But I'd still prefer palitaw or maja blanca over sapin-sapin.

Napansin niyo ba? The box says Special Bibingka, pero Sapin-Sapin ang laman....what kind of Bibingka kaya do they have? Hmmmm....maybe next time I'll get that one...





A couple of weekends ago, I experimented again and volunteered to cook our dinner. Based again on Yummy Magazine, I made a version of Coco Pollo or Ginataang Manok (photos above). Ingredients were coconut milk, chicken, garlic, onion, kangkong and chicken stock. I sauteed the garlic, onion and chicken, followed by the coconut milk and chicken stock, after simmering, I added the kangkong leaves. I think I used a lot of coconut milk and chicken stock causing a soupy viand, it should be creamy. Sa katamaran ko, I only eyeballed the liquid ingredients, feeling ko ang galing ko na hehehe....I will try again and will follow the exact measurements. The taste was okay according to my guinea pigs (my family) or maybe they just said that kasi wala na silang choice but to eat what I cooked. Wala na kasing ibang ulam hahaha...


I've had a homemade pizza courtesy of my sister, i don't know what kind of pizza she made, but it has pepperoni, black olives, mushroom, onion and cheese (dont know what kind too). the dough was chewy, I prefer it to be crispy. Though the flavor of the pizza sauce is good. She is experimenting with pizzas and calzones lately, so I hope to eat some more hehehe...

cge, kakain muna ako ng flat tops nagutom ako sa post ko hahaha!