If you frequent my food blog, you might have noticed the change in culinary focus. We’ve been on an Asian diet for a couple of weeks now. For starters, I’ve started to feel like the Leftovers Queen, whipping up dishes with what’s available. It’s practical, I know, but I also get this urge to learn [...]
No, I’m not going on a diet. No, I’m not going to spend less time in front of the computer. And no, I AM NOT giving Speedy a chance to go on a diet either. If I have to have a New Year’s resolution for 2008, this would be it.
Oh, I know. For some [...]
I don’t often write about our drinking habits. For two reasons. One, I don’t want to sound like we’re bragging about the fact that we drink (I don’t think it’s anything to brag about). Two, because I don’t know what’s so exciting about writing about drinking unless I am Edgar Allan Poe. Thing is, when [...]
…well, Sam sequestered it, took a video and showed the whole world already. I was thinking that at P200.00, it would have been a nice gift — a real conversation piece — for barkada. But it’s now just a “sharing gift ideas” kind of thing.
Found it at a toy store in the Mall of Asia [...]
The first time I was told by my friend Eric about a Corelle dinnerware sale at Eastwood City, I was not able to go. I can’t remember anymore why but I missed the one last June. When I bought a set of Corelle dinnerware at the Duty-Free Shop after returning from Taiwan last July and [...]
When Chateau mentioned Shuin in a comment a few months back, little did I know that Speedy had been going there for ages. He had brought home frozen dumplings a couple of times, smoked chicken and, just the other day, a bottle of ginger sauce which, when mixed with soy sauce and sesame seed oil, [...]
The last time we were at the mall, we checked out some kitchen knives at the Henckels (corrected link and spelling) shop. There were some knives on sale, I don’t remember if they were Victorinox, but I do remember that they were going for 50% off.
In the kitchen, I don’t use too many knives. I [...]
TriNoMa is a mall owned and developed by Ayala Land, the same company behind Glorietta and Greenbelt in Makati. As to why it is a triangle, Wikipedia has the details including a physical description of its location.
A mall is a mall, shops are shops and the restaurants at TriNoMa aren’t that different from restaurants in [...]
The times when we had no househelp and my kids had to do their share of the dirty plates, they always complained that the plates were too heavy. I used to buy plates from the Noritake factory in Marikina and the rest are things I picked up here and there — more often than not, [...]
I admit it. I’m a cheapskate. What I can buy from the nearest tiangge, I will not buy from boutiques. If a 500 peso blouse with a Korean tag fits, I won’t give the gorgeous blouse from Vida Doria another look.
But when I buy my bra, I splurge. Without guilt whatsoever. For those of [...]
