Saturday, September 27, 2014
September 27, 2014
My Chicken Adobo Recipe
Adobo. There are many versions of this popular local dish. My mother cooks adobo in such a way that she lets it sit in low fire until the sauce becomes dry. On some occasions, she lets it simmer just right in order for us to have enough amount of sauce to pour into our rice bowls.
During childhood, whenever my beloved bapa (uncle) would come home with some chicken, mother would usually cook adobo. By then, I and my older siblings would patiently wait while the meat was being boiled and tenderized in a cooking pot over a firewood-stove set on the ground at our backyard. Mother would usually add tomatoes in her adobo (not all the time though). From childhood until now, I must say that mother's adobo has tasted simply the best for me:-)
What I'm sharing in this blogpost is completely different however in the way adobo is done at home. It is a recipe I've learned from my former colleague in Singapore. It's worth a try, I must say. So let's get started:
YOU WILL NEED: Pork or chicken Potatoes (optional) vinegar or lime juice (for my recipe, I used lime juice) soy sauce garlic (crushed) onion chili pepper (optional) Ground pepper ginger (crushed) (NOTE: only for chicken adobo)
HOW TO COOK:
1. Boil meat for 30 minutes. Set aside. 2. Prepare marinade sauce using the stock. Add all the ingredients listed above except chili pepper, potatoes and onion. (Remember to use ginger only for chicken adobo) 3. Marinate the meat into the sauce for 15-30 minutes. 4. In a separate pan, fry the potatoes, then the marinated meat for 5 minutes. 5. Add the marinade sauce for soup base. (Add water depending on your taste) 6. Simmer. 7. Sprinkle onions and chili pepper
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It may look like a bistig, but this is the adobo recipe which is definitely worth a try:-) |
Sunday, September 14, 2014
September 14, 2014
Aquaball
AQUA BALL FUN. I've first spotted this activity at the outdoors of SM Mall in Baguio City sometime in 2009. I saw a girl struggling to stand up and run through the waters while inside an inflated big ball. And I thought that was fun.
When I saw the same activity just recently at the outdoors of SM City Clark in Angeles City, I was very glad and immediately thought of taking my nephews and my niece there for fun. I've checked from the staff how long would they be staying at the mall and I was told that the exhibit would run for one month. My two nephews were flying in from Italy in a few days, so I pinned that down on my schedule of activities when they come home for a short vacation.
That day, I and my other siblings took my two nephews along with the rest of the family kids to SM City Clark to experience the activity. We were supposed to go to the Dinosaurs Island (also in Clark) and used the tickets I purchased at Granton but alas! when I made a call to the management I learned that the Dinosaurs Island was closed (take note: only that day) in light of some projects within the Clark zone. I was greatly disappointed upon hearing that! We were set to go. We were already dressed up, and the kids were all set for the supposed visit to Dino Island. "What now?" I was asked. It was my mistake not to check and make a call beforehand. At first I thought of taking them instead to Zoobic Safari or Ocean Adventure in Subic, Zambales but then going some extra distance was not among the options that time. After discussing it over with my siblings I decided to take them instead to SM City Clark, thinking that the Aqual Ball Fun would compensate and offset the disappointment that I saw from the kids upon learning they were not going to see the dinosaurs.
And surely enough, when we got there, we forgot about our disappointment over us not being able to go to Dinosaurs Island. The kids enjoyed their time inside the inflated balls. Below are some of their photos:
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My four nephews crawling their way through the water. |
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The girl inside the white ball struggles to run through the waters and keeps her balance, to no avail |
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My niece and four nephews along with other kids kept testing their balance above the water while inside the ball.No matter what amount of struggle they put in, they simply just couldn't keep up. |
When their time was up, I was happy to see the kids smiling and laughing for the experience. From the looks of it, I knew they had so much fun :-)
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My nephews and niece before getting inside the aqua balls |
Friday, September 5, 2014
September 05, 2014
My Blog Signature
Lately I've been caught up with the plan of changing the entire look of my blog and switching and importing my current blog to other host sites. Either way, I'm stuck - and I gave up at this point in time as I realized that I have not gone yet to that point of overhauling this entire thing (I mean my blog) technically wise. I just got too inspired and overwhelmed by several bloggers who have managed to create and design their own sites. That was so interesting that I thought of doing the same. I have the option though to get the service of other host sites but then doing so would require a purchase, so I put aside this option.
Over the entire week I've been scanning through several blogs both on Google and Wordpress - and the designs and lay out templates put an envy on me (not the negative type of envy hahaha!) that I wish I could design and layout my blog as wonderful and systematic like those ones. For several hours, I've found myself working on some template codes to get it done on my blog but then in most attempts I failed (sigh!) - this is particularly true when I tried to put signature on every post. I painstakingly followed through the steps recommended by one blogger. I was glad to see my signature during preview, but when I applied the template on my blog and checked on my posts, NO signature actually appears. Instead, what popped up at the topmost portion of my blog was the CSS codes that I have put in! And that was frustrating! I have successfully managed though, to label my posts and add the LABELS gadget on my right bar. You see the LABELS on the right side of my blog post? Yeah, that's it. That's one of the results of my navigation attempts on CSS codes haha! Crazy me! For a non-tech savvy like me, applying CSS codes and getting the desired look for my blog seem to be difficult for me to do at this moment. I admit though that'd pretty easy, I just need time and patience to get things done. Yeah, correct. Time and patience. So for other things (layout, design and background) I guess in time I will (can) do that.
On the other note, I am happy that I came across another blogpost on how to put signature on blog entries. I like the idea of having a signature after every post - that makes it more intimate and personalized right? haha I'm such a bummer!
Anyway, here it is - my signature, MHY FOR MHY STORIES (Mhy is my pet name, and MhyStories for my blog description). I chose the cursive and curly font which seems to be dancing and moving and flowing and free!!! And the color red was not my real choice. I was hoping to have pink or purple or lilac or any shades in between, but then I cannot get the bar on the color of my choice - so red was the color!
This signature will automatically appear right after every post I publish on my blog.
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I think this signature says a lot about my personality |
