Friday TV Dinner

It’s Friday, so cut some slack.
Fridays are easy and people (especially the workforce) are usually in good mood. TGIF! There seems to be an unwritten commandment that you can break some rules or norms on a Friday just ’cause. So, I thought it was ok to eat some Nachos for dinner “just ’cause” it’s Friday. [...]

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A Sweet Cure

Out of the blue, I suddenly missed the sweet and ham-like taste of Tocino meat so I dashed to the local specialty store to grab a pack. As expected, commercially processed and packed meats usually contain colors, preservatives, sodium nitrates and the infamous MSG (Monosodium Glutamate). So, I spoiled myself at first knowing that I [...]

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Spring Intermission

We went to the flea market in Quebec to search for odd slash interesting finds, look what I snapped.
Refreshingly beautiful!

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Pearls in my Pudding

Tapioca pudding has been and still is a staple in our family’s banquet table. Tapioca pearls come in different sizes, but I always purchase the small pearls because it provides an irresistible and somewhat addictive smooth but lumpy texture. It is not to be confused with “sago” because both originates from different species of plants, [...]

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Call me the “Sophisticated” Hillbilly

As I am technically a virgin in the kitchen, I never thought that I am capable of making a meatloaf. As a matter of fact, I worried more about cooking than immigration, culture shock and the possibility of racism. Pathetic, eh? I grew up with ready food on the table, and my apparition in the [...]

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Stokes

Real cream ice cream? Now you’re talking!
These babies are on special this weekend, so we grabbed three… 1 for each day until Monday – the Victoria Day holiday
We weren’t able to find our fave Vanilla Swiss Almond Haagen Dazs, that’s why we settled for an alternative. For us, it is the best tasting [...]

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The Ugly Balkan

The Balkan-style yogurt is the yogurt nobody loves. If you look at the long, horizontal stretch of the dairy chiller, the Balkan corner is always well stocked. Common people are magnets for those yuppy yogurts with sunshine commercials and attractive packaging, designed to mask the crap and sugar lurking inside the jar. Most dairy products [...]

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A Not So Green Spring

Spring is finally here after the long, desolate, and depressing company of old man winter!
The extremes are still fighting and I want summer to win sooo bad!
I never believed in seasonal disorder until I came to this northern country. I thought winter depression is an exaggeration or another make-believe syndrome created by the deceitful mind [...]

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Success is the Best Revenge

See those peaks? Those are the peaks of my success . I have beaten the egg whites stiff!
I know it’s not rocket science and I admit it doesn’t look very appealing, but hey, kudos to the multi-tasking freezer bag for producing those well sculptured swirls for an amateur like me. A special mention to [...]

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I Heart Fats!

TurkeyBacon-silog (Turkey Bacon, Sinangag (garlic fried rice), Itlog (sunny side-up egg).
Breakfast is important for us. It is the meal that’s “supposed” to nourish our body after “a night of fasting”. Therefore, it is not to be expected of me to load up just any kind of crap to my biologique system first thing in the [...]

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