Hotcake or Pancake

Yesterday, I cooked some hotcake as per request by my father dear. He really loves hotcake or pancake that if he went to a grocery, a box of pancake will always be included. My niece and nephew loves to eat it too, as a matter of fact, they even helped me prepare some of the ingredients and sometimes they really wanted to do the cooking which is not yet advisable because its too hot for them to handle.

So let’s begin.

The Ingredients

• cream all purpose flour-1kg
• eggs-4pcs
• water-2 cups or depends on the solution
• sugar-2 cups or depends on how you want it too sweet or not
• margarine-1-2 tablespoon
• vanilla extract-a little amount
• yeast or baking powder (if available, but its best if you have this to make the hotcake mix rise)

Pasta Penne Regati

Next to my craving list was pasta, and now I’m choosing Penne Regati as the pasta to be used instead of spaghetti. I called my recipe Pasta Penne Regati with a twist.

You’ll know why I put “with a twist” later.

Now let’s start.

The Ingredients are:

• Penne Regati
• Italian sauce or Filipino Sauce (according to your preferences)
• cheese (for me I used the Eden Melt Sarap cheese as an alternative)
• Nestle Cream
• minced pork or spaghetti sauce
• oil
• white onions or the regular onion
• garlic

My own version of PALITAW (Rice Cake)

What is a PALITAW:

Palitaw is a Philippine dessert and snack made with simple rice flour dough that is boiled and then coated in coconut and sesame seeds. The small, flat rice cakes are traditionally eaten during holiday festivities but can be enjoyed at any time.

Since, I’ve been craving to eat Palitaw nowadays (hey, I’m not pregnant, gusto ko lang kumain talaga nito tapos yung maraming coconut tsaka sugar—-tsarap). So everytime, I went to JMall, I went first to the Painitan corner to buy one – 7pcs for Php 45.00 (if ako ang gagawa it could be a lot cheaper because I can make plenty of it). 😂

When my cousin tagged me in her post in Instagram, she posted her own version of PALITAW also, she said that it was so easy to cook, so she shared a video on how to do it.

—-watching the video—-

Now the next step to make my cravings completely satisfied, I need to find the ingredients specially the Glutinous Rice flour. Good thing JMall and Colonade has an available stocks. So now I can start making it.

The Ingredients:

1 1/4 cup of powdered Glutinous rice flour

2/3 cup of water

1/2 cup of sugar

1 tablespoon of sesame seeds

and a freshly grated coconut grains

Glutinous Rice Flour

These are the main ingredients

Diy – Flower and its vase 🌺🌼🌾

I really love doing arts specially school projects. As for now let me present to you the project of my niece in her Filipino subject. She chooses to have a Plorera. They where advised to use scrap materials like a bottle or a can, while for the flowers any papers will do.

The Making.

The vase was made with a can in which I wrapped it with a bondpaper, then rolled it on a powder of powder dust. As for the design of the base, I attached a crepe paper color green, cut it like a leaves underground and a flower like a santan and put it on the body of the can.

For the flowers, the violet, orange and pink long curly strands used materials such as a stick (to make it stand), a straw (to cover the stick with a color green crepe paper serve as the stem) and the curly style are made with crepe paper cut at least 2 inches rectangular, then cut vertically with at least 1/2 for the curls. then last was the leaves made of cartolina cut into leaves shape.

Cooking 101: Sotanghon with Sardines

I’m cooking a sotanghon with sardines as the main ingredients. If you don’t have a meat or a fish you can use a sardines as an alternative. The name of our main dish is Sotanghon with Sardines.

INGREDIENTS:

• sotanghon
• sardines (you may use meat or round scad)
• red bell pepper
• cayenne pepper
• carrots
• onions
• garlic
• soy sauce
• vetsin or magic sarap
• salt
• oil
• and boiling water

Wedding Invitations

Who’s getting married here? I envy you, hahaha, but its a joke. I just missed making wedding invitations though it was just a very simple one. I guess I could say this is one of my hobby too.

Here are some of the wedding invitations I have made for a couple of years.

I’ve made this last 2014 for my study buddy Annabella who was already married to her Dzordz. The design was originally planned by Dey his husband.

This was his idea, a wedding invitation that will stand as a frame. It was nice but I think the only problem was its stability. We only used a thick construction paper to make the back portion stand balancing on its body.

The cover page, this was already my idea. A butterfly effect with their surnames. I used a parchment paper as the front cover so that the effect of the design inside will be visible or let us say catchy to the eye of the people who are they inviting. Light blue was their motif in their wedding.

The design inside was a wedding ring in 50%opacity as the main background with a leaves effect in opposite sides, still in light blue color. I asked them a quote to be added in each pages. I also tried adding up a sweet picture of them as a sign of a memorable moment in their life. In each pages, I used a thin scented construction paper or oslo paper so that the frame will not fell down because of the heavy paper in the front. While on the frames, I surrounded it with light blue cloth ribbon to add up its effect.

Angel Bliss 👼

Cross stitch is one of my hobby. I learned it when I was in high school days. My teacher (Mr. Cena) taught me on how to do it,???  yes he was a boy and he has a book of different designs of cross stitch. I remembered my first ever cross stitch was a small house I put it on our door but unfortunately the door was replaced and I don’t know where was it now. Second was a cross stitch of a word stating COUNT ON ME and was surrounded by flowers. I placed it also on the wall but years passed yun nasira di ko kasi yun naiframe, nilagay ko lang dingding using a masking tape, yun natanggal siguro dahil sa mga pamangkin ko and misplaced it.

Nung nagbubuntis pa ang ate ko sa pamangkin kong lalaki she bought an Angel Bliss Boy, he already started it and haven’t finished because right after she gave birth to her son she became busy attending the baby and second to her work.

She made the body of it and I continued the rest which was the head part, but before she handed me this Angel boy unfinished I already bought an Angel Bliss Girl. Maybe because of it she thought of letting me continue stitching it to see the finish product.

Hotdog and Cheese Roll Sandwich

My sister got inspired to make a roll sandwich today, I asked her what made her think of doing such, she answered that she saw the Sarap With Family portion last Saturday where Jenylyn cooks a sausage roll and she think it was easy as long as the ingredients are there, why not try to make one, but in her case instead of using a sausage she used a hotdog.

INGREDIENTS ARE:

• slice bread
• hotdogs/cheesedog or sausage or ham
• cheese (any kind of cheese)
• bread crumbs
• egg (for sealing and for dipping to let the bread crumbs stick to the bread)
• oil for cooking

 

HOW TO COOK:

1. Flatten the bread using rolling pin, in case you don’t have a rolling pin like us, just use a glass of water then roll it down.
2. Cut the hotdog by half vertically so that the bread will not be so bulky.
3. Also cut the cheese into vertical long cube size.
4. Once the bread was flatten align the hotdog and cheese on the tip of the bread then roll it onward.
5. Use the white yolk of the egg to seal the roll.
6. After rolling all the sandwiches dip it on the white yolk and then to the bread crumbs.
7. After dipping you may now cook.

this is ready to be cook

wait until the sandwiches becomes light brown

some of the breads are started to changed its color to brown

Midnight Playlist 🎧

Time check 1:03 am

Still wide awake and listening to this following playlist on my cellphone, baka naman dalawin ako ni A ~ antok (ika nga ni Ate Ann Gabo ~ @anngabo1).

1. Youth – Troye Sivan (LSS Mode because of Bora vid ni Meng)
2. Better When Im Dancin – Meghan Trainor
3. Dear Future Husband – Meghan Trainor
4. One Call Away – Charlie Puth (LSS din because of Alden’s one call away to Meng)
5. Marvin Gaye – Charlie Puth ft. Meghan Trainor
6. Hula Hoop – OMI
7. Stitches – Shawn Mendes
8. Something Big – Shawn Mendes
9. I’m an Albatraoz – Aron Chupa
10. Dazed and Confused – Jake Miller
11. Hotline Bling – Drake

Now you judge, who can sleep when all the songs in the playlist ay nakakaindak, yung gusto mong sumayaw talaga..hahahaha!!

“Youth”

by Troye Sivan

My youth
My youth is yours
Trippin’ on skies, sippin’ waterfalls
My youth
My youth is yours
Run away now and forevermore

My youth
My youth is yours
The truth so loud you can’t ignore
My youth, my youth, my youth
My youth is yours

What if
What if we start to drive
What if
What if we close our eyes
What if
We’re speeding through red lights into paradise
‘Cause we’ve no time for getting old
Mortal bodies, timeless souls
Cross your fingers, here we go
Oh, oh, oh

My favorite part in the song…LSS na LSS talaga..thanks for sharing this song Maine.

ciao everyJuan😍

North Escapade-Guiwanon Coldspring

Feb 7, 2016

We went to the north side of Cebu particularly in Tabogon, Cebu City.

 This cold spring was called as the Enchanting Guiwanon Colds pring, located at Maslog, Tabogon Cebu City.

The water is so clear, so cold and so amazing.

The plan was to go to Tabogon to sign the Land documents my mother and her siblings inherit from their late mother. After the signing and the talking we will go swimming in this amazing, and relaxing cold spring.

Picture above consist of my mother (right side) followed by my father, my nephew, me on a white t-shirt, my sister in law (left side) and my cousin in the middle, the man behind was my uncle.

We enjoyed soaking on the cold water, even though the water leveled only on our hips, notice our knees bending, its because it’s still low tide.

They are my relatives, tengga sa cottage, walang damit na pampalit, di sila ready unlike us excited eh..hahahaaha. So they are obliged to prepare the foods for all of us.😤😤

But if they like to soak just their feet, yes they can in fact the small fishes will clean their callus..😝😝😝

Did you noticed the small fishes?they are just staying on the side of the shore waiting or looking for a food under the stones.

If you are planning to visit this amazing God creature (i mean the water itself..) try to check this following infos:

1. More or less 4hrs of travel from Mandaue proper to Tabogon, Cebu City
2. It was just along the road but take note, the name is not seen clearly, if your taking a ceres bus, you may tell the driver to stop you on the exact location, but if you are using your private vehicle practice asking locations to people..ganoin!.
3. Cottage is worth Php 100.00 if you like, pwede din nmang wala.
4. Entrance fee if motor – Php 5.00 each.
5. Entrance fee if car – Php 10.00 each (so alam na! go for a motor para maka discount kahit naka car..hahaha…🙊 🙊 🙊).
6. Ceres bus fare more or less Php 80.00.
7. If your bring a car (porsche hahaha) don’t worry about the parking, the place is very big to accommodate the cars.

 

So that’s it, hope you’ll visit the place, it may not yet properly developed but you will be amazed in the relaxing feeling once you get soak in the water.

ciao EveryJuan. 😍