Cheap Curtains from Divi

A week before Christmas I was able to buy some cheap but elegant looking curtains at Divisoria near 168 Mall. It's only P 100.00 per panel so I bought 4 pcs. for our room. I'll try to go back next week, hope they'll have new designs. I also bought 2 pcs. color blue curtains with the same design for Justine's room. Good buy isn't it?

Christmas Gift ni Kuya

This was the gift of my Kuya to me. I was very happy with this gift because i've been planning to buy a new watch to replace my old watch, buti na lang I've waited kasi nararamdaman kong ibibili talaga ako ni kuya hehehe....

Pare-pareho kaming tatlo, kay Ate Emma (his wife) and kay Marisse (his daughter), different colors nga lang.



Thank you very much kuya!!!!

Excelente and Tillamook

Breakfast on Christmas day wouldn't be complete without these two. Justine was the one who bought this last last Dec. 23 and became impatient because it's his first time to buy it alone and according to him, there's a lot of people inside the Excelente store in Quiapo. I don't know how to make ham that's why we just buy cooked ham in excelente as well as the bacon.

Pardon me for the blurred pic. Sobrang full pa ang feeling ko kaya konti lang muna ang niluto ko for breakfast. Eh may natira pang pizza nung gabi kaya kinain namin for breakfast yung iba.

This cheese naman was may favorite for the last 4 years now. Since mom came here for a vacation and she brought home a bar of this Tllamook, I got hooked since then. Thank God that this Christmas, it was a pasalubong for me by my Tita Lita. She asked my mom what I want as pasalubong and she just said that just buy Rizza a Tillamook cheese and I'm sure she'll be very glad. Well mom, super glad talaga ako because Tita Lita gave me 2 bars of this cheese.

Just what it says in the packaging... super sharp ng cheese na ito at talong-talo ang lasa ng Marca Piña at

Marca Pato na keso de bola dito sa atin.

In fairness, wala siyang mabahong amoy, hehehe...
unlike other cheese na hindi mo makain dahil sa baho!

Xmas Sweets!

Ang daming matatamis na pagkain tuwing kapaskuhan kaya naman kami ay bumili lang ng Mango Torte from Dulcelin dahil alam naming maraming magbibigay ng mga matatamis ngayong xmas season. Katulad na lang nitong si Kuya,a week before xmas ay nagdala na sa bahay ng Special na Ube Halaya from Ilocos. Valleden's ang name ng Halaya at masasabi ko na masarap siya at malapit na malapit ang taste niya sa Ube Jam ng Good Shepherd sa baguio.

Would you believe na super cheap ang price nito?

It's only P 150.00 for almost a kilo ng bigat ng halaya na ito.

We want more of this halaya kuya!

Si kuya Al naman tuwing Christmas ay may bigay sa aming Krispy Kreme. My kids likes it very much. Nag-uunahan sila lagi sa mga flavors na gusto nila. But hubby and I prefer the original glazed flavor.

What's your favorite Krispy Kreme flavor?

Yummy Mango Torte from Dulcelin...

We had this on Christmas Eve, it's very yummy according to my bunso. Thursday morning when we dropped by at Dulcelin in Times Street. It looks like na kaka-open lang ng kanilang "gate" for customers and ang unang humarap sa amin ay ang kanilang staff which was very friendly. Then lumabas na yung may-ari or in-charge sa selling ng cakes and we were quite disappointed by his attitude. I don't know kung may pagka-Chinese yung guy at parang may pagka-masungit siya sa mga customers. Kung hindi lang gusto namin ni hubby ng mango torte ay hindi na kami bibili sa kanya to think na sinadya pa namin sya sa Quezon City at galing pa kami ng Malabon. Sabi nga ni hubby, mayabang na porket Christmas season at marami ang bumibili ng Mango Torte niya. Hmmp! Kung ganyan naman lagi ang bibilhan eh di bale na lang!

Masarap nga kasi, kaya mayabang ang mama... buti na lang ay nasulit ang inis ko ng lasa ng torte niya. Masarap ang layer na maraming nuts, the cream is to die for but the fresh mango was not that sweet.

I'm thinking kung bibili pa uli ako sa Times or sa ibang outlet na lang para
di ko na makita ang mama na iyon!

Christmas Dinner

My hubby and I went to SM Hypermarket on the morning of the 24th and bought the ingredients of the food that he's going to cook on Christmas day. We always had our visitor at dinner time so he decided to cook something special for them.

Here's what we have:

He really cooked all of these! Ako naman ay support lang talaga at si Yeye, kami ang taga hiwa, at taga tikim, hehehe... at taga-tanong kung okay ka pa ba? hahaha!!!!

Specialty talaga ni hubby ang pancit, mapa canton or bihon talagang masarap po! Kaya tuloy yung mga teachers ni Justine sa school ay laging request ang pansit ng daddy niya at hindi ng mommy niya, wahehehehe...

Blue Marlin marinated in lemon and some spices and then fried in Anchor butter topped with fried garlic...
Masarap siya and this was a hit sa mga health conscious naming bisita!



Love this Pork Loin Steak!
He attended in one of the Joggers Christmas Party and he told me that the taste was so good and so he decided to include this in our menu.


Breaded Chicken Fillet was a kids favorite!

Super crunchy ng breading but still juicy inisde.
(At naisipan pa niyang lagyan ng garnishing yan...

panalo si hubby, wala akong masabi!)

Lunch in Tito Arthur's House on Xmas Day!

We had our Christmas lunch at Tito Arthur's house. It's been a practice of our family to celebrate Christmas lunch in his house because our "Lola" stays there. We had Kare-kare, Lechon sa Pugon, Fresh Lumpiang Ubod, Chicken Fillet, Chicken BBQ, and the panghimagas Leche Flan, Halaya and Buko Salad.

My lola happily serving her apos Jessica and KC who had a tantrums...hehehe...ayaw kumain.

Lola with her grandchildren and great grandchildren

Lola with Tita Beth, Me, Ate Emma, Tita Weng and Ate Leng
Topher was not around bukas ang shop kasi...

Actually, sandali lang ako nakapag-stay kina lola because I need to go home early dahil magpe-prepare naman kami ng xmas dinner para sa mga bisita naman namin sa gabi. It's Topher's time in the kitchen at kailangan ko siyang tulungan... Yes, tulong lang dahil siya ang magluluto at support lang ako, hahaha!

Please see my next post ...

Noche Buena

We celebrate Christmas eve with pizza, chicken and a cake. We're only five who celebrated that night and we asked our kids kung what kind of food and gusto nilang lutuin or bilhin na lang. They want pizzas from Shakey's so we decided to just order it and have it deliver in our home. We want our noche buena na "light" lang para naman hindi kami sobrang full kapag natulog na. That morning din ay bumili kami ng Mango Torte from Dulcelin para may pandagdag sa noche buena.

Manager's Choice


Pepperoni

Buddy Pack of Chicken n' Chips

and a Mango Torte from Dulcelin...

I wasn't able to take pictures na kumakain kami ng sabay-sabay... naiwan kasi ni Justine ang tripod namin sa school :( . Anyway at least napicturan ko ang mga food, hehehe....

Happy Holidays!!!!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! I would like to apologize for not being here for a month. I was not able to post entries in the past weeks because I became occupied with household chores. Yap! you read it right friends... we don't have a househelp for over a month now so I became the new "Inday" in our home. I feel very guilty for not being able to share what's happening to me, what's my latest craze and everything that can be share with you guys.

Watch our for my entries the soonest!