Tagged your It

I didn't realize I was tagged til my sister melody told me about it. Thanks Shy for tagging me. Ok guys c'mon down. Get your popcorns ready coz here I come with the type and read heheheheh.

Rules: The answers to the questions below must be based on "at this current moment."

1. Where is your cellphone -It's beside me, on top of the scanner.
2. Your hair - short,curly and black.
3. Your father - Somewhere in the Philippines.
4. Your favorite thing - the computer.
5. Your dream last night - I dreamed about eating and getting busted for drugs!
6. Your favorite drink - Water and sprite.
7. Your dream goal - find a man get married have kids and live happily ever after.
8. The room you are in - The living room.
9. Your fear - Rats,centipedes and talking to someone on the phone.
10. Where do you want to be in 6 years -Be with my husband and kids and the whole family.
11. Muffins - Blueberry muffin.
12. One of your wish list items - Learn different languages,do volunteer work in africa and travel.
13. Where you grew up - Partly in Ormoc City and then Cebu City.
14. The last thing you did - dropped ec on Shy.
15. What are you wearing - Shorts and sleeveless shirt.
16. Your TV - ChangHong.
17. Your pets- Don't have them with me right now.
18. Your computer- Neo.
19. Your life - Happy and wacky.
20. Your mood - Excited.
21. Missing someone - My sister Melody.
22. Your car - Don't have a car and don't know how to drive.
23. Favorite store - SM.
24. Your summer - Staying at home and watch CSI.
25. Your favorite color - Yellow
26. When was the last time you laughed - Last night while watching Bubble Gang
27. When was the last time you cried - 2 months ago when when my grandmother's sister died.
28. Last person who emailed you - Yahoo notification of password changed.
29. Your favorite food - all types of fattening foods.
30. A place you would rather be right now - Upstairs sleeping.

I am tagging the following extraordinary people. Drum roll please:
Melody
Dominic
Marie
Have fun guys.

Reminiscing !

I was just browsing old files here in my computer when I found this old picture I had scanned. It's a picture of one of my family's gatherings. I believe I was in grade 6 when this picture was taken. We were always a happy bunch whenever we get together. We are loud and we talk and laugh a lot.It's always a picnic for us when we go to our grandparent's house even now. We would always make it a habit to go on a diet before we leave for her house because we know that when we get there it would be a non stop eating event. When we have parties it usually starts in the morning and ends at night while constantly talking and eating during that time span. Can you just imagine the amount of food we consume and that's just not one day but in the duration of our stay. Our grandparent's place is like a comfort zone for all of us. A mini reunion always happens on their birthdays so you can always hear the loudness of the music when we dance and the peals of laughter when we chat. I'm grinning from ear to ear as I am writing this blog, those are times you would always keep in your memory forever.

My first award

My first ever award here on blogging. I just rose up from a bit of a slump in my blogging side because of the move we had to make. Coming back is all worth it because as you can see I got my first award heheheheh. Love it.Thanks to my friend shy of Simply Happy Life for passing on this award to me with just 1 simple rule:


Name 7 things that you love and then pass this on to 7 bloggers. So easy right?

Here are the 7 things I love:
1. Family
2. Cooking
3. Blogging
4. Reading
5. Watching Movies/TV series
6. Crocheting and accessory making
7. EATING

Proudly passing the torch to:
1. Melody of Life Marriage and Kids
2. Dominic of Xatimprezive
3. Rosarie of Chrissaire
4. Jenn of My Sweet Haven
5. Allena of I'm Walking On Sunshine
6. Beth of Ramblings of an Undisturbed Mind
7. Genny of My Online Adventures

Tie Breaker Chocolate Cake ! Yum

Yesterday Mom was craving for chocolate cake and she seldom likes chocolate cake so I was really surprised and frantic because I don't have much recipe of chocolate cake since she doesn't like me to bake said type of cake. She really really really wanted to each cake so I scrambled about looking at all of the recipe book I have on chocolate cake. I couldn't seem to find any that she likes.

She wanted me to bake a chocolate cake similar to Orange Brutus' Chocolate monster. I haven't even baked a choco cake before and here she wants that kind of cake. I was in despair at that time and so I went online and searched for a recipe that she would like and I filtered the search with recipes that have photos so she can tell me which one she wants. I finally found one but I didn't know I was gonna place it in my blog so I don't remember the link or whose recipe I used. I tweaked it a bit. I started baking and when it was cooked I had mom taste the cake and she said it was too bitter. So I baked another cake and lessen the cocoa and added more sugar to it. Finally she liked that one.

Then she wanted me to put a filling and it's a problem again because I've never cooked a filling of any kind well except that of pies because I know some. Then thankfully I remembered My aunt's recipe of chocolate cream boat tart and so I used that recipe. When it was done she didn't like it because there is a certain smell she didn't like and so I decided to tweak the cream filling recipe and she liked the result. Whew that was a lot of work. I was suppose to just slice the one cake in half and put the filling in but I didn't want to waste the other cake and so I decided to just sandwich the cake together. Done.

So I thought I was finally done then Mom wanted me to put icing on top and so I scavenge my recipes and found one and so I tried it. Topped it on the cake and prayed that I'm done.
Horrayyy finally I'm done.Mom didn't quite taste it until later that night in her room. She sliced it and took a bite and she praised it to high heaven... She said it is very delicious. She was the one who named it tie breaker chocolate cake because she said the bitterness and sweetness of both the cake blended in and the filling and icing made it taste even better. If you know what I mean.Warning though mom couldn't sleep with all that chocolate in it I just thought you should all know.

So here is the recipe in case any of you would want to try it. And ohh pics too.

I used 9x6 pan
Filling:
2 t all purpose flour
1 cup evaporated milk
1/4 cup condensed milk
1/2 cup + 1 T light corn syrup
1/4 cup white sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 T butter

= mix together in a pan with a whisk and then turn on heat stir constantly until thick then add the butter. (depends on you how thick or thin you want your filling to be)

Bottom Cake :Preheated 300 F
1 c all purpose flour
11/8 cup sugar
1/4 c cocoa
1 t baking soda
1 egg
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1/2 cup oil
3/4 t vanilla
1/2 c boiling water
= just mix everything in a mixer then pour on greased and lined with wax paper pan. Slow bake for an hour til toothpick or knife inserted comes out clean.

Top Cake:
same ingredients except for the measurement of sugar and cocoa

1 c sugar
1/4+1/8 c cocoa

= baked same way.

Let cake cool completely before putting icing

Chocolate icing:
1 pc. egg
3/4 c sugar
1/4 c flour
1/2 c cocoa
1 c water
1 c evaporated milk
3 T butter (to be added at the end)

mix together and then cook until thick or which ever consistency you like.

Thanks Beth!

Since we moved to a new place a lot has happened to the blogging side of my life. I wasn't able to blog as much as I would have liked because of the looking and the moving. Because of that event my entrecard account was deleted but I wrote them about it and they understood my reason and had my account reinstated but I had a big problem the blog I linked to it didn't come back with the reinstated one and I have decided beforehand that I will use this blog Ihave right now to be my main blog. My sister even paid for the design to be changed into a more interesting one.

I wrote again and then my guardian angel came swooping down and her name is Beth the girlie geek. She was and still is helping me out. It has been fixed now thanks to all the effort she put in. To my angel a big thanks for the support and the time spent on helping out little ole me. More power to you and to entrecard. I hope that even after all the glitches has been solved that we can become friends.HEAR! HEAR!

The Tinabal and Vajayjay!

Last night we ate tinabal. Tinabal is what we called the fish that's been soaked in salt and water and left there until its ready to be sold. So imagine a fresh fish being soaked and then left there for ages and ages well you can just imagine the smell of it. It stinks to high heaven and is very very salty to0. But we do so love this kind of salty fish.

We prepared it by washing the fish and then frying it in oil for a few minutes and then take it out of the pan and then saute garlic and onion and lots and lots of tomatoes. Then we add the fried stinky fish and add a little vinegar tov lessen the saltiness and add monosodium glutamate (vetsin) and then its eating time. Ohhh la la la it may smell awful but we do so love the taste.

While we were frying the fish the whole house smelled like the stinky fish... hahahahah we had to open all the windows and let the air in. A lot of people would compare the scent to a stinky vajayjay as what oprah calls the vagina. heheheheh Damn I have no idea why but they associate it with that.Does a vajayjay really smell that bad? Only the guys can answer that.

Dry Cough! Ouch it really hurts

After I had my fever and runny nose these past days I thought that I would feel much much better but I was dead wrong. Now I have a very hard and dry cough and it really hurts like hell. It even hurts to breath. I guess it's because some of my muscles really hurt from coughing. It's good thought that my throat isn't as itchy anymore. It really really sucks to have this kind of cough. I would have preferred the loose one. I feel like putting a tube inside my lungs and then have all my phlegm sucked out... gee if only I could.

Although eating some oranges first thing in the morning seemed to loosen the ohhh so yucky phlegm a bit. I cough and I cough and it hurts and hurts oh what is a girl to do to get rid of this nasty cough.What is a girl to do I say!!!!