Road Trip Snacks

Are you fond of traveling and love snacking while on the trip? Its a good way to prevent you from being bored though you should also assure that your snacks is still healthy and good for your body. Here's some suggestive snacks for you:

1. Fresh and Dried Fruit
Is an excellent idea to have fresh fruits as a goodies on the trip. Apples, bananas (better to chill it first), and grapes were a good choice, better to cut it into easy to eat bite size. Some dried fruits are also good such as raisins and prunes.

2. Nuts
This is a common snacks while traveling, any type (almonds, walnuts or cashews) of it are a good choice to keep your energy high than eating junk foods.

3. Sandwiches
This is a healthy and great choice of snack, whether with peanut butter, string cheese or fresh veggies. Better to have a wheat bread for your sandwich than any usual bread.

4. Cookies
Choose a cookie with oatmeal, fruits or nuts on your trip. The fiber makes them filling and satisfying.

January 29 ,2010

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Variety of Chocolates

3 days and 4 nights to go and its February again, month of love and time to treat your special someone in this coming Valentines Day. Chocolate is now in demand and very popular for this very special occassion, whether its a rounded, heart shape or any shape it could be.

Whenever I eat chocolates I used to remember the amazing view I spotted in Bohol, the Chocolate Hills, it was really an awesome scenery. Anyway let me share to you some varieties of chocolates that you can choose from this coming holiday...

Dark Chocolate
This is a healthy chocolate, it is good for your heart, a small amount of it daily can help your cardiovascular system to run well. This chocolate doesn't have milk solids.

Milk Chocolate
It is the best selling variety of chocolate in the world today. It consists of sugar, cocoa butter and vanilla, also have liquor and milk solids. Milk chocolate is sweeter than any other chocolates that's why it's much love by most of the people.

January 28 ,2010

88DB Philippines

Chicken on the Go

Chicken is a very common food for Filipinos, there are variety of ways to cook and prepare it as food. Bacolod City is a place where you can find the best and yummy chicken. There are many popular chicken dishes that you'll surely love, let me share to you some of these menus.

Fried Chicken
This is the most common way to cook a chicken, a very easy and no hassle dish. Coated with flour (with salt and pepper), serves as a breading mixutre. It gives a crispy crust to the exterior. Then deep fry it in oil until brown.


Chicken Adobo
This is a national dish for Filipinos, where in the "Adobo" is a Spanish word for seasoning or marinade. The marinades is a combination of soy sauce, vinegar, bay leaf, crushed garlic and peppercorn.

Chicken Afritada
This is a colorful dish due to the bell pepper plus the potato that is cooked in a tomato sauce. Breadcrumbs is also needed in this menu to make the sauce thicken.



Chicken Curry
This is also a known chicken dish that was originated in India and just introduced to the rest of the world. This chicken curry consists of onion, tomato, flavored with ginger, bell pepper and fried potatoes, seasoned with curry powder, salt and pepper.

January 27 ,2010

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A Healthy Snacks for A Busy You

Working 8 hours a day is really tiring, lots of work load , heavy stress, dealing with clients, deadline to meet and a lot more. Facing with this kind of pressure is really burden so you need something that will boost you in able to prevent this disturbing feeling and that is by eating a snacks at your desks. This will give you a feeling of relaxation and a therapy as well. Here's a few recommended examples of a healthy snacking:

Nuts
Nuts is known to be high in calories and fat, though a handful of it will be enough for you to keep you satisfied. They are power foods in that they also provide healthy fats along with some fiber.

Fruits
Fruits is a very healthy snacks that you can have, it can be bananas, oranges, or even grapes and of course apples which is healthy in carbs and protein.

Crackers and Peanut Butter
This is a great combo! Crackers helps you to curb your appetite, and filing it with a peanut butter is a nice idea.

Yogurt
Yogurt comes with many flavors, but it is recommended to have a lower sugar plain yogurt combined with fruits (anything of your choice). This is rich in protein, calcium, riboflavin, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12.

January 26 ,2010

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Filipinoes Native Desserts

Who would say no with dessert? Dessert is usually serve after every meal, its something that you waited for after the end of the snacks. Filipinos have their own native dessert that you'll surely enjoy, let me introduce to you some of their native delicacies:

Palitaw
This is one of the Filipino common dessert, a small, flat sweet rice cake that is made from malagkit(a sticky rice), grated coconut, sugar and sesame seeds. This is so easy to make. First, you need to create a little balls from the malagkit then flatten it. Drop it in a boiling water, when it floats its already cook. Remove from water and roll it with sugar, serve with grated coconut and sesame seeds on top.

Ginataan/Bilo Bilo
Ginataan or Bilo Bilo is a popular dessert for Filipinos, it has a sweet taste of coconut milk. Its perfect during cold rainy days and also as a merienda. It is so easy to make, let the coconut milk and water to boil, then add other ingredients such as chopped sweet potato, sweet banana, taro, tapioca pearls and sugar. Mix well and served hot.

Polvoron
Polvoron, this is definitely a kid's favorites. This is the easiest to make in all desserts coz it doesn't involve cooking, just a little bit toasting of the flour prior to mixing it with the powdered milk, melted butter and sugar - and you now have a delicious polvoron.


Turon
Turon, another native desserts of the Filipinos. Turon is primarily made of banana that is wrap with a lumpia wrapper and dipped with brown sugar. You can also add a langka together with the banana to make it more sweet.

Halo Halo
A very popular dessert in which means to mix different kinds of ingredients. Its mainly mixture are ice and milk, and added with various boiled sweet beans and fruits (sweet red beans,sliced banana, coconut jelly),or any other fillings of your choice such as (sago, nata de coco, etc) and served cold in a tall glass or bowl.

May you enjoy all this delicacies with your family and friends.

January 25 ,2010

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Ice Cream for All Season

Ice cream, my all time favorite, whether in summer where frozen foods where really in demand or even in cold days,..its something that I always crave for. An ice cream is a frozen dessert that is made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavours. And speaking of flavours, there are variant of it that you'll surely love such as vanilla, butter pecan, strawberry, cookies and cream, coffee, rocky road, and of course chocolate, one of the popular ice cream and my favorite. I'll share you one recipe of this that you'll surely enjoy.

Ingredients:
5 egg yolks,
500ml milk,
250ml double/heavy cream,
2 oz (50g) sugar,
150g (6 oz) milk chocolate cut into small squares

How to make:
Create a custard base and at the point where you remove the saucepan from the heat, carefully drop in the squares of real chocolate. Stir to allow to melt and then leave the custard to cool. Then chill the custard until it's really cold. Once chilled, mix until slushy. Add the cream (whipped) and make sure it mixes in well. Transfer the mixture in an ice cream maker and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions.

You'll surely love this one and I hope you'll try to make it for yourself. Have a happy day!

January 22 ,2010

88DB Philippines

Be Healthy and Gain Weight

Almost everyone want to lose weight, to have the sexy body they wanted. And only few, have problems in gaining weight. It may feel a bit sad when everyone you know is trying to shed pounds and you are trying to put some on. But actually solution with this problem was really easy and that's just "to eat a lot". Change you diet strategy and eat more than your usual meal a day to consume more calories. But what kind of food or meal is this?

High in Protein:
Foods rich in protein is very important to have a healthy body. It allows the body to gain muscle mass without building excess fats. Milk is one good source of protein, others are fish(tuna, salmon, haddock)meats, eggs, nuts, grains, soybeans.

High in Carbohydrate:
Carbohydrate is the source of energy of human being, it is important that you have enough carbohydrate daily to perform you daily activities. Vegetables and fruits are considered to be a superior source of it like broccoli, green beans, corn. Other good source of carbohydrate are brown rice and whole grain.

Fat Sources
Not all fats are bad, we also need it in our body. Any type of nuts such as peanuts, almonds, hazelnuts, cashew, and walnuts are healthy fat foods.

Aside from foods that you intake in your body, it is also important to have a complete sleep and do some exercise daily to become fit and easily gain weight.

January 19 ,2010

88DB Philippines

Keep It Safe and Fresh

Have you ever gone camping with your friends? Or are you an adventurous person that want to explore the beauty of nature and always on the go to have an extreme activities. Well, me and my friends love outdoor activities and we really had so much fun with it. We usually go to Tagaytay and spend time to relax and go camping.

Though we usually encounter problems regarding the foods that we have, it was so hard for us at first to ensure the freshness and to be able to avoid it from getting spoiled. And maybe some of you had already experience it. I'll share to you some useful tips that you can do to avoid it.

* Pack the right food. It is important to choose the right food to take during camping. Not all food can be store at a long period of time. It will be good not to bring any meat food, coz it can spoiled easily. Nuts or peanut butter is rich in protein also that you can bring without having worries that it will spoil.


* A Cooler. If you have food that need to place in a cooler, it will be good if it chilled already at home then pack it with a foil and place it in a bag that zip close, with this you can assure to prolong the life span of the food.


* Safe Storage. Can goods is what we usually take during camping. Once a can is opened, the food in it shouldn't be take back, if ever your not able to finish it all better place it in a plastic container or with a zipper bag or any plastic food container that you have.

Enjoy and have fun with your camping!

January 18 ,2010

88DB Philippines

Quick 'N Easy Meal for the Day

Have you ever had problems in preparing your meal for the day? Busy schedule and lack of time to cook and do the all the preparation for it? Here's a short list of recipes in which you can use for each meal:

Breakfast
Pancake - this is one of the easy meal for breakfast, healthy as well, so this will be right for someone whose always in a hurry. Here's an easy way to create one:

* a cup of whole wheat flour
* baking powder
* salt
* milk or soymilk
* oil

Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients. Bake on hot griddle or frying pan with the butter or an ordinary oil. Makes 8 four inch pancakes. Can be easily doubled or tripled. Try adding some sweetener like honey or any additives that suites your taste.

Lunch
Lunch is the most appropriate time to eat heavy meal than any time of the day. You need more energy to spend with any activities you have for the day. Here's a recipe for a healthy fried rice that can satisfied your tummy ^^...

* eggs
* garlic and onion
* vegetables of your choice (carrots, peas, mushroom, baby corn)
* cooked rice
* chili sauce

Saute the garlic and onion and the vegetables of your choice in an oil. If all were already cooked, mix soy sauce and chili sauce together and then stir through rice mixture. Serve the sliced egg roll.

January 15 ,2010

88DB Philippines

Leftover Mania!

Well, lets make it to the fullest, now I'll present you more leftover tips for you to have some useful ideas to save money and avoid wasting...

* Use Spices. Aside from the common way of reheating your leftover, you can also make a brand new dish out of it. Add spices and herbs to your leftover food items and use them as ingredients in just about any recipe you can think of. Its not to bad to experiment sometimes and try to be more creative as well.

* Use The Veggies. We often dispose the leftover vegetables in the garbage not knowing that it can still be use as another additives or can create other recipes too. Veggies are great to use in just about any recipe. Not only are they good for your health, but they will save you money because they won't go to waste.

* Make Desserts. This is the best thing to do in any sweet leftover such as fruits, candies, cookies, pies, there are lots of yummy recipes for this; in fruits you can add it in making cakes, muffins, and breads; about dried-out bread it can be made into bread pudding; Oh..creating some dessert is a great thing to do specially when you want to chill out and relax.

* Use Eggs. Its only sometimes that we have eggs leftover from the last meal. Though using of it with other leftover ingredients is good. Use it to make another omelets, quiches, and scrambles. Eggs are also indispensable for binding together ingredients such as burgers, meatloaf, dough, and bakery dishes.

January 14 ,2010

88DB Philippines

Voila - its a Spaghetti Pizza!

Last week of December my highschool friends and I had a picnic along Manila. It was such a good experience to see and meet again your old colleagues grown up and matured already. It was fun and all enjoyed that day.

Each bring something for that picnic, and I brought my homemade spaghetti pizza. Yes! a spaghetti pizza, coz that pizza was made of spaghetti sauce. At first I decided to just buy somewhere but I wanted to make it special so I decided to create my own. Though I'm a bit confuse because I also wanted to make it a little different than the usual pizza that we can buy and I'm lucky that I found that there still a leftover spaghetti sauce in our refrigerator...tic tac..haha...its a great idea, a spaghetti sauce for a pizza!

It was just an easy recipe that anyone can make. Just spread the leftover pasta sauce onto the crust and add your favorite toppings such as bacon, ham, sausage, pineapple crust or anything that you want to put with it. And voila you will have your homemade spaghetti pizza...^^

I was glad that all my friends enjoyed it and they were curious how did I made it...

January 13 ,2010

88DB Philippines

Save Your Leftover!

After a long vacation and celebrations, there will be lots of food leftover... There will be instances that you don't have enough space where to put it, and due to this some might get spoiled.

I'll just share to you some little tips in which you can prevent spoilage of foods and right ways to store it:

* Hot foods can only be left within 2 hours outside the refrigerator, if its been out for more than 2 hours better not to keep it. Don't taste it, either, just to know if its already spoiled. Even a small amount of contaminated food can cause illness.

* If your going to cool a hot perishable food it should be done quickly. Don't cool leftovers on the kitchen counter, better to put them straight into the refrigerator or cool them in a bowl surrounded by ice water, then refrigerate.

* Date leftovers will only remain safe when refrigerated for three to five days, but leftovers containing meat will only last within 3 days.

* About foods with mayonnaise or other egg-based products may not be safe to eat for the next day, you should consume it within the day.

* It will be good also if you will plan of using the leftovers. They can be used as an additives or alternatives in other dishes. You can even create a different recipes out of leftovers.

* Lastly, do not rely on reheating leftover food to make mishandled food safe.

Just hope that this will help a bit for all and lets keep ourselves healthy by eating the right and safe foods! ^^

January 12 ,2010

88DB Philippines

Extraordinary Dessert

Its been a while since I posted here, its been a long vacation for everyone and I really had fun. I always looking forward for holidays .. (haha^^)...

It was a memorable break because I used to attend 3 parties within a week. Its kinda tiring though I really enjoyed it, two for my cousins despedida and a family reunion, the third one is a friends gathering. My get together with my family was the most memorable, all were there and complete, even my aunties and uncles from abroad was able to went home just to celebrate with us.

Everything was perfect, the place was classic, and very impressive just suites for the event, and specially the food, its something that I'm looking forward with any celebrations:D ...My aunt rent for a food caterer and the food was awesome, all was mouth watering, and something that you'll want to ask for more...:) specially the desserts...there are 3, though there's one that until now I can still taste it with my mouth - the Mochi, its a popular japanese snack! The one I tasted was much different from the original one, its a chocolate-filled Mochi and I love chocolates!

Oh..I really enjoyed the vacation and hope everyone also had a happy holidays!!

January 11 ,2010

88DB Philippines