[Fandom] It's the 26th

*photo credit yuckie-chan@livejournal.com*

     This is the first time that I am supposed to be seriously blogging about Satoshi's birthday but unfortunately I couldn't since I am stuck here at the christmas Bazaar tending my "wares". to celebrate it, I cooked spicy seafood pepperoncino (emphasis on the spicy since Riida likes it hot... wait that sounded ero-poi).

     I also baked chocolate cupcakes. (with a candy BLUE FISH on top)

I'm going to post later what the pepperoncino looked like.

    

Who would even think that this guy is 31 years old?

[FANDOM] Three more days

Three more days until this guy's birthday...

Can't believe he's more than  30 already....

*photo credit: tumblr.com

Busy bee...

been busy these past few weeks. will tryto blog this week

[Lists] Christmas Wish List

Christmas is just around the corner and the kid inside me couldn't help but make a Christmas list.

1. A new camera

I do have a point and shoot cam but I love the quality an SLR camera has but I hate the "bulky' body of the SLR. At first I wanted a Sony NEX5 cam. It's a point and shoot but of SLR quality but when Nikon released their V1/J1 series, I said this is what I want. I'm just wishing Santa's going to be SUPER EXTRA GENEROUS this year.

2. ONITSUKA TIGER

I want this not because Uma Thurman wore this brand in Kill Bill, nor do I want this because it's Japanese made. I want this simply because it's super comfy. I have been crushing on this Mexico DX 66 ever since I saw it in this color. Paging Jiggs... it's Christmas... :)

3.  Apple Magic Mouse

This one, I really need. It's hard to click and drag using the track pad. It usually takes me a long time to finish a project with photoshop while using the trackpad.

4. A New Book

This is the newest book in the series, not to mention this is the only one missing from my collection. I'm   trying to control myself from downloading the ebook.

5. Clawdeen Wolf

I have the Frankie Stein Doll and she's lonely. She needs he friends. Clawdeen this Christmas and Draculaura on my birthday. 

6. Zuca Bag

I almost forgot, I want this bag too. It's so popular with figure skaters but it's not just made for them. It's made for people who love to travel. I especially like the little detachable compartments inside.

Right Now this is what I want for Christmas. I may or may not receive them. But hey, I can dream can't I? Who knows Santa might give these to in one go... heheheh

Margarita Nights

     Even though I was so tired, I couldn't say no to a Birthday Celebration. So after I got home from working on the "well" the entire day, I got tweet from Tin2x saying Margot's celebrating her birthday (her birthday's on the 29th).

     I took a quick bath and waited for them to fetch me. We had dinner at Pepe's (sorry no pics. I forgot to take them since we were hungry :P).

     Margot had just finished watching a movie with her eldest daughter, so Kyanna had dinner with us. It was just me, Tin2x, Margot and Mayee (1/3 of the entire group). 

     We had a pitcher of frozen strawberry margarita and ice cream for Kyanna.

It was fun catching up. So much stories to tell so little time (Mayee had work at 11PM).

Again, Happy Birthday Margot! Wishing you a happy & fruitful year...

And here's to being FRIENDS FOREVER....

[Recipe] Pandesal (Salt bread)

Did I tell you that the only thing that I'm afraid to bake/cook is bread? The fact that I would need to knead (need... knead... hmmm homophones) the dough for a certain amount of time, wait for the yeast to take effect (meaning wait for the dough to rise) is just too taxing for me. But I finally found the courage and this simple recipe to bake pandesal.

So what is pandesal? Pandesal is the most common Filipino breakfast food. It's eaten with a variety of things. Butter. jam, liver spread, name it you can definitely eat it with pandesal. But my favorite way of eating it is dunking it in hot native coffee.


Here's the catch. I did not follow the exact recipe below. I tried to do half of the recipe, plus I did not allow it to fully rise after cutting it into small pieces. The result... the taste was fine as per my aunt, grandmother & cousin. The only problem is, isn't too fluffy. It was to "siksik" (full / thick /compressed or whatever you call it). But hey I had fun making it, so here's the recipe.


What you'll need:

4 cups (500g) all purpose flour 

3 tspn instant dried yeast

1/2 cup sugar

3/4 tspn salt

5 tbspn softened butter

1 tbspn oil

1 egg

1/2 cup water

1/4 cup evaporated milk

1/2 cup fresh milk

Procedure:

1. Combine flour, sugar, salt & yeast

2. Lightly mix them. ( If you have a stand mixer, use the hook attachment)

3. Add egg, butter & oil.

4. Mix at low speed and allow them to mix well with the dry ingredients.

5. Combine evaporated milk, fresh milk and water and heat in the microwave for 45 seconds 

6. Add milk mixture to dough.

7. Once dough is wet from the milk mixture increase speed of mixer.

8. Allow mixer to knead the dough for at least 15 minutes.

9. Once done, place dough on bowl sprayed with oil and cover with cling wrap. (try to tuck the edges of the dough for a smooth surface).

10. Let dough rest for at least 1 hour or until it doubles in size.

Ok, at this point , after my dough doubled in size, I had to knead it by hand since it was quite sticky. maybe I placed too much milk. I kneaded the dough by hand, occasionally adding flour to prevent it from totally sticking in my hand. 

11. Cut the dough in desired size and cover the top with bread crumbs.

12. Let the dough rest again for at least another hour. ( again another boo-boo on my part, I just let my dough rest for 15 minutes... I was too excited to bake it.)

13. Pre heat over to 200C and bake pandesal for at least 10 - 15 minutes. 

I over baked my padesal since I like it a little crunchy on the outside.

So there you have it. Fresh hot, homemade pandesal. 

I think I'll try to do another batch next time. But I'll make sure this time I'll be a little more patient.

Another thing that made me want to bake pandesal is this.....

I finally took it out of it's hiding place and used it. So I guess this is going to be my new bestfriend... now, what should I name you?

Wishing Well

My aunt & I are starting a new project tomorrow....

We're building a well! Hope it turns out ok.

Will blog about it tomorrow and as we progress.

I'm excited...