KITCHEN MISADVENTURE SERIES 5: TUNA IN MUSHROOM AND CREAM

KITCHEN MISADVENTURE SERIES 5: TUNA IN MUSHROOM AND CREAM Okay, okay I am truly very sorry…I know I have been quite remiss with posting lately, particularly with my kitchen misadventure series. It is not that I haven’t been cooking lately…I guess the food I have been cooking are just the regular ones and so I haven’t found the energy to post them at all! So this time around, I am posting quite a simple recipe that I did not actually get from any particular site. It is actually a dish similar to an old time fave – chicken a la king but instead of chicken, I used fish, particularly tuna fillets. The cooking procedure is quite the same, the fish is pre-cooked. But instead of boiled, steamed or grilled like chicken, it is rolled in flour and deep fried. Then this is set aside. Next, you put butter in the pan, stir in the mushrooms, add the milk then you let the mixture boil a bit to thicken it. Finally, add the fried fish and serve while still hot! Pretty easy…and tastes great too!

PIAO OUTING @ TAGAYTAY

PIAO OUTING @ TAGAYTAY For the second straight year, our small unit at PIAO will be holding our annual team-building at Tagaytay. Nope, it’s not exactly our favorite place in the world… In fact, I get to visit this place about twice or thrice each year but heck I still never get tired of it! But compared to last year, where only Keith and I were able to come (because the hubby had an important ballgame) this year I was able to take Kaye with me since Jun went with us na din. First stop, as usual, was Bag of Beans for breakfast and their brewed coffee. Afterwards, we wanted to shed off the heavy meal we just ate so we went to visit a zoo but a different one this time and not Paradizoo since its entrance fee is quite steep and so we opted for its sister zoo – the Residence Inn.

They even had the chance to have their pictures taken with live animals…of course for a minimal fee but that’s OK… they may never have the chance again e so might as well get it over and done with! I’m sure they take the necessary precautions naman e so doing it would not be so dangerous… still, I can’t help but remain apprehensive when it was Keith’s turn to have a pic with a baby tiger…even if it was just baby, it is still a tiger with its fangs, claws and all!

Next stop was People’s Park to walk off some more our heavy meal/breakfast. An added plus was the zipline that allowed the kids to take part in another daredevil stunt! I decided not to take part in it na lang…not really because I am afraid of heights (although partly, I guess) but because of money concerns. A roundtrip costs PhP300 and one way is PhP150 and so I had the hubby join Keith na lang while Kaye and I opted to ride the cable car with Jude and his equally fearful daughter, Gianna.

The highlight of the day was lunch at another bulalo restaurant - Taalena (I think!). And as usual, we ordered bulalo and tawilis (Tagaytay’s specialty food) This time, their bulalo was still great but not very spectacular. We also ordered crispy pata – another food good for the heart (hehehe!) and we even tried the restaurant’s other specialty – adobong dilaw! It was OK naman but I missed the saltiness of the true adobo with toyo. Here are pics of the food we ate.

Suffice it to say, we were all stuffed after our meal and so we spent some time resting at the resto grounds and taking pictures. It had a pretty garden and some nipa huts to house those who may wish to drink and dine outside. Before heading back to Manila, we stopped by Mahogany market to buy some beef, pineapples, and other pasalubong stuff… we all went home happy for the fun time, good food and special friends we spent our day with.

KAYE’S 7th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

For this year, Kaye celebrated her birthday in a bit of bongga fashion, in fact, we celebrated it three times! … because after all, it is her 7th birthday and instead of spending it at a restaurant in a fancy dress…we opted to spend it at a pool! Where else? It’s summer for crying out loud! My daughter’s birthday this year fell on a Monday and so on that day we just bought her a cake. It was during the weekend after that (on May 24) that we decided to go swimming at Nicolas Grande resort which was just near the house at Barranca. Then, on the next day (a Monday) we gave her a party for her friends naman in our subdivision. I know…I know some may say this may be a bit too much but hey it’s not all the time that our little princess turns seven so we might as well celebrate it well! She had been a good girl naman e with all her nice grades this year and the last so I guess she deserves to be treated well din!

KIT’S CONFIRMATION


My boy, Keith will be turning thirteen (13) years old in a month’s time… and it is also around this time (if I remember correctly) that I, too, had my confirmation and so when my sister-in-law asked me if I wanted to have Kit confirmed along with his other cousins at Bahay Pare I immediately agreed. We carefully chose his new godparents and settled on (for the girls) Sanse Edith and Boots, and (for the boys) Odie and Adrian. He shall be confirmed together with Ace, Alkey, Argie and Ariane.

The ceremony was held at the Baliuag church (where Corkey’s dad is a lay minister) and it was a bit hot but we patiently waited… finally after the priests sermon and reminders to the kids undergoing confirmation, the actual ceremony started. The hubby was the one who took the pics…he was able to take a pic of me while I stood as godmother to one of his pamangkins…but when his son’s turn came, he pushed the shutter a bit too late (hehehe). After the ceremony, there was a little salo-salo at Lon’s and a few more hours later we went back home to our own place in Bulacan, thankful that my son is now a confirmed Catholic…I just hope he truly understands what it entails.


(here's a pic of him and his cousins while awaiting confirmation...)