I’ve been having Sinigang na Baboy way too often that Mommy has been complaining already. I want an ulam with soup that’s why. So I cook Chicken Sopas instead. It’s as filling and healthy as well. I add in lots and lots of veggies.

I feel like a child that’s been allowed to roam freely in the biggest Christmas Store there is whenever I have this. Is it just me or is it the pregnancy hormones? Nevertheless it’s heavenly. It’s nourishes my soul until the next day especially true when we have leftovers of this and I have this for breakfast. YUM.

It was only a few weeks ago when I kind of had a minor obsession with my home made burgers. Well home made because I made the patties from scratch. I love how I have full control of every ingredient I put in there. Of course being pregnant right now I have to be wary of what I put in my mouth.

Then one day I run out of burger buns but I have all other ingredients like the beef pattie, cheese, tomatoes and cucumber. Then an idea came to mind… I miss chappati! I could use chappati in place of burger buns and I could easily make it at home as I always have flour on hand. I cut the patties into smaller cuts and assembled everything on top of the chappati. Then I realized it is kind of like shawarma. It is a shawarma but is also a burger. Haha I liked this very much. Especially after all the hunger I felt after I looked for the misplaced leather repair kits. I truly believe food tastes better the more hungry you are. Try it.

I wanted to bake something bready one time so I again searched the net for a simple recipe that calls for simple ingredients that I already have. I happen to crave for something with cinnamon so I chose this recipe.

Alright, I had a hard time naming this recipe because this is a made up recipe I didn’t even know about before.

I was supposed to make some Baked Ziti. I want it with bolognese sauce and bechamel sauce.  But what I wasn’t aware of is that I don’t have spaghetti sauce in stock so I just went ahead and sauteed the beef and sausage until I have the spaghetti sauce hopefully a few hours later.

I also went ahead and made my dependable bechamel sauce recipe. The penne pasta was also cooked already.

Then hunger struck. I couldn’t wait for the spaghetti sauce anymore. So I just went assembled what I already have, the sauteed beef with sausage and herbs and the bechamel sauce. Was I completely surprised that this tasted really good! I didn’t even miss the red sauce. Now this is a recipe I will keep on preparing from now on.

I can’t find my words recently. To be honest I don’t know what to call this dish. This is just like Filipino Spaghetti only I used macaroni instead of spaghetti. I was going to bake it but was too hungry to I just went ahead and ate it as is. We Filipinos immediately think of Baked Macaroni when we see macaroni shells in red sauce hence the title I gave this dish slash post.

With toasted garlic bread. Way too much butter but I like to indulge in this stage of my pregnancy. Haha i’m using the pregnancy excuse I should be ashamed… But really cut me some slack people (yes I am talking to myself) this pregnancy caught me off guard in a way that I didn’t expect it to be so hard for me. So indulging is good.. it keeps me sane.

And with a dish as good as this, we women will not need to be stunningly pretty, we will look gorgeous to the people whom we served this to and will smell good to them like we have pink sugar perfume on even though in reality we smell like roasted garlic haha.

Since I am currently pregnant, I can’t let myself indulge in my street foods favorites.  I so miss chicken balls, isaw (grilled chicken intestines), dugo (grilled solidified pig blood) and kwek kwek which is hard boiled quail eggs wrapped in orange colored thick batter that is deep fried until crisp. I love this with vinegar and cubed cucumber!

So I have to make them at home where I am sure it’s clean and not dangerous for my baby. It just gets a little too hot deep frying this so better to make this outdoors especially if you have an outdoor ceiling fan. I just found a recipe online (and I already lost it tsk tsk) and gave it a go. Here I used my japanese cast iron hot pot nabe pan. I also bought this in my previously happy place. That’s also where I bought the useful little things I love..

Isn’t it gorgeous?! But something’s lacking though… don’t get me wrong, it taste great. BUT there’s something missing which I can’t figure out… Maybe it’s the ambiance? The lack of dust? Haha I don’t know. But I am contented with this. Cured my bad craving. YUMMMM.

Most burgers nowadays are just so disappointing and I can’t help but feel scared for my baby’s health and feel cheated as the burger usually isn’t worth my money. So I decided to make my own. I thought, “How hard could it be?”. And I also want to use my meat grinder.

This is the second batch on the same day. Shows how much I like it.

Reminds me of Jollibee’s Burger Champ. To be honest and bias aside, I believe this taste even better! Just good old fashioned meaty beef goodness. From the first batch.

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I am a person passionate over food, even more for simple foods like eggs and eggplant. I love eggplant! Whether it’s fried or grilled, I’d take it anytime over fried chicken and pizza.

So it’s no wonder I also like other variations of it.

Ensaladang talong is one of those dishes that excites me.

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This I have made months ago. Haha so late. But I think this is too pretty and yummy not to post here. But honestly I have forgotten what I put in here to write a decent recipe. But hmmn let’s try. Perfectly boiled eggs (do you know that there’s a right way of boiling eggs?) mayonnaise, celery, salt and pepper and a bit of carrots and a dash of curry powder.  Here’s a rough guide. Boil the eggs then cool down to room temperature. While the eggs are cooling down, wash and chop your celery and carrots and onions.  Once the eggs have cooled down, mash it with a fork, don’t dice it too fine, better to have some bigger chunks in it. Then add the mayonnaise and celery, onions and carrots and salt and pepper to taste. Can add a bit of mustard but we don’t have that then. This is a nice snack for someone to show them you care or you can give them New Asus Tablet Canada, whichever you feel like.

I have also fried some crinkle cut fries with this. Oh and I like this with coffee. Yum.

I love eggs. Good thing it’s in my list of foods I can still eat now.

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