Monday, October 31, 2011

other October food (2 of 2)

My husband's chicken adobo  + shredded greens on the side

Chicken with beans and capers

Instant ramen

Kit Kat which tasted like mocha

Black cookies and white chocolate

Instant udon

Steak dinner at Kuya G & Ate R's home (with baked potatoes and mushrooms a la pobre) and brownies for dessert!

Korean beef stir-fry

ginataang bilo-bilo in Teacher P's home

Tomato and sausage soup (recipe from Good Housekeeping, October 2008)

Popcorn from Teacher P

Connie Veneracion's chicken, corn and macaroni soup

Pork adobo + boiled okra

Leftover pork adobo + salad from the konbini

breakfast at Narita airport

lunch on flight PR431
pancit salad, bread & butter, chocolate pound cake slice, a choice of chicken or beef with rice
(I got chicken,  Ronjie got beef)

Back in Manila! Halloween dinner at Banapple with Tita O.
(clockwise from top-left: lasagna roll-ups, banoffee pie slice, strawberry cheesecake, apple pie) 

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Friday, October 21, 2011

Saturday, October 15, 2011

other October food (1 of 2)

Rice with bean sprouts and cucumbers, which we ate with leftover chicken adobo :)

Chicken tinola with zucchini and celery

Spaghetti with meatballs. My second attempt at spaghetti--better this time. Yay!

Ramen lunch at restaurant downtown
clockwise from top-left: my regular ramen, R's regular miso ramen,
O-san's spicy miso ramen, pork dumplings and fried rice

Shanghai-style pork and bean sprouts

Mayonnaise-marinated grilled chicken. This was yummy, soft, and not dry! :9

Ground pork menudo with hard-boiled eggs (I based it on this recipe)

Muesli and sugar-frosted cornflakes (and bananas!) for breakfast


Tenya tendon for Saturdate night earlier this evening 

Still date night-high... here's a Mutts comic strip to end this post. :) Have a good next half of October!
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Bousai no Oka Park

Last Sunday, we biked to nearby (30 minutes) Bousai no Oka Park for 11:00am mass with other church community members from our neighboring Kanagawa parishes. The mass was concelebrated by 6 priests (or 8?) from the Atsugi, Yamato, etc. churches.


Friday, October 7, 2011

homemade Korean pancakes, take 2

After a sort-of failed attempt at Korean pancakes last month, I tried again today. Used a different recipe this time, one I got from Dinner: A Love Story. It came out better. It doesn't look appealing in the photo though because I "broke" it while flipping. (Gotta practice flipping.) This recipe used more eggs than the previous one, which probably made it form better and cook faster.


Ate the pancakes with fried chicken with garlic-mayo dip. :)


Today is my other brother's birthday!
Happy birthday, Rocky! :)

Thursday, October 6, 2011

#ThankYouSteve

My initial reaction when I learned of Steve Jobs' passing was of shock then sadness. Yes, we were all expecting it to be coming (after the news of his cancer, liver transplant, deteriorating health, and recent resignation as CEO of Apple a little over a month ago) but it was still surprising to find out that he was gone already. I first got the news from my Twitter timeline this morning, just right after my husband left for class. It's hard not to be affected by Steve's death and you can't not blog about it. Steve was a crazy guy, crazy enough to think he could change the world--and he did.

It was only recently that I started to get to know Steve Jobs more. Ronjie's a big Apple fan and the I-love-Apple vibes have been rubbing off on me. It's because of Ronjie that I can now blog about Steve Jobs (and Apple). Remembering Steve, here's my list of 5:

1. Thank you, Steve, for giving us the personal computer.

2. Apple products! Since May, I have been blogging from my husband's year-old MacBook Pro. I'm not a techie so I wouldn't really know the advantages of one computer over another, but I love the Mac because I don't have to worry about computer viruses! Ronjie's old original iMac (in bondi blue!) is in my parents' home in Manila and still works after all these years. The last time I used it was over a year ago and it was still fine, just really slow. Ronjie made me bring and use his iPhone 4 for a day when I had to go to Asaka alone (the place is 70 kilometers from Hon-Atsugi and wasn't as urbanized as Tokyo, i.e. not many English speakers I could ask help from in case I got lost). It's cool that the phone has amazing apps and that my husband could track me with it via GPS. The MacBook Air Ronjie brings with him is very sleek and super light! Our siblings in Manila have iPad 2s. It's so portable and I love that we can easily videochat using FaceTime. I've never used an iPod but how the iPod and iTunes have revolutionized the music industry is amazing.

3. Pixar! "Up" is my favorite movie! (I especially love this clip.) Thank you, Steve Jobs, for Pixar. :)

4. I like Steve Jobs' house. Check it out. Yup, I'll remember Steve Jobs for his cool house.

http://allaboutstevejobs.com/pics/places/paloalto/paloalto.html

5. We'll all remember Steve Jobs because he was a visionary. He really was a crazy one. And he inspired people--us--to pursue their--our--dreams. From his Stanford speech:
You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart... Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Sharing a video tribute by Ken Segall which used Apple's "Think Different" campaign.

The guy is an inspiration. Steve really LIVED his life. Even during the "low" points of his career and in the past few years as he dealt with his sickness, he still kept on going, not letting anything stop him, doing what he believed is great work, and loving what he did.

Here's echoing Steve Jobs' message and wish for everyone as he ended his 2005 speech in Stanford, in a Post-it note from the thingsweforget blog:


Thank you, Steve Jobs.

Chinese tabehodai

Dinner at a Chinese restaurant downtown with friends, 2 hours of all-you-can-eat Chinese food for ¥1,480! I was really full by the end of the evening. I don't remember how many dishes we had in all, but these are a few of them. (Wasn't able to take photos of all, sorry.)

jellyfish

chicken

pork dumplings

tofu in spicy sauce

edamame

sweet and sour pork

chicken with bell peppers and onions in some salty-spicy sauce


Saturday, October 1, 2011

October 1


Mama Mary left our apartment today. October is the month of the rosary; we'll definitely be continuing our daily rosary habit. It was a blessing to have hosted the Block Rosary for the past 2 weeks.

Today is my brother's birthday! Happy birthday, Enzo!