30 Jan, 2007
A weird combination title for a post, I will grant you that. But read on and you will understand. We had to attend a funeral this morning at Loyola Memorial Park, Marikina. We had never been there before so we went pretty early to ensure we were there with lots of…
30 Jan, 2007
The shocking finding of some recently publicized American medical experiments on dieting concludes: “To lose weight, you have to either eat less, exercise a lot more, or do a little of both…” Duhh. I think taping one’s mouth shut and handcuffing yourself to a perpetually moving (no brownouts) treadmill for a few weeks…
30 Jan, 2007
The first attempt at melding wagyu beef with some greens was a bit of a disappointment in that the beef was superb tasting but the cucumbers and tomatoes were a weak, watery foil to the beef. So I decided to add substance to the greens and at the same time, try to make…
29 Jan, 2007
An in-law’s father passed away over the weekend. A friend’s mom also suddenly passed away as well. It was a weekend where you drop everything else and try to be of some help… wherever the bereaved family needs it. So when Tita N requested that I do the flowers for her…
27 Jan, 2007
I was experimenting a few days ago with the wagyu yakiniku that I also posted about many months ago; I wanted a healthy-ish beef and vegetable salad for a diet-ish lunch. Wagyu beef, the generic cattle behind the famous Kobe Beef (perhaps 99% of which has never felt a masseuses gentle/brutal touch nor…
25 Jan, 2007
This was a spectacularly good morcon. I had all these great plans to do tons of Christmas favorites last December, but as usual, I got swamped with everything else and didn’t get to all the planned posts. As a kid, I didn’t like morcon much as it was typically very dry and…
25 Jan, 2007
I was out of town for two days for a photo shoot. I was not the “shooter” but rather the “shootee.” Oh my gosh is right. Oh my gosh is right. The combination of trepidation, embarrassment, self-consciousness and egads-ness all wrapped up into the same very long extended moment (an…
23 Jan, 2007
This somewhat unusual conical stainless steel strainer is called a chinoise, or a chinois if yours happens to be male. I am not sure why it is called that (sometimes it is translated into “China Cap”) and although I am sure I have read it somewhere before, I am not so curious that…