Delight Yourself

Lately, I've been feeling like a culinary expert. I try cooking new foods i learned in the sept issue of foods mag. Nakaka tuwa lhat gusto ko lutuin! hehehe. to start off, i cooked prawns ala dampa. And it tasted really good. I was surprised! my potential pala ko! Just look at the mouth watering picture below. yummm.!





This is very easy to cook. I forgot to bring the magazine with me but i kinda memorized it.

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo of cleaned tiger prawns
2 cups sprite
2 tablespoon oil
3 tablespoon butter (divided)
3 tablespoons chopped onions
2 tablespoons minced garlic
1 small ginger chopped
3 tablespoon tomato ketchup
3 tablespoon sugar
1 table spoon cornstarch mix to
2 tablespoon water

1. Marinate prawns (avoid white prawn, it sogs quickly)in sprite/ 7-up for 30 minutes. Remove Prawns and reserve marinate.

2. In a large skillet, heat oil and 1 tablespoon butter

3. Saute onions, garlic and ginger.

4. Add prawns. turn the prawns as it turns to orange.

5. Add the sprite marinate, ketchup, sugar, salt and pepper. then simmer for 5 mins.

6. Add cornstarch mixture let it simmer until sauce thickens.

7.Turn off stove, then belnd in 2 table spoon butter to prawns.

8. serve with chopped spring onion.

Of course, I served it with dessert. which i learned from the mag also.

just put some chocolate syrup in a plate, add scoops of vanilla ice cream then add 2 dewberry biscuits or any biscuits of your choice and whoalllahh biscuit ala mode!

On Bonding and Farewell

Last Sunday, My mom and my 2 lil bros went back abroad already. They came here to grace our wedding and have a short vacation. As always goodbyes at d airport are painful. Seeing them go..knowing that you're not going to see them after 4 long years..just hurts..
I had a lot of regrets that i wasnt able to do when they were here.

1.) I wasnt able to bring them to boracay which i promised them. Iwasnt able to keep my promise because I couldn't take another leave in the ofc after the leave i took for the wedding and honeymoon. I hope the next time they're here i will be able to bring them there.

2.) Another regret was not spending time with them on weekdays. simply becoz i have work. but i did go home on weekends leaving jim home alone.

3.) We didn't had a lot of pictures during our wedding. I was so pre occupied during the event greeting guest. **sigh**

4.) I wasn't able to treat them in a fine resto. I was broke coping with the wedding expenses that I incurred. **sigh**

But despite all these regrets, im happy to have done these things to them:

1.) Spend quality time on weekends.



2.) Watch Movie with them.



3.) Have spa at suriya with my mom.

4.) Go to tagaytay with them.



5.) Buy her a good hair iron and other stuffs.

6.) Was able to give her the parents album and raw video as a remembrance.

7.) Go to enchanted kingdom with them. i hope i get a little richer so that next time i could bring them to disney HK.=P



That's how I love them. Am i sweet or what? Hehehee
Kidding aside I am going to miss them.