Can’t Get Started.

Whenever the clock ticks twelve noon during my working days, my best buds and I were always engaged with a dilemma. That is, where and what to eat for lunch. Although we had a food concessionaire in our pantry, we still often find ourselves scouring nearby good restos to dine in. Albeit cheap, we just often don’t like the invariable and unappealing meals served in the pantry. Thus, we’d always resort to eating at nearby fast foods. The only problem here is that eating fast foods means greater calories intake because of all the fatty foods. This worries my friend, Joy, who’s a bit on the plumpish side. In fact, she’s committed to start a diet regimen but with the big appetite that our group has and with all the fast foods around us, she can’t seem to get started with her dieting. I guess, she has to break ties with us during lunch time so she can prevent these high caloried foods.

Breaded Pork Chops

Breaded Pork Chops

Breaded Pork Chops

Ingredients:
4 pork chops, medium or large
1/2 cup bread crumbs
1 1/2 tsp calamansi juice
1 egg, beaten
oil for frying
salt & pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Mix calamansi juice, salt and pepper in a bowl.
2. Season pork chops with this mixture and set aside for 30 mins. (This will give the meat enough time to absorb the flavor.)
3. Roll pork in bread crumbs, then moisten with beaten egg and roll again in bread crumbs.
4. Fry over medium heat until golden brown.

Source: Christine Lee’s Best Loved Foods for Everyone

Four.

1. Places you would like to visit and why.
+ My spur of the moment wishes: France, Japan, Vietnam and USA.

2. Favorite things to munch on!
+ Chocolate mallows, siomai, pizza and a whole lot more

3. Favorite sites for online shopping.
+ Gymboree, Old Navy, Multiply and All Aboard Toys.

4. Things you have to get done this weekend.
+ Iron the laundry and clean the room.

5. Things that pop up when you google your name.
+ My flickr, blogs, Chian Mai travel site, wikipedia.

CNT Lechon Cebu

Had a very busy day earlier but before I retire the night, I’m sharing a photo that I know you’ll be drooling over. Here’s the Lechon Cebu (flown in all the way from Cebu really!) we massacred and feasted on during our 2007 Christmas Party. Yummy!

CNT Lechon…lechon at its finest.

CNT Lechon

CNT Lechon Photo grabbed from my Love. Happiness. Us. blog

Photo snagged from my other blog

CNT Lechon
Address: 1377 Rama Ave, Guadalupe, Cebu City
Contact Numbers: (032) 254 4249 / (032) 254 6641

Nestle’s Mallow Mud

Mallow Mud

Mallow Mud

A creamy mixture of mallows and chocolate cookies

For my first ever recipe share, here’s one of those maiden oh-so-easy-to-do desserts I made. Except for the butter that needs to be melted, there’s no cooking involved. I got this recipe from Nestle’s Best Recipes Book which I bought when a cooking demo was conducted at Nestle years ago.

Ingredients:
1 1/3 cups cream filled chocolate cookies, coarsely chopped
2 250 ml. bricks NESTLÉ All Purpose Cream
3/4 cup butter, melted
1/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups mini marshmallows

Preparation:
1. Combine all of the ingredients in a bowl.
2. Pour into an 8×8x2 – inch container.
3. Top with extra mallows or chunks of chocolate cream cookies.
4. Chill for at least an hour before serving.

What I like about their cookbook is that it includes Cooking notes such as:

Nutritional info per serving:
Carbohydrates 11 g.
Fats 29 g.
Protein 1 g.
Calories 309 Kcal.

Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 8

**It’ll be your instant ice cream when chilled for more than an hour. :D