Cook and Brew.

Seeing these luscious and refreshing Halo-halo and ice cream desserts at this humid moment makes me want to forget all about those diet pills that work I’ve just read and run to Manila Hotel now.

Halo-halo is a mixture of various boiled sweet beans and fruits added with shaved ice, leche flan and milk served cold in a tall glass or bowl. Common ingredients are garbanzos, sugar palm fruit (kaong), kidney beans, macapuno, nata de coco, ube, kamote, jackfruit (langka), tapioca or sago, sweetened corn kernels, pinipig, leche flan, ice cream and gelatin.

Other variants of simpler Halo-halo are saba con yelo using bananas as the primary ingredient and mais con yelo using sweetened corn kernels.

These cooling snack delights are perfect to beat the scorching summer heat.

You Are a Sweet Person

When it comes to snacks, you’re more likely to grab some candy than heat up a pizza. There’s a good chance you’re female (women prefer sweet snacks)… Or at least, you prefer to be in the company of women. Your tastes are simple and predictable. You are young at heart. You tend to crave food you can just grab and eat.

Are You Sweet or Salty?

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Wow..this is so true. Aside from my being affectionate, which the husband can attest to that, I truly have an incredibly sweet tooth. In fact, the barcode scanners in the grocery could actually break down whenever we shop for my sweets stocks for the week. I stock our cart a lot! From ice cream, to chocolates, cookies, donuts, etc. My latest sweet cravings lately are Goldilocks Polvorons which I’m currently munching as I blog.

Submit your happiest, wackiest and funniest perfect picture moments enjoying the Jollibee Spaghetti and you could win Jollibee party packages, gift certificates, digital photo frame, digital camera and photo printer.

Deadline for the submission of entries is at midnight of November 22, 2009. Check out www.jollibee.com.ph for the complete contest mechanics.

Going to Baguio City this Holiday season? Don’t forget to drop by Teahouse along Session Road or their SM Baguio branch and snag this delectable treat for your own feasting or as a pasalubong to your loved ones here in Manila:

Here’s what I have previously blogged about this sweet treat:

Ever since we tasted this heavenly cake dessert, we make it a point that this is the number one in the list of pasalubongs to take home from Baguio. This refrigerator cake called Chona’s Delight is named after the brilliant Aling Chona, the owner of Tea House Restaurant and Bakeshop located along Session Road.  This establishment is one of the oldest chow place for locals and tourists craving for noodle snacks, coffee, bread and sinfully delicious cakes such as the above pictured Chona’s Delight. Tea House now also has a branch at nearby SM Baguio where we bought 5 small tubs of Chona’s Delight for take home during our annual Christmas vacation in the city of Pines last year. Three of the five small tubs were exclusively devoured by me..yes, that’s how delectable and addicting this cake is.  It consists of layers of rich chocolate cake frosting and fillings of creamy custard and whipped cream. Don’t be fooled with the rich, dark chocolatey look but this doesn’t taste tooth-cringing sweet at all. In fact, you can really even consume all by yourself in one sitting the small tub which they sell at Php 105/container.

Tea House Restaurant and Bakeshop
87 Session Road, Baguio City
Branch:
SM Baguio, Upper Session Road, Baguio City

Coffee addicts out there, be sure to drop by at Greenbelt 3 and 5 on October 13-26, 2009 and join as the Philippine Coffee Board celebrates the annual coffee festival, entitled “Coffee Origins, Discovering The Philippines’ Best.”

Familiarize yourself with different coffee types grown from the small towns and private farms of the region. Overflowing coffee for FREE from different roasters and processors all throughout the event so get ready for a one of a kind caffeine-high experience.

For more information about this event as well as other events of the Philippine Coffee Board, check out what’s brewing on their website.