After many Christmases away from home, I did all the planning, buying and cooking for this Noche Buena. Dinner rolls and crema de fruta were bought from Tinapayan bakery, ready made pizza from Iloilo supermart, plus the usual ham, hotdog and keso de bola and finally baked macaroni just styled in two ways.
Christmas 2007 Lunch
I had to sit this one out. The chicken and yellow rice came from FOOD magazine (originally lechon de leche) plus the baked fish topped with cheese and vegetables. Sotanghon and lechone kawali completed our Christmas lunch.
Media Noche 2007
Obviously, I had my hands on this but it was a collective effort. There was much protein on the table with around 2 kilos of ham, 1.5kilos of pork barbecue and a kilo of "" cheesedogs (which disappeared so fast). My frustration of not being able to "secure" a Goldilocks cathedral window prompted me to make my own version. The usual dinner rolls from Tinapayan and Sprite with lemon slices, coloring and flavoring rounded up our media nocheNew Year 2008 Lunch
Mostly the usual fares "headed" by the turbo broiled pork belly with pancit molo and sotanghon. Pork adobo, garlic chicken with cheese toppings (from a YUMMY magazine) and gilled pantat (catfish) rounded up out new years day luncheon