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My mother's birthday

Festive enough just for the usual crowd, it was another family dinner with the usual dishes plus some magazine-based recipes. With pork barbecue, grilled liempo and squid as centerpieces plus rellenong bangus and lapu lapu with mango "salsa" as the healthier meats. Ginisang monggo with ubad and laswa served as vegetables with sotanghon for long life and ampalaya salad as appetizer. Finally for dessert, we had mango float and mango-pandan. The arrival of a box of mangoes from the town of Leon last week made us prepare mango-based desserts, appetizers and side dishes since then. (There's 3rd mango based dessert in the fridge, by the way).

My nephew's 4th birthday

After weeks of planning and countless experiments of recipes from FOOD magazines' Kiddie cookbook, finally my nephew's 4th birthday fare was laid for everybody to enjoy. Starting with the birthday cake from Tinapayan (clockwise, centerward), valenciana, marshmallowjumble, pineapplie-cheese sandwiches, chocolate cake, chicken fingers, assorted puto, marshmallow-gelatin salad, spagehtti, assorted cookies, cocktail hotdogs, garlic sticks, penne al telefono (from Cibo's recipe in Yummy Magazine) and choco-mallow-banana surprise.


A birthday dinner

Just another simple dinner of sotanghon, broiled bangus and fried chicken with sesame seeds plus nilagang baka and crabmeat bought from Ocean city.


All Saints Day lunch
A long holiday deserved a simple feast. Grilled pork, chicken liver and bangus plus stir fried shrimps, chop suey and valaneciana with Nang Palang's buko ang Liit's special baye baye starting that long weekend


Father's Day

A simple luncheon on this day. Pork barbecue, paksiw na pata, grilled bangus as meat, fish sinigang and chopsuey as vegetables with meat and sotanghon/rice as carbohydrates. Another simple meal on a special day.


EDSA Lunch

My sister passing the Nursing board exam resulted to this "People Power" lunch. With the usual turbo broiled pork belly as centerpiece with shrimps and bite size lumpiang shanghai. Pork adobo, grilled chicken, KBL (kadyos baboy langka) and atsarang tambo completed this revolting lunch.

Birthday Lunch

With efuven noodles with chop suey toppings, valenciana, turbo broiled pork belly and pata tim, this was actually the continuation of the birthday dinner above

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