Almost a month….
January 24th, 2010Visited 289 times, 2 so far today
Celebrating New Year in Langham Hotel, Kowloon, Hongkong
Of no work, why? The schedule for this year was done this way and I am very happy. Last month was very, very hectic and I had hard time catching up on what my life was all about. So, one resolution I wanted to do before I started teaching again was to clean one of my rooms at home. This room has all my magazines, second hand cookbooks I get from BookSale, old gifts that never got to be used and a whole lot of humongous tupperwares housing my old friends, Paul Smith, Ben Sherman, Giorgio Armani Exchange, Calvin Klein. Strange that I still have a lot of old clothes that I cherish because I love them or maybe due to my inheriting one trait Mommy Luring left me…keeping clothes and a lot of junk, mom was a child of World War 2, I know that most of you have mothers, aunts and relatives who are like this. Another reason is I have clothes for increase and decrease of weight, hehe. So I cleaned up the room, realized that I had quite a number of school bags and shoes. So decided to fix and give some away, guess what Apol is wearing now….even my gardener, LukeLuke looks so smart wearing his Camper slippers, love it…..the other reason for this clean up is I really want to make every look clean and organized and also get to turn on the aircon in this room which I don’t get to use as often. Second reason, is an arrival of three big balikbayan boxes this month, filled with books, old clothes and pastry equipments. There has to be space for these things. Mom used to have a stock room built when one of her containers arrive so I want the room to accept all these new items.
Lately, I have been taking the time to see my dear, dear friends….Liane who I am with eating every week, Tricia who even at provincial Alabang I still had merienda with, Jaybee the brother I always wanted who took the time to invite me and have lunch with Ysa, his wife in their new Thai restaurant, Tina, who I always plan to have dinner with and watch a movie but never materialized until Tracey, a barkada from Singapore was here last week….love the food in Angel’s Kitchen in Greenhills. Daming outing……Just thought of this, when people invite you at home, I get the feeling of ultimate connection since it is very personal and an extension of what they are.
I have also been testing a lot of recipes for new courses in the school….some didn’t work as well as I wanted to so repeat, repeat and repeat….I can see all the products coming out of the face of my yayas. They cannot even pronounce what they are eating….wanted to ask you which I heard from my classmates as I was eavesdropping…would you eat something that you can’t pronounce. Let me know.
By the way, here is a great recipe for a simple salad dressing I learned ages ago, you can use it for lettuce, or blanched vegetable sticks, even fish or squid sticks…
PESTO DRESSING
Ingredients:
1 cup basil leaves, leaves only
2 pcs garlic cloves
1 tbsp honey
4-5 tbsps apple cider vinegar
¼ cup canola oil
10 strokes ground pepper
pinch salt
Procedure:
Blanch basil leaves in warm water and ice immediately. Squeeze dry. This will keep your dressing forever green.
Dump everything in blender. Blenderize for 3 minutes. No emulsion needed just shake before pouring into salad. Toss well.
Suggestion: Put some freshly grated parmesan into your salad. It will wow you…eeehwww.
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