A Drink to Fresh You Up

     Philippines is a tropical country. I can’t stand the heat of the sun that’s why I love to drink smoothies or any cold drink to freshen me up. The place where I love to hang and drink those smoothies or what we call frappuccino is at Starbucks.

     One of my favorite frap in Starbucks is the caramel cream base. It has a whip cream on top of the drink mixture with some caramel glaze on top. As you eat the whip cream on top you’ll taste the creamy and sweetness of it, then as you take a zip through the drink you taste the creamy milk flavor. This drink is a sweet drink and there is no added flavor to contrast its sweetness.

     The next frap that I tried was the chocolate cream chip. This is totally different from the first one that I mentioned. It also has whip cream on top but with chocolate syrup, while the drink has a real chocolate chip mixed with the milk drink. This drink is not so sweet for me because the chocolate is contrasting the sweetness of the cream and milk. They use dark chocolate for it not to be that sweet.

     I recommend this to a person who wants to buy a frappuccino blended cream, which is not too expensive, and it really taste good cause it has a good flavor and texture.

Ace of Cake

Ace of cake is an American reality show currently airing on the Food Network. The staff consist primarily of Chef Duff Goldman with him are all his good friends. The setting is at the Charm City Cakes, in Baltimore, Maryland.

The show is about how Chef Duff and his friends create a very exotic cake, I called it exotic because they can do exotic designs that you will wonder how they did it and that it is possible. They can do cakes like cars, buildings or even jungle with animals on it. The cake design depends on what celebration the cake is for. They are frequently shown working long hours to build and decorate the cakes and including all the staff conversations, jokes and especially when they delivered the cake and seen that people’s reactions and complement about the cake.

They design cakes not only for a simple birthday but also for a huge celebration. Like a cake for the Paramount Pictures Premiere for the Dream Works Animation Film Kung Fu Panda and also a Hogwarts castle for the Premiere of the fifth installment of Harry Potter.

They created this show to make a person celebrating any special event happy and make their cake a remarkable and a memorable one. This is so attracting to the audience aside from making some sort of drama and laughter you will really be amazed bout the cake design and you will be curious on how did they make it and they uses advanced machines or equipment for painting or coloring the cakes. People can also witness on how these chefs are creative.

My Family’s Favorite Food

Every family has their own traditional food or maybe even though it’s not their own recipe but they cook it often in special events inside the family. My family has 2 favorite food recipes that we always have in special event like birthdays, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. The recipe is kare-kare. This is my favorite of them all. Even though there’s no event my aunt still cook this for lunch and dinner. I don’t know how kare-kare was made but the second family recipe is the one I know. For me my aunt’s barbeque is the most delicious barbeque I ever tasted. I know how the pork was marinated and sometimes I’m the one who grills the pork.

Every time we have parties or events at home, people invited expect these 2 favorite recipes. Sometimes the dinner or the party is not complete whenever one of those foods was not cooked. Actually we don’t usually follow recipes from others, we just do it the way we know and in any celebrations we had, at times this two or one of this recipe are not available. Maybe it just depends on mood of my aunt and uncle what food to prepare. There is no family stories behind this 2 recipes we just love the way my aunt cook this 2 foods that’s why we have it in any occasion. 

Enjoying My Day Alone

Many Filipinos in this generation eat burgers for lunch, merienda or dinner. Many Burger stores are built up and serve different burger meals. I tried eating at Brother’s Burger located at Bonifacio High Street in Taguig City. I went there to have merienda alone. I ordered the Brother’s Burger without vegetables but I added a blue cheese. The burger was served in about 5 mins and it was wrapped in a take-out foil paper. This burger is just a medium size burger and the meat of the burger is so juicy, it’s like you were eating an apple, when you bite it you can feel the juice coming out of the meat. It is good with blue cheese it complements with the meat, it gives a little bit of sour taste to the burger but the katsup is sweet so the flavor is balanced.

For me eating burger at Brothers Burger is a worth it choice. It is not so expensive your meal price was ranging at 200-300 php. Everyone can afford good meal at a good price with also a good serving. The Burger was presented as simple as chocolate but when you taste it, it enlightens you because it’s so good and tenderly cooked. I would spend one day a week to visit this restaurant to eat burgers and feel happy after it.

A Step by Step Journey

     Way back when I was in my childhood years, I always forced my mom and dad to buy me toy kitchen utensils, like pans,  pots, knife, spoon and fork. When it’s my lucky day I was able to go home with a complete set of it. Then for the coming day I will ask my yaya to call my friends and cousins to visit our house. We always play “luto-lutuan” in our backyard. We use to pick up fresh flowers and leaves for our ingredients. Sometimes without my parents I will get some fruits or vegetables in our grocery. I pretend to be a chef in my own restaurant and my friends and cousins are my assistant chef or guests. I also visit my friends house and watch her mom bake meringue, puto and cookies, we also help her mom giving the ingredients she needs. 

     As I get a little bit older, when my mom cooks at home I am the one who mixes the food in the pan or pot. I also started cooking by my self simple foods like hotdogs, eggs and pancakes. I enjoy going to grocery stores to see different kinds of milks, bread, meat and beverages. When I was in my six year in elementary I joined a club about cooking because I want to have more experience and I started buying magazines of foods and I always watch food networks

     As I enter high school I was so glad to find out that we have a cooking subject. That subject was my highest of all the subject. I always want to be the leader in my group. I love garnishing food plates for presentation. When 3rd year of high school approached, we start looking what courses best fit our personality. We also start searching for different schools. One afternoon while me and my friends was having a review in a review center, one on my old friend's mom gave me a brochure of Enderun Colleges. She said that what if I try taking the entrance exam in this school because she knows I love to cook and every time me and her daughter has a bonding I cook for them simple dishes.

     As I read the Enderun Colleges brochure I'm getting to love this school. So I made sure that I will take an exam and make sure to pass it because it's my dream school. My parents just supported me all the way. 2 weeks after my exam and interview there was a delivery by Air 21 at the middle of my movie marathon. I was so excited to open the letter but also a bit nervous to see the result. When I read that "congratulation" word, I jump and scream at home. Now in my college life I know that I took the right course and school for me. Now I enjoy staying in this school because everyone is cool and approachable not only the students but also the profs. Me and my friends here really enjoy our course and decided to make a new organization in this school which was approved and now existing.