Aratiles and the sweet old days...

How much these lil' fruits mean to you? Are there any flashback memories of your younger years?

Well I'm proud to say I grew up with these fruits called "Aratiles" or I call it "Alatires" when I was young. To harvest a small bowl of these red cherries is a challenge because you have to climb its tree which the branches are quite not tough. And even more challenging if your climbing at your neighbor's tree that has a dog guarding its yard, my friends and I are really praying for luck every time.

One day my husband brought home some of these fruits. Although I'm not fond of eating them anymore, I decided to take photos to relish my sweet childhood memories.

Have some please...

Breakfast Ideas: French Toast :)

After a night shift work today, I decided to pass by a neighborhood bakery and bought some freshly baked tasty breads. I'm going to make my version of French Toast which my kiddo loves to eat these days. 

While the original recipes of french toast need to soak the bread to a liquid mixture of milk and egg, I don't. My quick and humble version just needs a bread toaster to have it done.  So for this recipe, you just need to prepare the following:

• tasty bread
• butter
• powder sugar
• and a bread toaster :)

 

• Insert 2 loaves of bread in the toaster, you can adjust timer from seconds to minutes, you can toast both sides but in the toaster I have, you need to toast the other side after the other. I prefer to toast it a bit longer since I want it well-toasted and just one side of the bread.

 

• Spread it with butter, make sure the butter melts to cover the toasted portion.

 

• Sprinkle it with sugar and serve.
• You can proceed toasting the other breads while you do the above procedures.

 

• Best serve with hot coffee :).

 Time to wake up my boys and enjoy breakfast before I take a doze off. :)

Some extras for my son's snack while he watches TV. Make sure to keep it in a food container with well-tight lid, here I used a tupperware food keeper :).

Fun night at Barcino

I remember it was one of the boss’s birthday and only dear friends were invited to the celebration which is held in Barcino in Julia Vargas, Ortigas. My first time at Barcino was awesome because the food tastes great plus wines are overflowing courtesy of the boss of course. 

With Marix on my left (the birthday boss) :)

Barcino is a cozy and quiet place where interiors are similar to what I see in Spanish bars and restaurants advertise in lifestyle cable channels. I just find it so cool to see oak barrels used as dining tables plus lots of wine bottles lined up everywhere you look.  Truly, the place made me feel I was in another country’s Tapas Bar.

However, the serenity of the place quickly banished when the loud people, friends, work colleagues (including myself) came altogether to celebrate with the lady boss’ special day and the night became super awesome.  Well I just realized people can be super funny and loud too even without being drunk, all you need is great people to be with.

Grabbed photos from a friend’s flicker account :)