Everybody first heard about Goya Dark Mint when AJ twitted about it a few weeks ago and also blogged about. Thus, began the bloggers' search for the mysterious Goya Dark Mint. Goya Dark Mint intrigued a lot of us since Goya is a local brand of chocolates and local dark chocolates with mint are unheard of. The Philippines isn't exactly known for high end chocolates. What were used to are local chocolates with a distinct flavor and texture that tastes better when not refrigerated. Goya is a brand I grew up with. I have recently seen and tasted the latest reformulated and repackaged good old Goya Milk Chocolate... ...and it didn't disappoint. Compared to the old Goya, it had a smoother texture. I can't exactly recall how the old Goya tastes, but this one is gave me a good chocolate fix for only PhP 14.75! Then, I saw they had a new variant... Dark Chocolate! As a dark chocolate lover... I just had to try it out. It's not as bitter or intoxicating as other dark chocolates I've tasted, but it's good enough. It packs in enough punch to give me a sugar rush. And it's only PhP 16.75! Goya…
Category: food
How to Make Italian Cream Puffs
Here's a short how-to video for making Italian Cream Puffs. It is called Italian, because the filling is made of sweet cheese rather than Bavarian or Cream. Puff Pastry Ingredients 1/2 cup Butter (preferably salted) 1 cup Water 1 cup pre-sifted Flour 1/4 teaspoon Salt 4 Eggs This is a standard puff pastry recipe. Filling Ingredients 1/2 cup Cream Cheese* 1/4 cup Ricotta Cheese* 1/4 cup Sugar *1 cup Mascarpone Cheese (instead of Cream Cheese and Ricotta) can be used if available. Chocolate Sauce Ingredients 1 cup Bittersweet Chocolate Chips 1 tablespoon Butter We used half this recipe only. The video features me - Ria Jose, my cousin Gwing Cabreira, and my aunts Ivi Cabreira and Baby dela Serna.
Great Food
Coz I want to make a food post but don't have much time, I'll show you photos of the wonderful food I've had these past few weeks... Lechon during my Tita's birthday party Ginataang Crabs during my Tita's birthday party Italian Cream Puffs my Titas, Gwing, and I made Italian Cream Puffs my Titas, Gwing, and I made Wagyu Beef, and Mashed Potatoes we had for dinner last night Obviously my Titas are also into food styling now that we photograph the food. :D More awesome photos and detailed food posts (and maybe some recipes) soon. :P
Manila Day 10 Mission: Krispy Kremes
Day 10, May 4, 2008... Last day in Manila... The day arrived and I had only one thing in my mind: Buy Krispy Kremes for Jeztah and the CORPO Boys. I woke up around lunch time. Kuya and I agreed that we will visit our nieces then go somewhere to abuse the gift certificates we got during the Serendra Food Tour. After some playtime, camwhoring, and video taking with our nieces, we hied off to Greenbelt. Some bloggers were meeting there on their way to Cavite to raid Coy's Graduation party. I dropped by McCafe to say good bye. Sniff! Sniff! But I ended up going with them to Cavite. LOL! Highlight of my afternoon: Gibbs Cadiz told me I won his contest. It's the first blog contest I "legitimately" won. Meaning, I didn't get the prize via random luck. So with Kuya Juned, Fritz, Gibbs, AJ, Jeffrey, and Poyt, off I went to Cavite to crash Coy's parteh. AJ was a damn good navigator, just had to say that. Coy had a grand party with plenty of food... yummy food! Coy's mom baked cakes. SARAP! It was fuuuun! We headed back to Metro Manila around 9 pm. Kuya Juned…
My Blog Stats Don't Lie
So it probably won't be the best day of my life ever for a long time. But for now... at this moment... April 28, 2008, was quite awesome. Fakest Birthday Smile Ever! Kuya Andrew's camera went crazy and the photo of my fake birthday smile at Cafe Breton in Podium is now somewhere in oblivion land, but that "surprise" was a crazy one. I cried real tears of anger and sadness. Kawawa naman yung wait staff ng Cafe Breton, nadamay sa bad mood ko. Thanks anyway to the attempt by Kuya, Migs, and Winston to make up for their kakulitan. Lesson: Great food can't cure pain, hurt, sadness, and loneliness, even if it's for free. Manila Ocean Park Had fantastic time with Ate Aileen, Kuya Jay, Miguel Apolo, Kuya Andrew, Migs, Blogie, and Winston at the Manila Ocean Park. They even gave me flowers. Nice! :) Lesson: Keeping in touch with nature is therapeutic. Grand Birthday Bash at Serendra and Bonifacio High Street for Bloggers sponsored by Spot NAKS! I'm like so big time! Kidding! Had a fun but stressful time at this food tour because there was just so much to be taken in a little span of time.…
Manila Day 9: Politics and a Rock Fest
Late start... Had sinigang and beef steak for lunch. Ate it when I woke up at 2 pm. LOL! Spent the afternoon online. Then prepared for a looong night! I was a bit early for the dinner with political bloggers so I went to Theatre Mall. Had a very delicious Iced Cafe Mocha at Starbucks, then bought a nice hair accessory. Naks naman... nagpapaka-girl. LOL! I had a hard time finding a cab from Theatre Mall, but lining up and waiting paid off. Hurrah! And the people beside me were nice so I didn't really have a bad time while waiting. Had a very interesting dinner at Barrio Fiesta along Wilson, with my idol, MLQ3, Juned, Butch and Noemi Dado, Arbet Bernardo, Schumey and Marck. We had discussions about GMA, federalism, Davao politics, the church, Martial Law, and blog chismis. LOL! I felt quite insecure but proud to be among them. ;) Had my picture with MLQ3. FINALLY! :P (To be posted later. Stupid me lost this file. :( ) Fritz happened to pass by when we were getting out of Barrio Fiesta so we walked to Bela Bar together where we met up with Kring and Poyt. The three…