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Showing posts with label Province. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Province. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Home Made Real Goodness! Provincial Life! Day 1 & 2 (Holy Week - Maundy Thursday and Good Friday)

Comfort Food!! Home is where the Heart is!

Many of you haven't tried any home made provincial food especially if you grew up in the city. I'm fortunate that I'm able to go to our province and relax to get away from the stressful life of the city. It's always a must for my aunts and my grandmother to cook many local foods that are not found in the city. 

It is always a customary to cook in a clay pot using charcoals. Cooking in a clay pot and charcoals takes a lot of patience because it takes some time unlike stoves. However, cooking in clay pot especially if it is soup based is better and more flavorful than stove.

It's an opportunity for me (working in a bank) to have a 2 days off + weekend = 4 days vacation! it's such a nice opportunity to de-stress!


Halo-Halo. It may not be as fancy as those if Iceberg or Chowking but this home made Halo-Halo taste sooo good! ingredients are all tasty: Ube Halaya, Leche Flan,  Sweetened Bananas, Jelly, Beans, Sweet Jack fruit. On top of that is Crushed Ice and Milk! No need for sugar since ingredients are sweet! Now, once all the ingredients are placed you have to mixed them and savor the cold, sweet, and delicious dessert to beat the summer heat! Cost: P20 / $.48 now that is waaaay cheap!!


Cheese Bread from a local Bakeshop - yellow bread w/ crumbs (P5 / $.12) / Pan de Coco - little brown bread (Bread with coconut filling - P5 / $.12)  / Puto ( P10 / $.24) These local pastries are so good especially during Afternoon Tea / Coffee


My chunky little cousin



Jack Fruit!!!


Plenty of Jack Fruits in our backyard. It was planted with love :)


Fire Ants. They are big! I bet they bite painfully.


Bilimbi / Kamias in tagalog. Very Sour Fruit If you have the tongue for it then this is will approve your liking.



Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Iloilo Quickie (Part 1)

During my previous blog, I vow not to fly with cebu pacific but alas! our paths have crossed again. Surprisingly it was not that bad. The kind cebu pacific ground personnel placed me on seat 1A, I was so glad that I will seat on the front with nice leg room w/o paying for it. How I wish that the flight was more than 50min. This was one of the most relaxing and super comfy flight I experienced so far (besides with Cathay Pacific and PAL).


Seat 1A


Soon to be gone (to be re-painted with PAL colors)


NAIA T3. Only Cebu Pacific and Airphil Express / Pal Express are the local LCCs that fly out of NAIA T3. How I wish PAL will transfer to T3. But T3 is waaaay better than old domestic airport and NAIA T2 (PAL's terminal) 


Flight Attendant's seat. I don't know about you guys but I find Cebu Pac's FAs pretty and very neat. Too bad i haven't taken a picture of them. 


Taxing 


Airphil Express. Re-painted as PAL livery.


Yes I know, using your gadget while waiting for take off is a no no! but NAIA is sooo congested and it's been 30 mins since our plane hasn't take off so better kill some time.


Inflight Magazine


Luftahansa Technik and some PAL planes


Cruisin'