60 down, 90 to go…

Now I am getting used to take a nap every afternoon. This is one of the things I really don’t want during my childhood days. But now I love it. It makes my day complete. This afternoon  I had an earlier than usual nap and was up in the middle of the TV program before El Cuerpo’s time slot. While watching I was putting on shuttlecock in the glass tumbler for the wedding giveaways I am making for Borski and Nai ’s wedding and have done with 60 pieces as El Cuerpo ends. I still have 90 pieces to go. After I receive my earnings next week, will buy another 100 pieces of glass tumbler and shuttlecock to complete the 250 pieces that I need to do. Such a grand wedding with 350 visitors. That’ll be a very huge crowd and I am excited to be part of it. 

On the other hand, I’m almost done with the research on acne treatment. I hope to finish it before the week ends as I can foresee how busy I will be in the coming days.

Ruby Tuesday: Red Gulaman in Halo-Halo

Halo-halo (from Tagalog halo, “mix mix”) is a popular Filipino dessert that is a mixture of shaved ice and milk to which are added various boiled sweet beans and fruits, and served cold in a tall glass or bowl.

There is no specific recipe for this dessert, and a wide variety of ingredients are used. The order in which the ingredients are added varies widely. Primary ingredients generally include boiled red mung beans, kidney beans, garbanzos, sugar palm fruit (kaong), coconut sport (macapuno), and plantains caramelized in sugar. Other components may include jackfruit (langka), star apple, tapioca or sago, nata de coco, purple yam (ube) or sweet potato (kamote), sweetened corn kernels or pounded crushed young rice (pinipig), leche flan or custard, ice cream and gelatin. Other fruits, such as papayas, avocados, kiwifruit, bananas or cherries, may also be added. Some preparations also include ice cream on top of the halo-halo.

Generally, condensed milk or evaporated milk is used instead of fresh milk, due to the tropical climate of the Philippines.

In terms of arrangement, most of the ingredients (fruits, beans, and other sweets) are first placed inside the tall glass, followed by the shaved ice. This is then sprinkled with sugar, and topped with either (or a combination of) leche flan, ube halaya, or ice cream. Condensed milk is poured into the mixture upon serving.

The dessert exemplifies the “east-meets-west” culture of the Filipinos, with the ingredients used coming from a wide variety of influences (to cite some examples: red mung beans which are from the Chinese, garbanzos from the Indian, leche flan from the Spanish, and shaved ice itself which was introduced to the islands by the Americans).

Halo-Halo is one my late mother’s favorite. We do have a lot of childhood memories with it as Mamang usually treats me and Carol after school or when we go to the market with her during market day. I could just remember how our eyes would lighten when Mamang will lead us to the Halo-Halo stalls or in the bakeshop in front of the fish market building.

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Dessert

Weekend Snapshot: Wash Day

I did the laundry last weekend and here’s the photo I took of my tops hanged in the clothesline. On the other line is Ace’ tops and pants but wasn’t able to get a photo of it. I like it when the clothesline is so colorful like this…

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Movie time with candle light

I’ve found something great in the net today. It’s one of the things Ace would want should he can afford it. It’s a home theater seating that will take his movie marathon time to a higher level of comfort and enjoyment. The theater seating is so comfortable for sure and movie watching experience will be much more intimate having home theater sconces. Those sconces will hold either lamps or candles. That would mean candle-lit movie time. …great idea! Perfect for our bonding time.