First time I heard about this word "clawfoot tub", I ain't sure what it meant. Well, on the first word, for sure the tub I know but sometimes phrases or  words won't coincide. And so I then saw a picture of what it is. And yes, it is a tub. Ha! A fancy tub, clawfoot tub, alright. It is fancy for me since it is not meant as ordinary (here in US of A) where it has to be placed under a shower or where one stoop-in for taking a shower. Ah, such a strange word for me. Ooh well, from that moment I saw one, then I knew what it is. :-) I wasn't raised where clawfoot tub is just an ordinary, you know. Haha! Pardon if it makes you laugh, funny a bit. :-P And so then, do you like to splurge yourself in a clawfoot tub? Have you been free from stressed then after putting-up your bud in there? Usually, it does. And it's great to have it, don't you think? ;)

Hello! How is everybody? I hope everything's fine despite of all the trials, hardships, obstacles and all such! Life is like that. As it has been said a recipe should always have spices to have it taste good or else it does not taste as food, agree? So we need to have courage! Just like me, I almost gave up when I was sick for one week. As in I cannot control my body that was why I can tell "I am dying" but then here I am standing, writing still! And so keep the life going! Life is great!

Well, before I proceed this isn't Friday here in my time but since in other part of the world is Friday already, then food trip Friday time! And my food trip for today is guava. I want to eat a fresh about-to-ripe guava. Though this craving was already in Sunday to which I can found no fresh guava anywhere in the market, I just settled for guava in syrup to at least feel such. But to my dismay, it was being sliced and without its skin already and the worst (sorry for the word), as I took a bite it is too sweet (what is syrup for anyway) for my taste bud this time. I then take the bowl off with its cover and put it in refrigerator hoping I would like to eat it the next time around but not yet as of now. By the way, am pregnant. That maybe the reason am picky. Until now, I don't like to eat and feel nauseous. :( I can settle a milk and one or two piece of cheese bread in the morning, one piece of banana fruit for lunch and another fruit for evening. Thankfully I have vitamins or else. :(

One more thing, I got curious of a coconut jam to which it is my first time to see it in a glass jar below. I thought it is "calamay" in a glass. It is in my thought that if manufacturer put it in a coconut bagol. If you know "calamay", do you think so? I haven't eaten it yet. I just put it in refrigerator and it got me puzzled if it really is. Well, I leave that to you folks if it really is. Ooh well, perhaps you said that what's the taste of it. Hemmm.. I will have to taste this as soon as my taste bud would allow me to. Really, I will. Whatever it is, since I know it is not poisonous (lol), I will taste it. Since I already eat a lot of jam like mango jam, strawberry jam, guava, etc --- I will not afraid to taste it. :-) I have to compare if it really is the same as in "calamay sa Bohol". I hope it taste as like it. :-)

Its price by the way is same as to nutella spread of about the same size. I wonder how it tastes since it is pricey. :-) If you know and taste like an image above, would you like to share how coco jam tastes? How do you like it? Ooh well, am hungry now, I will eat heavy meal first then will eat that for snacks later with lemonade. :) Let's eat..

black idea of cooking the pork blood stew

Can you see the difference than other sweet potato? Yep, a purple color that is. It is uncommon in my place, apparently it seldom appears in the market. The taste is also sweet and yummy! To tell you, that is my first taste of purple yam on my own kitchen. I steamed it like any other sweet potatoes I got though there are many other delectable tasty recipes you can get out of purple yum potatoes. As judging from my words, you can tell this is still a family of potato. I got it as long ones and I do not know if there are different sizes of this kind of potato because potatoes usually can have many sizes and some are big and others are small oblong. Also you can see the colors of the left two yams are darker than the other four, that is because I cut the big one into two before putting it in the pot and let it steamed. It is big and once its big, it does cook longer so if you want it to cook in normal way, you may like to cut such. And the end result is the potato meat turn darker the ones that haven't.

Have you taste a sweet potato like this before? Is it common in your place? Whatever it is, have fun eating... :-)

I know typical Americans or some part of the world do not like inner body part of meat as their food but most Filipinos do (am a Filipino). People of any areas have differences and I understand that. I even read some not-so-good comments on other blogs but I do not care, it is their business so I respect them. Anyhoo, speaking of adobo(pork adobo) it is very well-known as it is Filipinos signature food, I guess. What about gizzard adobo? Male pinoys like this a lot. I remember, my late grandfather and other male relatives in an island, loves this so much to which I was curious of tasting it. The way it is cook makes a difference. I like it a lot and now, I somewhat get used to it. :-) An image above is what I cooked more than two weeks ago (the date tells), it was my first time cooked of this as I do not like cooking when I was still single and besides I haven't seen this before in the place where I am now, so definitely my first time. I planned to cooked it as fried because I am not that good in adobo as to pork adobo --- I cannot perfect it as to what the typical adobo taste but fortunately, it turned into adobo without my knowledge.. :-) I utilized the spices I had to which those are: garlic, onion and three colors of fresh bell peppers (green, orange and red) with olive oil, soy sauce and a pinch of salt then a touch of water. My mind planned only to fried it but to my surprise I was gathering some spices which you do not need when frying, then I just then continued because I had it already in my hand. hehehe.. what a coincidence. :-) So the adobo recipe went. I used a lot of spices (half to soak it and half on the final touched) to get the smell of chicken. And to my surprise, I did it good to what I didn't expect but the taste that I adored when someone good at adobo does. Whew! It is really good when it's just only a little sauce it has or let it soak for minutes with its sauce leaving it a bit. Just not a lot of salt but more soy sauce and a touch of water so the sauce is not dark, and also be sure the oil is not much and not less --- just enough that you could see the oil when it is already cook. Boiling the gizzard before the adobo process is the important step.

this is the side view of the yellow sweet potatoes I cooked

Hello folks, how is everyone doing? How is your Wednesday? I hope all are fine and doing great. On my side, I am a bit hungry now... (mmmmm) especially looking at this snacks above. Let us have some of it... have you ever tried such? For me, it was my first time eating with all the package shown on the image. Usually it is just composed of black sticky rice and some bread but I was curious what was the taste of that yellow pudding paired with the stuff on the small circle white stuff. It was delicious only the sweet black sticky rice was not that soft compared to normal cooking, I guess I got the not-so-good one but still it taste good. If it was soft then I would say it was perfect. Next time, I have to get the soft one... my preference is not that good on a little not-so-soft. Others (I guess) likes it that way. I guess, you like it this way? Enjoy eating... :-)

How is everyone this weekend? I hope you guys are enjoying bonding with your family in there. Mine is pretty okay though it is still raining over here until now. The good thing is I have not heard major damages aside from minor floods in the road and peeps who want to have a walk cannot do such. Anyway, would you care to prepare my own banana salad recipe? This is just a simple and out of my curiosity as well on experimenting my recent craved peanuts in a fruit salad. Usually I put peanuts on maja blanca dessert only and some on vegetable salads. So I thought of putting it in one of my top fruit of my choice which is banana. It is done just like fresh or canned fruits salad. The procedure is so easy as 1-2-3! (1) I just slice the banana fruit into small slices, (2) then I put nestle cream and condensed milk (you can substitute nestle cream and condensed milk with evaporated milk or fresh milk if you wish too; that's what I did when I run out of such), (3)then put peanuts (or you can add too whole kernel corn with it if you like corns), and done! It is good when it is cold, you may feel like put ice or put in the fridge before eating. It is easy, isn't it? Have a happy dessert eating with sprite without caffeine. Have a nice day and TGIW (Thanks God It's Weekend)... (~_~)

pork tocino