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.

turquoise {color of the year}

Be it a dress {whole dress, shirts, shorts, skirts, jeans}, shoes {sandal, pump shoes, flat/ballet, flip flop}, shawl, cap, and the like as long as it dresses my bod up, is my weakness personally --- I admit. :-) Though clothing is a necessity but I go beyond to urban clothing, this is perhaps the urge of having do not have a lot when I was young and part of growing up aside from I live now in urban neighborhood. You know... we also have to blend in to our surroundings and the season. Oops, is it about spring yet? Yep, it is coming on next days... and am excited not just for spring cleaning but for the change of weather. And my turquoise dress is waiting.. :-) I am thinking of wearing such this Sunday on my bessy Au child baptism that was why I bought such {actually three} yesterday and a pair of stiletto black sandal. It is a bit pricey but sometimes I have to indulge myself shopping as stress-reliever too aside from the fact that clothing is my weakness and it is just a walking distance to where I (me and DH) live. It is accessible and I love that fact. By the way, DH treat me for that, okay? :-) Oops! By the way, the image is intentionally blurred for some purpose. :-)

music video in courtesy of YouTube
If you like to see and watch more of my MM entry, it's in here . Enjoy and happy viewing...

If you only know how healthy and blooming plant is this days ago or if you are a plant lover, you will also feel the nostalgic I feel as I see this yellow Ranunculus Asiaticus plant (together with the red color flowers) dying day by day. I am sad because this has a lot of buds that are about to bloom yet it could not rise anymore. :-) I cannot help it but just hold and embrace the sad journey of my plant. I wanted to do something in order this to live but I can see that it will no longer as alive as I have this a while ago. All I have to do is just witness. :-) This is the second pot plant died here in my new place I called a second home in the care of my hands. I said to my husband that I will just buy another outdoor plant perhaps next week and it would be an outdoor lucky bamboo or a green cactus, in that way I am confident that it will last long because it is already proven by my care. I do not regret of buying this but to the point that I do not know how it looks like the image above, I do! Hmmm.. I have to comfort myself --- that is alright. :-) By the way, I have this plant on my hands during valentines day. It was only about three weeks. :-(

Do you remember our high school science subject flora and fauna? Heheheh.. yep, it is where I got my title aside from my paternal grandmother name is "Flora". Alright, flora is botany term of flower whereas fauna is an animal term. I was anxious to have a live flower near my laptop when setting on my computer station table. I wonder if you know why beside the reason of beautification. It is to protect my eyes against the computer radiation {though findings said there is no harmful effect of computer radiation unlike x-ray or ultra-violet rays} - I just like it. The third reason is I have something to see if ever I want to look for something have a life whenever my husband is not around. (~_~) Yep, I have it and the image above I took after valentines day this year. I like this plant because it has a lot of buds that are about to bloom --- more than six. But sad to say that it is dying nowadays. I will put up the current image I have on the next. I am sad. :-(

As of my age right now, I am thinking if I already have to consider using anti-aging eye cream to combat wrinkles. I am skeptical in the other side of my mind knowing that I am still in the late 20's of age, well going thirty already. Wow... am a bit of surprise to know it, seems like it is just yesterday I was twenty-five and then a couple of weeks after tomorrow I will be in my thirty! Eewww... aw, that is fine. Age does not matter as long as we believe that age are just numbers or it will matter if we let it. Okay let us say I am about to jump the calendar dates, does it also mean that I am already prone to wrinkles? I am asking the expert please... If ever I am already okay with that matter, getting an eye cream review will be the first thing I would do so I can have some info what customers say about the product I like to buy. Their reviews will play a great impact on my purchase. To tell you, sometimes especially I am tired or stressed I can see wrinkles around my eyes. Ha! Is this a sign of aging? Waaaaa... Wish me luck that I am not on that matter folks! :-)... By the way what about you, do you already have wrinkles around your eyes?

Hello folks, how everyone doing? I hope you all the best on this day and onwards. Today is already Friday in Philippines and beyond (as well as other countries that is advance five hours advance from Eastern Time (ET) or eight hours advance here in Pacific Standard Time (PST). We all know that 12:01 AM is already another day, so welcome Friday! That is also mean that weekend is coming... For now, let us have some food tripping this Friday. This time, my food trip is my own version of beef steak. I actually do not plan to cook beef steak as of cooking the image below days ago but to my surprise, I have seen that is already a beef steak (but my own version)! (LOL).. I can still remember a cousin of mine who is good in making her special beef steak that she has to put force through paddling the steak over the beef to make it soft and as she said deliciously-taste. Then she has to marinade it overnight with lemons and all that marinade stuffs. What I did was simple but I made it to the point that it is savory because I did not marinade it overnight. I just steam it a couple of minutes to soak with the flavor and spices.

my own version of beef steak

As you noticed on the date if you enlarge it, it was 18th the other month (February 18), yep, that is right. I craved for noodles with sardines that time and since I have fresh wet noodles from the market and white sardines along with the spices I wanted to mixed, the craving granted! :-) {And nope, I am pregnant huh! } And so the cooking continued... after a couple of minutes preparing and slicing the stuffs needed, the cooking was finished. It was just just easy because I do not need to find or ran to the store for the ingredients. All I did was to mix and match so it would taste good to my taste. My husband was at work that time so I was the only to eat and need not worried of what I had to cook for him (definitely he do not like to eat noodles soup) so we could eat together or else it was not good for me to eat alone and the husband was hungry on the other side. So that was it, I will going to give the recipe of what I had on the next post. For now, you may like to guess what I put on it as what you can see in the image above. I guess you will guess it right because it is such an easy one. Have a great noodles soup day! And now I am craving again.. (~_~)

Whoops am a bit late for Music Monday (MM) entry for this week though I have this already in my mind three days ago hoping that I am one of the first five to get on the list of music trippers last Sunday here in my place which is apparently is Monday already in Malaysia (where the host live). Anyhow, I am still not that late because it is not yet Wednesday... :-) I cannot pass this time to put this music trip I heard and wanted to share to you folks especially to the young-at-heart and those who enjoyed texting as well to which this song is dedicated to and some feeling involve. Friendship also has been in mind in this song. This week I am featuring the teen music new star D&A duo (DeAnn and Alex) of their song "Texting". It is so cool to me and I like the tone of the music, as in you will like to dance along with them. And also what made DeAnn one cool star is that her mother is one of the Pinay diva also and perform in prestigious singing entertainment. This fresh music star DeAnn is a look-a-like of her mother or also known as "mother-daughter look-a-like" , what a cool huh! For now, let's watch and jive of D&A music video "Texting", here it is:

milk bread (pan-de-leche)

Oops, it is Food Trip Friday time---it is foodies time! Today my food trip entry is sweets. My all-time one of my favorite sweet, Pastel which was Camiguin (my hometown), Philippines delicacy. This was my " pasalubong " given by my virtual friend Dhemz which is coincidentally from Misamis Oriental too (not that so neighbor but not too far). Actually this was my wish the time she and her own family have a vacation in our home country. It seems to me that I was also there vacationing. (~_~) Nope, it is the fact that I miss my hometown that is why this "pasalubong" is so important to me.. hehehe.. Thanks to my madam sis for making it possible.. oops she do not want this to tell that it came from here yet I did, she is just humble. So that is it. Pastel is one of the best of Camiguin aside from its sweet lanzones. If you happen to come there, you might like to try this one--it comes from different flavor like yema, ube, etc. Okay, that is enough or else you might say I am paid for this. I have to tell you not, I am not paid for this! I am just a satisfied eater (lol) :-).

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... :-)

deep-fried tilapia fish dinner w/ french fries, fried rice, corn tortilla, beans and salad

That was from fast-food resto foodies to which the names are just below the image. That was my food as dinner for me with green lemonade. I do not like the tortilla and salad in the image personally so I just let it go. DH understands so it's okay to put it to where it just right. I then indulge myself eating the other foods I like with bare hands at the house :-), dip the deep-fried tilapia to my home made vinaigrette (made of vinegar, soy sauce, tomato, onion and a little lemon) and munch in! (~_~) The tilapia is a highlight of mine because I usually order red snapper or catfish, or grilled salmon but because I can imagine the awesome smell of it, I then let my DH get it and to my surprised it was big and so yummm-o! It is meaty and I got what I imagined. I was having a good time with our dinner. Then suddenly, I came to remember my diet. Ooh no diet that time, I let my tummy bulge.. lol... Perhaps if I continue eating more than my body needs made me think that perhaps one day would be checking on some quick weight loss stuff. Whew! My gosh... Anyway, my DH partner got his choice of fried cat fish with tartar sauce and some other sauces like hot sauce and such, french fries, macaroni and cheese, french cobbler then paired with pink lemonade. We had a blast! :-)

Yep, this image was taken (from my cellphone cam) as of new year (January 1) this year the time that we went to DH workplace. For now(winter season), most of the trees looks like that dead ones. It does not snow in the city where I am in here in Southern, California yet still the trees are like in snow areas---seems dead. Though I am not that in awe when seeing trees like these yet I recalled when I first saw such. I thought it really were dead. But to tell you, it will become green again when spring come in. So that is it. That is my share of my wordless one. I am not wordless now but the first time I saw it, really I was wordless (like the image below)! :-(

A womanly me think if there is any food that can burn fat because normally foods are the one who exert fat and will turn some other people to become fat or obese. And now, I just saw that there are foods that burn fat (that can increase your metabolism?)! Actually, I now remember that I already heard this before that such food is good for fat peeps. And that it is good for them because of their health. Those are usual foods so I guess there's no big deal with it. How do you like it by the way? Many fat candidates will surely consider to see and observe this food huh. I cannot think of any foods to say because I haven't encountered any of this food yet. Perhaps we will have shake hands and introduce ourselves when we bump each other (~_~). But yeah am serious about this issue and perhaps I will consider to check about it if I think that I need such for my health.