I wish it were easy posting an entry using a touch pad no larger than a credit card but it isn’t. Imagine what hell it was typing last thursday’s and tomorrow’s column using my iPhone. But that’s life. Pldt DSL service is still dead and resurrection is taking longer than smoothing out the wrinkles on ... (more)
Cooking instructions
Posted on May 9, 2008 · 20 Comments
One of the more popular recipes in my food blog is cassava bibingka with custard topping. Speedy says the recipe is all wrong. And he has said this more than once — there isn’t enough custard. He said it again today. Left photo: “The bibingka should be this thin.” Right photo: “The custard should ... (more)
Sardines frittata in tortilla
Posted on May 8, 2008 · 7 Comments
Beef and chicken are not the only things you can use to stuff flour tortillas. A tortilla is a bread and anything that goes well with bread will taste delicious with tortilla. I bought a bag of flour tortilla a week ago intending to stuff them with chicken a la king. Sadly, the chicken a la king was gone before I could use it as stuffing. The package says the tortillas won’t be any good after tomorrow so I decided to create something that would be as radical a filling as chicken a la king.
The title says I stuffed the tortillas with sardines frittata but that title doesn’t really do justice to the filling. Read on to understand what I mean.
Sunset in Puerto Galera
Posted on May 8, 2008 · 15 Comments
Speedy and his officemates were in Puerto Galera for three days last week. It was a company-sponsored outing so I couldn’t go with him. He did bring home a lot of photos though. These sunset photos were taken from the roof deck of Paul’s Place where they stayed. I’ll post the underwater photos later.
Manna Bakery
Posted on May 8, 2008 · 13 Comments
We were an hour early for an eight o’clock appointment yesterday and we drove around the Loyola area looking for a good place to have breakfast. Not Starbucks, definitely. Not McDonald’s either. We considered Seattle’s Best but the parking area was bathed in sunlight and getting into the car afterwards would have been like getting into a hot oven. We left Katipunan Road and entered Esteban Abada Street. That was where we found Manna Bakery. We hadn’t been there before, we hadn’t even heard of it, but the place was cozy, clean and inviting.
The continuing PLDT MyDSL saga
Posted on May 8, 2008 · 28 Comments
I had an 8.00 a.m. appointment in Quezon City yesterday morning. Because the server had been overloading for the past couple of days, I decided to check the CPU load at around 5.45 a.m. before hitting the shower. I couldn’t connect. That has happened before. Momentary failure of PLDT MyDSL connection. I decided to check ... (more)
Because nature is not without a sense of irony
Posted on May 7, 2008 · 3 Comments
The title, of course, is a line from one of the many thought-provoking dialogues in what must be my favorite movie of all time, The Matrix. It seemed to be the most accurate phrase to describe the following photos of the egrets preying on fish raised by man for food and profit. The photos were ... (more)
Server overload and the gay Santacruzan
Posted on May 6, 2008 · 21 Comments
My server overloaded six times today and I had to reboot each and every time. I was wondering what was causing the spike in traffic until my editor sent a text message regarding the controversial pronouncements of Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales on gay santacruzans. See, if you Google “gay santacruzan”, this blog lands on the ... (more)
Mad world
Posted on May 6, 2008 · 23 Comments
Which would you consider more shocking–the art student who got herself pregnant several times over a nine-month period and aborted the pregnancies so she could put the fetal blood in an art exhibit or the father who locked up his 18-year-old daughter in a basement, kept her a prisoner for 24 years, raped her regularly ... (more)
Is there a shortage of role models for our daughters?
Posted on May 5, 2008 · 10 Comments
When I first read this entry about a mother’s reaction to something written by a media personality named Rachel Campos Duffy, I wasn’t quite sure how to react. The Duffy person says shows like High School Musical and Hannah Montana are not allowed in her house because we’d rather our girls aspire to be astronauts ... (more)
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