home made pandesal

My first attempt at baking pandesal and they turned out so yummy!

Thank you to Ms. Connie for sharing her great recipe to first time bakers. View her recipe here.

something new

While doing my Christmas list, I thought of putting everything on excel file so I won't miss the number in my inventory of gifts once I assign these gifts to names. However, the task/equation I needed was out of my league so I asked an officemate to help me. Now, I learned a new thing in excel which I think is worth sharing :)

#-countif(range,"value") --> e.g., #ofgifts-(A1:D12,"gift1")

countif(range,"value") & "," & countif(range,"value") --> e.g., countif(A1:D12,"gift1") & "," & countif...

corn muffin time

I found this website with what looks like a very good recipe for corn bread. It just took me a while to bake it because I had a hard time looking for one of its ingredients - cornmeal. I went to the supermarket and all I found was corn starch which the product guy vehemently pointed to me was totally different from a corn meal. I went home to my hometown and while accompanying my mother to the market, looked for cornmeal, too, but there was none. A few weeks after, I finally found a shop that's selling it but I had to go back in a few weeks' time since they ran out of stock. Fortunately, there was some cornmeal by the time I went back. So here it is, my corn muffin.

It tasted good however, the inside was a bit soggy, owing to the fact that I did not put in fresh corn but instead, I put in a cream style corn. It was yummier but a little wet, and when it cooled, the muffin deflated. I am going to try this again with the kernel.

---- update 11 November ----

I made the muffin again but this one is less better than the first one. I think I put muffins in a too hot oven and the grainier corn bits in the corn meal did not cook well. Next time, I'm gonna make it perfect!

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Thank you to Ms. Connie of Casa Veneracion website for the recipes!

darth vader in lego

How I love thee, Darth Vader Lego! I wish I can have you for my own.

@SM MOA

vintage mugs

Remember this Jollibee mug?

These had been with us since I can remember, bought home from Manila as pasalubong to us kids at home. Just seeing these still intact is a testament of how our mom takes care of all our stuff. Amazing!

christmas tree

After twenty-two years, we are finally retiring our well-loved Christmas tree.

I remember when our mom bought this tree. She picked me up at school after a weekend of Girl Scout event and there it was, the box that held the Christmas tree! So excited to set it up and see how it looked like. Now, it's time to retire her but I will always remember the happy Christmas moments we have with her.

Now, we have a new one that will light up our Christmas celebration at home.