#233 Being able to cook your own food

I have been relying on home cook delivery for more than a year. Someone in the building has been cooking food and delivering to my unit and all the other units in the building. So it is comfortable and just a text away, someone will deliver straight to my door. It was a great arrangement and very comfortable for me, plus the fact that they are "turo-turo" priced, was quite awesome.

Until a month ago when the owner decided to call it quits.

I was off-balanced for a couple of weeks, relying on Chowking and Jollibee which were located downstairs. Then came a time when I was really fed up with the chicken and fastfood. I was just forcing the food inside just I can relieve the hungriness. Ewwwww. Just thinking about the fried chicken, braised beef and chowfan makes me wanna puke.

Every discomfort is an opportunity to grow.

So, there is no choice but to cook my food. Together with the help of my girlfriend, we came up with simple meals, checked the internet and do a grocery.

So for the initial offering, we bought a lot of vegetables, spices and seasonings, a kilo of chicken and a kilo of pork.

Also bought basic utensils, a knife, a frying pan and a skillet.

I was able to resuscitate my refrigerator as it has just been serving me as a place to put rotting foods for me before, and cold water haha. Cleaned up my ref and threw away those expired foods. And i have my ref back!

I also have a gas stove which I havent been using for quit some time. (The last time was maybe last November when me and my girlfriend cooked spaghetti)

Now there is a great oppurtunity to cook awesome meals and learn! And thinking about those nutritious meals, and how bout going vegan! haha

There are no accidents in life. Every challenge is an oppurtunity to grow.

I just finished eating my cooked meal. It was a pork giniling ala menudo. Awesome!

My first home cooked meal!

#229 Corned beef breakfast meal at Jollibee

Although I find their chicken more desirable than McDonalds, most of their menu is bland. Quite surprising most of the Pinoy and little kids loves Jollibee. I only love Jollibee because they are open 24 hours near my building haha, so if I crave even in the wee hours of the morning, I could always just went down. But if there's one thing more I love about Jollibee is their corned beef meal. I could eat until three rice with this one. Along with egg and fried rice, panalo! Walang panama ang Purefoods corned beef, or any corned beefs that I have tasted for that matter. Craving!

#222 Kaimito na galing sa ref

I grew up with a lot of trees around in the province. We used to climb santol, mangga, and kaimito trees with my cousins when we were young. There are also duhat, chico, aratiles, in looban where relatives live (mostly cousins in my mother's part). Among my favorite are kaimito and chico. Yummy! I love sweet fruits, and I don't like hilaw na mangga. And I found out that putting kaimito in the refrigerator... is yummier!

#220 Sinaing na tulingan and itlog na pula at kamatis

If you have this on the table, I will be emptying my plate and looking for a second serving of rice. My bayaw cooks wicked sinaing na tulingan, and pair that with salted eggs (itlog na pula) plus tomatoes plus pikong mangga, and you get an awesome lunch!

#216 Pica-pica food trip

Me and my girl were a little playful last Sunday. Instead in eating onetime bigtime in one resto, we ate one food at a time whatever we want. I say it is fun doing this (paonti onti). It is awesome as we enjoy each food and not force it down the throat just to finish (which we sometimes do in restos)  and we were surprised that we were full until the evening of that day.

We started with a cake at  Banapple

Gumballs

Some breads at BreadTalk

Jumbo Fries at Potato Corner

Super Taro at Quickly

Popcorn from Kingcorn, while watching 'Warm Bodies'

Potato wedges and chicken pops from Duo's

#152 Free unlimited coffee!

Unlimited supply of coffee in the office coffee vendo machine. Choose your blend!