Monthly Archives: June 2010

Tocino Recipe

One of the best thing I learned in my 2 years of college is making Tocino. Yup, we were taught how to make Tocino, ice cream and all. That’s Animal Science for you. If my memory serves they almost taught us about driveway alarm or is it the technology of alarms (that’s Physics for you)….

Parts Of Beef

Beef.. oh we love that to bits.. Our favorite beef part is sirloin, because it is affordable and tender. I would love to have tenderloin but it is kinda expensive. Next to sirloin, I also love the brisket part. It is best used in beef stew. How about you? What’s your favorite beef part? image:…

Blogging And Cooking

Last year, I wanted a laptop so I can blog anywhere I am. I have been eying Acer Aspire. I can be on our kitchen and blog while cooking or I can be with the kids on the sala and blog while playing with them. And then later I realized, I cannot blog while cooking…

Most Popular Ice Cream Flavor

Ice cream or ice-cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavours. Most varieties contain sugar, although some are made with other sweeteners. In some cases, artificial flavourings and colourings are used in addition to (or in replacement of)…

Love Tokens For Less

With modern technology taking the slog out of gift-giving, there can be no excuse for ducking out of Valentine’s Day. Gone are the days when the effort of choosing something for that “special someone” was a Herculean struggle. If a young man had neither the time nor inclination to trudge around the stores, or, having…

Hazelnut is Not a Nut…

It’s LOVE…. A hazelnut is the nut of the hazel and is also known as a cob nut or filbert nut according to species. A cob is roughly spherical to oval, about 15–25 mm long and 10–15 mm in diameter, with an outer fibrous husk surrounding a smooth shell. A filbert is more elongated, being…

Tax Preparation Made Easier

There are a few things in life we all need yet few of us are actually capable of doing for ourselves. One of those things happens every April in the form of tax preparation, when that big black cloud rolls in reminding us that it’s time to get our houses in order and pay Uncle…