How to Keep Fresh Vegetables for Longer Use

Being a mom, I do the buying of fruits and vegetables for our week's menu plan. There are sometimes two recipes that both need the same leafy vegetables as an ingredient.  Like the Pechay Baguio (Bokchoi's relative), I used the half portion for the viand Nilaga say on Monday and the other half will be for the Sopas on Sunday is remaining.  If just put on top of the table, it will only attract fruit flies and humidity  because of the weather, will wither its freshness. 

Leftover Fresh Vegetable

How to Keep Leftover Biscuits Crispy

Children often have snack leftovers and if you don't have a vacuum or air-tight container it will just turn brittle after minutes or hours of waiting till the little guys are hungry and be back to look for it again.  Before they lose their appetite chewing the not so crispy and not so yummy biscuits here's a way to keep it crisp like it was when you first open its packaging.

Leftover Biscuit

Poem

Sunset in Hondagua

Tempest by the Sea

Amid the darkness

of the night in a deep blue sea

I sail across the pathway

of an endless trip.

Aasa pa ba o "Move on" na ?!

Ang artikulong ito ay para sa mga umiibig na hindi o hindi pa nasusuklian ang pag-ibig.  Paano ba natin susukatin ang mga sirkumstansiya kung dapat pa ba tayong maghintay o hindi na?  Narito ang ilang paalala na maari nating gawing sukatan sa ikabubuti ng lahat at sa pag-iwas sa mas matinding kasawian:

My brother as a "model" here
on my post haha "Bunso, wala ako mailagay
na image na bagay dito"

1.  Available pa ba siya o taken na?

Ito ang siyang dapat nating pangunahing ikonsidera. Baka naman siyang nilalangit mo ay pag-aari na nang iba? May nobya na ohindi kaya ay asawa pa!? Kahit sino ayaw lumabas na kontrabida sa tunay na buhay. Kaiinisan hindi lamang ng taong aagawan  kundi maging ng mga tao sa paligid lalo na yaong mga nagmamahal dun sa magkarelasyong binabantaan mong mawasakin.  Higit sa lahat magkakasala ka kung siya ay may-asawa na. Huwag kang pumayag matawag na homewrecker...

The Importance of Strong Family Ties

I am meeting a lot of people in all the places we have been.  I usually get-to-know those who have aged alone - as in NBSB (No Boyfriend Since Birth) or those who have settled down at the right age (mid-20s) and the ones who get hooked early as in "have a family at a younger age".  I am somehow (without them knowing) curious and observing, trying to find answers what led them  to live that way.

Growing old alone is not the best thing for anybody BUT it is not the worst for sure.  I saw the most unlikely situations in those who have had children at an early age.

Mama, my brother Jay-ar and my daughters

One thing I noticed with the families of those who have aged alone is that, they seemed content with their families. Their parents and siblings are very affectionate and they seemed to have an open-communication.  Those families are somewhat like a "barkada" or peer group but still respecting the parents.  

Warming Rice in a Rice Cooker

Before, I get trouble washing the rice cooker pot because of toasted rice sticking stubbornly inside.  I had to submerge the pot in water for longer time to soften it for me to be able to wash it thoroughly. Besides, heating the rice on a pan, you will need to use oil unless you have a stoneware or other nonstick pan - not so healthy and if fried with garlic does not go well with soupy dishes unlike the steamed.

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Unleash Your Child's Potential I : Artworks/Drawings

As soon as children age four, their inclination shows. Would you believe, my Angel Reign has shown her dancing prowess as early as she is just one year old - she danced while sitting (not yet walking expertly) hearing the bumps of a spoon in a cup while I am mixing my coffee. She is indeed a good dancer  as commented by her teachers and later on I discovered she can sing too. But mostly their other talents manifest when they can stand firmly or hold objects like pencil steadily. My Riana Ysobel showed hers when she is four.  She love to draw. In fact, I kept her drawings since then and it is more than a box now, I am really having trouble finding blank papers for her to draw on, she never stops asking till you give her :)

   

Riana Ysobel's "Our Family : Potato Version"
That's me her, her sister, and dad :)

Riana Ysobel

Tips to hone your child's potential:

If the day does not end without her drawing the family, house, the cat even just anything she has in her imagination, that is a hint she loves what her doing.  Here's how you can help her:

My Top 5 Best Studying Habits

Looking for ways to pass the final exams?  Stressed on memorizing lots of details especially on enumerations? I have here some well-tested tips I used during high school and college. I also taught my daughters these techniques,and it worked! 

Loom Band Frenzy

Angel Reign's  loom band works

         

My daughter, Angel Reign, has fancied loom bands since she first saw it on national tv with a celebrity's daughter showing it.

Angel Reign is always wanting to video her loom-band making and post it on Youtube.  I told her to wait till I buy her a box of bands :)

The bands are as elastic as it is - it can be made into different things, your imagination is the limit.  If you are going to search the net, you will find different things made from the world-famous loom bands as odd as a mini-dress for real-life human.

Teens' Notebook: Telltale Signs of Being In-love

Confused on what you are feeling? Having passed the teenage years, I have gone through the stage of being in-love for the first time. 

My  daughters' (Angel & Riana) art work

Here are tell-tale signs you might be in-love:

Choosing a Course to Pursue in College?

Hi, March is the "marching" month here in my country, but this post will be helpful to every student around the globe. I can hear talks about the upcoming graduation and what concerns everybody the most is the choice of career, not only students but their parents are also thinking about it.  I have here some useful reminders and some suggestions along...

Factors that MUST be considered are:

Life-saving Android App Link

Hi! Here is another useful app I recommend to you dear followers.  It is an app written and edited by MDs.  It can be useful anytime because it is in OFFLINE mode.

It is a First Aid Guide.  The conditions are listed by nature for easy searching.  It has symptoms and signs checkers.  Reviews 1200+ recommends it in Google+ and 975 people reviewed it and graded 5/5. 

Must-taste Filipino Foods

My most favorite Filipino food/drinks with my 99.9% recommendation :

Lechon

Yes, only here in the Philippines that pork is barbecued in whole, as in "whole" from foot to head...the internal organs are but  removed.

Before, the pig is grilled "as is" but nowadays my fellow-Filipinos have invented different recipes to cook Lechon.  Others stuff it with lemon grass and rub some herbs on its skin...others bath it in coconut water or wine.  The traditional Pinoys cook it with just salt and vetsin or  msg (monosodium glutamate).  

Pinoy Pride's Lechon 

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