Turbo Chicken with Lemongrass

Today we will be attending a D-group and celebrate Father's day and each couple will bring any food. Every house party that we attended we bought food either cake, pancit, spaghetti, siomai, lechon manok or anything good for party.

But since (I think) most couples from the group knew how to cook except for us. I'm pressured to bring home cooked food as well. So the easiest Turbo Chicken.

To make sure that the chicken would be very tender. We marinate it overnight rather almost whole day.

Preparation:
3 whole chicken
soy sauce 
7up soda
garlic

I place all the ingredients in a basin then refrigerate.

According to my research and my sister. I need to put a lemon grass (tanglad) inside the chicken for a good aroma. So I went to Arangque market not knowing what does it looks like. ^-^

In a few hours I will start cooking it in the turbo broiler. But need to wait for my husband so we could set the correct temperature of the turbo.

I pray it will all go well.

Will post pics soon :)

10th Anniversary Weekend (Jan 28-29)

We had lunch at Glass Garden, during a friend's wedding.

Then we had dinner at Club Balai for another friend's wedding.

Stayed at the resort and had a breakfast buffet.

And to end the day, we had dinner at Tong Yang my favorite buffet.

Kalye Juan

As a pre-anniversary dinner, we ate at Kalye Juan last Jan 27. We had Bangus Kare-kare, chicharong bulaklak, Laing.

The servings are too small for it's price but still we are already full.

Lucy's bday @ Big Daddy's

It's Lucy's bday again and as always she celebrated it with 50+ friends over dinner and beer. Food is really overflowing and I'm so full with just small portion of each. I love all the dishes that was served. Hoping I could come back here again.

I specially love the Tacos with cream cheese and a lot of toppings.

Pics soon ... :)

Estrels' Cake

For a best wishes greeting for Mon we ordered Estrels' Cake. I super love their cake, it's not so sweet and tastes just right. And it's cheap for P800, I think.

Happy 7th Birthday Jana

We went to Tabang, Bulacan to attend a Hannah Montana Themed Birthday party. It was a grand birthday for a 7 year old kid. She's John's cousin. There are food carts like Ice Cream, Cotton Candy, Hotdog, Fishball, Kikiam and Squid ball. Instead of the usual face paint, there's a kiddie salon where the girls are prettified. There's also kakanin or rice cakes available. For the main course, there's a palabok, spaghetti, pancit canton, lechon, beef, chicken, shrimp, cordon bleu. I'm already full after the hotdog and so I only ate a little off the main course.

I was not able to take a picture but if Achi got pics, I'll post it :)

Happy 11th Month

Today is my nephew's (Eugene Keane) 11th month. For sure, he won't be with us on his 1st birthday so I bought food for him to celebrate his 11th month birthday!

Just for a simple salo-salo, I bought a cake (which is always by default), and a bilao of Pancit Malabon. I asked my sister to buy 2 pcs of Chicken from Robina as well.

Pancit Malabon

Chocolate Nelusko from Goldilocks

House Blessing

We attended a house blessing of my hs & college friend last Sunday August 7.

Full story soon ~

Dedication Party

Went to Hongkong Chef to celebrate my "inaanak"'s Dedication party last Saturday August 6. It's somewhat a baptism if compared to Catholic rites.

Johanna Rachel Salde Dante was born last March 10, 2011. She's already 5 months.

Here's the invitation given to us my Rona when we met at Friday's. Upon arriving at the venue, we were asked of our name and to our surprise there is a table alloted for us. Great planning Rona dear!

 

 

 

Les + John are invited

We arrived before 6PM. While waiting for the party to start, we help ourselves with the Taho and Scramble. There is an available body-painting or face-painting for kids. We could try it out as well, but we didn't dare. There's also a photobooth for everyone.

Party Concepts

 

Photobooth with Marlon, Rhay, and John

Then the main event took place we're we dedicate Hanna to the Lord. It's like we are offering Hanna to God so that he will be one who will rule over her. It's not like Baptism, because Baptism is when she can already accept Christ as her Lord and Saviour.

with my Kumare's and Kumpare's

 After the ceremony, food is now served. Food is good, however, we are placed with guys in the table so I can only get limited quantity. Good thing I'm not that hungry due to the Taho and Scramble. 

Food for our table

With John

The party was really a success! We had fun and what's really important is that I'm now Kumare's with my forever mean gel friends.

Belated Birthday

John and Achi celebrated their birthday @ Hongkong Emperor, MOA. I reserved for 20 guests and I really love their VIP rooms overlooking the bay.



We ordered 2 Set Meals good for 12pax (P15760) composed of Cold cuts, Steamed Live Suahe, Four Treasures Soup, Dried Scallop with Abalone, HK Famous Pork Leg, Fish Fillet with Garlic, Emperor Crispy Chicken, Steamed Crab, Fried Rice and Mixed Fruits. We added additional order of 2 Birthday Noodles (P1360), 2 Salt and Pepper Fish Fillet (P1640), 10 Siu Long Pao (P1080).

~Cold cuts~


~ Fried Rice ~


~ Dried Scallops with Abalone ~


~HK Famous Pork Leg~


~Steamed Suahe~


~Salt & Pepper Fish Fillet~


~Steamed Fish Fillet~ (I love this one!)


Since it's their birthday we had birthday noodles :)


~Steamed Crab~


My favorite Shiao Long Pao


Mixed Fruits for dessert


I was so shocked to see the bill amounting to P22,750+, which includes 10% service charge. But overall, aside from the price the ambiance is very nice (no added payment for room) and food is great as well.

Keane's Christening

We went to Sta. Maria Bulacan last Feb 26 for my nephew's baptism and my brother's birthday as well.

Reception was held at Green Pond Restaurant also in Bulacan and it offers Chinese delicacy. Well not bad for a restaurant at the province.

Iza's 1st bday at Max

We attended the 1st bday of the daughter of our friend. Reception is at Max. Aside from Chicken all the main dishes are served. We had sinigang na Hipon, Kare-Kare, Liempo, Pancit canton, Daing na Bangus, Buko Pandan.
For kids, Chicken, Spaghetti and Ice cream were served.

My college friends :)


Aside from the food we enjoyed the magic show.

9th Anniv

We didn't really have a plan to celebrate our 9th Anniv, I just convinced John to eat somewhere just so I could test my new camera. Since it's almost 1 in the morning, mostl restaurants are closed out in Timog or Tomas Morato. And I'm so hungry so we just ate in Chilis. Price is too high for the quantity and taste of the food. But good enough for hungry ones who just went to the gym.

On our previous visits to Chilis we ordered Burgers and its big enough for its price. This time we ordered, steak , salmon and molten chocolate for dessert. And it costs us 1700+ including all additional taxes and charges. Definitely not worth it.

I love my Sony Tx5 .. hihih :D

Happy Three Kings

Despite our very busy schedule during the holidays we still manage to had this party last Jan 8, 2011 at Bringas Haws of luv. Our usual gathering is just to pig out, play poker, inuman, kwentuhan and tawanan. I enjoyed laughing with them as they reminisced college experiences.

Potluck for dinner and pulutan

Spicy Cheesesticks with Shrimp (from the host Bringas family)

Amber's spaghetti and Lumpia and pichi pichi (courtesy of us)

Savory Chicken (from the De Guzman family)




The 10-pcs bbq (limited only) from Ray

Ordered Pizza from PizzaHut here's some bread, sweet bread, meatballs in bread
(I think Ramz and Ray paid for it)

Level up for the drinks
(courtesy of Ramz for El Hombre & Bacardi and Mike for the Mojitos)

Pahabol na pulutan from Ong family