Chicken Adobo with Potatoes

I was scrolling my old files from my (back-up) hard disk when I saw this photos that were taken last July 27, 2008.  What were I thinking during that time?... hmmm...  Maybe, I was planning to document my everyday simple recipe which is the Chicken Adobo.  Living away from my parents is a way to learn how to survive myself in my everyday living.  No servants around... No one will wake you up... No one will scold you when you get home late... and etc...  That's living alone.  This photos were taken in our townhouse in Quezon City.  So, just ignore my electric stove and utensils here. hehehe...

This is the simplest way to do adobo.  All Filipinos love it.  We always patronage cooking our food in Adobo style.  Adobo means cooking it with soy sauce and vinegar or calamansi juice extract.  In this recipe, I just added sliced potatoes for a healthier version.  Here are the photos. ;)

Just add black pepper (crushed), bay laurel leaves, and/or sili labuyo for more intense hotness...

Also add an extract of calamansi juice (as many as you like)

Cheesy Buco Corn Salad

This is one of the dessert, I always make when there's an occassion at home.  But sometimes I could make this when I can get someone to climb our coconut tree in our backyard.  As for all the Filipinos out there, this dessert is very popular since there's a lot of coconut trees around our country and this dessert is always present during noche buena or the new year's eve.  So, I made this again just to satisfy my craving of this dessert and to share it here especially, new year's eve is fast approaching.

You'll need this ingredients:

4 shredded young coconut meat
           (scraped using a coconut scraper)
1 (232g) Kaong (white), drained
1 (232g) Nata de Coco (white), drained
1 small can condensed milk
1 (250ml) All-purpose Nestle Cream
1 can Cream Style Corn
1 (180g) Eden Cheese


Here's how to do it:

1.  Slice the cheese in a dice shape.  As what you can see at the bottom image.

2.  Pour the Nata de Coco and the Kaong in your salad mixer bowl.

3.  Then, pour the Cream Style Corn...

4.  Then the cheese...

5.  Mix with Condensed Milk and All-Purpose Cream...

6.  Mix it all well...

7.  Lastly, add the Buco (scraped young coconut meat) to the mixture.

8.  Mix... mix... mix... them all...

9.  Chill it overnight in your freezer or until it is cold enough to be served.  Enjoy eating! ;)

Choco Banana Crepe

Another Pinoy cast on Glee

Darren Criss is a 23-year old musician and actor from San Francisco, California. He is most known for playing as Harry Potter in the musical, A Very Potter Musical. Originally from San Francisco, California. He's half-Filipino and half-Irish. He attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory and went on to the University of Michigan and graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performance and Acting.

Darren Criss played the character of Blaine in season 2 episode 6 of GLEE.  He had auditioned for Glee a couple of times, including an audition for Finn, before landing the character of Blaine. He has joined the cast of Glee as Blaine, a student at a rival school. Blaine is an "out-and-proud student" and serves as a mentor to Kurt.  It is rumored that his character will be a love interest for Kurt Hummel.  

He's hot, right?! I hope we could get more of Blaine on the next episodes.  Just happy he isn't really gay. :)

Filariasis

I had taken 5 tablets of DEC (Diethylcarbamazine Citrate) and 1 Albendazole, two days ago in Rural Health Unit of Lezo.  MDA (Mass Drug Administration) is ongoing here in the province of Aklan since October because of the high incidence of Filariasis.  I was shocked when I heard the news that it is already been here in Aklan.  According to the Department of Health (DOH), Aklan province registers the highest number of Filariasis cases in Western Visayas.  The DOH discovered filariasis cases in the hinterlands of Libacao and Madalag.  Those who have asthma and are pregnant mothers, however, are not included for the MDA program for Filariasis by the DOH.

FILARIASIS is a communicable disease caused by a thread-like worm known as "Wuchereria Bancrofti". It is transmitted through the bite of an infected female mosquito about two weeks after it has bitten a person with this disease.

Lymphatic Filariasis also known as “Elephantiasis”, is a chronic parasitic infection that puts at risk more than a billion people in 83 countries. In the Philippines over 25 million people are living in endemic areas for this disease. It is caused by thread-like parasitic filarial worms, which lodge in the nodes and vessels of the lymphatic system. These worms live for about 10 years producing millions of immature microfilariae that circulate in the blood.

The disease is transmitted when a mosquito bites an infected person, and takes blood along with the microfilariae. These microfilariae develop into the infective stage inside the mosquitoes for about three weeks and may be transferred into an uninfected individual during subsequent bites. These larvae lodge in the lymph vessels and lymph glands, which develop into adult male and female worms. These worms (male and female worms) copulate and produce millions of microfilariae. They circulate in the bloodstream and the cycle continues when another mosquito vector gets it during blood feeding and the cycle may be repeated.

Person who took the drugs may experience stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, headache, dizziness or temporary hair loss.