French Toast ala Mang Caloy

     Basically for merienda Pang loves bread and butter, and coffee of course. When he was still here hindi yata nawawalan ng bread and butter sa bahay. It's either he buys assorted flavored bread on a nearby bakery(makabayan was his favorite), or make fruit jam sandwiches if we have sliced bread at home, and sometimes even make french toast that i love so much. It's an easy to make bread recipe which i think everyone knows. It was from him that i learned how to make french toast when i was a kid, and now i'm delightfully making it for my li'l man. Thanks Pang! I really miss you and your french toast. ^_^

     I made a short recipe below on how to make french Toast ala Mang Caloy.

Ingredients:

6 Slices of Bread

2 Eggs

Butter

Milk

Salt and Pepper

Here's how you do it:

Beat the eggs and milk together. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Soak each slice of bread into the egg mixture.

Melt butter on a pan in low heat.

Put the slice of soaked bread into the pan and fry until it turns brown on both sides.

Plate and ready to serve,

     You can serve it as is, or you could top it with preserved jams like strawberry or pineapple jam as it will add more yumminess to the bread. Enjoy it while it's hot. ^_^ 

Japanese Siomai

     My hubby and I basically loves to eat siomai. Before we would buy it at Henlin, a pioneer for their good tasting siomai and siopao. But siomai was even more popularized by the fast growing food cart business that is almost seen everywhere in the metro, so we eventually switched. Food cart according to wiki is a mobile kitchen that is set up on the street to facilitate the sale and marketing of street food to people from the local pedestrian traffic. Food Cart is often found in large cities throughout the world and can be found selling food of just about any variety. Well in our case here in the Philippines i think siomai is the most popular of all the variety being sold. 

     Well enough of the trivia now and let me go back to my story. Whenever we go to the mall we would usually stop by the food court where the siomai cart is. Our all time favorite is the japanese siomai by Master Siomai, they really do serve good tasting steamy siomao with a very affordale price of P28.00 per serving(4 pcs). Well they also have the classic pork and beef siomai but we prefer the japanese siomai as it is topped with a piece of crab meat and wrapped in Nori, a shredded and rack-dried variety of edible seaweeds commonly used as a wrap for sushi. I'm not so new with the nori, my sisters who lives in Japan would usually bring home several pack of nori for pasalubong and we'd usually eat it with steamy rice, that is why i am familiar with the taste of it. I really love the nori as it adds more flavor and as they say "yumminess" to the regular siomai especially when dipped in their sauce which is not the typical soy sauce as it is a bit sweet. You also have an option to put calamansi and garlic chili sauce to add a little spice in it, but in my case i'd rather not. I'm not so into spicy foods. They also have iced cold gulaman to quench your thirst and neutralize the aftertaste. 

     Today it was not only me and my hubby who patronizes siomai, even my five year old son now craves for it. When i introduced it to him i never expected for him to like it because of the nori, plus the fact that he never really liked to eat meat so much. But surprisingly after the first time he tasted it he did liked it and now often asks me to go to this place to eat japanese siomai. I remember one time when we were at the mrt station in Quezon Avenue, he spotted a siomai cart and eagerly asked me to stop by and eat. At home he likes to eat the japanese siomai with steamy rice. The photo on the right shows li'l osh enjoying a serving of japanese siomai and a glass of gulaman.

     Japanese Siomai, definitely siomai reinvented. ^_^

Giving in to Temptation

     A few days ago I found myself almost drooling over the thought of Krispy Kreme's doughnuts, particularly with glazed chocolate cake and glazed cruller, In short I've been craving for these soft perfectly baked, heavenly tasting, uberly sweet confections. Before heading off home yesterday, I've convinced my sister to come with me and go to KK so I could finally deal with my days of cravings. My little boy and I together with my sister went to KK at SM Fairview and grab a few of their best selling doughnuts.

     When we arrived at SM we went straight to the counter and ordered what i was craving for days. But sadly glazed cruller and glazed chocolate cake was not available that day so i ordered another variant instead. For myself i had  Chocolate Kreme Cake with Oreo, a moist  chocolate KK cake topped with vanilla cream and sprinkled with crumbled Oreo cookies. It was way too sweet that I wasn't able to finish the whole piece but still i find it yummy because it was softly made and because it has Oreos in it, my all time favorite cookie. I also tried KK's latest product, the Mango Kreme Chiller. A thirst quencher mango shake with whipped cream on top. My sister had KK's hot brewed coffee and Chocolate Iced Custard Filled, a shell doughnut filled with rich custard and hand-dipped in chocolate icing while my son wanted to try the KK Mini's but they don't sell it by piece so he settled for Chocolate Iced with sprinkles.

    
      Even if I wasn't able to enjoy glazed cruller and glazed chocolate cake, still KK completed my day and satisfied my sweet tooth. My little boy enjoyed his complimentary paper beret that he never took off his head until we got home that day.


     For me Krispy Kreme is a sure place to enjoy and experience a heavenly taste of sweet confections.