Fats, Vitamins and Minerals

What a surprise for Christmas, my cousin Grace from Canada rang! It was so funny, I was teasing her that I didn’t recognize her voice because she already had “Canadian accent”!
So she’s doing quite well, rather homesick, but at least she has a job in Canada (she had a very difficult […]

Taking a break from work, I decided to test my theory on taste symmetry/asymmetry.
I thought of a spaghetti sauce without any cheese and instead of cheese use some fermented shrimp in soft white rice (burong hipon). In addition I used some dilis (dried anchovies) and cream of mushroom soup for the sauce. I […]

As if I don’t have enough to do, I’ve revamped my blog - from red to gold.
For noche buena, my mom made her traditional chicken arroz caldo, although it is not as traditional as I’ve known it - she put more chicken stock in it than usual, so arroz caldo this Christmast Eve […]

Made some macaroni with tomato sauce tonight. What I did was try to keep the tastes of the various main ingredients as distinct as possible and not try to mix all the tastes together. For example, I used some sun-dried tomatoes (I cut them into strips) for a bit of sour taste, and I used […]

Have been stuck at home for five days now, just working on the Websining website, which is hard but fun work. For one, I’m learning to enjoy reading and editing CSS’s.
Alwin and family are out of town till probably after the 25th, so it’s going to be really quiet at home. His dad’s […]

Unfortunately, because of doing work on the Websining website, my sleep patterns have been disturbed - and I try to compensate by drinking lots and lots of water (and now drinking tomato juice, quite good actually), and eating in between work. With not enough sleep, my skin tends to dry very quickly and so I […]

Finally tested a Skype call through my dial-up modem and it worked pretty okay. My voice transmission to Paris was fine but the incoming audio was not so good since I was just using the internal speakers of my notebook computer - so that will need to be changed (I do have a […]