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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Amazing Domestic Seafood Recipe

I have been a great fan of seafood all my life because I grew up in an island in the South Pacific. My favorites are shrimp, crabs and fish. Eating seafood was like amazing as I get healthy benefits from it. Seafood is a source of protein in many diets around the world. I can just mixed seafood when I cook pasta or simply make a seafood appetizer which is a mouth-watering idea when somebody is on a diet. Last New Year's eve, I have created a simple recipe for my seafood theme. It is made mainly of shrimp, pineapple chunks and broccoli. I call it as Shrimpylicious Seafood. I don't have any idea at all what I am doing and came up with that recipe name. I don't know also if that's included in a recipe cookbook but doing the recipe was sure a lot of fun and easy. For the procedure of my Shrimpylicious Seafood, I boiled the medium size shrimps for 5 minutes or until the shrimp is cook and broccoli florets for an easy bite for about 2 minutes. Drain the juice of pineapple chunks and mix it all together with the shrimp and broccoli. Add a pinch of salt and pepper or to your desired taste then simply add mayonnaise salad dressing.


For the coming Great American Seafood Cook off event, I would like to make a very easy wonderful Filipino dish called "kinilaw" meaning to “cook” in vinegar. It’s not really cooking since there is no heat involved. But soaking fish or some other seafood in a strong vinegar solution turns the meat opaque and gives it a texture of having been cooked. There are variety of fish that can be use in making "kinilaw" such as tuna, cavalla, sea bass and grouper. The dish is just easy to make since there's no heating involved. Just season the cubed fish with salt and pepper then soak it with strong white vinegar (or you can use sugar cane vinegar) and let it stand for about 15-30 minutes. Add some of onions, ginger, bell peppers and coconut milk to perk up your dish and crushed chillies for maximum potency. You can add some limes for extra mouth-watering flavor and extra twist of the dish.

My Mother's Birthday!

Today, July 31 is my mother's birthday. She's going to celebrate her 50th birthday without me... again! Well let me think, I guess this will be the 3rd time that I am not going to celebrate her special day since 2006. I have been away from her since I graduated from college and be with my own. Although our communication are still there. I get to talk to her over the phone, leave or send her text messages and I even see her on webcam when me and younger sister are chatting.

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Mama, now that it's your birthday, I wish you all the happiness in life. I pray to God that He will give you more good health and strong will so we can still enjoy being together someday when we will see each other. I maybe away from you on the other side of the world but I always think of you everyday. I always pray for your health and good life. I miss you badly and you take care of yourself always. God bless you always, mom!


Wednesday, July 30, 2008

All Mixed Up

I got a tag from Vannie - Ozzy's Mom. Thanks girl for tagging me! That's sweet of you to remember me. I am tagging everyone in my bloggers list! Have fun and enjoy!

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1. Are you pregnant?
  • Nope, I guess I will never be pregnant.
2. When do you want to get married?
  • I am already married!
3. Do you curse a lot?
  • I think not very often, I sometimes calm myself. It's better that way.
4. What are your favorite books?
  • Something about romance and legal cases like Steel's and Grisham's novels.
5. Do wish you were with someone right now?
  • Be with my family and friends back home.
6. Who were the last three people that sent you a text message?
  • Rowena, Erico and Eva Marie
7. Are you happier single or in a relationship?
  • In a relationship. Dating scene was fun but I'm glad I'm done with that now.
8. Do you believe everyone deserves a second chance?
  • All people deserve a second chance if they are willing to change for the better.
9. Do you wish someone would call you?
  • Yes, I wish he would talk to me, not stalk me over my favorite websites. I still know!
10. What is bugging you right now?
  • None so far, I am definitely relaxed and overwhelmed.
11. What's something you wish you could understand better?
  • The laws, taxes and politics.
12. If someone doesn't like you, its usually because...?
  • They are jealous and insecure! There's no competition here!
13. Do you have a wild side?
  • I think everyone does.
14. Kissed someone in the last twenty-four hours?
  • Yes, my sweet-smelling, new shaved husband!
15. Have you lost friends in the past year?
  • Oh yeah, some childish stuffs and some people I have to let go and get moving with life.
16. What were you doing at midnight last night?
  • Almost done blogging and going to bed.


Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Being Discreet

I think it has been months now since I started being invisible in my Yahoo Messenger account. Well, I have been always invisible when my mood says so. Its just that, I wanted to keep up with all my chat mates - my friends back home, my friends online and some nuisance chatters one at a time, not having many windows to chat with. I sometimes joined conference when all my friends are online and there's juicy topic to talk about. I am just glad how the technology makes it so easy to communicate with each other. It was like we are facing each other face-to-face and having a simple coffee break from the coffee shop. How lovely to think that after all our busy day from work and activities, we still manage to talk about anything - life, love, work, movies, music, food, clothes and everything that is interesting to talk about. Life is just amazing!


Monday, July 28, 2008

Save Lives, Women Power!

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