My yummy creations

Hello everyone! I just wanted to share some pictures with you all.

I have mentioned before that I love cooking and baking. At first, everyone in my family doesn't want to try my dishes because they don't have faith in my skills...well, I also didn't have faith in my cooking skills too haha...So I ended up not trying to cook meals at all because of rejection and disappointment...But something happened last year and it changed my view on everything.

I started reading cookbooks, food magazines, food blogs and videos. I tried recreating the dishes that I love one by one. And guess what, after trying so many times, I got the result I wanted! Even though I am not a great cook yet, but I know I can be one day because I am still in the process of developing my skills and with all things, "Practice makes perfect.." ^_^

At present, my family don't ridicule my dishes anymore. They now have the confidence that my foods are edible and can really pass their taste buds (although not 100% since I have a weird taste for food). So I am happy to know that when the time comes that I have my own family, I can make great dishes for them already and be a hands-on mom to my kids ^_^

Now, moving back to the reason of my post...sorry for digressing, just giving you all a little background...I just wanted to share with you all some pictures of what I created these past few weeks. I have been under stress and since I consider baking a stress relieving process, I ended up with a lot of goodies for my sweet tooth.

The first picture is a Chewy Chocolate chip cookies. My boyfriend loves big chewy cookies so I created this for him this past Valentines Day. He really devoured everything haha. I can't believe I perfected this recipe so easily. I can't thank my aunt enough for the recipe and the tips she taught me so I achieve a great tasting cookie.

I also did a version with chopped Macadamia nuts. This one is for me. I love nuts on my pastries and so I created a batch for myself haha. I prefer cookie squares than round ones because they are thicker and easier to store.

Look how perfect those cookies are. I can't believe they are already gone. I still want to eat them!

And lastly, my forever favorite cupcake! I prefer making cupcakes than cakes because I want everyone to have a piece and it is easier to store too. The ones on the picture are Vanilla cupcakes with Creamcheese frostings. I am thanking my sister for having a picture of it coz I usually forgot to take a picture and just eat everything haha.

You might be wondering why I didn't do a decorative icing style and I'll tell you why. I am just starting with my baking and I haven't bought every tool that a baker should must have. I still don't have piping bags and tips for icings so I either use plastic bags... or in this case I just spread it on top using a spatula. Hopefully I can get my hands on those kinds of tools so I can show you guys some decorated cakes hehe ^_^

But for the meantime, enjoy the pictures! I hope I can give give some to all my friends here in the blogger world (yes, you!) to say thank you for staying with me and for all the warm and supporting words I receive year round. Love you guys!

Random Ramblings (pups, baking, birthday, breaking dawn) ^_^

Hello everyone!! It's another weekend and I'm hoping I can relax now after a busy week ^_^

Anyway, this post would only be a random rambling blog...I don't know, I hope you do like reading random stuffs about me every now and then hehe :)

*WARNING: Picture heavy*

I'll start this post with a current (well, it was current last week haha) family picture ^_^

The puppies are growing so fast! They're already starting to walk now...I'll try to take a picture again of them soon.. My bf told me they already have individual characteristics and can already tell them apart..I'm so excited to visit them again ^_^

I am learning how to cook! So, you all probably don't know that I don't cook at all but these couple of months I did get the urge to start learning how to cook dishes and so far, I'm getting good feedbacks, yay!

And then, I got intrigued with baking. So I got this recipe online and it's White Chocolate Chip Cookies with Macadamia nuts (Well, I used cashew nuts in this practice batch since macadamia nuts are expensive). Since this is my fave cookie, I decided to make it my first trial in baking. The first batch I made using a microwave oven (I thought my oven broke) came out too hard that it tasted like broas haha. But the second batch that was baked using a real oven tasted good! Everyone in my family told me it's the right sweetness and consistency so I'm very very happy ^_^

The cookies shaped like a gingerbread man was created by my bf...he played with the dough while I was baking and he seems happy with his creations so I cooked them for him too hehe ^_^

I just celebrated my 26th birthday! Yay! Thank you so much to all my online friends and readers who greeted me at Facebook! It means so much to me :)

I celebrated my birthday simply. I didn't want a tiring party wherein I will cook and clean the mess afterwards so I just celebrated it with my bf during the day and then with my family at night.

My bf and I ate lunch at YAKIMIX SM North branch. I really love this eat-all-you-can smokeless grill restaurant. They serve a variety of Korean, Japanese and Cantonese dishes and this is usually full and you need to fall in line before you can enter. Luckily for us, we arrived really early around 11am and they have just started letting people in and we didn't get to wait at all.

For lunch, it costs Php499 per person and P599 for dinner.

My favorite food and the reason why I love eating here...Samgyupsal!! Yummy! It is grilled pork belly and it tastes so good! As you can see in the picture, it's already almost gone. Can you imagine, I ate a plate full of samgyupsal alone? haha my bf was laughing at me because I can't stop eating ^_^

I also ordered a drink all you can blue lemonade. It tastes good too and I do love the color blue so whenever I have a choice (they have 4 colors I think) of drink, I usually go for the blue one regardless of what it is hehe ^_^

And I had a simple dinner with my family. We ate crispy pata and Max's fried chicken...I love eating crispy pata! But it was more meaningful because my whole family ate together and we had a chance to chat while devouring our feast ^_^

Have you seen the LEGO construction at SM North The Block yet? It's so cool! That Christmas tree that you can see at my back is made up of Lego! And around it were a lot of Lego structures too like Eiffel Tower, Star Wars etc.

And lastly, it's here! My most awaited movie of the year. I have been waiting for more than a year for this to be shown in cinemas.

And can you believe that I watched it twice yesterday?! Haha I did! I watched at Trinoma (first showing of the day, 1:20pm) with my best friend and another batch with my dad and sis at SM North (8:40pm).

I am very impressed with the movie. For the very first time since Twilight aired, I have no negative comment after watching it. Rob and Kirsten improved quite a lot with their acting, Taylor is so good that I cried in a couple of his scenes, the CGI wolves and Bella's physique while pregnant are amazing, the birthing scene and imprinting are perfect and I really love the effects and the setting! Isle Esme is really beautiful and I really really love to go there to see if it's real!

I am not gonna go into details because I don't want to give out spoilers and ruin it for those who haven't watched it but I salute the director for making everything so good and almost true to the book. For a fan of the books and my fave is Breaking Dawn, I was not disappointed whatsoever. The altering he did about some scenes to make it fit in the movie never bothered me and I do agree that it would be better to show it that way than follow the book exactly because it made the telling of the story easier for non-readers of the book to understand. Oh, and I applaud the director for making the honeymoon scenes very artistic. He captured it perfectly in my opinion ^_^

So I am really happy right now and I can't wait for part 2! I will definitely buy a dvd of Breaking Dawn once it's out. If you guys haven't seen it yet, do check it out. It's really worth the Php220, just don't go watching it at SM North cinemas because it sucks...We almost lost our reserved seats just before the movie starts because someone else's also have the same seat number as I have. And also, the movie already started and there are still a lot of people entering and the lights was still on...It was so distracting plus they allowed a 5-year-old to enter. It has love scenes for heaven's sake and they let a kid to watch it? I don't know what they're thinking..I really hated the experience...I do love the Trinoma cinema though because it's more organized and hassle-free and the crowd is not too noisy because there were no kids inside.

Anyways, thank you for dropping by! I hope I didn't bore you to death with my ramblings ^_^