Birthmonth meme

I initially made this blog to document my own making as a “wife”. Along the way, I ventured to a daily obento making and it is one of my fave craft that I intended to refine. It was fun posting it here and virtually sharing it too. However, lately the food blogging is taking much space and totally displaces lot of things I wanted to write about. So I decided to relocate the bento posts to our multiply site. After all I registered it to be our “family” site where our friends and families can connect with us and peek at our “homemaking” wherever we may be.

It may not have started with big bang and fireworks, yet I still foresee that 2008 will be a promising year for everybody and ME. The later by definition means never shelving notable nor trivial thoughts.

So here is a trivial something about ME. Needless to say I have one meme overdue where Saj tagged me.
Meme rules:
1. Pick your birth month.
2. Bold the 5-10 that best apply to you.
3. Copy to your own journal, with all twelve months (click this for the list).
4. Tag 12 people from your friends list.

Birth month: February
Abstract thoughts. Loves reality and abstract. Intelligent and clever. Changing personality. Attractive. Sexy. Temperamental. Quiet, shy and humble. Honest and loyal. Determined to reach goals. Loves freedom. Rebellious when restricted. Loves aggressiveness. Too sensitive and easily hurt. Gets angry really easily but does not show it. Dislikes unnecessary things. Loves making friends but rarely shows it. Daring and stubborn. Ambitious. Realizes dreams and hopes. Sharp. Loves entertainment and leisure. Romantic on the inside not outside. Superstitious and ludicrous. Spendthrift. Tries to learn to show emotions.

That was just 9! Although I wanted to highlight sexy, haha! But nah, I had enough spills of pheromones I think the lid is now on. The darling word I was actually looking for is “closet deviant” which is why more than half trait of my birth month just doesn’t apply to me.

Speaking of deviant, i can only tag a few since i have a few on my list. Please join this bandwagon Ced, Bill, Karmi and Herb. :)

photo nicked from here

bento muli

Good morning. I woke up 5am today. At this time I’m supposed to be preparing or should have finished preparing our bento for today. Yet instead I turned my back at my kitchen and went to open my computer. I’m currently in a state of denial that for the first time ever I actually made a mistake in cooking pasta sauce. Okay. I said it. Now I want to run away from typing this too.

Argh. I’m not quite sure yet but I think the cream of mushroom leftover that I stirred in my red sauce mixture is already spoiled. I did check after opening but I didn’t smell anything off. And now I am about to blame my impaired olfaction. Shheeeesshh!

Whew! Scratch that. I went back to check if my suspicion was correct and it failed me. Thank heavens! My hormones are really raging bananas for some time now, and I give myself some credits for breathing in and out instead of going nuts.

So anyways I have the whole December obento backlog plus this week’s. I will try to post them all as soon as I can and I dearly dedicate my obentos to my old friends who recently got married, moved in with boyfriends, had a child, on the way, and of course to new friends who loves good food whether or not they have it on their plates on a dinner table or just munching on a cold pizza on their bed ;).

This was the one I was talking about.


And this is our bento today.

Easy macaroni with mushroom twist

Since I still have some leftover ingredients I used to make medya noche I decided to free more fridge space by combining it to make a macaroni sauce. I started with the basic sauté of onion, garlic, red bell pepper in butter (all minced). Add the ham and mushroom which was cut to tiny pieces. Next I poured in the canned chopped tomato and added salt, freshly grounded pepper and dried basil. When the mixture started to boil, turn down your stove fore and let simmer for 10 minutes. This will let all your ingredients to blend well and create that distinct taste. Then I stirred the campbell’s cream of mushroom, about half a cup of it. Adjust the taste with salt, pepper, sugar and parmesan. I used sugar to balance the sourness of the canned tomato. I also prefer to put the parmesan while simmering the sauce to enrich the flavor. Let cool and add your cooked macaroni.

Peanut butter sandwich

I initially thought of making a club but I have to cut short the prep time to blog this :P
Cut the bread loaf in desired shape, spread the peanut butter and arrange.

new year.

Time is up. My ten-day vacation meets its end. Bum days are over. Seeking refuge from the fridge, pots and pans, from the microwave is so over. Endless watching of TV series has to be moderated once again. Early morning to late afternoon sleep is unacceptable. This whole inactivity is over.

It’s the time to shed off the excess, fill up the lack of it and have it just right enough. It’s the time to pick up my book and prepare for a possibility of considering more options. It’s the time to read so I may read. It’s the time to accept that the “benefit of the doubt” was actually a mislabeled cynicism. It’s the time to go with the flow and not complain. It’s the time to liberate the times of yore and fashion a new one.

December is gone. The month reserved for reminiscing good and old memories trotted away. The dreaded urge of pouring emotions to writing should long been gone. Hormones should be excused from blame this time.

The time is up…and it’s about time…eventhough I know that I will probably have this kind of entry again, next year.