Put some Put-o on my plate!

Look Ma, it's my very own PUTO PAO! :-)

This is my 2nd time to make puto. My first in making puto pao. :-)

I just got the recipe online. I substituted the minced pork asado filling with minced chicken and it worked perfectly well. :-)

I tried experimenting with Green Tea flavor. Put some matcha powder for a change. Tastes like a dense green tea cupcake.. If you don't know that it's puto you'd probably say it's yum-o. But for puto, I admit it's kinda weird something "new".  :-)

As for the White Puto... Yessir, it's really P-U-T-O! But still not like the Puto Pao from Batangas that I like.. (the super-white kind -light, fluffy, a bit crumbly.. almost looks like siopao but a little sweeter) Can anybody please send me the recipe? Thanks!

This is my "breakfast baon project" for hubby this week. Quite a good choice.. just eggwhites, flour, sugar, and no fat! not bad for a healthier option!

Word of the day: "Sure did!"

WORD FOR THE DAY: "Sure Did!"

Failed my attempt to "Master the art of 1-hour dinner meal".  Sure did. :-(

Passed the "puto-making" test.  Sure did! :-)

Loved my Pinoy Spagetchup. Sure did! :-)

Burned most of my croutons. Sure did! :-(  BUT...

Hubby loved my home-made Ceasar Salad Dressing. Sure did!!!!!!!!!! :-) 

Ruined my Pork Sinigang last night. Sure did!!!!!!! :-(

1-hour Dinner Meal Story:

Are you kidding me? I finished in what.. 2,3 hours? Well that's with shower and facebooking and other distractions in between.. 

MY EXCUSES: 

-I easily get distracted with other stuff. 

-I do everything manually, no special choppers etc. 

-My knife is not as sharp as Rachel Ray's. 

-I prefer home-made stuff as much as possible. No instant dressings/marinades - it makes me feel more productive. 

-I like taking off chicken skins and visible fat cuz it makes "Dubai" chicken taste bleccchh... 

-I like making/baking desserts.

Ok, am I excused now? ;-P

Sinigang Story:

First, we live in a Muslim country where pork is not readily available and has to be bought from special stores with pork-selling license. Being some sort of pork-deprived for some time, we were looking forward to some hearty Pork Sinigang last night, and I prepared it hours ahead. As a final touch, I added some "gabi".  But this "gabi" turned out to be wild or something and it caused my entire hand to itch soooo bad.. soap didn't work.. and i even tried rubbing coarse salt on my hand hoping it would scrub the itch away.. Well it didn't. And hubby and I didn't wanna risk getting an allergic reaction from it. Sad to say, we had to throw the entire sinigang and make do with leftovers. *sob*

Kitchen Reminder:

Be careful with unfamiliar rootcrops specially when abroad. You never know if it's an evil variety. (And you have no one to ask!) Grr.

Mastering the Art of 1-hour Dinner Meals

I am the perfect example of the un-busy wife with not enough time. I should have all the time in the world but I always manage to serve dinner late. (That's cuz I waste most of my time facebooking or cooking online on Cafe World.. and now - this blogging bug. And when CSI's showing, consider me unproductive for another hour. har har.)


Anyway,  I have been cooking for the past 1 1/2 years.. and I still have yet to master the art of 1 hour dinner meals. 30-minute meals are so unrealistic for me, so I'm aiming for 1 hour.. haha... And whoahh - the mess I make! Thank goodness hubby's the dishwasher... and every night, he makes this "Oh no..." expression when he sees the mess. hahaha.. I don't know how other people do it... teach me. PLEASE.

Dinner menu for tonight:
Pinoy Style Spaghetchup (that's Spaghetti with Banana Ketchup and hotdogs for those who haven't heard of this)
Home-made Caesar Salad (i'll try making home made dressing and croutons)

...i know.. not a perfect match, but I need more eggwhites for the puto (got some left from last night) and Caesar Salad would make good use of the yolks and leftover bread...

Let's see how long it will take me!
I hope I finish earlier than planned.. then maybe I'll really have time to make the home-made puto and go to the gym too.

Welcome to my humble cyber-home!

Woohoo!!! My first post.. I already lost count of the blogs I've started..
But this is it. I'm ready to share with you my Pursuit of Wifey-ness.
Wish me luck as I grope my way into the world of HTML, ugh.. uhmm.. yada, yada, yada... ;-)
Forgive me, I'm so not into those things.. (I'm Type B/2 Wife) but hey give me a few days.. ;-)
hehe..
So.. in the course of my boredom, I came up with one of my crazy ideas.
I came up with my own Category of Wives.
WHICH ONE ARE YOU, OR WHICH ONE WILL YOU LIKELY BE?
I'd love to hear from Type A/1's and E/1's  YOU.

TEE'S CATEGORY OF WIVES:


A - Ultra-Domesticated - spends her time doing Martha Stewart things.. sewing, knitting, cooking, baking, loooves doing household chores.

B - Semi-Domesticated - a housewife like me who spends her time Facebooking, Watching TV, googling about recipes, and takes pleasure in cooking a sumptuous meal, baking a lip-smackin' cake, but sometimes groans over other household chores. Could be more inclined to have own business.

C1 - Undomesticated, not working - A lucky wife who perhaps has maids (or husband) at her beck and call. Spends her time in the parlor, spa, gym, and in shopping malls. 

C2- Undomesticated,  Career Woman - A wife who probably has a not-so-tidy house.. feeds her family mostly instant meals and take-aways... Lucky is she who has a domesticated husband who does the usual wifely duties.

E - Domesticated, Career Woman - A well-rounded wife who earns  her own shopping money, keeps a clean and organized house, feeds her family delicious healthy meals, and knows how to make them happy. WOW. 

SUB-CATEGORY:

1. Knows more complicated stuff than other wives (Car repair and maintenance, carpentry, manly stuff... HTML, CSS and other geeky stuff)

2. Wives who don't know the extra stuff that #1 knows.