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Carmina's quest for the perfect display for her treasured mementos led her to an extraordinary find

Carmina was looking for the best way to hang treasured pictures and mementos from a keepsake. I felt it was time to bring them out and display them on my wall. I saw many options, from cork boards to felt boards , but I didn’t want an ordinary board hanging there. I wanted it to be part of my wall décor, placed above my desk where I sit daily—something I could look up at and be reminded of past travels and accomplishments. Some people keep them in photo albums or store them digitally, but I wanted mine on display. What caught my eye from an ordinary felt board something had a roof which remind me a house. The best part it is light weight and it has a mount tape in the back attached to the felt board included was thumb tacks and something else where can decorate. Carmina had purchased the three dimensions roof felt board wall self-adhesive retro premium wall decoration message measurement of 60x80 cm in color camel for 875.00 pesos ($14.34) not including shipping and handling. The st...
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Employee Christmas Party 2019

We usually have a dance team per three groups this time we broke out from traditional and just dance when we wanted too. We just had parlor games for the employees. This year and any year we always have the same menu for our Christmas Party. This time it was held late and we're able to bond with our guest and family members with the employee. Musical Chairs the concept the female has to seat on the guy's lap when the music stops. It stops when there is only two female after the lap of the guy. No worries the winner is doing well. She is happy. She has money as her prize. For the employee who wanted to dance to a 70's song to impress their boss to bring back old memories. This time I didn't stress and enjoy myself from the party since I have given out the employee and their family members their Christmas gifts before our party.
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Left Over Food from December

After the New Year’s Eve has ended my body feels so drain from cooking a storm for the past month. I can’t imagine myself cooking every day and have to cater to a lot of people. I feel drained from the month of December when I had cooked for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and Christmas Party for the Employee and New Year’s Eve. Wow! I look at all back the food I have cooked from the old repeated dishes and new dishes I have made last year. Now, we have added leftovers from all the occasion and we don’t to eat it. But it becomes a waste if we don't. We really have no choice to eat what was served. I have found ways to eat our leftover and make a dish to something new and no one who doesn't know how to cook will know anything about it. We have a lot of left over buttered garlic shrimp, ground beef, salsa, Mexican rice, refined beans, pork barbecue, nacho chips and tortilla.  This is my favorite part is creating a new meal out of our leftover food. Why not m...
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Homemade Guacamole Recipe

We don't have frozen guacamole in our grocery store. I decided to buy fresh ripe avocado and make my own. This recipe is easy to make and can be combined with tomato and onion just based on your taste buds. Or you can have it plain to spread on your sandwich or put on your taco and taco salad cup. Ingredient : 2 Pieces riped avocado  1 small tomato 1 small onion 1 lemon or 2 pieces calamansi (squeeze out juice and remove seeds) Step 1 : Slice the avocado in the middle Remove seed Remove avocado from skin with a spoon Place in a bowl Step 2 : Use a fork to mash the avocado Add tomato (optional) Add onion (optional) Add lemon juice or calamansi Mix well Tip : The reason why we put lemon or calamansi to prevent the avocado turning brown to stay it's color.
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Easy Mexican Taco Cup Salad Recipe

I did more exploring for New Year's Eve I have family members who are watching on their diet and prefer to eat a salad than a taco itself. I came out buying a taco salad cup found in the grocery store. No need to heat up the shell it is ready to eat. I found refined beans in Uni Mart Grocery store. You may look for my ground meat and salsa recipe for your reference to add on to your own taco salad cup. You may also look into my homemade guacamole recipe. Just like in the picture shown I had displayed mine as you are supposed to make your own salad to prevent the shell soggy and stay crispy. This way someone can make their own salad cup on what they wanted to put inside. Ingredient : Homemade salsa Homemade Taco Ground Meat Arla Tex Mex Shredded Cheese (any cheese) Sour Cream Guacamole Romaine lettuce (wash and cut the in 2 inches size) Canned refined beans (optional) Jalapenos (optional) Hot Sauce Step 1 : ...
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Homemade Mexican Rice Recipe

This New Year's Eve I've decided to go out and explore and cook something different this year. I came across making Mexican food on my own. I've been searching in the Internet looking for the best Mexican rice to make at home in the Philippines. I had checked so many recipes and it keep asking for Calde de Tomato Bouillon. Unfortunately we don't have that where I live I went to search more to see what I can use to substitute for something that might be available for me. I read you can use tomato soup, but there are so many sugar content so I decided not to use that one either. I was thinking to myself how I can make this authentic as possible for me to make it home and still taste delicious as you are eating in a Mexican Restaurant. I decided to change the cooking ingredient to something else. I will be using fresh tomato and see who knows it would work better than what it is asking me to use. I will be exploring making my own way and see which ...
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Ebi Sushi Recipe

My father in-law always craves for ebi sushi and we learned how to make this at home after a lot of practice we're able to accomplish his taste buds. My father in-law prefers having no wasabi in his ebi he would rather place it along with his Kikkoman lite soy sauce for his dipping. Ingredient : 1 kilo Fresh Shrimp Barbeque wooden sticks half size Ice cubes Pot Japanese Rice Rice Cooker Wasabi Paste (tube) only optional Step 1: Cook Japanese rice in rice cooker From every cup of rice is equivalent to one and ¼ cup water Step 2 : Clean well remove whiskers In a pot place ice cubes enough to fill up the lower pot with little amount of water Place the shrimps inside Keep the water set aside Step 3 : From holding the shrimp, the head facing you stick a barbeque stick keep it near the legs Do each one the same way set aside Step 4 : Boil water in a pot with barbeque stick cover lid Cook until it turns pink strain the shrimp ...
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Preparing for 2020 in your home the Feng Shui Way

Every Asian people believes in having twelve different kinds of fruits prepared in a basket for New Year’s. It is known Feng Shui they believe it will give them good luck and fortune to the coming New Year to come. Round shape fruits symbolize coin and money and the reason why there are twelve fruits for the representative of our twelve months in a year. During the end of the month of December the prices of the fruits becomes expensive it has always been a tradition to our home to have a fruit basket of variety of fruits.  The fruits used in the basket are the following: .        Oranges Mango Pineapple Asian Pear Persimmon Apple Watermelon Grapes Cantaloupe Longan Fruit Honeydew Cherries Pineapple Plum Pomelo (grapefruit) Peaches Lemon Lychee Papaya Pineapple Some people believe round fruits only give good luck, but other people believe differently not only fruits gives good luck in your home for the next co...
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New Year's Celebration

New Year is just around the corner as we begin preparing ourselves to a brighter year. We have remove some of our baggage in our back and made a list what we what to expect from the year to come. As we start to begin our new life and new people we will meet as we plan a new travel agenda in our life. We begin to realize the things we have accomplished and the things we want to make it better. Sometimes you miss your family and friends and you wish they can come and visit you. Too bad they cannot enter inside your Facebook messenger and just enter inside just like in the movie. Too bad we can’t use a time machine and wouldn’t that be so cool. I know it is not possible you need fly to see your family and friends who lives faraway that you can’t drive to see them. Sometimes in life when you are in need the people who are willing to help you are the people who are not related to you. Sometimes in our life we are not close to our family members or they l...
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Aristrocrat Restaurant, Philippines

My adoped mom Mary loves to eat it at Aristrocrate Restaurant that serves Filipino dishes. This is the second time I ate with her. We had celebrated her birthday along with her family members. I have just met my second cousin for the first time. My mom, Adpoted mom, Me and Second Cousin Crispy Pata (deep fried knuckles) Pancit Canton Kare Kare (stew made with peanut butter) Sweet and Sour Lapu-Lapu Fresh Lumpia  Shrimp Sinigang (tamarind soup) Note: Carmina is not selling or advertising for  Aristrocrat Restaurant, Philippines just a restaurant  my Tita celebrated her birthday with family members.
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Counting Down For New Year

As the New Year approaches people will be drinking it off celebrating with families and friends. The best remedy to do before sleeping it off is to eat anything sweet to prevent hang over the next day. I have friends who use to come over and drink at our home and she would always request for Krispy Cream donut. I asked, her why she wants to eat something so sweet. She said, it removes your hang over the next day. I am not a drinker so I didn’t know if it was true or not. My friend slept over our home and she woke up like nothing happened to her. That is when I had believed what she had told me was true. It doesn’t have to be a donut it can also be chocolate to remove your hangover. One day my employee told me he has an overhang from drinking last night. I couldn’t stop laughing at him. I told him next time eats chocolate and it is not called, over hang. It is called, hangover and we both laughed at each other. Q. Why does anything sweet cure your hang ove...
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