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As Carmina prepares for the upcoming changes on February 1, 2027

Carmina heard that YouTube has a new guideline for those who are considering to be fully monetized starting February 1, 2027 , lots of people will be affected. People are already having a difficult time accomplishing 4,000 public watched hour what happens when it is double task. Carmina is grateful she has passed the 3,000 public watched hours yet worried if don't reach being fully monetized. I know it explains that won't be affected however we want to make sure by February 1, 2027, that we are fully monetized giving me five months to work harder. As of August 9, 2026, Carmina has 383 public watched hours to accomplish to be fully monetized. My friends tell me better have extended public watched hours just to be safe. The only way to complete the public watched hours is either you have friends play your playlist, go live streaming and do premiere since counted as a live stream. Somehow, I am grateful had encounter YouTube friends helping me with my public watched hours. The...

Adobo Chicharo with Pork Recipe

Chicharo is known for sweet peas in another country and is cooked in our home adodo style along with pork. Adobo Chicharo Recipe: Ingredients: 1/3 cup - Soy Sauce 3 - Cloves Garlic (minced) 1 - Medium Onion (chopped) 3 Tbs - Vinegar 2 - Tbs Cooking Oil 1/4 Kilo Pork (chopped) 1/2 Kilo Chicharo/Sweet Pea (remove the sides) 1/2 Tsp - Black Pepper 1/2 Cup - Water Cooking Instructions: Step 1: Cook in a large pan in medium heat add cooking oil add garlic and onion saute  Add pork cook for two minutes  Add soy sauce, vinegar and water until sauce begins to boil Step 2: Add chicharo/sweet pea mix together cook for 10 minutes season with black pepper. Ready to eat!    

Adobo Hito Recipe

Hito is known to be called Catfish for people who don't recognize the name this fish is something I cannot eat but my family can, and this is their favorite dish they like to eat once in a while. Adobo Hito Recipe: Ingredients: 4 tbsp. - Ground Garlic 3 cup - Soy Sauce 1 cup - Distilled vinegar 2 tbsp. - Peppercorn crushed 8 big - Bay leaves 4 Tsp Maggi Sauce 1 Tbsp. Lemon Juice Calamansi or Lemon Cleaning Instructions: To clean the hito/catfish squeeze calamansi or lemon and drizzle juice inside the fish's cavity. Rub the calamansi or lemon with salt and rub all over the hito/catfish. Let t stand until salt has evaporated to the hito/catfish. Rinse well  Cut hito/catfish 2 inch thickness. Marinate Hito/Catfish: Step 1: In a bowl add hito/catfish add soy sauce, peppercorn, Maggi sauce and garlic for one hour set aside. Drain sauce Set aside the sauce when you cook the fish on the last step. Frying Hito/Catfish: Step 1: Heat oil on pan place the hito/catfish cook until slightly ...

Do you know how to change something you’ve already started?

We learn for reason and we learn when we make mistakes to change a way we want something to look or base on our experience. When I started posting video and pictures I didn’t know there we’re rules and guidelines to follow and obey as we learn by our mistakes we need to redo and edit things that need to be change. Who knows maybe you have notice the new changes added in each video to state the ownership of the video sometimes we don’t realize other people can download your video and sell to someone else to make money out of it. In order to protect what belongs to you there is something you need to do in order to have it protected that is the reason you see my website Carmina Lifestyle  in each video you have seen. You have probably notice each video has a watermark identify who the maker is and it was created by Carmina Lifestyle. Later you realized you need to make a thumbnail that allows all your audience to recognized who you every time they see who you are they can remem...

Vegetable Lumpia Recipe

There are two ways to eat this the naked way or wrapped up in what they call it vegetable lumpia. Vegetable Lumpia Recipe: Ingredients: 2 Cups - Bean sprouts 1/2 Cup - Small Shrimps (clean, remove head and shell) 4 Cloves - Garlic (chopped) 1 Medium - Onion (chopped) 1 Cup - Carrots (peel and shredded) 1 Cup - String beans (sliced thinly) 1 Cup - Sweet Potatoe (peel and shredded) - optional 1 Cup - Jicama (cubed) - optional 3 Tbs - Patis Salt to taste Black Pepper to taste Lumpia Wrapper Cooking Oil Vinegar - Dipping Sauce Cooking Instructions: Step 1: In a pot heat cooking oil add garlic, onion and saute. Add the carrot, string beans, sweet potatoe, jicama and bean sprouts. Season with patis, salt and black pepper. Mix together. You plan to eat it naked it is ready to eat but if you plan to wrap it up in a lumpia wrapper you will set it aside. Wrapping Lumpia Instructions: Step 1: Place one piece of lumpia wrapper on a plate scoop 2 tablespoon of the vegetable filling wrapped it up an...

Adobo Pusit Recipe

There are so many types of adobo cooked in the Philippines from seafood, fish, chicken and pork anything possible when you are cooking a dish in the Philippines and can be cooked somewhere else in your own home. Adobo Pusit Recipe Ingredients: 1 Kilo Small Fresh Pusit (squid) – (cleaned keep the ink) 1 – Onion (chopped) ½ Cup Vinegar ½ Cup Soy Sauce 3 Bay Leaves 1 Cup Water 8 Cloves Garlic (minced) Salt to taste Ground Black Pepper to taste Cooking Oil Cleaning Instructions: Clean squids by removing eyes, innards and transparent backbone keep the ink sac intact. Rinse and drain well. Set aside Cooking Instructions: Step 1: Heat oil in small pan set in medium heat. Add onion, garlic sauté for 2 minutes Add garlic, vinegar, soy sauce, bay leaves bring to a boil Add squid cook for 3 minutes until the color of the squid change color. Ready to eat!   NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and...

Miki Soup Recipe

This is simple dish and can be made in all sorts of ways sometimes we eat this soup without noodles and it becomes a clear soup by adding other ingredients such as green onion or by adding egg and it becomes an egg drop soup.   There are a lot of possibilities to make one clear soup by adding additional ingredients into one dish by using our own creativity the main ingredient in this dish is the following: 4 Cups - Chicken stock or 2 Pcs - Knorr Chicken Cubes 2 - Leeks Green onion (chopped) The ingredients you may want to add to your clear soup: Miki Noodles Egg (beaten) Tofu (sliced into cubes) Fishball Crabmeat Cooking Instructions: Step 1: Boil chicken broth or 4 cups of water add chicken cubes until it begins to boil. Add green onion leaks Add optional ingredients Ready to serve! NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

Accepting the Issues Surrounding Us

I am sure a lot has change where we live and there are issue we need to accept in the country you live in and how to accept it becomes a big factor in our life. When someone cannot accept the world turning apart and when you feel helpless but scared inside you come to a point we reach the pit of the bottom those moment in time we need to list down those feeling and how it can be solve slowly. There are some people who have a hard time dealing with the facts of what is going beyond our limits. There are people who are scared but don’t want to talk about it to their parents but find it easier to talk to it with their friends who may be going through the same thing. There are people who need help by counseling or professional help. There are people who need to accept it and when they put a wall barrier around them it is not a good sign. How does someone reach them if they don’t want to say how they feel but say it through social media to get their words get out from strangers?...

Smores Brownie Recipe

Long time ago when I was still living in California and I would love to bake at home to try something new because I felt I wanted to try a new recipe and to play with it as from all my baking I was able to practice and share it with my friends when we use to go bowling. This is something my close friends who always request even if they are on a diet or no diet them wanted something sweet to eat as we shared stories together. Smores Brownie Recipe: Ingredients: 1 - Baker Square unsweetened chocolate bar 1 - Box Graham Crackers 1 - Package Marshmallow 1 - Cup All Purpose Flour 1 - Tsp Vanilla Extract 3 - Large Eggs 2 - Cup Sugar ¾ -  Cup Butter 1 - Flat Casserole or Aluminum pan Cooking Instructions: Step 1: In a microwaveable bowl add butter and unsweetened chocolate bar to cook for 2 minutes in the microwave Mix well until chocolate is completed melted. Step 2: Preheat oven 350 F Add all purpose flour, vanilla extract, eggs, sugar mix together using a hand mixer. Pour int...

Scrambled Egg with Tomato Recipe

This is my favorite scramble egg when I will be eating it with a Filipino dish called longganisa, tocino or tapa it can be eaten during your breakfast or when you feel like eating it. Some people put it inside their pandesal or eat it with rice as for me since I stop eating rice for a long time I prefer to eat it alone with my main meal. Scrambled Egg with Tomato Recipe: Ingredients: 1 - Egg (beaten) 1 - Ripe Tomato (chopped) 1/2 - Onion (chopped) - Optional Salt to your taste Cooking Instructions: In a frying pan heat oil add onion and egg Stir while cooking and add salt  Note: Taste best when not over cooked on the scramble egg. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you.

Kalabasa Soup Recipe

Kalabasa is a squash which I love to eat in any way we can make it into a dish to be cooked at our home. This soup is easy to make it at home and you can use the same ingredients by using a different vegetable because in any dish it will be different with its texture cooked based on how you puree it in the blender. Main Ingredient: 1 - Nestle Cream or 1 cup of any cream 1 - Knorr Cubes any flavor 4 - Cups Water  1 - Onion (chopped) 1 - Kilo Kalabasa - squash (peel and cut into cubes) or any vegetable 1/2 - Tsp Black Pepper 1/4 - Cup Bacon (cooked and chopped) - Optional Blender Cooking Instructions: Step 1: In a saucepan add water let it boil  Add onion and kalabasa cook until soft Step 2: Blender: Place Step 1 in the blender until texture is smooth transfer back in the saucepan. Step 3: Add nestle cream, until pot begins to boil add Knorr cube, bacon and season with black pepper. Ready to eat! Note: You can add croutons to your soup to add more flavor to you soup. NOT SPONSOR...

Craving for Mos Burger

When I say I'm craving Mos, I don't mean the color green but rather the sandwiches served in Japan, where we used to grab a burger or sandwich for a quick bite.  Mos Burger is hugely popular in Japan, with branches spread everywhere. It became a family favorite since everyone loves their hamburgers.  They recently opened one in the Philippines, so today I went to check it out to see if it tastes the same as it did when we visited Tokyo, Japan, years ago. Menu Take a bite of feeling you are in Japan while you get a bite of  Mos Burger .  You can now have it delivered by ordering from Food Grab in the Philippines. This is the only way I’d be able to enjoy it given our situation right now. NOT SPONSORED. Check out  Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  and click on the subscribe button for free. Thank you for the support.

Take Your Pick How You Want to Cook Your Patola Recipe!

There are different ways to cook patola you can eat it like a main dish, soup by adding other ingredients such as miswa, meatballs, Vermicelli noodles to make it the way you want to eat it. Main ingredient will also be the following: 1 - Onion (chopped) 1 - Clove Garlic (chopped) Patola (peel and sliced) 2 Pcs- Knorr cubes or 3 cups water or chicken stock 1 - Tbsp Cooking Oil 2 - Tbs Fish Sauce 1/8 -Tbsp. Black Pepper You plan to use the following this is how much you will need for your ingredient: Misua - 100g Meatball Ground Meat - 1 Kilo (any meat) Chinese Vermicelli Noodles - 2 Cup Misua with Egg - 1 oz and 4 Eggs Canned Spanish Sardines - 1 Small Can Shrimp, Fish ball and Misua - 15 Pieces Shrimp,10 Pieces Fishball  Meatball Ingredients: 1 Kilo - Ground Meat any kind 1 Egg 1 - Medium Onion (minced) 6 - Tbsp All Purpose Flour 1 - Tsp Salt 1/4 Tsp - Ground Black Pepper Prepare Meatball: Step 1: Combine all meatball ingredients in a bowl and mix well scoop 1 1/2 of the mixture to...

Kokoro Japanese Grindz in the Philippines

We are use to eating sushi just the ordinary that we are use to seeing in a Japanese restaurant but what happens when a sushi is all dressed up in a different way by adding other ingredients to make it all special. You become more curious how the taste would be for the El Diablo deep fried when you read the menu having the following ingredients: tuna, crab meat, avocado, cream cheese, baked tempura shrimp, wasabi mayo, sweet sauce, aonori and habanero sauce. The feeling eating the El Diablo has a kick of something spicy and you can taste everything in your mouth something you call a great experience. Everything was ordered through Grab Food where you can have food delivered at your home and a rider will pick it up for you all online ordering done here in the Philippines due to sheltered in place everything is easy just choose what you want to place your order and everything gets delivered in your own home. Chicken Teriyaki Butadon For more information click on their Facebook Page  ...

Motivate, Inspire and Achieve

As we have stayed home we come across to notice weight we have gained or weight we have lost but what we notice are fats starting to hang around our body. To remove those unwanted fats is to exercise, eat a balance healthy meal along to be mentally ready to do it your own pace. We are not in a race or need to be in a hurry those who are new to this will put a big adjustment on your time schedule. You will find exercise online that what seem to be easier for you to do on what you feel comfortable and what I have notice most exercise are the same just the pattern how you do what first. This change is for the better as we start to age our body will start to function differently we may look young but our body has begun to aged. We tend to get tired more and this is from lack of being active in the way we live each day. In order to change how your body has performed is to start less exercise but to go to the pace you feel you can manage to add more minutes to your...

Filipino Ground Meat Torta Recipe

There are different ways to cook your torta by adding ground meat or use leftover crab to your  omelet. Filipino Ground Meat Torta Recipe : Ingredient : Left over crab (optional) 1/2 Kilo Ground Meat - Choice of chicken, turkey, pork or beef 1 - Medium Potato (wash, peel and cubes) 2 - Well beaten egg 1/2 - White onion (chopped) Black pepper (depend on your taste) Salt (depend on your taste) Cooking oil Step 1 : You will add the crab meat to the beaten egg; add the onion, season with black pepper and salt. Step 2 : You will pour a small amount of cooking oil on a frying pan Pour the ingredient Get an extra plate and remove the pan away from the stove Place the plate on top of the pan and slowly flip the pan. Place back the uncooked torta on the pan by placing the uncooked on the pan. It is just easier to flip it back to the pan by using a plate. Step 3 : Once cook transfer the torta on a new plate. It is ready to eat can combine with eati...

Adobo String Beans Recipe

This is my mom's favorite dish that she loves to cook often at home when you have left over meat you can add this to your dish. Adobo String Beans Recipe Ingredients: 1/3 cup - Soy Sauce 3 - Cloves Garlic (minced) 1 - Medium Onion (chopped) 3 Tbs - Vinegar 2 - Tbs Cooking Oil 1/4 Kilo Pork (chopped) 1/2 Kilo String beans (washed, cut into 2-inch-long pieces) 1/2 Tsp - Black Pepper 1/2 Cup - Water Cooking Instructions: Step 1: Cook in a large pan in medium heat add cooking oil add garlic and onion sauté  Add pork cook for two minutes  Add soy sauce, vinegar and water until sauce begins to boil Step 2: Add string beans mix together cook for 10 minutes season with black pepper. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

Look, Share, Discover

The outcome we see signs from anywhere from an advertisement that people want to be recognized and in order to think what can sell to your audience you need to think of a theme so people will be able to glance and be outspoken in what you are trying to reach out. This was my challenge to make new changes as my blog has expanded I want to let people be able to remember what they recently saw to make it look different than anyone else. It took time and patience what to use from anything that I felt there was pressure because I didn’t want to waste any time. Of course we come across from doing some digging and finding which pictures we can use and what kind of catch you can sell to your audience so I decided not to use just an ordinary background I wanted to use something that was really my own and something that I was also in it. This is my new changes to bring it out what I wanted out of Carmina Lifestyle a place we want to be outside and be able ...

No Drama

Have you ever encountered someone telling you they don’t want to hear any drama from you? I came across from a lot of friends who tell me right off in our conversation that they don’t want to hear any drama sometimes you wonder what will our conversation be because in life there are stories to share but how can you identify what is drama to them. Why does it matter if you have drama in your life is it really that bad? When I come across from a person and they ask me how are you how do you explain yourself to them because you are stuck and quiet someone you really are not because you are holding back letting them know the story of your life. Sometimes when someone holds off from letting you express yourself you really don’t know how to communicate with the person who tells you no drama how do you cope with that type of friend. We have some friends who would love to hear all the drama you have going on but later they say it is their choice and you begin to questi...