Banana Con Yelo is saba that is a banana in the Philippines that is cooked in sugar and often in halo halo dessert that has shaved ice with other ingredients. Some people also eat the banana con yelo with shaved ice and milk this way can also be eaten with sago added to the banana con yelo. Banana Con Yelo Recipe: Ingredients: 1 - Kilo Saba (banana) slice 2 inches 2 - Cups Brown Sugar 10 - Pieces Tanglad leaves (lemon grass) cut in half 4 - Cups Water Cooking Instructions: In a pot add water and pandan leaves let it boil add brown sugar and banana cook for 20 minutes until banana is cooked. Ready to be served. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

Happy 4 th July to my family and friends in the States to us we are also celebrating this day when you’re celebrating Independence Day. We are celebrating a family member’s wedding anniversary to them this day means a lot for them. So no matter if I am not in my first home I still gets to celebrate it not with my family and friends in the States, but in a far I am celebrating it in the Philippines. Cheers to everyone and here is our menu for our special day as I am to share it with you and all recipes are in my blog. Due to coronavirus we cannot celebrate it together this year since there are limit person in one household so this time we will celebrate it in our own home and disturbed  all the food that was cooked in our home to all be safe at this time. I am sure in other places it may be the same for Independence Day where activities have been cancelled and we feel everything is being ruined by a virus we hope someday it will go away and a cure to be discovered so we can soo...

Bulalo is a dish I have asked Manang V to cook for a long time often we want our soup to have more flavor in our dish. By adding corn to our beef dish adds flavoring and becomes something you’ve craved for and from close by it will also looks like nilaga another Filipino dish. The difference from Nilaga it is cooked with beef meat and Bulalo is cooked with beef shanks with bone marrow that represent being collagen that is healthy for you. Bulalo Soup Recipe : Ingredients : 1 Kilo Beef Shank with bone and marrow (cut in chucks) 2 - Onion (quartered) 2 - Pieces Garlic (chopped) 2 - Potato (quartered) 2 - Ear of Fresh Corn (remove from husk and slice 2 inches) 1 - Tsp Peppercorns 4 - Tbs Patis (fish sauce) 1 - Small cabbage (quartered) 8 - Cup water or beef stock 2 - Beef cube  Small amount cooking oil Medium Pot Cooking Instructions: Step 1: Boil beef shank with bone and marrow for one hour in low heat add sliced onion and once meat is cooked remove t...

People tend to post things before they say something and don’t realize when they post something bad of a person they know it affects not only one person but the whole family or to that person it connects too. Sometimes we need to think ahead when we post something in our social media not only think what will affect that person we are relying on but what will other think when you post something. Sometimes when a person has hurt you so much you post things on your wall in social media you don’t realize how much it reflects to someone else. Did you know even if you post something in your own language every post can be translated in someone else’s language? So no matter whatever you post and whatever someone comments in another language it will be all translated in who speaks what so no matter whom the message relies upon they can read it too. Always watch what you say when you post because there will be a time in your life you’re affecting someone else’s feelings not the person you’...

Finally I was able to go out after four months to visit my mom at her place her area had allowed having family members to come and visit them. It was difficult for my mom because she is a senior citizen and people who are at the age are prohibited to go out. Since I don’t reach the age bracket I was able to visit my mom at her place and I was so excited to see her since we usually spend most of the time together to go out. I was able to see the difference what people have tried to explain to me what was so different during the time there was no covid-19. The changes I saw was that people on the street wore face mask and followed the law and regulations. I have also notice beauty salons had signs at their door only accepting appointments only and there was not that many people outside compared how it is normally is in the Philippines. There we’re more people inside their cars wearing a face mask and only having two to four people in the car. In the van I rode had a clear gla...

There are people who take their life for granted who chose to pick the wrong path in their life in order to make their life better. There are people who abuse their health instead of going to a turning point to eat healthy and take care of themselves. There are so many things to want to live and to make your life better if you wanted too. But when we have friends who chose the wrong path in their life and chose to not change for themselves all we do is keep telling them they can do it if they wanted too. Even if how much we show how much we care for them it doesn’t make them sense to even try because they feel their foot, body, soul and mind is not yet set to be programmed to do it. It is sad we take our life for granted and those who are ill want to live a better life to be with their family and love ones. Too bad those people who take their life for granted cannot switch places to those who are suffering and want to live to have a better life. Although it is not possibl...

There are people who judge people because they have heard something from someone else’s life but when that person doesn’t know you too well are what really hurts someone else’s feelings. When you judge a person without reason of knowing the real story of how the person’s life began and why it became the way it is people begin to say bad things about someone behind their back. When they judge a person and it reaches to the person being judge it hurts that person because the people who had judge them we’re the people never knew they had felt the way toward them. Before you judge my life, my past or my character walk in my shoes, walk in the path I have traveled, live my sorrow, my doubts, my fear, my pain and my laughter. Remember everyone has a story when you’ve lived my life you can judge me who I am for now it is a question to me who you are to judge. When we lived in any country or where we are anyone is being judge behind our backs and sometimes we are being judge while they...

For the past months I have gotten to know people who I thought I knew them but recently I found out what kind of people they are once you experience how they take their life for granted and how their friendship begins to change the way they talk to you and how someone becomes evil. I realized and understood people go to a new pattern in their life something no one really knows them it is like when you’re reading a book and once you’re in the middle the story begins to change during the end of the book there are two choices a good or a bad ending. Of course in life from the friends you lost comes a new friend you end up meeting so in every story comes how people begin to change of one personality. When we go through life and its changes as well being distance from them personality begins to change they begin to disappear without a trace and people like this you ever wonder who they are and if you really know them. I realized there is always a difference from friendship you come ...

In every meal we need to have some soup probably you have notice every time I am posting some meals there is always a main dish and some other items in our menu from lunch and dinner. No matter if the weather is humid in this house I live soup is always a must in every meal. Sotanghon Soup with Chicken Recipe Ingredients: 1 - Onion (sliced) 2 - Cloves Garlic (chopped) 1 - Piece Chicken Breast Fillet (shredded) 1 - Cup Cabbage (sliced thinly) 1 - Knorr Chicken cube Patis (fish sauce) to taste 1 Tsp - Atchuete powder 1 Coil of Sotanghon noodles (cellophane noodles) Prepare Sotanghon noodles: In a bowl with cold water place sotanghon noodles once the texture is soft strain and cut it with some scissors. Set aside. Prepare Atchuete Powder: In a half cup hot water adds the atchuete powder stir and let it dissolve. Cooking Instructions: In a pot you will pour small amount of cooking oil when hot add garlic and onion saute  Add chicken Add water and chicken cubes until dissolved Add cabba...

Time for some vegetables cooked at your own home you can replace the shrimp to something else you want in your dish such as pork or chicken it all depends on your preference and what you want to eat in this dish but if you want to add more flavoring, I will be giving a tip what Manang V does in her cooking. You can do it this way when you are using shrimp as your ingredient when you are cooking. String Beans with Shrimp Recipe Ingredients: 1/2 Kilo - Fresh Small Shrimp (peel skin and head) 2 Cups - String beans (sliced thinly) 1 - Onion (sliced) 2 - Cloves Garlic (chopped) Patis - to taste Mortar and Pestle Cooking Oil Strainer Optional: You can add 1/4 cup of sotanghon noodles Preparing the ingredients: To add flavor to this dish you will place the shrimp head inside the mortar and pestle to add some small amount of water use a strainer to drain the head of the shrimp juice. Set aside Cooking Instructions: In a saucepan pour small amount of cooking oil add the garlic and onion to saut...

Talakitok is also local name of Maliputo and in english it is known for Trevally, Jack and Cavalla. Sinigang sa miso can be cooked by using other fish such as bangus (milk fish), salmon head and tilipia. Talakitok Sinigang Sa Miso Recipe Ingredients: 2 - Pcs Talakitok (cleaned and sliced) 1 - Onion (sliced) 2 - Tomato (quartered) 1 - Pack Sinigang na may Miso 2 - Tbsp Patis (fish sauce) 6 - Cup Water 1 - Bunch Mustard leaves (separate mustard leaves from stem) 3 - Pieces Long Green Chili 10 - Pieces Okra (cut top of okra Cooking Instuctions: In a medium pot pour small amount of cooking oil once hot add onion and tomato Add the fish you plan to use for example talakitok Add water let it boil  Add sinigang na may miso and stir  Add long green chili and okra Add mustard leaves Cook for 20 minutes Transfer to serving boil Best served when hot. Note: If, you prefer your sinigang to be sour you can add an additional pack of Sinigang na May Miso to your dish. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe...

No one eats sushi just rolled up now you can eat it in a bowl or sushi bake that seems to be a trend in the market just not an ordinary way we see other restaurant carry it all rolled up with seaweed. Now for an upgrade version it is in a bowl with different added ingredients. You can now get a sushi bowl called Poke  originally  a Hawaiian cruisine where you can eat raw tuna, salmon and other Japanese sushi you normally eat but can be in a bowl the lazy way of eating no need to roll it up what we see often in a restaurant. You have a choice to eat it with white rice or lettuce to make it into a salad. You are no longer deprived from your food there are a lot of options to eat your sushi. I had ordered the Aburi 2.0 Sushi Bowl which had the following ingredientsTorched Salmon, Unagi, Aburi Sauce, Wakame, Black Ebiko and Nonito Flakes and you have an option to add on other ingredients for an extra charge. You may check the branches available in your location   Sushi Nori ....

Sometimes when your cook wants to surrender from their job the only way you can do is make peace by helping out someone who has a terrible time reading and understanding instructions on a recipe. Sometimes there are people who just complain and not say how they feel when they are having a hard time in their work. Sometimes we come across someone who just drop things with fear of anger within them and not even tell you they are so mad and frustrated of the news things happening to them. Or we come across when someone tells you something that the cook wants to quit because they are having a hard time there will always be a miscommunication from a person that has been passed up on another person. We live in a home where there are too many people and sometimes people will just ruin someone else’s job position and sometimes we need to find out and inspect to see if the person they are referring to is really saying what a person has passed on to you. Sometimes in life we need to ma...

The food I miss the most in California is my all time breakfast burrito at Mc Donald’s or Carl’s Jr they serve during breakfast in the morning.  It is hard to buy tortilla here in the Philippines especially when you have been locked down from your home and no way can you go out. Even though you try ordering local brands from online they are not the same by its size but you don’t have the proper ingredient to make it since most stores have certain items available in their stores. I just found out they don’t call it breakfast burrito in the Philippines they call it Farmer’s wrap. No clue what it was when I had looked it up to see from their menu at   Tim Hortons I decided to order from the name seem something I wanted to try. Farmer’s wrap has scramble egg, sausage and hash brown the only difference there is no salsa like in any breakfast burrito you normally eat. As we are no condition to complain the Farmer's wrap was able to remove my cravings and made me fill up my cr...

There are a lot of vegetables to eat and when you are used to eating the same vegetables you get tired eating the same you have cooked it over and over again. You know if you’re boss doesn’t eat it you will get stuck eating it with your housemates. When it becomes a leftover, you know you have to eat it the next day and you too are tired of eating the same food. Bamboo Shoot Recipe Ingredients: 1 - Cup Bamboo Shoot (sliced thinly) 1 - Cup Sayote Tops 1 - Onion (chopped) 3 - Cloves Garlic (minced) 1 - Thumb size Ginger (peel and sliced thinly) 1 - Cup Water Patis (fish sauce) to your taste Cooking Instructions: In a pot pour small amount of cooking oil while it is getting hot add garlic, onion and ginger sauté together. Add bamboo shoot and sayote tops Add water Season with patis and it will be cooked for a short time. Optional Ingredients: Replace the water to 1 - Cup Gata (coconut milk) Add 1 - Cup Shrimp (peel remove skin and head) Add 1 - Cup Ground Meat of your choice NOT SPONS...

When you are tired of eating the same food and want to eat other than what you normally eat from your fixed menu sometimes we crave for food that are easy to make and a dish that you can eat with fried fish to combined it's taste with something else. What is Alamang? Alamang are small shrimp usually made for bagoong, ukoy and vegetables. This is one shrimp I cannot eat I get allergies but my family at home love the taste. What is Kamias? Kamias is actually a fruit and it looks like this in the picture. Alamang with Kamias Recipe Ingredients: 3 Cups - Fresh Alamang - micro shrimp (clean and strain) 2 Cups - Kamias (cut in cubes) 1 - Onion (chopped) 3 - Cloves Garlic (minced) Patis (fish sauce) to taste 1/2 Cup Water Black Pepper to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: In a pan add cooking oil add garlic and onion saute add fresh alamang and water let it boil Add patis and black pepper Add kamias Best to eat when hot. Ready to be served. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyl...

Here in our household we have a fixed menu that consist from Monday to Sunday for two weeks a menu of A and B. Sometimes when you reach the third week of the month you get tired of eating the same old food from the first week. When you live in a household where the family have medical issues and need to eat on the healthy side and the fixed menu hasn’t been revised to their health issues what you end up doing. The cook ends up thinking of alternative food that can be cooked for her boss. Sometimes when you cook something other people are not fond of that dish there comes a time people argue over just on what food was cooked that day instead of thinking how hard the cook had put so much passion on her cooking to taste how it taste. When you live with a household of people it is hard to get any feedback in return and there are times you lose that inspiration to cook because out of your hard labor of love comes complaints from their mouths. I’ve been there and done that so I know how the ...

There are two ways to call Banana Cue or Banana Q either way when you come to the Philippines they will understand you what you are referring too. This is also sold outside when it is merienda time which is known to be a snack or time to have a dessert in between after your lunch or before your dinner. Banana Cue Recipe Ingredients: 6 Pieces Saba (banana) 2 Cup - Brown Sugar Cups Cooking Oil Bamboo Stick Cooking Instructions: In a pan you will add enough cooking oil and heat it up once it starts to boil add brown sugar until it turns brown. Add the banana fry and flip both sides to be cooked once the sugar has stuck on the banana remove the banana. Add three pieces on the banana in a bamboo stick. My favorite is adding cinnamon powder on my banana cue to add more flavor this is optional or top it with vanilla ice cream and no need to add the bamboo stick.    NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, ...

Your cook tells you that someone was able to buy you lettuce when you feel like eating something healthy because the food that is being served is something you don't eat. When you asked Manang V to cook you two hardboiled eggs, and you have some ingredients to add to your salad you come down to find out there was never any lettuce to begin with what do you end up doing with your ingredients. I ended up making a meal out of no lettuce because either way I wanted to eat something healthy, or this is what my ingredients we're the following: 2 - Hardboiled egg (sliced in circles) 1 - Ripe avocado (sliced into cubes) 2 - Pieces Artichoke Hearts (marinated from the bottle) 3 - Stripes of Cooked bacon (chopped) I just added anything I had around in my home and just combined everything together you can add salad dressing of your choice or eat it how it is. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you f...

When there is a new place to try and eat to explore and even if you cannot go out yet to dine in the restaurant there is always away in the Philippines. Everything seem to very assesable when you are craving for something for a bite to eat and many friends have told me I am very lucky to just call to place an order and have it delivered through your home. No matter when we are EQC we still manage to try new food no matter how our life situation is and we have been the lucky ones. You are lucky to hear it from me so in case you want to try the new place I have tried you can see the pictures of the food in which I have called in to eat at our own home. Two's Hot Dog Joint is a new restaurant that was just discovered through Facebook and not many people know about them yet. In their  Facebook  there is no menu but I was able to receive their menu by asking them for it. Two's Hot Dog Joint Menu: Combo #1 - Wagyu. regular chilidog. mojos sharing Price of 400.00 Pesos ($8.00) Combo ...