Have you ever walked around with your family and friends notice that they have something on their face when they are eating? Do you tell them or do you wipe it off from their face with a tissue? Or have you ever hanged out with someone and their zipper is not closed do you inform the person or do you just mind your own business. When you see someone and their hair is sticking up or they have something on their hair do you let them walk with a messy hair or you remove what is on their hair. There are a lot of incidence that has happened to me and I am the type who would inform whom I am with to inform them upfront so in case it will happen to me I hope if they are with me they would inform me as well usually it doesn't happen 100% in which I have notice. There are a lot of incidents that comes to us we use women who walk around not knowing they have a blood spot on them because they have no clue they have their menstruation or if their menstruation is too heavy not ...

Mooyah is a favorite burger place my mom loves to visit when we're in California and the reason she loves it so much the way they make it. Must try it yourself and see why she approves this place so much by checking out what they have to offer in their website  Mooyah Burger .

Kalabasa is a favorite vegetable cooked in our home by Manang V who decide which dish she plans to serve us by her creation made daily in our home. This is an easy soup to make as your comfort food when there are days you feel lazy and just want to eat soup for the day like our days when it has been raining, we want something warm in our stomach. Kalabasa with Shredded Chicken Soup Ingredients: 1/2 - Kalabasa squash (peel, remove seeds and slice into cubes) 1 - Cup Shredded chicken 2 - Cloves garlic (minced) 1/2 - Onion (chopped) 1 - Knorr Chicken Cube 3 - Cup Water Cooking Instructions: In a pot pour small amount of cooking oil when hot add garlic, onion sauté together add shredded chicken and water. Add chicken cube and let it dissolve in the water until it is boiled Add kalabasa once tender it is ready to be served in a bowl NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your su...

We live life expecting things will happen when someone promise you or they say they will do something for you but when you find out later it is just something they feel you want to hear or they are just bragging about it by saying it through words. We live in life where some people talk to you it comes out of not thinking just words coming from their mouth and not remembering what they have told that person that they have promised or they have told a person. In those kind of people I’ve learned not to take it all serious because it has happened to me several times when a person say something they should really do it out of their consideration not just say something and really doesn’t push through. I’ve lived with people making up stories and in reality it is not true they have this imaginary image and think it is possible when in return it is all make believe in order for me to believe what people say I need to see it that it is true. May be from all false things...

We often see people we know selling items from their homes, whether brand new or second-hand. After living in a place for a long time, you realize there are things you don’t really need or have outgrown. Whatever the reason, some people choose to sell these items to the public for anyone interested in buying. I’m similar, but I sell brand-new items on an installment basis because I know the people around me can’t always afford to pay in full, as they have their own obligations in life, whether single or married, helping support their families. Everyone wants to buy something, but it’s important to limit expenses on personal wants. I understand those who want something but can’t pay in full, so I create a promissory note for every transaction, written in Tagalog so they can fully understand what they’re committing to. This way, we have a formal agreement to ensure payment, making it like a business but favorable for them, as they can buy through installments with zero interest ...

When you crave for New York style pizza and there is no way for you to travel at this time  Sbarro has it in the Philippines can be delivered at your home. You can choose by ordering by slice or whole pizza of your choice. This picture is a Chicago all meat pizza it can be with red or white sauce. My favorite is ordering the spinach lasagna in alfredo sauce but of course you can choose another sauce for this dish in meat sauce or tomato sauce. Sbarro also have the baked ziti in meat sauce the same thing chooses your own sauce you want for this dish. Anything is possible when you're craving for something to eat from back home.

Crispy Pata is deep fried knuckles that is from a pig, and it is dip with vinegar combined with soy sauce or lechon sauce. This is a popular dish in a Filipino restaurant and often some people love eating this at home. This is a recipe of Manang V that she cooks, and I will give you a secret way to make it crispy and taste good that your household will love you're cooking. Crispy Pata Recipe Ingredients: 1 - Pork leg (clean, scrape the hair on the pork and trim nails) 2 - Cups 7-up or Sprite soda 1 - Cup Vinegar 5 - Cloves of garlic (minced) 1 - Tbsp Peppercorn 3 - Bay leaves Salt to taste 5 - Cups of water Cooking Instructions Step 1: In pot boil water add 7 -up, peppercorn, vinegar, bay leaves, garlic, salt and pork leg cook for one hour until pork is tender. Stain the pork leg Step 2: In a new pot add cooking oil let it boil than add the pork leg until fully cooked on both sides you can serve it how it is whole or cut it up just like the picture I have  Dipping Sauce Ingredients...

Longanisa is a popular breakfast cooked in the Philippines it is known as sausages. We normally eat this with garlic rice, sunny side up egg and sliced tomato or some eat it inside bread as a sandwich. I have a lot of friends who call me up asking how to cook longanisa and I will teach you the best to way to cook it. Cooking Instructions First Step: In a frying pan add a little amount of water let it boil added longanisa cook each sides cook for short time. Second Step: Strain the water and remove the longaisa from the pan. Separate each longainsa by using scissors. Third Step: In a frying pan add cooking oil once it is hot add the longainsa and cook it until it turns brown. Fourth Step: You will begin to poke a hole by using a fork, lower the temperature and watch out the oil from the inside doesn't hit you try holding a lid to prevent splashing at you. Cook it until it begins to be fully cooked from each side. Ready to eat enjoy your longanisa.

The asparagus in the Philippines are much skinny compared to the ones in another country. Chicken with Asparagus Recipe Ingredients: 1 - Whole chicken (slice per parts) or 1 pack of choice of chicken parts 1 - Chicken broth cubes  2 - Tbsp Patis (fish sauce) 1 – Bunch of Asparagus (sliced 1 inch) 2 - Cloves Garlic (chopped) 1/2 - Onion (chopped) Black Pepper to taste 4 - Cup Water Small amount cooking oil Medium Pot Step 1: Add small amount cooking oil in hot pot add onions, garlic and patis mix together Add sliced chicken Add water and chicken broth cube Add asparagus Season with black pepper Cook for 25 minutes NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

Repolyo in English means cabbage cooked in shrimp and sometimes I eat this with instant noodles to add flavor in your soup to add fresh vegetables otherwise you can eat it as it is made with fried fish, chicken or any source of meat you want to combine the dish together. Repolyo with Shrimp Recipe Ingredients: 1/2 - Repolyo - cabbage (chopped) 1/2 - Cup Shrimp (peel, remove shell and head) 1 - Riped Tomato (chopped) 1 - Onion (chopped) 2 - Cloves Garlic (minced) Patis - (fish sauce) to taste 1/2 Cup - Water Cooking Instructions: In a pan pour small amount of cooking oil when hot add garlic, onion and tomato saute it then add shrimp, cabbage to season with patis. Simmer to cook until cabbage is cooked. Ready to serve on a serving plate Optional There are days you feel like eating instant soup you can add the left over to your soup to add vegetables and sunny side up egg. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for ...

The fun only begins when you travel with family who are game to be silly when you take a picture together even if you are in a foreign country and you don't care if strangers are looking at you any way they don't know your name and where you live so you cannot be trace for your identity. We love to be silly at times when we take pictures and being the best of life is to express how we feel by pictures making a goofy look. If you don't see me taking a blooper video, being a photo bomber or making faces that is a person you can recognize who I am really is. I am a fun, sweet, caring, thoughtful and full of jokes to give a smile on your faces even if you are having a tough time stress is not healthy but laughter is so why not take life the next level of finding your own happiness and be child like once in a while not unless you want to grow old with wrinkles on your face. The best in people when they don't hide what they feel when you are under a camera because the truth w...

When you lived in the Philippines for a long time you start missing the bagels back home my sister use to bring us bagels when she had visited us. Now I had discovered places that do sell bagels but the texture is not the same back home. There is nowhere to compare the difference since the taste is almost the same. Flavors available are Cinnamon Raisin or Plain from  French Baker you can purchase them online. They also carry other bread in which we had missed for example sour dough  In case you are a raisin bread lover they also have it at French Baker The one I love eating the most is the soup of the day that comes with bread bowl and it look like this It is best to ask and call to see what soup they are serving the day you plan to visit or when you have it delivered to your location. Loaf of bread sold in their store choose from the following: Whole Wheat Half Loaf Whole Grain Bread  Flat Ciabatta Ciabatta Rolls We will not run out of bread every time we feel like maki...

Why not eat your dried fish cooked with some upo than eating it plain?  Manang V likes to explore with her cooking by adding other than shrimp or pork to her upo dish by adding dried daing in recipe where you don't need to add any seasoning because the fish is already salty. If you have no seasoning in your home no problem because this dish is not needed you can just cook it as it is. Dried Daing with Upo Recipe Ingredients: 3 - Pieces Dried daing 2 - Pieces Upo (peel, remove seeds and slice cubes) 2 - Ripe Tomato (chopped) 1 - Onion (chopped) 4 - Cloves Garlic (chopped) 1 - Cup Water Note: The upo makes it own water when being cooked on its own. Cooking Instructions: In a medium pot pour small amount of cooking oil when hot add garlic, onion, and tomato saute than add upo, dried daing and water cook until upo is tender. Ready to serve in a serving plate. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your suppo...

Why not try a different for a change this time in our menu it is sap sap for our fish and normally other people cook this dish is Pompano. Pinangat na Sap Sap Recipe Ingredients: 4 - Pieces - Sap sap (clean) 2 - Ripe Tomato (quartered) 2 - Cloves Garlic (chopped) 1 - Onion (sliced thinly) 8 - Pieces Calamansi 1 - Tbsp Patis (fish sauce) 2 - Cups Water Note: Less liquid the better for this dish Cooking Instructions: In a pan pour small amount of cooking oil when hot add garlic, onion, tomato sauté it than add patis, sap sap with water and calamansi juice without the seeds cook for 15 minutes.  It is ready to serve on a plate. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

The raisin bread from Cinnabon is my favorite bread it is not as sweet as the cinnamon roll that they  serve in their store. Their bread is soft and warm when you purchase it in their store and can be store and sliced up before you place it in a Tupperware to put in your refrigerator to eat the following day. Of course when you are already there we also purchase their cinnamon roll that come pre packed with either four pieces on the large size or nine pieces the small sizes. There are for the sweet tooth who are into chocolate that is on the cinnamon roll all prices are all different from each product you may refer to it   Cinnabon Philippines .

Dragon fruit comes in a purple or white color but the purple one is the healthy one to eat it is sweet when it is in season. It is rather an expensive fruit to eat.   Dragon Fruit grows in a cactus plant and it doesn't like growing in a winter place it needs to be avoided by getting the soil wet.  Dragon fruit looks like this when it has harvest from the tree. When you slice the dragon fruit all the juice will come out and it will look like this in the inside make sure you slice it on a plate or cutting board to make sure when it is the purple dragon fruit it doesn't go on your clothes. Dragon fruit looks like a kiwi but on the sweet side and it is easy to remove it's skin off from the fruit it comes out easily by peeling it with your hands once sliced in the middle.  It taste best when cold and cut up to put inside a Tupperware to put in the refrigerator.  The next day when you go to the bathroom don't worry if you see seeds come out from your system it is nor...

This sounds like a  cigarette  that you puff in your mouth but actually it is a name of a vegetable that Filipino eat in the Philippines. There is also other ways to spell sigarilyas which Manang V calls it by Sigillas. Sigarilyas is called a winged bean in English. Filipino Sigarilyas Recipe Ingredients: 1 - Cup Sigarilyas (sliced thinly) 1/2 Cup - Small Shrimp (peel shell and remove head) 1 - Onion (chopped) 2 - Cloves Garlic (minced) Patis to taste 1/2 Cup - Water Cooking Instructions: Step 1: In a pan pour small amount of cooking oil when hot add garlic and onion to sauté it than add the shrimp and patis. Add sigarilyas and water Once sigarilyas is tender it is ready to serve There is another way we eat this dish by adding gata to this dish to add more flavor by adding 1 cup of Gata (coconut milk) and other people combined kalabasa (squash) which can be used 1 cup peel, seed out with a spoon and cut into 1-inch cubes. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Ch...

There is nothing  simpler  than having a spinach salad that you can combined it with tomato, onion and salted egg to you dish when eating fried fish to your meal. We always want to add something to eat with our fried fish to make our meal complete other than just eating it alone. It is possible to use kangkong in exchange to spinach if it is not available in your area. Filipino Spinach Salad Recipe Ingredients: 1 - Bundle Spinach or Kangkong (clean and remove leaves)  3 - Ripe Tomato (sliced) 1 - Onion (chopped) 1 - Salted Egg (chopped) - Optional Salad Dressing Ingredients: 1/2 Cup - Vinegar Black Pepper to taste Salt to taste 1 Tsp - Calamanis juice or Lemon Cooking Instructions: In a pot boil water and add the spinach or kangkong cook for a few minutes and drain the water place on a serving plate Add tomato, onions and salted egg In a serving bowl combine all ingredients of the dressing together mix well  Ready to eat Note: There are some people who prefer to eat ...

Green mango can be a dessert or an appetizer where you can eat it alone or with different choices from what you feel like dipping your sour or sweet mango to your dish. Some people eat it with bagoong that comes in a bottle that is already premade to eat bought from the grocery store. Or you can eat it with salt if you are allergic to bagoong like me because it is made of fermented fish or shrimp paste which is called alamang cooked in salt and patis (fish sauce). Green Mango with Bagoong Recipe Ingredients: Green mango (sliced thinly) Salt or Bagoong Enjoy! There are some people who eat it while they are drinking beer with this kind of dish in the Philippines it all depends on you how or when you would like to eat it.