Corn Beef Recipe Ingredient: 1 - Canned Corn beef (any brand) 1 - Onion (chopped) 2 - Garlic (chopped) 1 - Small Potato (chopped) Optional 1/2 Cup Water Cooking Instructions: In a saucepan pour small amount of cooking oil when hot add garlic and onion sauté add corn beef, water and potato cooked until potato is cooked. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

There is always new changes and new trends when we are lockdown for over five months in our home no one see how you look when you are hibernating once you post a picture of yourself that is when people surrounded from you can glance and see how you really look nothing just an imagine how your face look like. New changes are good when so many years you have always had the same hair style what my friend said I am no longer the Dora Explore the cartoon character the only difference I never had bangs on my forehead. To get to the point when you have always stuck to one hairstyle because your mom always had judge you when you had tried to grow your hair but as we are staying at home and we are not allowed to go out due the pandemic we are into we have no other choice to let our hair grow not unless we want to cut it ourselves and make a bigger mistake especially if you don’t know how to cut it. I have been receiving great compliments my Aunt said Carmina you should keep your hair long...

  Just like anyone else we have stress food that we want to eat other than food cooked at our home today I was stressing with so many things happening around me not realize that I haven't eaten a meal for the day. We are so all busy sometimes we don't pay attention to the time and only realize when our stomach starts to make a noise to let us know we need to stop ourselves to take a break to have a meal to put down what we are doing during that moment. I was craving for some Korean Snacks and I was able to order from Grab Mar through Assi Ceci Korean Grocery the great part they sell meals that is precooked. The Kimbap and Tteokbokki Combo is PHP 360.00 ($7.41) I decided upon getting the homemade braised potato marble the cost is PHP 100.00 ($2.06) My second round I was able to try their 6 pieces kimchi pancake for PHP 150.00 ($3.00) Japchae per pack is PHP 180.00 ($3.60) There are so many food to choose to see what you're craving for at that moment of time. Note: Carmina ...

  The new trend is activated charcoal that we hear people put it in their toothpaste or eat it in powdered form this time they put it in food.  What is activated charcoal?   Activated charcoal is not the same as the charcoal that you use for barbecue.  Activated charcoal is a higher temperature that is filtering material and absorbed commonly used for medicine. Now people are adding activated charcoal inside the food the Black Mascarpone is from  Black Scoop Cafe located in the Philippines it is something I wanted to try. To me it tasted like eating ube ice cream maybe the way it had look but it is something different than a normal type of ice cream you are use to eating. I had like how it had taste just something to get use too.

Manang V had cooked pork ribs puchero it was the only meat accessible in our home and usually there are other vegetables included saba banana, potatoes and chick peas this time around we only used what was available. Pork Ribs Puchero Recipe Ingredients: 2 Kilos - Pork Ribs 1 - Cabbage  1 - Kilo Petchey 1 - Pouch Tomato Sauce 2 - Cloves Garlic (minced) 1 - Onion (chopped) 5 - Cups Water 2 - Pork Cubes Patis to taste Original Puchero Recipe: 2 - Ripe Saba (cut into 3) 2 - Carrot (cut in cubes) 2 - Potatoes (cut in quarters) 1 - Canned Garbanzo Cooking Instructions: In a pot pour small amount of cooking oil when hot add garlic, onion to sauté add pork ribs, water, pork cubes, tomato sauce let it boil add cabbage, petchey other vegetables and season with patis until meat is cooked it is ready to serve in a serving bowl. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.  

  Today someone had asked to cook Filipino Pesang Lapu Lapu for lunch today something on the healthy side. Filipino Pesang Lapu Lapu Recipe Ingredients: 1 - Fresh Lapu Lapu (clean outside, inside and slice 2 inches a part) 1 - Ginger (slice thinly) 1/2 - Cabbage (sliced) 1/2 Kilo - Pechey 3 - Large Ripe Tomato (chopped) 4 Cups - Water Patis (fish sauce) Cooking Instructions: In a pot boil 4 cups water with ginger and place lapu lapu inside cook for 10 minutes set aside. In a small pan pour small amount of cooking oil when hot add the chopped tomato season with patis to your taste and saute it will look like this in the picture to know when cooked. Place the cooked tomato in a bowl and ready to serve the pesang Lapu lapu on a serving bowl with rice ready to eat while hot. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share, Thank you for your support.

  Sometimes you become curious who are those strangers reading your blog without knowing who they are because it doesn't say who has been reading it. As I keep writing a new blog after another I see someone has already read what I just recently post.   I wish they would leave some sort of comment to know if they like what they are reading or even put a like on that page.   I have new set of old friends that I recently found in Facebook she thought I was a scammer because she didn't recognize my last name. I changed my last name because I didn't want people to recognize who I was. This way I am just a mysterious person who just known by Carmina.   The only people who really know who I am are my family and close friends who are main contact in Facebook.    Otherwise my Facebook page is in public and I prefer it this way. I made it public so my blog doesn't limit it's viewer who knows I can be discovered.   Being a blogger it takes t...

  Two days ago I was chatting with my friend who I haven’t spoken to for a long time and she had mentioned she met someone through my Carmina Lifestyle she claimed he was a follower in my blog. I was surprised and asked what is the name of the person at first she was hesitant to give out his name at first I was very happy someone in my personal blog you can meet your soul mate. I told my friend if I can ask permission from her in the future they get married can I write their love story in my blog. My friend said she will ask her future husband if it would alright with him. My friend than post in her social media and tagged me to the post that is when I was able to see the person she had fell in love with by who she had mentioned to me she is engage to be married. The person I am I did my own investigation I had checked his profile and found it was locked it became a dead end. The future husband asked for a friend’s request but I didn’t accept him because for one reason ...

  I will share with you how Manang V cooks her Filipino Bicol Express the traditional way. I also have the Bicol Express Healthy Version Recipe  you may also view it. Filipino Bicol Express Recipe Ingredients: 1 Kilo – Pork (slice 1 inch) 1/4 Cup - Ginger (peel and slice thinly) 3 Cloves - Garlic (chopped) 1/2 Cup - Onion (chopped) 1/4 Cup - Cooking Oil 6 Cups - Gata (coconut milk) 1 Cup -  Hot Chili Peppers (Siling labuyu) (chopped) 2 Tbsp - Ginger (minced) 1 Tbsp - Patis (fish sauce) 1 – Pork Cube 1 1/2 Cup - Bagoong (shrimp paste) 1/4 Cup - Ginger Cooking Instructions: In a pot pour cooking oil when hot add garlic, onion and ginger sauté a dd pork season with pork cubes, bagoong, patis, hot chili pepper and gata The gata has lessen and has thicken it is already cooked. It is best to serve hot over rice and ready to eat.  NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. T...

There are three ways to make your picadillo soup you can either use ground meat or substitute using corn beef and there are some people who add tomato sauce, or they add other vegetables such as carrots and egg to this dish. Basic Picadillo Soup Ingredients: 2 – Potato (peels and sliced into cubes) 1 – Onion (chopped) 2 – Cloves Garlic (minced) 1 - Cup Dahon Sili (chili leaves) 1 - Cup Malanggay leaves (optional) 1 - Kilo Ground Pork (any meat) Patis (fish sauce) to taste 5 Cups - Water Picadillo de Mais Recipe Added Ingredients to Step 2: 3 Cups - Small Pouch Del Monte Original Style Tomato Sauce  1 - Carrot (peel and cut into cubes) 2 - Cup - Fresh Corn - shredded 2 - Eggs (well beaten) No Soup Picadillo Recipe Added Ingredients to Step 2: 3/4 Cup - Green Peas (frozen) 1/2 Cup - Raisins 2 - Tomato (chopped) 1 - Knorr Beef Cube 1 - Cup Water Cooking Instructions: Step 1 In a pot pour small amount of cooking oil when hot add garlic and onion sauté than add ground pork mix together....

It is merienda time and this time why not try Ferino's bibingka and puto bumbong is their  specialties .  What is bibingka? Bibingka is made of glutinous rice, water, salted egg and coconut cooked in a clay pot with banana leaf when being served and topped with melted butter spread on top with shredded coconut of your choice. It is best eaten with coffee with the bibingka often served in a filipino restaurant or at home. To check what is offered in click the link given:  https://www.facebook.com/ferinosbibingka/ NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you.

  Mushroom with Chicken Soup Recipe Ingredients: 2 - Pieces Chicken Breast (cook and shredded) 2 Cup - Fresh Mushroom (sliced thinly) 1/2 Cup - Spinach 1 - Onion (peel and chopped) 2 - Garlic (peel and minced) 1 - Knorr Chicken Cube 2 - Cup Water Patis (fish sauce) to your taste Cooking Instructions: In a pot pour small amount of cooking oil when hot add garlic and onion sauté add mushroom, water, chicken cube and spinach once it begins to boil season with patis and ready to serve in a serving bowl. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

Manang V decided to cook Filipino igado but what ingredients we have in our home usually it is cooked with liver, pig innards and tenderloin but with limit stock in our freezer we had to improvise some other meat to make our dish. Filipino Igado Recipe Ingredients: 2 Kilos - Kasim (part of the pig) cut in 1/2 cubes 1 Kilo Pork Liver (slice in cubes) 1 Cup - Green Peas 2 - Pieces Carrots (peel and chopped into cubes) 4 - Red Bell Pepper (cut into strips) 1 - Onion (chopped) 4 - Cloves of Garlic (mined) 3 - Laurel Leaves (bay leaves) 1 Cup - Vinegar 1 Cup - Soy Sauce Knorr Pork cubes 2 Cup - Water Cooking Instructions: In a pot pour small amount of cooking oil when hot add garlic and onion sauté add meat, carrot, bell pepper, laurel leaves, pork cubes, vinegar, soy sauce and water season with black pepper ready to serve once meat is tender. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

  Our Friday Menu for everyone including our employee is ground pork with quail egg something different for a change. Ground Pork with Quail Egg Recipe Ingredients: 2 - Kilos Ground Pork 20 - Pieces Quail Egg (boiled and remove shell) 1 - Carrot (peel and slice to cubes) 2 - Potatoes (peel and slice to cubes) 1 - Large Del Monte Original Tomato Sauce 1 - Red Bell Pepper (sliced small) 2 - Onion (peel and chopped) 2 - Whole Garlic (peel and chopped) 2 - Cup Water Patis (fish sauce) to taste Cooking Instructions: In a large pot pour small amount of cooking oil when hot add garlic and onion to sauté add ground pork, potatoes, carrots, bell pepper, water and tomato sauce cook until vegetables are tender season with patis add quail egg the dish will be cooked once water has evaporated. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

We seldom come across and notice your friends are no longer active in their social media as you wonder where they went and why they never have informed you they decided to deactivate their account from social media. My friend was asking me to look into it and found out later why we never heard from the person as I had typed their name it no longer showed up in the search of Facebook. I had to check on my friends list to find their name and found this showing as I went to check their account name. Account Deactivated If (Name of Person) reactivates their account, you'll still be friends. If you unfriend them and they reactivate their account, you'll have to send them a friend request to see their Facebook post. I use to have friends inform me ahead of time that they would deactivated their social media because they are hardly online or they have too many things going on. I always ask my friend how I will be able to contact you if you plan to remove your Facebook Messenger and ...

During our hardship and when you are alone you start to lose control feeling you no longer want to be alone during your pandemic months sometimes you see yourself come home from work and you come home to an empty home. Sometimes you fall into yourself that you want more out of the months being alone and people tend to get lonely and feel they need someone to be there for them or someone to come home too. What happens when you come to an empty home you don’t feel excited to go home in the dark room you only have yourself and every day come into the same routine and you get tired from that same pace as we see a lot of people finding a girlfriend/boyfriend on the social media someone they can relate too and someone they can fall for into a long distance relationship. There are so many reasons people feel lonely and there are a lot of people who want more than an empty room to come home too they want to feel excited to find another outlook into their love life. The best part is now p...

  Even though you cannot travel to Italy you can still have something close to it by eating some Gastone Lago Savoiardi Lady Fingers and make into a tiramisu with a recipe included. It comes with 4 packs in each package. This cookie reminds me of Nabisco Nilla Wafer I use to eat back home in California when I was growing up only difference it has no sugar and it is round shape otherwise to me it beats nothing to get a cookie that taste like from home. I bought Gastone Lago Savoiardi Lady Fingers from Shopee but it is also sold worldwide in your location.

I am sure we all look back and reminisce how everything use to be when we’re so young and foolish where the sky was so colorful and we don’t care what people think how we are because in our mind we are young and want to enjoy our singlehood. We also come across and count how many people we have dated in the past and places you use to hang out. You begin to remember the songs you use to listen to and realize how old you have become and the life you use to live is far different from anyway how anyone is living right now. The great part is that you can reminisce so far from decades ago and still recall all things you have done with your friends and wonder why the person you have reconnect you never saw them in your hangout and now you have reconnected with them from the decades ago. You wonder why you have never really encountered and why it took decades to connect all over again. You meet someone and they say you we’re a snob person and now how can you have changed from the per...

  I was craving for something else to eat and discovered  Ellynes Tuna Chicharon which is the healhly snack it comes in three flavors Garlic, Salted Egg and Hot & Spicy. Note:   I am not selling the product just curious what Ellynes Tuna Chicharon will taste like and I was able to enjoy their product as my new snack.  

Everyone loves to try and explore new Authentic Japanese Restaurant and for me I am one of them who don't like ordering food from the same place. If I cannot explore outside might as well explore on food at least there is something new to try as well something to share to my followers. This time we have decided upon  Botejyu  that has a variety of other dishes in the picture is the unagi and avocado roll.  California Roll Diced Beef Garlic Steak Rice Bowl Pork Tonkatsu Cutlet with Egg Teishoku Prawn Tempura There are some meals that come with salad and there are some additional charges for extra add on to your dish. Note: Carmina is not selling or advertising for  Botejyu .