Ladies take Valentines to a whole new level in the Philippines, so better be prepared and make her happy. This also applies to you girls who have befallen the luck of having a boyfriend that is really into the “holiday” as well.
No. I’m not going to tell you how to propose or dress or have a successful date, because waht would i know? all of that is really up to you, and most of the time its really as simple as just being yourself. If someone has accepted to go on a date with you, its because of you (unless you’re on a blind date or a set up) and no one else. My two cents are: people tend to gravitate towards those who have a visible passion for life, a strong interest in the world and who lead life day by day, ready and excited for the challenges. If you are happy with who you are, what you do, where your from, it will be felt, and it lends to the rules of attraction. That’s as far as i go.
Focusing on what i do; food, valentine’s is one of those instances i believe you should take time to make something from scratch, whether its a gift, a letter, a card or CAKE.
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This valentines the Googly Gooeys, an awesome design/comedy blog (check it out here http://www.googlygooeys.com/) accepted to help me out with a How to Survive Valentine’s Day poster for Feb 14th! Watch out for the post on Feb 13th – No better way to show love/ or show off than with a CAKE!
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Inspiration.
Inspiration changes everything. Cooking is all about being and getting to the point where you can look at ingredients and see them as paint on a board with endless opportunities of flavor profiles. I get a lot of emails from people who say that they love to eat but are terrible at cooking and ask for quick easy recipes. To be honest, if you can follow a recipe you probably wont be as bad in cooking as you might imagine, just like assembling Ikea furniture (thank you Sweden) if you follow the rigidity of the instructions you’ll end up with a fully furnished home in no time. Inspiration is different though, this requires you to look at ingredients differently, to understand their texture and flavors and picture what you want to do with them. Before i cook a dish, i always know what its going to taste like in my mind, i make sure to project it, smell it and feel it already even before starting. So imagine the possibilities? I started thinking about all of this when i recieved the following email from April Jan Stephanie: Read More
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Save me the gasps of shock.
I know i preach a healthy lifestyle all the time, but for those who deserve it, those who have reached their fitness goals, its ok to give in to the dark side a little. In school i took 4 years of Wine/Alcohol Tasting and became very passionate about drinks in parallel with food, because drinks, like food, are a combination of intricate flavours that when mixed wrong, go very badly, but when controlled correctly can be perfect sips of heaven.
So where do we start? As i always say, the basics. Hey, if you are going to cheat, make sure its with the good stuff. I get extremely fustrated that most bars locally, do not know how to mix a cocktail, the rule of thumb in Manila is, the sweeter it is the better; I die a little inside; so that cocktails take on this reputation of being for ladies only and are basically sugar bombs, which are terrible for your diet. So if you’re going to indulge sometimes, make sure you do it properly, and keep it to one glass only!!! (and you better be 18!!). Get to know your aclohol and the different mixes, it’ll make you a more well rounded individual and you can even start pairing these drinks with food and surprise your next dinner guests. Read More
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When you browse through many cookbooks, watch the all the disambiguated cooking shows on TV and get impressed by little kids on Master Chef that would probably make you look like an incompetent human being in the Kitchen, most of you will get discouraged to even attempt to prepare your daily dishes. My question is, when did aesthetics become more important than taste? Well in this recipe you will see how food doesn’t need to necessarily be pretty and look like a garden or a skyscraper, i understand that they do this in restaurants, but if you’re at home, you’re already hungry, so you don’t really need to whet your appetite further (well its always a plus though).
Since I’ve opened my email lines to you (thefatkidinside05@gmail.com) , I read through everything you send me and then I post the interesting questions with my answers on my facebook page (www.facebook.com/thefatkidinside), but those which I’ve read that I REALLY find interesting and beneficial to all my readers I want to tackle here on the blog. Read More
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Throwing a party needs to be approached like a job. Too many times i have a gone to parties where you are greeted by a table with an ice puddle forming beneath a couple of bottles of commercial Soda, a mix of high end and low end alcohols that can’t be mixed together, a spread of food that will never go beyond adobo chicken and Italian spaghetti (not that I have anything against that, but please, have a concept), music on repeat and a floor space and seating arrangement that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Each time someone asks me, how do you make a party special? I always answer: Vision.
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I gained weight because of a sedentary lifestyle and overly indulging in foods I knew were bad for me, eating out too often, taking the easy route(microwavable dishes) and not caring what went in my body, before I knew it I reached 240lbs. I lost weight through pure dedication, tireless hours of hard work and yes, food. I cooked my way to fitness, making sure to only feed myself tasty well prepared dishes with all the right stuff, the perfect fuel, taking me down to 150lbs. Of course I indulge from time to time, as the fat kid still lurks inside of me; here you will find a little bit of everything for the sole purpose of sharing my passion for food and life.