Category Archives: Food and Drink

Yummy Links

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Why not have a mid-week roundup of my latest favorite links?

Serious Eats calls themselves “the first website for serious eaters”- and although I don’t necessarily agree (I mean, what about Chowhound?), I’m fast becoming addicted to this site that features blogs, photos and videos on food.

Yahoo Food has quickly become a daily visit for me. I must say I’m loving a lot of what Yahoo’s been doing lately. On their Food section, I’m particularly enamoured by their list of “Recipes people want NOW”- which, right now, has salmon, eggnog, soup, brownies, and salsa as the top five.

Fancy Toast is a blog I’ve just discovered, and yay! The photos are gorgeous, the writing is entertaining, and- oh, it just makes me hungry. Always a good sign. Also, I can relate to the latest post praising husbands who bake… I’m another lucky, lucky girl.

Drinking a Coke

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Coca ColaI’ve never liked softdrinks (or soda, or pop)- something about fizzy drinks makes my throat hurt- but my husband, like a million others around the world, loves them.

Here’s a particularly interesting read about What Happens to your Body if you Drink a Coke Right Now:

In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get it’s hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)…

Read more at Healthbolt.

A Smokin’ Thanksgiving

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So my husband and I have decided to serve smoked turkey on Christmas Eve- which will take us ten hours but promises to be a delicious deviation from the usual roast. Because we don’t want to be slaving away for ten hours cluelessly, we’ve decided to do a trial run this Thanksgiving.

As it is, I’ve been obsessed with figuring out which side dishes go well with a smoked turkey. A good candied yams dish is a given, and I’m considering trying out Meg’s Brown Buttered Brussel Sprouts as well. For dessert, a classic pumpkin pie- which I’ve never made before. Any more ideas, anyone?

Salad Nights

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In an effort to make up for all the premium ice cream we’ve been treating ourselves to lately, the husband and I have been sticking to salads only at night.

Because we didn’t feel like preparing anything ourselves tonight, we ordered in- and went with California Pizza Kitchen‘s bestselling Original BBQ Chicken Chopped Salad, a favourite of ours.

CPK's Original BBQ Chicken Chopped Salad

The guy who took my order over the phone was nice and all, but I’ve got a few bones to pick with them:

We requested extra cilantro. There must have been a misunderstanding between order and kitchen, because what they gave me was no avocado instead of extra cilantro. Grrr.

And then there was the price. Our bill shows that: one full-sized BBQ Chicken Salad (with no avocado!) cost P395, and half-sized Waldorf Salad (which was particularly mediocre) cost P425. Hmm. This, plus Value Added Tax, Food Tax, and Packaging Charge, meant that we spent a total of P1005.81 for one salad, and one half-a-salad… really not worth it.